The absolute worst IMHO is the dictator

• Poll - what do you think the hardest accent is? I vote Hispanic. nm - gettinold
  • Syllable Swallowers, hands down.... - MDI-MDer
  • Asian and Russian for me. nm - MT42long..
  • Indians by far!!! - Angie
  • Eastern European -- Russian, Polish, etc. - vhat vas zat?
  • Indian. - carma
  • I have as much trouble with southern (USA) accents (sm) - Mushroom
    • Are you in the south listening to southerns or - Betty
      • No, I'm in the north (Michigan) and (sm) - Mushroom
  • Chinese, especially when eating something. nm - Backwards typist
  • Vietnamese accent the worst. - Kathleen
  • Italian. - Zville MT
  • The absolute worst IMHO is the dictator - catsxoxo
  • For me, it's not any particular accent, it's the speed of - BrainDeadMT
    • worst accents - jane
  • East Indian . . and they are - fast talkers too.
  • French! - for me
    • French for me too. - nm
  • Agree...Hispanic is the hardest! - FlaMT
    • Hispanic too - some bad Russians as well
  • I vote - jaerae
    • Middle Eastern. I don't know why. - going deaf
    • accent - 91 MT
      • not an accent, but - mtg
        • Iranian, Cuban,England,Faster than lightening Americans sm - sickofit
          • Asian, Indian, British, Hispanic..sm - mt

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garbage that QA people have to deal you might understanding where they are coming from.  I don't agree with constant negative feedback.  I do agree if the MT is wrong that corrections should be made and passed along.  I don't believe additional comments need to be made about errors, unless they are repeated errors.  I have had QA people correct things and make snide remarks about how style changes were made months ago and that I had previously received other information, etc.  In every case in which the QA person made such comments I proved her wrong.  I also complained to the MTSO and the person was taken off of QA.

If you are expecting positive feedback, in most cases it isn't going to happen, but I'm a believer that if you tell someone what they are doing wrong, you also need to tell them what they are doing right.

I try to be adult about it, and if I have made a mistake I make a note of it so that I won't do it again, but if I'm corrected for something that I'm not doing wrong I go back to QA with it.   Almost every time QA has come back with you are correct, but and then tell me how they do things or add in a few more cutting remarks I go to the QA manager.

I work in a very particular account and they are frequently changing the way they want things done, but they want them the way they want them, doesn't matter what BOS says, doesn't matter that we are all in agreement that they are incorrect, we have to do them that way.  It may seem nitpicking to the MT that some things are being corrected because they aren't really wrong maybe, but it isn't what the account wants. 

QA gets the pits because the good ones aren't hard.  I've never done QA, but I know the reports with blanks I do have are from really awful ESLs or Americans.  I think I'm pretty good with ESLs, but some of it is just flat mush.  And of course there are those folks who don't really care about what they're putting out, figuring QA will cover their butts.  You're going to get the dregs just by nature of your job.

As far as going back to MT, if you love it, do it.  Life is short, why hate your job?  It's a big part of your life.  I work for MQ and I'm doing fine, contrary to all the nay-sayers out there.  I'd say research companies or look locally, because it's not all as bad as you might hear.  I've worked in offices, as an IC, and now as an employee at a national.  Good situations are out there, just do your research, and take all the complaining with a grain of salt.  Complainers are usually the loudest people on the boards, it's human nature.  Email me if you want to chat more.  Best of luck!

Okay, with an hourly rate you can do some figuring.  I believe that, even though one would typically have more experience doing QA, they do not necessarily make more money on a per hour basis because their line per hour rate is much lower than the MT rate to make up for the greater number of lines done when editing.  I think QA is primarily a bonus in that you don't have to do all that physical typing.  I think MT and QA makes about the same amount per hour in general.  Assuming this, then you can figure out where you are pretty much. 

If you type 160 lines per hour at 0.08 cpl, then you are making $12.80 per hour.  I don't know for sure, but that sounds like a pretty average number of lines per hour and line rate for many MTs out there, so what you are making sounds pretty average, IMO. 

If you want to challenge yourself, however, you can do better.  I can do almost 200 lines per hour and make 0.09 cpl, so that's about $18 per hour.  That's as an independent contractor working at home through an MTSO, not an employee, and not as an IC on my own accounts (make much more on those with no MTSO middleman).  Even if you stayed with the 0.08 cpl and upped your lines by 20 an hour to 180, OR if you went to 0.09 cpl and stayed at 160 lines per hour, you get a raise to $14.40 per hour. 

Hope this helps!

I have this to say to that person

1.  Its stealing from your fellow teammates.  You are awarding yourself 4 hours of their shift and their work because you're too lazy or too incompetent to get your speed up.  They have bills to pay just like you do, and are sitting there out of work because YOU stole it.  Especially if THEY are honest and only work approved OT.

2.  Its lying to your employer and yourself as to how efficient you are, when you are falsifying your time card.  It is also putting them in jeopardy with the labor board, should you both get caught.

3.  Its bragging to post this - bragging that you are lazy and incompetent, and like to steal work, so you think you're smart and slick to have found a way around hard work and better skills.  Shame on you!

Thank GOD where I work the ONLY way you can type a job is if you are punched IN to the time clock.  So I know you're not my coworker.  I pity those that are.

MT Word Seeker is definitely better IMHO.  The search results are more to the point, perhaps because it searches 1100 medical / MT websites. 

when I have a bunch of work to do at night.  I try to get up and walk through the house, do a simple chore, get something to drink even if just water, helps me.  If I find myself actually falling asleep while typing it is definitely time for bed because then I have to relisten to my entire dictation to make sure it is good.  My DH is always telling me to go to bed at a decent time and get up early and I'll be more productive, which is really true if you are that tired.  With my work if I'm not out of TAT, I pick the easy/short jobs first and leave the longer/more difficult ones until I've had some rest.   While I may still have lots of minutes left, I don't have as many reports and I feel that I have accomplished something. 

If you had to pick just one cake, what would it be?  I love just about any kind of cake, but I have to say honeybun is my all-time favorite.  I think I could eat the whole thing if I tried. 

Any other absolute favorite desserts?  Oatmeal candy has been at the top of my list since childhood.  My mom always made it at Christmas and now I always like to do the same.  Yummy!

MS Word's AutoCorrect.  I bought is and asked for help in transfering my AutoCorrect entries to it.  The owner kindly answered she would do it FOR me . . . for an additional fee of $25!!!!  Being as I had just paid $189 for it, I thought that was terrible!  Her instructions for doing the transfer do not work.  I honestly think it is just a ploy to make more money.

I finally did the transfer myself, after numerous tries.  Now I don't even use it.  Since it isn't anything "special," it isn't worth the trouble.  I much prefer IT to SpeedType.  In fact, ANYTHING other than SpeedType is better, in my opinion.

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