Had heard they were picking up 2, not losing 2. Are you sure? (sm)
Posted By: nn on 2009-06-21
In Reply to: They are goin' down it seems - lifer
Since you also stated QA positions eliminated, I assume you have some inside information. Please share. I have all my eggs in this one basket. E-mail if you prefer.
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I wonder if they are losing a lot of accounts lately. I have heard other MTs saying the same thing
from different offices.
I've heard of cherry picking before, but how can someone "pad lines"?
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lol, I know, I know. I'm just picking anyhow.
I am not losing anything as those
do not apply to me.
So after losing all that, what did you do? nm
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Oh, you mean CHERRY PICKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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If you would see how they do the QA and the nit picking stuff they take off for anyone would know
that they are going to do everything they can to make sure you dont meet that 98%.
WHAT cherry picking?
You can't reject a job without management knowing about it.
How are they cherry picking?
Dont you have to give a reason for sending a job back?
There's cherry picking going on
The ops aren't divided fairly, so if you get ops, you make the line count. If you don't get ops, you're out of luck.
VR is not picking up yet but other accounts are.
You may want to contact them. I know they need help on accounts that require a DVI, but they VR accounts are still low and the hours of working are restricted.
TT cherry picking
I don't see how cherry picking would even be a possibility at TT, at least the account I work on, which is done on ExText platform, we only get 2 jobs at a time and and there is no way to bypass them.
Cherry picking
I know my company ignores the cherry picking as long as some dope like me comes along and cleans it up. I have total respect for the companies that are on top of that, and if TT is one of them they will be first on my list of companies to check out after the first of the year.
how is this cherry picking.....
maybe when I log off, i am logging off on your primary. Aren't you glad I am not typing your primary?
My PS tells me that everyone HATES my account. It is too hard for most MT's. I love it, and type it when it is available.
cherry picking at my last job too!!
It got so out of hand that one second a good job would be up, but when I tried to download it, it would go away. The company's name start with a C and it is listed further down on this page. If you are at this company, cherry picking is like an every day occurence, and you will never make a good living.
Cherry picking
All you have to do when you are in the report is Alt G, click history and it will indeed show you if somebody has cancelled out of the job.
Cherry-picking
Yes, I know how to see the history - that's how I know it is going on. Like the post below says, there are days I feel I have the luck of the damned and others are good, but it's those days that I seem to get all that everybody else spits out that makes me crazy and I would think we should all have to do them - how else will you ever learn to do the harder docs?
cherry picking
An e-mail came around about cherry picking several months ago. You are not allowed to do this unless its around the end of your shift and you know you can't finish it. Like the other MT said, get job# and send it to your supervisor. They are supposed to be watching who is doing this if it is a pattern with an MT.
cherry picking
You'd better believe it. Those so-called MTs should be ashamed of themselves. By the way, no matter what the frequency and/or percentage of any ESLs we encounter, the exposure and experience of them renders us more well-rounded, skilled MTs, and we can enjoy the days of good, clear dictators.
Some people are simply born without any integrity and respect for others. To me, it's like somewhat stealing in an office setting, so to speak, as the cherry pickers set up their own scenario.
Bottom line - Cherry pickers are NOT true MTs.
cherry picking...sm
either nobody does it or everybody does it.
Or the ones who do it should be reported to put a stop to it.
Cherry Picking
The cherry picking thread is completely out of control. I didn't read where anyone was defending it. No one likes it, but some choose not to worry about it. Throwing a fit because an MT would rather do their job and not worry if someone cherry picks does not call for accusing them of being a defender. That is very childish. Then some of you are going on about calling them a cherry picker too? Then a troll? Are we still in grade school? Can we ever have a mature conversation about anything on here?  Please don't even respond if you are going to try and give another example of how ignoring means defending. That is pointless and wrong.
Work is picking up for me.
I don't know why you would try to anger everyone again. As soon as the work is a little low, you and a couple others gripe about it. Cool it and don't be impaitient.
It was slow for a couple months, but is picking up now. I've gotten my lines every day for the past 2 weeks. I knew it would and I just hung in there. It happens every summer after Memorial Day..
I guess some MTs just expect doctors to work every day like us and not take vaccation. Well, it's a reality. Docs take vacations. Live with it or find a better job if there is such a thing.. I've worked for other companies and it isn't greener on the other side of the fence.
Is the workload picking up at MDI yet? nm
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They are losing their credibility, though.
We started that new account just a month ago and already fighting for work. I cannot do this anymore. I cannot be tied to my computer all day long just to get my line counts in. Does anyone know a good place to start with companies?
Losing account
Do you work for the company whose name starts with F? Have you received info on a new account yet?
I was very panicked last week when I got this news. I have settled down a little bit now, but also I have started looking.
they are probably losing accounts or going to VR..sm
Have the attitudes of people in the office changed for the better? I remember the nastiest dispositions I have ever encountered in this business.
Good luck in your job search.
You have posting so much you seem to be losing it now
You are saying with a trust fund you would be able to make money on VR. Have you taken your medication today? Run along and say nite-nite to the grownups.
It's a losing battle
Or, at least, it has been for me. I got off on the wrong foot with QA where I am now and it has been drudgery ever since. Yeah, I was right in what I said and they were wrong or at least were not 100% right (a judgment call type of thing) but since then I get the crappy work, I get nitpicked on everything, and I think I am tagged 'the troublemaker' in general. I dread working now. Unfortunately, in this situation, if you stand up for yourself with QA you end up losing either way. You lose for the points being marked off and you lose for getting that label right out of the gait.
I'm not losing out; I have had my own accounts for
they aren't going to get anything better than they had with MDI. Just not gonna happen. Not everyone has the ability (opportunity, connections, know how, experience) to get their own accounts. I feel fortunate that it has come easily to me. I loved MDI but left because I made more with my own accounts. If not for those accounts, though, I would have definitely stayed with MDI. If i were with MDI now, in the situation today, I don't know what I would do...
Cherry picking at its best today!
What do they do about cherry picking at Amphion
No cherry picking allowed
Axolotl's Transcriptionist software (ARTI) is designed specifically to prevent cherry picking. Jobs are assigned within a work pool strictly on the basis of when they are due back to the customer. There is no way for an MT to send a particular job back to the pool. A user can sign off and all of her jobs go back to the pool, but then she will have to wait at least 15 minutes before she can sign on again and get new jobs assigned. If someone has figured out a way to beat the system please let me know so we can fix it; we want to make it fair for all of our employees.
As for difficult ESL dictators, well you're going to get some of those at any MTSO. It probably varies depending on the accounts you're assigned to.
YES! I have been there 3 years. I do not see a lot of cherry picking but sm
the account that I am on really does not need it. It is a great account!
The level of cherry picking that goes on
at Phoenix is outrageous. They 'ask' that you do certain amount of the easy docs and your share of the others but do not enforce it. Some get on the system at 4 am just to snatch all the easy ones. And they 'ask' that you proof read your work but in talking to others who report doing 200-300-400 lines an hour...now you tell me..how much proof reading is really happening? There are different platforms involved and some pay spaces but at a lower rate. Yep, they are nice and they pay on time but work there only if you enjoy the daily irritation of being left with hard/crap dictators.
No Cherry picking-who are you kidding?
Obviously you don't know about all the accounts for Keystrokes. You can't possibly know about all accounts unless an insider. Yes, there is cherry-picking going on and don't let anyone fool you. Some of us have seen it with our own eyes and it continues with the response, We can't do anything about it or it is out of our control. You see, there are hospital in-house girls on some accounts too and they get by with that and more. They assign themselves work when in-house girls think they will run out and the list goes on. You'd think there would be something in the contract that would say differently. Live and learn! There are lessons here for someone. Some of us are not as stupid as some would think.
Keystrokes qx cherry picking?
Does anyone out there know if the leads assign out work? As soon as my line count starts to pick up I start getting really short dictations or impossible dictators that eat up my line count. Was not like that when I first started out with them. Im really getting fed up with this.
cherry picking/Keystrokes
I currently work for Keystrokes and on my account, I use a C-phone, no cherrypicking is allowed and I was told that it is reason for termination. The hospital picks up on cherry picking. Talk to your lead right away about it. My lead is great and is always there for us. No, I am not management, just love my account and happy where I am in my job finally after years of searching for a good job. Everyone needs a good count, and have a stable paycheck.
I Didn't Mean 'Cherry Picking'
I was just wondering if you would actually get more than one work type in a row. For example, is it solely based on TAT or can the system give you, for instance, 3 H&Ps and then 3 discharge summaries, and then 3 op notes, etc. I don't know if ANYBODY does this, but I think it would be a great way to increase productivity, rather than having to go from one report type to the next with each report transcribed, since each work type has its own set of formatting rules.
It was a pretty random question, I know...but I'm basically just wondering if I have any control whatsoever over what type of work I get or if it's all up to the countdown...
Yes, it is cherry-picking proof
MTs are forced to work on jobs in the order they are due back to the customers. There is no way to send a particular job back to the pool.
Cherry picking is the reason for this, I think.
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nope, things are picking up.
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? for Webbers Re Cherry-picking
I have only been with Webmedx a short time, but am starting to see a pattern of reports being skipped; it is typically the more difficult ESL docs. I don't see any documentation in my paperwork regarding skipping jobs or cherry-picking and wonder if there is a company policy on same? It's making me nuts as I feel it is unfair and is adversely affecting my lines on days when it happens often during my shift. I don't mind doing my share, but when it stars pulling from my $$, I have a problem with it. Is this the norm??? Thanks in advance.
What's wrong with cherry picking?
When I was a kid I used to pick cherries as well as strawberries. I refuse to apologize for that!
i think if someone were fired over cherry picking
at hand. Considering the time and energy it takes to fire and rehire someone, I don't know why anyone would actually get fired when they were filling their quota.
I'm sorry the Heartland MTs are losing their jobs, but
why the outrage over offshoring. They knew HL offshored work, yet they continued to work for the company. Is it just know that you are losing your jobs that all of a sudden it matters that they offshore?
Not the OP, but some of us are losing our ExText account and
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Anybody else at Precyse losing $$ on taxes? Had
That's $281/mo loss of income last year due to both low work volumes and 50% line rate decrease with voice recognition. The wave of the future is not to increase our earnings but to decrease. They say the clients want ASR so they have to pay less which, of course, they take out of our pockets. When the CEO sends around his Precyse made wonderful profits crap, I wanna barf. Wonder how much of a pay cut he took to keep a client happy.
They are losing their biggest and one of few rad accounts. sm
My manager told me that it will be gone by the end of the month. It is in NH.
Spheris - Losing benefits???
Can anyone tell me if Spheris is taking away their benefits for employees? I see benefits listed on their website, but another company I used to work for says it is so.
This is a former company because that place took away all our benefits and paid 2 cents a line less. And we are suppose to be thankful to just have a job.
It gets to the point that you look for a place not that is good to work for but not as lousy as the one before. .
Losing good employees
They are about to lose another one...I'm a long time employee and just can't take it anymore. I work on multiple platforms and still have no work and the work I do have is 90% ESLs. I went from about 20% to 30% ESLs to suddenly 80% to 90% ESLs. You tell me these hospitals have no American doctors? It must all be going to India but you tell me why the Indians are not doing the Indian doctors? Wouldn't that be easier for them? I have had no raise ever since I've been here. Always told I'm at the top of the pay limit. I'm giving my notice right after Thanksgiving.
Losing primary account.
What happens? I haven't been working for an MTSO long enough to know (worked in house for the last 5 years). Could someone please tell me their experiences? I work for a large MTSO, so I am hoping that I can get placed on another account, but really, I don't think there are enough slots to fill all our positions. Any thoughts? Please HELP.
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