The question you are asking is a very friendly way of calling on all CHERRYPICKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sm
Posted By: Dancin Shoes on 2005-07-23
In Reply to: Do you get choice of which report types are sent to you? - Thank you.
doing work that other people either can't or won't do. You should learn just like the rest of us, how to do it all. Take it or leave it. Do them all or do none, so the rest of us won't get cheated out of "easy" reports too!
I know that at my co. you are asked what you can and cannot do. That's a joke! They move me around because I can do it all! Of course I get stuck doing crap because all the easy stuff is taken. Now, come on, is that fair? I don't think so!
so there! You heard a mouthful about one of my biggest pet peeves!
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cherrypickers will not be out of work. Who says cherrypickers sm
can't do the difficult dictation? When the dictation goes to VR they will most likely take their time, don't each during dictating etc and the dictation will be better. Most cherrypickers including myself cherrypick because of unclear dictation not because the work is hard. I for one am not going to waste my time with an unclear dictation. Can't dictate right I'm not transcribing. Bottom line.
Well that is real mature, calling me a rimrod. Why the name calling?
I am not telling everyone to leave this site. I gave info about MTSTars.net to let us, who have been on this site MTStars.com for many years to make up their own minds. YESTERDAY, I never got a straight answer about the owner of this board and now I know, but I was in the middle of asking questions earlier and my posts kept getting deleted. I was not calling anyone names, like YOU have and I am not insuling anyone like YOU have. NOT offshoring? Well he is from Pakistan am I right? I still do not know the truth. Can you supply me with more information about Dr. Ahmed?
How do you know cherrypickers are the ones or SM
if your company is simply assigning specific jobs to you? Companies may tell you your jobs are "random", but today have a lot of power over how jobs are sent out to MT's. I have discussed this with friends who work for different large companies and we all agree, our jobs are not sent randomly.
There is always going to be cherrypickers especially when sm
getting paid by report. I'm with you.
cherrypickers
Might I say that I used to be bothered by cherrypickers, but getting paid by report, they weed themselves out. Boss can tell when they turn off/on lanier to skip ESL, long reports, etc. I have become an expert at the long reports, ESL, what have you and it does not take me any longer to do a 1 minute report than it does a 4.2 minute report. Also, I never whine, b-----, moan and complain about it and I have received an unsolicited raise. I love them, they love me, I make my self available......(Get it--anybody every worked in corporate America).....
To all you cherrypickers.
You make me ill. Every day the same thing. Why can't you just do your share of the worst dictators and give the rest of us a break. Is there any COMPANY out there that does not permit this as I am ready to jump ship here. Tired of it. Thanks for listening to me vent. And another thing, why can't physicians count? 1.3, 4, 5, 2, 7, 9, 8, 10. Bad, bad day.
cherrypickers
You definitely ARE being punished for being good. What other profession punishes their best people by giving them the xxxxx work? That's what is so upside-down wrong about this field (and why I am getting out, fast). MQGuy, you need to stand tall and insist on some element of fairness. Otherwise, the faster they shovel it to you, the deeper you're gonna be buried in it.
Wish I could tell you to hang in there, but it might be better to just hang it up! 
Cherrypickers
Does this cycle ever end? End of pay period and nothing but garbage to type. Day in and day out the same thing. Is there a company out there that prohibits this type of work ethic?
those cherrypickers.......
are at it again. I can tell when they are doing it because the platform software slows down, and then I get one dictator from one account, and then one from another account. I guess SOME of the cherrypickers just do not like the harder jobs. Oh well, the larger jobs I like.  Faster quota that way! Hail to the cherrypickers, keep up the GOOD? work.
feel sorry for the cherrypickers
I've been at this 10+ years and have gritted my teeth through these ESLs and mushmouths, and now I can whip right through them. In about five years, thats ALL there will be thanks to VR and India rerouting. There will always be a job for those of us who have stuck through and gained knowledge from these awful dictators..thats where you learn, by researching!
Grrr...cherrypickers
I am so SICK of cherrypicking. I just got a HUGE job in my queue by the worst author on my account, which, conveniently, had been skipped by everybody else working today, leaving me, apparently the only person with a conscience, to slog through this crap. I just don't understand the mindset of the cherrypicker. I would be wracked with guilt if I took all the good work and left the bad for everyone else. If anyone reading this is a cherrypicker, you are a thief. You are a selfish, pathetic, disgusting thief, and I hope someday you get what's coming to you.
Direct hit on cherrypickers
Just wondering - how do you cherrypick on DQS?
Direct hit on cherrypickers!
Here's some good news - my branch just eliminated cherrypicking by disabling the Dictaphone button that sends reports back into the pool, thereby rending cherrypickers impotent! Yea!!!
Now they have to do the same frickin' lousy docs as meeee!   
Cherrypickers are the worst. I feel
for you. Everyday I get nothing but garbage leftover work also for at least the first 6 hours of my shift. I complain constantly but nothing is ever done. Starting to make me want to look elsewhere and anyone who admits they cherrypick is lower than low. Thanks to you my lines suffer and that is not FAIR!!!!!!!
to the comments about cherrypickers making $$
i have to absolutely totally disagree. I cherrypick reports that are less than 30 seconds in duration. I by no means MAKE ANY LINES WHATSOEVER!!! In fact, it is to clear the board and lower the number of reports in the system. If I were to be paid by the line, then by all means, those reports can sit in the system and wait for days for all I care. To give you an example, I did 102 endoscopy/colonoscopy reports in six hours ... my line count was 520 lines ... do the math ... I was not going to be taking home squat if I were paid by the line. HOwever, there were 102 less reports in our hospital system.
I just had to say that. thank you, and now I await your bashing.
Update on "Direct Hit to Cherrypickers"
Well, U know there HAD to be a flipside - now that all the cherrypickers on my account must type whatever comes down the pike our TAT has gone down the tubes! It seems they are struggling with those darn difficult docs, doncha know. On top of that, our office is now assigning most of these hard docs to us "old-timers" as the cherrypickers just can't seem to get the hang of them. So now I get nothing but the dregs! Oh well, they're not difficult to me as I've been doing 'em for years, but jeez - I feel like I'm being "punished" for being too darn good! 
They put the complainers/cherrypickers on the easy work, the
Guess what? There would be no cherrypickers if there were no CRAPPY DICTATORS! nm
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FINAL update on "Direct hit to cherrypickers."
Cherrypickers complained about the difficult doctors, TAT went haywire as they struggled thru 'em, so MQ "unlocked" the "send back to pool" key. So victory for the C-pickers. I knew it couldn't last!
I prefer weekends. I find most cherrypickers also avoid
weekends, so I at least get a decent selection of work to do.
I have to agree that cherrypickers will be out of work when VR takes over, since the harder reports
Even when I worked inhouse and had the opportunity to cherrypick, I didn't. Even now, I am finding out that ESLs are probably easier than than some of the American doctors in the long run, because they get down to business and dictate their report. Most times, they say the same thing over and over. Learn the doc, know his quirks and bang, you are done.
Is it kid friendly?
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pet friendly
I for one can identify with you. Leaving my simon at home would be like leaving a kid at home! For the last eight years we have planned most of our vacations around our dog. I have found some of the greatest ones were groups of cabins on the lake (I am in Texas, so we have gone to tennessee, arkansas, etc) but I'm sure there are some close to you. They have group cookouts, hiking, casino nights, soft ball, lots of fun stuff. You might check something like that. 
Friendly HHS contact
I was wondering if anyone had the name and number or E-mail address of a friendly person at the Department of Health and Human Services? I have a couple quick short questions concerning the HIPAA regulations.
Thanks.
Just be sure it is transcription friendly and
it has everything at your fingertips, i.e. doctor roster, automatic demographic fill-in, line cout accessible, one key to send and hopefully automatic download, good spell check, and me personally "could live without my ShortHand abbreviation expander. It works in all windows programs, so therefore I can use it on most all software programs.
My supervisor is very friendly and
personable, however, we have never met in person. We have "known" each other for years since we have both worked out of the same office a long time, he used to be an office employee, recently promoted.
I have WP 10 and I like it. User friendly. sm
I've used MS Word too, but there really isn't that much difference and its easy to learn.
Very user friendly
Although I was a newbie at the time, after finishing a MT course, they first had me on Dictaphone and then trained us on Escription/Edit Script. It was much, much easier than Dictaphone and any MT with experience would find it very easy to use. There really is not that much training needed---just to learn the commands, which is included in the tutorial. It really is a great platform.
How user friendly is it really?
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It is very user friendly...
...I think you'll like it. Good luck!
Yep, VERY user friendly...
You'll be up and running into no time. :-)
I don't think it is very user friendly - sm
I used it for a day I think and then quit, hated it. Too many steps up to actually working and it was just a pain in the butt to use. There are many platforms that are much better than EMDAT.
very user friendly, productive ...
i was disappointed my lines didn't increase more dramatically over old system -- but there was an increase. I like it well enough i hope i never have to use another system. Maybe the 'decrease' in lines others report is due to messing around on the internet instead of working, as 2 minutes here and there really can add up...
hometalkcafe.com might have one. Friendly bunch there.
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software that is user friendly (sm)
I'm not sure of the difference between software and a platform, but I just want to work for a company whose program is easy to work on, not a lot of glitches, freezes, server problems, etc. etc. That defeats the whole purpose of what we were hired to do - TRANSCRIBE. Also when there is a problem, it would be nice to have someone be able to help you quickly.
Is ExSpeech user friendly?
Can you make good lines on Dictaphone ExSpeech voice recognition?
EMDAT InScribe -- not friendly
Terrible platform.
I've tried to be friendly and have a sense of humor,
so I just quit..and went about doing my job figuring they didn't have time to socialize. They seem all business... even my QA person, very cut and dry. I've tried joking with her with not much response. I wasn't sure what was expected of me in that respect.
Does anyone out there have any good pet friendly vacation ideas?? sm
Would love to go away for a small vacation with the kids but they dont want to leave their furry friends behind...and neither do I. I am looking for someplace that will take two dogs and is also kid friendly. I live in Ohio so I dont want something to far away. Dog friendly and kid friendly....too much to ask for???? 
google.com dog-friendly hotels then the state
Which platforms do you find to be the most user friendly . . . sm
and allow you to be more productive? Your input is greatly appreciated!
Invoice program - user friendly
I currently use Abacus for line counting. I need a separate program for line counting and hourly work that is very user friendly. Any advice?
The newest version is VERY user friendly. The one right before
it stunk. Make sure you're getting to work on one that has the very newest version that came out this fall.
VISTA Friendly Transcription Companies?
I saw a post here within the last month for Vista-friendly companies. Please email me if you know who they are. Thanks so much!
I love BeyondText. User friendly
are pulled in with a simple search. I was making my minimum line counts by the end of the first week.
Is their platform user friendly, or does it depend on the account?
nm
I have tried both. Smartype is user friendly, easy to learn. I'd use it again.
NM
VR program. Very user-friendly and easy to learn.
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Strongly dislike Emdat. It is not transcriptionist friendly.
It gives a great report to the doctor and the companies like it....the only shortcomings directly involve the lowest on the pay scale, the transcriptionists.
If the company is using the program fully it is not too bad, but when they won't even instruct the docs to do their part then you might as well forget about maintaining your line count. It's sad.
One week of working on a new platform and I do not feel it is user-friendly
Editing itself is not bad. It is the documentation of the changes I made, I think for purposes of feedback to MT, which I have to do on Word (outside of the platform) that is driving me crazy and is eating up a lot of time. I do not think I am being productive. I am paid an hourly rate but I am almost embarrassed with my production. I think doing QA without going the through the MTing using the same platform presents a lot of difficulty. Is it too early to decide whether this is a good fit for me?
Is ExText user friendly? Can you make good lines?
I will be using a foot pedal - ? Transnet.
I'm using Meditech Magic now and I can't imagine anything being worse.
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