Can I manage this delicately?
Posted By: Lost cause? on 2009-02-18
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I am an hourly QA at a company and because I am a high producer with a lot of bang for the buck I am given very little leeway for time off. I generally don't pay attention to what other people do and mind my own business. The problem is that a couple of my coworkers will send me IMs saying they are taking breaks, aren't feeling well and are leaving for an hour or two, their internet service is about to go out because of weather, pretend to lose internet connection if a stat comes in from an account they don't like, and on and on (yet they remain on private IMs). They do not notify our supervisor and I am left holding the bag. Our supervisor has no idea this is going on. Is there any possible way that I can do something about this other than finding another job? I am not a snoop and don't throw people under the bus, but this is so unfair.
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I'm going to try to this delicately
I've always been somewhat puzzled by the foreign doctors doing psych. And I don't mean that in a xenophobe way, but a lot of our mental health issues are cultural. Not to mention a degree of language barrier. I've been listening to accents for a while but every now and then I struggle to understand them. I can't imagine Mr. Middle O. America getting through a psych session, which is all about talking through one's problems, with someone that they couldn't understand and that they weren't sure could understand them.
And I'd love to have a psych account for about 4 hours every day. I don't mean this as an insult, but I consider psych almost an auto-pilot type of typing. 95% of your typing is going to be plain everyday English. You'll get some meds in there and some psychological evaluation titles, but other than that you can just blow through it. And they're almost always loooooong reports, which in psych pretty much means you can turn the speed up, put the pedal down, and not even need to come up for air until 20 dictation minutes later.
Again, I didn't mean that as offensive as it may have sounded. It's an opinion, and frankly I'm jealous/envious of anybody that can get easy work/easy lines like that for at least a large part of every day.
How you manage the 2 ??
Spose it could be ez to edit some and then type some back and forth. So youre actually making two salaries, sounds like a fantastic idea!
How did you manage that?
Just curious. I work 1 weekend day, prefer having a day off during the week, but doesn't seem fair that others have to work weekends, and you don't.
You would have to gross over $400 a day M-F. How exactly do you manage this?
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If they are great, that must mean they manage well,
and if they manage well, I'm thinking they won't over-hire just because loads of resumes come in.
For $50K a year, I'd bet you'd manage a lot more
than a couple of accounts! I know several MT supes, and they are run ragged! And they don't make anything near $50K, so I am kind of skeptical about that quote. I would bet more in the $30K range. And the logic the companies use for the pay cut from MTing? That's its a guaranteed pay rather than production. I have never heard of an MT supe making that much!
Hey if anyone can MANAGE three jobs
I wouldn't want to manage in this profession if it was the last job on earth. I'd go on public assistance first! This profession has made a turn for the worse. So, I think it is pretty sad that someone needs three jobs to stay afloat. I guess I have a different perspective on things, but I am just an MT and have never managed anyone or anything other than my household! 
I sure hope they manage it better than
Honestly, they went through in-house staff faster than I changed my socks. Hire and fire was their motto for both in-house and remote transcriptionists. And talk about micromanage, well, that was a whole nuther story....
Who's going to manage their accts sm
while they're gone? I already have enough trouble having to press this and press that to get through their phone menu when I have a simple question. I'm glad they felt they need to give their STMs a trip, that must be where our Christmas gift went.
When the work load is low how to you still manage to
You're here just like the rest of us. Are you one of those that manages to work in addition to your 8 hour shift to get it when the work is low?
I manage to get almost 20,000 lines per pay period typing.
if you really must know.
Any IC's who are single parents- How do you manage financially?
I want to try IC'ing but afraid to take the plunge!
I am a single parent of 2 and manage just fine as a SE, sm.
There is no special trick to it but I suggest before you do to write out a budget and make sure you are going to make enough to pay all your bills including a weekly amount for gas and groceries and have plenty of extra money for those unexpected expenses. Also, remember as an IC or SE there is no insurance benefits so you have to be prepared for that for you and your kids. You can do it!!!
There are companies that manage to make it work. OTI, for example. nm
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Doesn't matter how many companies you work for. I'd like to know how you manage to do this???
What kind of work do you transcribe?
How many hours a day do you work?
What kind of line rate do you get from the companies you work for?
How many lines you do an hour?
Do you work as an IC or employee?
I'm very interested in hearing how you manage 100,000/year.
Maybe due to the people that manage Amherst. I think MQ would be a lot better off finding new people
up there with all the problems you hear about that office. Seems like something is very very wrong there.
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