This has nothing to do with being a "newbie." It has to do with not bothering...

to look a word up when you're not sure.  You just said that you still have to look things up - good for you, at least you're looking things up.  I'm talking about MTs who don't bother to look anything up, just blank, blank, blank, blank because they know that the QA safety net is there to catch them.

I know, I know, with line rates as low at they are, MTs don't want to spend a lot of time on blanks - time is money, yada yada.  I hate to break this to all you MTs out there that think that way, but quality AND quantity is the name of this game.  Like it or not, you are expected to be both productive and accurate.  This is the profession you chose.  I know you just wanted to work from home, but just because you can look like a slob while you work doesn't mean you can produce sloppy work.  You still have to be a professional.

I agree with whomever it was below that said we are paid to QA NOT to train.  If you're new and unsure, then for a fee I will mentor you, but if you've landed a job as an MT with the same company I work for, then my job is to fill in your blanks or randomly evaluate your work.  I have to trust that you know what you're doing, why else would you have been offered the job?  Although I would swear sometimes that some of the MTs I QA had someone else take the test for them!

I get paid hourly for doing QA, so I'm not complaining about my job.  Actually, MT incompetence is job security for me, but every day I have more of an understanding as to why the line rates being offered are so low.

• How many others out there..... - earlybird
  • My biggest irritant is the MT that leaves 20+ blanks in a report... SM - QALady
    • TO QA - JBMT 10years
    • The solution is simple - MOMT
    • I am not a new MT and I also do my own QA - MT or bust
      • Well said! We MT's have to take the good with the bad, as well! - Jurassic MT
    • A perfect exampled of why wages are so low in our profession currently. sm - mj
      • I think it's the other way around. - - sm - Sally
        • Other way around . . . - ERMT/Oncology MT2
      • When I started MT (30+ yrs ago) our "QA" were our senior (sm) - Jurassic MT
        • Well said. - typingforpennies
        • Hey, I never said that an MT shouldn't send anything to QA at all. SM - QALady
      • QA Lady - typingforpennies
        • This has nothing to do with being a "newbie." It has to do with not bothering... - QALady
          • Good heavens! Where is this hostility - coming from? - sm - Sally
          • So if MT 'incompetence' is job-security for you, then - what's your problem?
            • Good lord, obviously you've never - QA also
              • But you get DINERO for doing that! If it's the same mistake, - isn't that easier? No dictionary-diving?
              • Gee...isn't that the profession YOU signed up for as well? - flimflam
                • Um, no. Not the same ones from the same MTs. - QA also
                • Exactly what I was thinking. We listen to and type the same stuff over and over all day... nm - NewBMT
          • You are just full of compliments. - You need to get out of QA.
            • Right on! - typingforpennies
        • I do QA too and happen to agree with above - sm
          • I guess I'd be cranky too, if I had such an (sm) - Hardworking, yet still human/fallible MT
            • BAJ? - QA2
            • Harsh. I guess in your book, quality inspectors - QA also
            • Huh?? - QArbouncinq
          • How hard is it to type a word in a blank space? I'm afraid - my heard doesn't bleed for you.
            • Yeah, we have no skills or intelligence whatsoever. We just fill in blanks! Geez! A monkey can le - QALady
              • a monkey can learn to type (cut off) - QALady
                • Has it ever occurred to you - flimflam
                  • I've never said "I'm better than the MTs." There are MTs out there that know... SM - QALady
                    • You have let your QA position - much more experience than you
                      • Crap. Try actually reading what she said. - QA also
                    • I agree with you! I do - earlybird
            • HEART, not "heard" - U no wat I mean... - No bleeding heart, here.
          • I personally will NOT spend too much time looking for a word. I listen 3-5 times if I still don' - NewBMT
            • We DO listen to the dictation! How else would we fill in blanks? - QALady
          • Decent QA will not give a quick read without listening - QA
            • Not in all companies! - QA
              • Sorry, didn't realize I used same name - different QA person here - QA also
            • Don't presume I am not doing my job - sm
        • Please disregard the typo . . . - typingforpennies
      • I think you have it backwards - poco
        • I think there's a difference between going the extra mile - QA also
          • thanks, but......... - earlybird

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A friend of my daughter's got married in early February.  They have been friends since kindergarten and through the girls we met the other girl's parents and became friends with them.  They moved a couple of years ago to the same metropolitan area but not as fast, easy and convenient to get to (they used to just live a few blocks away), so we haven't seen them as much the last couple of years but have seen each other from time to time.

Well, DD and I went to a personal shower for the bride a week before the wedding and spent $50 on a gown from Victoria's Secret.  Then our whole family went to the wedding and we gave the bride and groom $50 as a wedding gift.  We have not heard from them since and have not gotten a thank you card or anything.

I have been one in the past to criticize others who were miffed about not getting a thank you or acknowledgement of a gift because I figure I give a gift because I WANT to, not expecting anything in return.  So I'm not sure why this bothers me so much because I still believe a gift is something you give from the heart and that you shouldn't give it expecting something in return.  But it DOES bother me.

I think maybe it bothers me because money was really tight at the time that we spent that $100 on the shower/wedding gift but we didn't want to give nothing and in fact wanted to be generous since she and the family have been friends for so long.  Since money was so tight DH and I talked about waiting and giving them a gift later but then decided we'd go ahead and give it and we'd just get by the best we could till we got paid.  Basically we had to go a weekend eating omelettes, egg sandwiches, Ramen noodles, grilled cheese, etc.  Which isn't the bride's fault - we did that because we wanted to go ahead and give her the gifts instead of waiting.  I'm sure she doesn't realize that the money we spent on her made things very tight for us.

I just keep thinking that if it were friends of our family I would make SURE my daughter sent out thank yous.

I'm not getting all freaky about it or anything and it won't hurt the friendship, I guess I just feel that what we did was unappreciated.

You should NEVER accept 4 cpl!!  Wages are going down because new MTs (and offshore MTs) are working for embarrassingly low wages!  I've only been working for a little over a year, but I started out at 8 cpl right out of school.  Part-time or not, you're worth more than that.

You wouldn't take a job at McDonald's for $1/hour would you?

Good luck!  I really hope you either find a new company or tell the sorry excuse of a company you have now that you won't work for less than at least 7.5 cpl.

I have a question for those of you that work for national companies and have a set schedule. How important is it that you stick with your schedule? If you can get all the work done before the deadline, is it okay to take an hour or two off for something like cooking dinner or something like that, as long as your get all your work done by the deadline? Just wonderfing!! Thanks!!!

Julia