Actually, I can lump them into one category.
Posted By: anon on 2005-10-30
In Reply to: not true and very racist - KM
Why else would they work for 5 cents a week? It is not being racist, just honest.
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do not lump us all into that group, please!
Some of us out there still do what we say we are going to do, produce excellent quality work, and have plenty of experience. I just cannot find an honest employer who pays well these days. Seems there are issues on both sides of the fence! I am not sure what the solution is. Ideas? :-)
Where do I fit in this category?
On straight typing always over 2000+ lpd, do mostly VR and straight now to average over 3000+ a day but still average $150+ a day. Would like to know how being slower would get you more lines per hr in VR?
Seems really unreasonable to lump the "slackers" in with hardworking MTs
and in doing so penalize the hardworking MTs with lousy wages to cover up for the slackers.
There are slackers and losers in every single walk of life, every country, and in every business. To lump every AMERICAN MT into the American pieces of wasted breath pile as you have and also the OP is ludicrous.
There ARE American MTs out there like me who work seven days a week, put in huge production totals with no errors, and who work HARD to support themselves and their families.
Instead of giving away our work maybe the companies should get rid of the dead weight, instead of selling out our business and our country.
Ah but see, you DO NOT fall in the category I was
referring too. You do produce and I would almost bet very accurate work. YOUR kind of work is highly appreciated. Does not matter whether you need to take a break after 4 hours, 2 hours, whatever. That works for you and I think that is great. If you read my post, I am referring to the people that think they should get paid more to work less. Yes MT is a production position no matter how you look at it. As long as you are happy with your production and your company is happy with your production, then double happiness for both of you. This was aimed at the people that are griping at offshoring, constantly wanting higher wages etc that DO NOT produce accurate work and in fact instead, more and more of their work has to go to an editor.
I think any MTSO would be nuts not to work with an experienced MT over a less experienced one, even if that means we need to take a few more breaks, etc. I am no spring chicken myself.
As far your statement of ME getting back to work....... Nah, I only work Mon through Fri roughly 8-4 or 8-5, so at night I get lazy 
Reading your post and being in the category of
what you call babysitting the computer by doing VR. Maybe you don’t do VR but I think babysitting would be so much easier than what we have to do. You cannot just sit and watch words on a screen. You have to know what they are saying in medical terms or you just will not cut it. I do not know about how much the place saved that took us with VR but I really reject the opinion of VR only being babysat because so much has to be done in order to get a finished product. I wish it were so simple. I sit here hour after hour rushing through as fast as my fingers and eyes will take me in order to take care of the reports and yet hold down a 98-99% accuracy while trying to achieve at least 3000 lines per day (used to do 2000 straight). A newbie definitely could not do VR as I have heard before. This is very detailed and you have to have all the intelligence, takes no less, than your straight transcribing.
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