I meant your bad grammar - went back? wow

• Being driven crazy! - MT Kid
  • Maybe you could have said yes - MTME
  • I am having the same experience. - MT ing
  • IMO, so many people have quit, they leave - Former SPi too
    • Soooo many people have left! - MT Kid
  • You should of said you would do the reports and then went back - to bed. Let them deal with the mess the next day,
    • Surely you are not in this business. Just a passerby? - rofl
      • I AM in this business but won't let myself be a doormat. - What are they gonna do? Write me up, dock my pay,
        • I meant your bad grammar - went back? wow - grammar police
          • What's wrong with "went back to bed"? but (sm) - huh?
            • gone back to bed - but i understand about brain being off - Not the grammar police
              • You forgot "should of" nm - memt
                • Nope, didnt forget - the went grated my nerves, the other didnt - grammar police
          • It is Sunday, my brain's day off. - nm
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  • I would just.. - edit
    • Make an auto-response for their emails.."I DON'T WORK HERE!" nm - R
      • LOL! I should try that! - MT Kid
  • They won't stop either. sm - former spi
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All I can say is .

I have been transcribing now for 3 years and have never heard a thing about my grammar. I have gotten reports back the past couple of days this week stating:  There should be a comma here.. there should be a semicolon there.. you shouldn't have put a period, but a semicolon.. or when I put something as far as a comma where I was told to.. I would get it back stating that it was unnecessary, HUH?  Not only that, but I would have a passage from a grammar website pasted on the report that was sent back in e-mail. LOL.

I give credit where credit is due, but seriously...

Now instead of being paranoid about any kind of medical errors-- I am worried about if a comma is in the right place. Nice, huh?  Everything that I was corrected on was trivial. 

So, while I was sitting there feeling kicked in the gut waiting for my next grammar correction, I found myself looking through samples and reports transcribed by other people and found that the commas that I had on my reports were on other peoples transcriptions, too! 

No medical errors, miskakes, misplaced words, missing words, format issues, and I get grilled about a comma.

 I felt like I was back in highschool.  

Seriously, is this normal?? I am thinking about leaving this place. I have never felt so insulted.  A comma should be the last thing on their mind..especially when seeing the horrendous mistakes that were sent to clients by other transcriptionists in the database.

Just needed to vent.  Am I wrong to be so irritated about this?

So do you practice what you preach? I noticed in your heading you typed you not your.  Or did you type it that way on purpose? 

You know some come to this board upset or in a hurry.  I know I have.   There are times, I am sure, some come to this board dead tired from working all day or putting up with really bad dictators. 

Bottom line is that we are all human and humans are not perfect 24/7 365 days out of the year.  This is just a place we can let our hair down so to speak.  If you don't like it perhaps you can find a board out in cyber space somewhere where all is perfect.

Many MTs come to this site to relax and may not have the time or desire to proofread their messages.

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Having nothing meaningful to contribute, these immature holier-than-thou self-proclaimied experts need to vent their insecurities by finding fault with something as insignificant as spelling/grammar.  Reminds me a lot of a large percentage of QAs -- need to nitpick on something trivial, real or imagined.

I would just tell them to kiss my butt, unless they are also paying my salary - otherwise they should MTOB.

Having nothing meaningful to contribute, these immature holier-than-thou self-proclaimied experts need to vent their insecurities by finding fault with something as insignificant as spelling/grammar.  Reminds me a lot of a large percentage of QAs -- need to nitpick on something trivial, real or imagined.

I would just tell them to kiss my butt, unless they are also paying my salary - otherwise they should MTOB.

The accounts weren't too horribly bad.  The reason I ended up leaving was because slowly but surely they began to inch closer and closer to paying QA by production.  When I first started, the quota was something like 30 reports a day.   We simply had to make sure that we QA'd all reports that were close to being out of TAT first and then do the rest.  Then, my supervisor left and they hired a new one who immediately called a big teleconference meeting and said we had to up production to 60 reports a day.  Then, they started counting lines.  Which was fine because they were still paying hourly.

Next, there was an MT who used VR software because she was blind - yes blind.  Again, when I first started, I was told we had to edit her entire reports because she used the VR software and we had to make sure that everything was correct and made sense.  Then, we are told only check the blanks.  I wasn't comfortable with that and I continued to completely proof every word.  Then I was called on the carpet not because I wasn't meeting the production quota, but because I was ONLY meeting the production quota.  I told them I was proofing all of the MT's work that used VR, I was told that no one ever told me to proof every word of the VR reports and that I needed to fill in blanks and move on.  When I voiced my concerns, I was told that was my job, to fill in blanks and I should move on and strive to product above the standards.  Next thing you know, rumors abounded about changing the QA staff to being paid on production.  So I left. 

There just seemed to me to be too little concern for quality and more emphasis on quantity and I just didn't want to be part of company who would take money out of my pocket just to line their own and that's what they were doing by putting QA on production.  I also am not comfortable with the job of QA being thought of as a blank filler.  There is much more to the QA profession than just simply filling in blanks. 

I don't know if Transcend ever did start paying QA by production, but I could see that the idea was being floated there.  Maybe there was a enough protest that they didn't change from hourly. 

Good luck to you!

Broaden to think leave to other profession if that is what is wanted, dont limit yourself to thinking only can leave to another MTSO.  Geeesh.