It they are 20-minute dictations with lots of blanks,

• 10 reports per hour for QA workers??? - Is this reasonable?
  • It's getting ridiculous - me
  • If it's the W company, yes it is SM - sm
    • QA for 20+ Years - Don't believe you
  • Most companies go by the number of lines per hour, - sm
  • Why would that be so unusual? nm - QA
    • Nobody said it was "unusual" - nm
    • It they are 20-minute dictations with lots of blanks, - would make a big difference. nm
      • I think the OP is taking it too literally sm - QA
        • It still seems like an arbitrary figure. It should be - lines QA'ed, not number of reports. nm
        • Literal - sm
  • It just depends on how long the report is. Are you paid by - report or line? nm
    • How I am paid... - sm
      • QA quota - wise old woman

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They would rather you leave a blank than to guess.  As with any company, there are ESLs.  There are good ones and bad ones. 

QA can be strict.  We transcribe verbatim unless of course it is a gross medical error and then a blank is left and the report is sent to QA.  If you type the wrong wrong word and it affects the meaning, it is a higher deduction but there is also a deduction for errors made not affecting the meaning. 

I have worked for Axolotl for a long time and I have never worked for a better employer.  If you have any questions you can e-mail me or post on here and I will try to answer you. 

you must be a bitter person to hate your job so much

there's no way VR will be able to do all the accents

once they go to India, they will be back for American quality

our jobs will never go away...

there. I already put them in there so no one has to run their long posts saying the same thing that is always said...

How does Axolotl define a line?  Do they pay for spaces, headers, footers, & expansions?  Are you docked for blanks or sending things to QA?  If so, how much.

QA's job should be solely filling in blanks.  It should be to perform routine and random quality checks, it should be researching and educating MTs on new terminology, new procedures, new drugs, it should be maintaining and updating account specs, and it should be assisting newly hired MTs in their transition from training to productive employee.

Far too many MTs see QA as a safety net and big gigantic kitchen sink where they can toss in their crap and out comes something shiny and clean, an excuse to never research a new word or look up the correct spelling of a doctor's name because QA will do the work for you and you'll still get paid for your lines.

And QA used to let MTs get away with it back in the day when they were paid hourly, but the majority of QA people are paid on production now too and so when MTs don't try hard at their jobs, that means QA picks of the slack and loses money.  QA gets reports that look like swiss cheese and we have to practically transcribe the entire report to fill in the holes because of lazy MTs with the looking out of numero uno mentality.

I get paid per minute of dictation.  $1.00 to 1.35 per minute.  100-120 minutes in an 8 hour shift is average or 16-20 minutes of dictation per hour.