If they still need 100% proofed

Posted By: annabanana on 2007-11-11
In Reply to: Independent contractors - MsMT

after 5 years, without a doubt you need to replace them. If you are set up for digital, you shouldn't have trouble having a really good MT send you a resume in response to an ad, especially if you offer a very nice line rate. If you need someone local because you are doing tapes, it might be harder to find somebody really good. I doubt that lowering their pay will make them clean up their act. It sounds like they just don't care or they just don't know what they are doing. Good luck.

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Independent contractors - MsMT
- Have you given them feedback at all during the past - a decent MT
  - RE: Independent contractors - MsMT
    - How reliable can they be if you still have to check their work after all this time? Just getting th - kate
- NO way would I pay someone for 5 years that could not do the job.(nm) - lynn
- Why would you allow this to go on for five years? You should have stopped it a long time ago. nm - sharon
  - Independent contractors - MsMT
- We're out here (good MTs) but we're busy! sm - deb
- If they still need 100% proofed - annabanana
- My sympathies - Susie
  - I can't believe that - WVM
- I would say that you really have no choice. - Five years is a long time to still be making
- depends on the contract you had with them. - no name

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Because the U.S. MT work would still need to be proofed. sm
If they can pay an Indian MT 2 cpl and an American Editor 6 cpl, that totals 8 cpl, which like you said would be the equivalent of paying an American MT 8 cpl. But only if the MTs work is always perfect and never needs any editing, which just doesn't happen. I would say half of all the work done by the American MTs needs to be edited as well, so you add the 6 cpl for the editor on top of the 8 cpl for the MT and you end up with 14 cpl for every report that has to be edited. That's a huge difference. I'm not saying I'm either for or against offshoring, just explaining the math of it and what draws the MT companies to it.

The new QA plan is that you must have 3 reports proofed every month and maintain a 98% average and
also have less than 15% of your work go to QA with blanks or you will be put on suspension and have all your work go to QA and also to adhere to the AAMT guidelines we were sent that included the one space after a period, etc. etc. That is as much as I remember quite frankly about the whole thing. It is the Amherst office doing this so I guess only the NE is doing this now. I am not really sure. Everytime I turn around it is something new anymore. It gets very tiresome.

I hope you proofread your reports closer than you proofed this post
No offense, but it kinda makes me cringe. And, no, I'm not the OP. I just had to read your post a couple of times to comprehend it through all of the typos.