So how did it go with your "favorite" dic today? Hope it went better than you though it would!

Sandi

I did e-mail my TC about it, but I haven't heard back. The dic did 16 op reports on one job. *SIGH*

I need a hot bath and a cold drink.

Kelly

I'll take the crap but in fairness a go-to, all-around MT should be compensated for doing it all and the cherry picker/parasite should be decompensated for this dirty little habit.

I get really steamed about this. The cherry picker shows an incredible lack of respect towards their coworkers by doing this. The cherry picker also shows an incredible lack of respect towards themselves. It proves they do not have the ability or confidence to produce work without parasiting off those with better skills.

#$%#%^&$%$##$%$#$$

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Hey KellyRat, I am with you, we have an eye doc that dictates up to, if not more than, 10 reports on each dictation and it could be either an OP or an HP. The trouble is, is that he simply will not tell you which one it is until he gives a whole lot of information I don't need. I end up spending half the tape listening to crap I don't need.

As far as the topic goes, at my day job, we have total access to not only dicarding the work, but SEEING what our next job will be. Of course you can shut job lister down, which I have to do, (of course I would want to choose). Some days though, it sure is hard not to think that I am getting all the bad ones. It is so tempting to "set my own schedule" and it was great to read all your responses to this. It definitely kept me "out of the pool" yesterday whenever I was tempted.

Good for all of you for sneaking into my conscious and keeping me honest. No one else might know, but I did and hey, that has to be enough, right?

Kimi

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Also those pickers should be permanently assigned crap work as they are thieves that can't be trusted to do honest transcription.

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ABSOLUTELY, Debo!! My day was so frustrating yesterday that I'm having a heck of a time finding the motivation to "go to work" today. I still haven't heard from my TC, either.

Kelly

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I am sooooooooooooooooo close to sending the equipment back and saying #%)#^ it. *SIGH*

Kelly

I will say MQ is VERY lucky my TC (transcription coordinator) is as good as she is. We came up with a workable solution and I'm going to try my best to get around all this baby BS that's happening. What eventually will happen with this account is the work will not be done and they'll find someone else to do their transcription. The MTs who can only do X work type will be SOL (sh*t out of luck). I, however, will still have a job and that's what keeps me going.

The price MQ will pay for having a warm body to do only certain types of work? Time tells all. I do live in the real world - so probably no price at all.

Cavuto had a clip on his show this afternoon, which I missed - but will try to stay awake to catch the repeat later this evening.

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Plus, a hard worker. A top performer. And loyal to the company. Find out why being too good at what you do could get you fired when former Labor Secretary Robert Reich weighs in on a shocking new trend on the next Your World with Cavuto.

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Sounds interesting and appropriate given what many of us seem to be experiencing.

Deb

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Maybe you need to take a break

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Problem is, Julie, our system is set up so it disconnects after something stupid like 5 minutes of inactivity. Makes taking a decent break pretty friggin' difficult. I finally got through the long report by Dr. Imatotaljerk and now I quit for the day.

I'm with you, Debo -- I get paid for doing this jerk's work the same as the boobies who are doing the templated stuff get paid. Move over and make room for my head in that toilet, will you?

I'm going to go play with soap. That always makes me feel better....

Kelly

I just happened upon this post. Every sentence you wrote I would say, "exactly," or "that's absolutely right." It made me know I'm not alone. I just this morning e-mailed my boss about cherry picking after I got yet another 1/2-hour dictation from the worst ESL dictator in my pool that was several days older than all the other dictations I had received. The same thing happened to me last night. I have only been working as an MT for 9 months and lately I have noticed this is a huge problem. I was surprised to get a response back saying that they have no way of telling who is sending them back, just whether they have been sent back. I don't mind doing my fair share of these dictators. I realize it hones my skills to the needed level. But everything you say is exactly right Annie. Shouldn't there be some way that a huge national could track the guilty parties? The honor system sure isn't working.

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I work on the DVI system and my supervisor tells me she cannot tell who returns work back into the pool or send dictations that are too long to QA.

Kelly

I get days like that too where all the worst of the worse land in my lap. I have found recently that some physicians will appear to have sat at a desk for hours on end and just dictated, because every job for hours turns out to be just them.

But it appears to me that "cherry-picking" can land one into poverity with most of the accounts I have had. Some jobs will stay in your pool even if you come back two hours later!!! (Not that I'm picking - just that I'm picking a favorite TV show that I just MUST see - like Dr. Phil ) Sometimes signing in and out just has you signing into the same doctors again. So I never really saw the benefit of doing that.

I think with MQ, doesn't it end up that if you hang onto a job all day because you are picking the new incoming dic's that are easy . . . that job goes into a different pool because you hung onto it too long? I can't remember the file, but it has to be retrieved by the tech staff and signed off as completed after they search to make sure that it has been transcribed.

At any rate, I agree with ALL the comments made. It is intensely annoying and it has robbed me of many days of decent wages as I struggle to get through it.