clarifications
Posted By: NightOwl on 2009-06-09
In Reply to: So as QA you need QA yourself? - VR here
I was not QA at the same time that I was doing VR. I was QA for about a year, about 5 years ago. I left MT'ing completely for several years due to health issues, then came back as an MT again rather than QA.
MQ made me do VR. They promised me that I could *try it* for 30 days and get my full line rate during that time, and if I didn't like it, I could ask at any time to go back to MT-only. (Did I mention they LIED LIED LIED???) I was actually excited about VR in the beginning, since part of my health issues are still unresolved and involve extreme numbness/tingling in my hands and feet. I was hopeful that it would give me a break from typing. I worked DILIGENTLY at *training* the VR system to hear things properly. The mistakes that those QA'ing my VR work were finding in my edited work were things like periods out of place, uncapitalized words, basically things that I would NEVER have expected to see on the reports that I used to QA by other MTs who hand-typed their reports. Yes, an untainted VR system that was installed with an excellent medical dictionary WILL do pretty well on the medical words, at least until inexperienced MTs completely UNTRAIN it, but VR has different limitations than that, and those limitations are often hard to catch on a quick read-through/listen-through. I see mistakes in public almost ALL the time - my proofreading ability is not the problem with VR because VR is NOT normal proofreading!
I very much DID *get the hang of it*, I did *see how it works*, and I was trained in speed-reading way back in eighth grade and can still polish off a thick novel from the library in 1-2 days.
At my peak of speed, once upon a time I was able to type upwards of 2000 lines per 8 hour shift. Now I struggle to get 3 hours working time in, but I'm still typing around 175 to 200 LPH. Doing VR, I was barely getting as many lines as if I were straight typing.
I'm back in college now working on a career that can't be outsourced, and I have found a company that doesn't do VR (yet, of course; I'm not a fool enough to think that any company will completely escape VR forever), but I'm hoping to avoid VR long enough to get a degree in a completely different field.
Please forgive this former QA's typos - I'm pretty ticked over this whole VR mess.
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