The Dreaded QA
Posted By: Sherry Lee on 2006-11-28
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The QA is a very helpful tool for improvement, but it often seems to be the luck of the draw. One bad report and your are down the tubes for the month. I have had my share of 100%s and the agony of being 1/10 of a point below the line of acceptance. What I find unnerving and degrading is to be threatened with dismissal if that 1/10th of a point does not come back up within a week. Nobody is perfect, and the industry expects the MT to walk on water so to speak, find our own errors, doctor errors, determine how the client wants the report billed. Many client preferences downgrade proper grammar. I have seen in-house client reports and samples that are contrary to what they expect from contract MTs. So do as they say and not as they do. Sigh....The profession is extremely stressful. It's nice to have other MTs who care to share and vent, on occasion; however, right now though, I am toying with the idea just getting out while my nerves are still intact.
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