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Please look at your posts defending dishonest cherry-pickers, then look at yourself.

Posted By: Pot is calling the kettle black on 2009-02-19
In Reply to: Excuse me? - sm

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Defending dishonesty is being dishonest
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Cherry pickers. sm
Does anyone work for a company who will not overlook cherry picking?  Thanks.
Cherry pickers
And if it goes to someone more familiar, how will you ever become familiar with it? That familiar person may leave and you get half a dozen reports you cannot do and you make zilch because you didn't take the time to become familiar.
Cherry Pickers
Happening everywhere, also adjustment in lines, not counting this, not counting that. We have some really dishonest greaseball people running things these days. I feel for ya, I really do. I would look elsewhere if I were you.
Cherry pickers and other cherry pickers
my experience is all hospital acute care, 16 years.  So, working for nationals, I think in the last 3 years especially, your supervisors have quotas too, and they are the worst cherry pickers, I don't think the transcriptionists have the ability like your supervisors have to get the better dictation but they do.  If they say they don't they are lying.  How do you think they are able to send you stats, etc., plus if you are ground floor on an account they get the better dictation.  I asked 3 companies if it was first in, first out, they assured me it was but in the first month all I got were mainly ESLs, short short dictations, and slurred speakers.  Give me a break!  Who are they kidding?  Of course they don't care and that is why there is such heavy turnovers.  Women will be women. 
Cherry pickers

I have to say it is not like crying someone got a bigger piece of candy, it has to do with you type your fingers to the bone putting up with all the lousy dictators and the cherry pickers end up with higher productivity and possibly better raises.  Sure you type all the lousy reports and you are a better MT because of it, but you can also be a poorer $$ wise MT. 


True story...working on-site with 3 of us on the job.  One wanted to come in at 3 a.m. and work until 8 a.m. because of child care issues.  My shift started at 6 a.m. and this person was never there, but her productivity was sky high,,,then we figured it out, there was one doc who read almost all radiology reports as normal.  We realized that none of his reports were ever there when we came in in the a.m. only the ESL and lousy dictators.  So we started watching, sure enough this doc easily read 150 reports and probably 135 of them were normals (or so he said).  So revenge is sweet....after we heard yet again from our sup. how wonderful so and so was and how much work she produced ,so we started hiding his work and leaving her all the lousy dictators......  All of the sudden,  her line count dropped in the toilet and the cat was out of the bag.  The good docs work got done at 6 a.m. and no one was the wiser. Too bad it is not possible when you are working off-site.


cherry pickers
My 2 cents: I've been an MT for 25 years. I've worked in hospitals where cherry picking was always a huge issue for some. There would be accusations filed with the supe, investigations done, department meetings held, and conclusion would usually be: It couldn't be definitely proven. If it was clear that an MT had assigned herself/himself a bunch of good stuff and skipped higher priority jobs, then he/she might be verbally reprimanded but rarely written up (usually because he/she wasn't the only one guilty and could point the finger at others). Most of the times, supe told everybody to MYOB. My best friend still works in-house and has a co-worker who skips any and everything to get only x-rays. When she asked after 3 years of this, if they could have a dept. meeting or do something to work through this, she was told that this person was too valuable to mess with because of her willingness to work late shift. I now work for a national and there is no way to cherry pick on my accounts, short of closing out/shutting down and going back in 15-30 minutes later, which would only cause you to have to make up that time later, and you might even end up with that same job you wanted to skip and it's not worth it. My lead actually routed me a job recently asking for my help and apologizing that she was sending me an op note that several MTs had skipped over. Each MT has to decide how much time/energy to put into fighting cherry picking or whether to try to let it go as one of the many unfair obstacles we face in life.
what makes you think cherry pickers are fat??
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Cherry Pickers do not fare well
with me. If you wind up on my account and I catch you cherry-picking, you will get one warning. If you cherry-pick again on purpose again, I will report you to management and do all in my power to get you either written up or terminated. It is not fair to the other MTs on the account. Cherry-pickers ruin it for everyone, and should not call themselves MTs.
Cherry-pickers are whiners themselves
We may whine BUT WE DO EVERY REPORT WE GET unlike cowardly cherry-picking. Yes you do as I said previously advocate dishonesty of cherry-pickers. THEY are the incompetent ones. I am very good and have myself fired those for cherry-picking. You should be directing your childish ranting to the ones who do NOT do every report. We good MTs have the right to complain about the unfairness of cherry-pickers taking the easy way out and LOSER IDIOTS like you who defend them. Yeah rates have gone down. WHY? Because Indian MTs DO NOT cherry-pick. They (like me and the others on here who don't like cherry-pickers) do EVERY report they come across. You are such a loser to defend lightweight MTs who deliberately only do easy reports. LOSER
You basically said ignore cherry-pickers.
And what a cheap shot to claim someone else can't read. Have fun being a bleeding-heart loser! To say basically ignore someone doing wrong is by default to defend the action.
The idiot who is saying ignore cherry pickers
has probably never had to suffer in lines and wages the consequences of a cherry-picker. People like her saying ignore it and go on are just as bad as those who condone it. Look way below, she's now personally attacking the person who called her on it!!
the bottom line - Cherry-Pickers are scum,
should be fired, and should not even call themselves MTs. If you have a job, you type what is assigned to you. Don't like it?! Take up burger-flipping. Only incompetent MTs cherry-pick.
I liked the program too, and love Joann's idea for dealing with cherry pickers
or people who skip reports - assigning the MT who skipped a report 3 reports by the same dictator so they learn how to do them.
reporting cherry pickers falls on deaf ears. I have complained for years.
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Thanks for defending me! - (sm)
After a while one gets quite weary of being chewed up by some of the piranhas on this board every time one speaks the TRUTH. Some people need to take a close look at the way they react to the downward spiral of this profession, as that reaction simply perpetuates the downslide.

In the meantime, since Free Speech is still one of our constitutional rights in this country (at least I HOPE so!), I intend to use that privilege.
Not defending them, but they have
had an office in Louisville for years.
you keep defending them in every sm
possible way. If you like the way things are in India maybe you should go there and work with them. I bet you would change your mind.
I'm not defending the southener, but I have been
to Pittsburgh many, many times, as well as all over the country, and I must agree - Pittsburgh people are quite rude ... even more rude than NYC people - CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!!!
I hate defending them, but....
If you got your line count from the Word function, it's not really accurate. You have to take the character count (with spaces) and divide by 65, and then your line count should match theirs. I think the Word one counts real lines, which, sadly, nobody does anymore.
Not exactly defending the practice
First, I'm not a big fan of mandatory overtime anyway. I understand sometimes they need it, but after 40, there are some weeks where I don't even have another minute in me to give them.

I've also had the same thing with overtime...being happy because they're requesting it for an account that's semi-easy and I'm good at, and then logging on to find out it's the account from hail. I can't be the only one from that hail-storm to be working, and I can only assume they're not too backed up because they're not the ones looking for OT, so why oh why oh why must I type any of the Chennai Boomhauer in my spare time.

It must have something to do with different turnaround because I don't think my place assigns them. At least in theory, although I've not seen the spread sheets to prove it, it's first in/first out to me. I did ask them about this one other time I signed on for overtime at the slightly better place and got stuck with Hail Community Hospital. I was still eligible for the OT, but I'd have gotten probably double if I'd have been typing the actual account that needed the OT.
woah! simmer down, I wasn't defending
the other poster. I was trying to somewhat understand what they meant. Like the name suggested I'm neutral here. This is my second post, I was NOT the one slamming you.
100% equals perfect (?), not that I care, I was defending the other poster...
you post you have 100% quality consistently for 5 years - anyone who brags or throws out that kind of information is open for criticism.

I have no interest in typos on this board and never think less of anyone, only when they are making statements like the one you made, then I feel the poster had a legitimate comment.
Spoken by one of the pickers....

Man, I worked for them for a while but was so disgusted by the cherry picking (amoung other things) that I threw in the towel.  I even heard some girls get up at 3 in the morning to download the easy docs.  This is supposed to be against company rules but the company does not seem to really care.  It was not a good fit for me but might be for you!!


On way to cherry pick is to whine about hard doctors and get assigned the easier docs which leaves the rest of us with what?  Hard.  Thanks.


Dishonest
Got the same treatment,sounds like alot of us did, not just us 2 I am sure.
dishonest
Why are they dishonest? What do or have they done to make you feel this way?
DISHONEST TIMES 2!
I transcribed 1,195 lines and ichart reflected only 154.08 lines the next day! I documented line counts every day, and for one pay period it was 2500 lines off on their end! - disqualified from benefits too. NO answer from supervisor.
I see. So that's why you are calling her dishonest?
Apparently there were changes made. That does not make her dishonest. It means her plans changed.
Could you explain what was dishonest?
I got an email saying that I could not sustain my life with 1 doctor - so they would have to let me go - that = you aren't working here anymore. So, the next step is to call your unemployment office - they determine whether you are eligible to receive benefits or not - and because of the emails that the lead MT sent - she is the one who hung KS - it was determined that I was eligible. Then you look for work - for which there are many different aspects of what you apply for and what you do or do not accept - there are not so many employment positions for MTs -more IC jobs which do not count as employment. I did everything as layed out in the guidelines. KS just didn't want to be responsible for their part of the unemployment - siting laws in their state - which are not the same as those in the state where I live - and you state's laws are the ones that count - not theirs. Please tell me what is dishonest about this. I did nothing dishonest while working for KS - all I did was work. Oh, I did miss one TAT because my broadband was down - and that was in a year.
Well that's just plain dishonest then.
I wonder if the MTstars quote was actually written by the the recruiter him/herself then.  I think I'll pass on this company then.
Actually, I think we all would like to forget them. It has been proven that they are dishonest.
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Right on Sista!! They are dishonest and friendly until

NM


I rest my case. Once again OSi shows how dishonest they are.
This makes me ashamed that I once worked for them, but also makes me glad that I work for a decent, honest company now and do not have to be a part of their BS!!
Yeah..they are dishonest. They most certainly are in India. Do you really want to work for someone
that is dishonest?? not me..
Why take it to email. Shouldn't we all know if this is an employer who is dishonest to their
employees. Inquiring minds would like to know if they really offshore..
Most Indians in the MT business are dishonest scum
nm
If you are such a dishonest person, maybe they saw through that and let you fall to the wayside inte
You should be ashamed of yourself. This is called FRAUD. It is ILLEGAL and can give you prison time. You deserve it. You give MTs a bad name and I hope no company EVER has to deal with you that they have a way to talk to KS or any other company you have ever done this to.

I also hope they catch you and prosecute you.
How are they dishonest for taking out premiums for insurance that we signed up for? sm
Wow. People will bash any company for any reason.
RE:Sure is and the gal out of Nashville that runs it is a rather dishonest person - to boot. nm TNMT

I've feel for the same thing and tired of dishonest people.
My favorite was when a recruiter would actually do all of her recruiting by pretending to be an MT. She went to great length singing the praises of her company, even though others were badmouthing the company. She was very convincing until I put two and two together. Actually, she wasn't too smart. She private emailed me from the board as the MT saying that she would contact her boss to recommend me.. Well, though and behold her boss and her both had the same email. Now, do I look like a moron or what. So, honestly, I rarely trust those cheerleaders on here and just take it with a grain of salt because you never know who your talking to.
Posts from April said everyone gets 8.5 cpl/newbie or experienced. Recent posts said
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Oh, you mean CHERRY PICKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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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.  
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.

cherry pickn
Seems the same ole same ole, in order to get work pushed through more efficiently, the fast get the crap and the slower get the better. Will give it another week, if no change Im outta there too.
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.