that should be sympathize, man, my eyes are bad these days...also, about the cherrypicking...
Posted By: emptyMT on 2005-08-04
In Reply to: I symphathize...no matter what anyone says, it can happen... - emptyMT
how do people know that, if they are not doing it themselves...in my experience, those who complain the worst about that are usually doing it themselves...
that is my opinion.
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Doh! My EYES, EYES opened, lol.
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30 hours divided by four days equals seven-hour days. Most of us have to work pretty much every day
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cherrypicking
what company are you speaking of? kc1
Cherrypicking
You are correct about Cherrypicking. It should not be occurring. If you believe that there is a problem with Cherrypicking, you should contact your technical support person and tell them to change the settings for the "Q" button. If they don't fix the problem, you should be sure to contact eScription. They have a method to stop Cherrypicking.
Good luck!
cherrypicking
That is horrible advice. We don't all do it and it is the fastest way to lose respect of your employer and your fellow workers. You have to take the good with the bad and every good, seasoned Transcriptionist knows that.
cherrypicking
I do not think that cherrypickers can get away with this for a long time, because every report has a trail to see what happened with it.
cherrypicking
I need to vent. I work for a really nice company, have been with them for several years, and really like my work. Lately a couple of new people were hired, and it is obvious they are cherrypicking. Tough dictators get refused/sent back to pool. On our platform, we can tell when a job is sent back. If you are one of those people, why do you think you have the right to pick and choose your work and leave the crap for everyone else. it is only fair to take the jobs as they come. We will all get some good, some bad. Would you like the shoe on the other foot - you get stuck with all the crappy dictators? I am asking here, please do the work as it is assigned. Play fair, will ya? I have seen people post on this subject before but had never experienced it. Now I know why prior posters were so PO'ed about it. It kills the line count for the day, every day, while the new kid on the block is raking it in. Whoever you are, I hope the boss confronts you and assigns you all the junk for a while or fires your butt so those of us who have worked there for years can continue with the jobs we have loved for so long. You are ruining it for everyone else. Okay, vented. back to work. wonder what is in the pool now.
Working 6/hour days, 5 days/week I make
$42,000.00, but the work is there to make more if I want to. I'm in the southeast.
cherrypicking hurts EVERYONE sm
you are supposed to be part of a team! Do you even know or care what that means? As the other poster stated, SHAME ON YOU! 
Cherrypicking at end of shift
What about when you just have a little bit of time left on your shift and you want to shuffle through and pick up some short jobs instead of the 25-minute psych report or the long consult that will put you way over your shift?
Another fine cherrypicking day.
Man, would I love to go on all day about this company and the cherrypickers here. This is totally 100% unbelievable that they let people do this every single day. 
No cherrypicking allowed here, but....
I know some reports do get shot back into the pool now and then. Luckily for me, they're nearly always LONG reports by my favorite dictators (ESLs are my specialty), so I don't complain at all. However, the rule here, which is hard to enforce, is that any skipped jobs or cherrypicking is grounds for being severely chastised for the first offense and immediate termination for the second.
IMO, why not just type it and be done with it????  Doing that takes less time than anything else, and time is $.
I agree that it's cherrypicking. sm
I don't mean this to be harsh, but if you're going to be a Transcriptionist for a company instead of having your own accounts, you need to be willing to do ALL of the dictators. Why would it be fair for you to pass over the difficult authors, take just the easy ones, and leave the hard work for the others? What makes you think anyone else wants to do them either?
Question about cherrypicking...
I'm on a new account that uses the Lanier. I really think there has been some major cherrypicking going on the past 2 days, but I have no clue how. I'd like to ask my boss about this, but am afraid to stir the pot as I'm so new. However, this is very, very frustrating. I thought I'd start out and see if anyone knows if people can cherrypick such a system. If not, it is all in my head then.
Any advise would be appreciated.
Cherrypicking by proxy...sm
All good and well in a hospital setting: Everyone knows what work comes out, when it comes out, who has done what, etc. What about home MTs? I know for a fact that my account (a rather large one encompassing 2 or 3 hospitals and seldom getting the same dictator the same week) has predominantly good dictators for the Basic 4 and at the beginning (about 2 years ago since I started) made a pretty good line count. Now it seems my shift (late evening) has virtually 99-100% ESL dictators. Now some of these were just dictated, some were dictated 12 hours prior....but whoever gets to assign them assigns a high priority number rating so we can't skip over them. I don't mind doing my share of bad dictators as long as everyone does theirs, and if even ONE MT gets to reject a particular job or "cherry pick", EVERYONE should be able to do it. But I'm not going to be singled out to get all the crap dictation at the whim of the work router when I know this is only a small percentage of the work available on that account. I wonder who gets the good stuff?
They are not griping about just cherrypicking, the point of this
whole post was how can an MT who works for Softscript get that many lines when the rest of us had our SPACES TAKEN AWAY AND LINE COUNTS ARE FALLING, WITHOUT BEING TOLD WHEN IT WAS DONE. We are told on an almost daily basis that the "line count" server is down and will catch up. GUESS WHAT, IT NEVER DOES. Although, apparently it does for a select FEW, aka the positive posts on here.
It sounds like you need to look for another job. I do not tolerate cherrypicking at all. If a
company I'm working for is allowing it and I find out about it, I'm gone. I work too hard to put up with a services poor business habits.
Jane Harner
2000 low days, 4000 busy days
Did 43,000 lines last month. 6 doctors.
You can "make a living" if you work 16-hr days, 7 days
and if you rarely buy anything but food and the barest essentials in clothing. My balancing act is so precarious that all it'll take is one of life's little disasters (rent increase, sick pet, major car repair) to pull the rug out from under me. Not a good feeling at all.
You are one paranoid woman (?), rather obsessing over cherrypicking.
Her post had not the slightest to do with cherrypicking, you have egg on your face, and you SHOULD apologize. Though I doubt you will, as you get to hide behind your anonymity. 
Why does it have to be cherrypicking? The person just asked a question?
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my apologies...I agree with you on THAT part about cherrypicking...
had that happen first-hand my first year of transcription...supervisor took all normals, easy dictators, etc., all to score points with the Medical Director - constantly making everyone think she was some kind of wizard on the keyboard (haha, it is funny now, but all of us in the office knew exactly what she was doing...)
Okay, am I completely loopy, or was there a post about cherrypicking?
Just curious, because I responded, or so I thought, and now I do not see any mention of it...anyone know? Thanks!
I was referring to slamming the cherrypicking post
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My thoughts on cherrypicking - newbies please read
Cherrypicking isn't right for the obvious reasons. But another thing, and this is what I decided early on, it's best to just sit down and learn to do those hard dictators, especially if there's QA or somebody else around to help you. Because someday you may be in a position where you HAVE to type that dictator, either because it's assigned to you or it's a stat and you're the only one available. It's too late to say you can't do it, especially if you've been on the account for a long time and are expected to know the dictators by then. I don't ever want to be in that position. That's just my opinion.
Cherrypicking - such a cute description for theft.
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and let's not forget cherrypicking! That'll boost your lines way up nm
maybe you oughtta try cherrypicking too...force the co. to deal with bad dictators! nm
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Cherrypicking didn't make our line rates less -
the lower line rates are what started people c-pickingin the first place, so they could make enough each week to live on. Back when I was paid by the hour (and lots more than I'm getting now per hour, I did whatever came along. But I'm sorry, I'm not gonna GIVE an employer a chunk of my change for the 'privilege' of doing a 40-minute report by a gum-chewing ESL with static on the line, partying nurses, or crying babies in the background, that I just plain can't understand, when I have the option to choose something that is at least transcribe-able.
It was rude in nature. 'Thanking' people for cherrypicking was uncalled for.
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I have heard so many people rationalize cherrypicking and seen too many supervisors not deal with i
It's a scourge on this profession ... like the folks who gratefully accept absurdly dreadful line rates because -- "it's better than nothing"
It's why we're all making LESS than we did 10 years ago, 15 years ago ... made worse because that's even without adjusting for inflation ...
550-650 lph on average. Some days more, some days less. It all depends. nm
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How? By working 12-hr days 7 days/week?
;LKJ
there a note on the company board from QA regarding cherrypicking and they mention "line padding&
This is a new one on me. I've heard of cherrypicking but what constitutes line padding? Isn't everybody typing what the doctor dictates? How can you possibly add extra????
I can't help, but I can sympathize.
Mine did it too several months ago. I blamed it on the cat stepping on something on the keyboard. It lasted a week or so, then one day I turned it on and it was back to normal. Go figure. Good luck.
I have to sympathize
with BOTH of you. It is hard when you are the only one cleaning/taking care of the household (been there, done that). My hubby helps out way more now than in the early years of our marriage. In fact, he takes on more of the chores these days than I do, which I need more now since it can be very difficult to make a living in this business.
I too, though, cannot think straight when I start getting very hungry. It is hard to even come up with what to eat. It goes on too long and it is impossible. Granted, he should not let it go on that long, but sometimes the one-thing-after-the-other takes hold and before you know it, there you are -- in an impossible situation.
I sympathize with you sm
MTing is a tough job, especially at home, and even harder with depression. Concentration is one of the key ingredients to making line count and if you don't have the concentration, you can't get the work done. I don't take depression meds, but my husband does and when he took them, it took about 3 weeks for them to kick in. They helped his concentration immensely. I think more support from your husband is order in this situation. Yelling at you and cussing at you is not going to help the situation. In my books, maybe he SHOULD get a job where he makes more money so you won't have so much pressure to achieve that line count. Your office manager probably feels like you need people around you to help you stay focused and maybe you perform better in the company of others. No, MTing at home is not for everybody but that in no way means you are a failure. If you work better in the office setting, go back. If your OM didn't think you were working out in the job, period, she would have let you go. Sounds like she is there to help you. And give those meds time to work. It does take awhile. Sit your husband down and ask him to be a little more understanding of the situation. He's only making it worse. Not only do you feel like a failure in your job, you probably feel like a failure in your home life as well. Not a good combination with someone with depression. I am sure others on this board can also give some good advice. Hang in there.
I sympathize with you, but from their
point of view they probably are looking at the premise that you were out of "acute care" for 8 years and with all the changes that have taken place within that length of time you would not be "up to speed." Keep looking, I am sure you will find something out there.
While I can sympathize with your
involves more than just "typing." In fact, medical transcription requires approximately 90% research. Had you adequately researched "CMT" you would have realized exactly what it was and what was involved in it. Unfortunately, it's a lesson learned. The tip-off to a new employer was - new MT graduate toting a CMT credential.
While I can sympathize with your
involves more than just "typing." In fact, medical transcription requires approximately 90% research. Had you adequately researched "CMT" you would have realized exactly what it was and what was involved in it. Unfortunately, it's a lesson learned. The tip-off to a new employer was - new MT graduate toting a CMT credential. Why would you pay for
While I can sympathize with your
involves more than just "typing." In fact, medical transcription requires approximately 90% research. Had you adequately researched "CMT" you would have realized exactly what it was and what was involved in it. Unfortunately, it's a lesson learned. The tip-off to a new employer was - new MT graduate toting a CMT credential. Why
While I can sympathize with your
involves more than just "typing." In fact, medical transcription requires approximately 90% research. Had you adequately researched "CMT" you would have realized exactly what it was and what was involved in it. Unfortunately, it's a lesson learned. The tip-off to a new employer was - new MT graduate toting a CMT credential. Why would you pay for a "credential" if you weren't
While I can sympathize with your
involves more than just "typing." In fact, medical transcription requires approximately 90% research. Had you adequately researched "CMT" you would have realized exactly what it was and what was involved in it. Unfortunately, it's a lesson learned. The tip-off to a new employer was - new MT graduate toting a CMT credential. Why would
While I can sympathize with your
involves more than just "typing." In fact, medical transcription requires approximately 90% research. Had you adequately researched "CMT" you would have realized exactly what it was and what was involved in it. Unfortunately, it's a lesson learned. The tip-off to a new employer was - new MT graduate toting a CMT credential. Why would you pay
While I can sympathize with your
involves more than just "typing." In fact, medical transcription requires approximately 90% research. Had you adequately researched "CMT" you would have realized exactly what it was and what was involved in it. Unfortunately, it's a lesson learned. The tip-off to a new employer was - new MT graduate toting a CMT credential. Why would you pay for a "credential" if you weren't entirely 100%
While I can sympathize with your
involves more than just "typing." In fact, medical transcription requires approximately 90% research. Had you adequately researched "CMT" you would have realized exactly what it was and what was involved in it. Unfortunately, it's a lesson learned. The tip-off to a new employer was - new MT graduate toting a CMT credential. Why would you pay for a "credential" if you weren't entirely 100% sure what the
While I can sympathize with your
involves more than just "typing." In fact, medical transcription requires approximately 90% research. Had you adequately researched "CMT" you would have realized exactly what it was and what was involved in it. Unfortunately, it's a lesson learned. The tip-off to a new employer was - new MT graduate toting a CMT credential. Why would you
While I can sympathize with your
involves more than just "typing." In fact, medical transcription requires approximately 90% research. Had you adequately researched "CMT" you would have realized exactly what it was and what was involved in it. Unfortunately, it's a lesson learned. The tip-off to a new employer was - new MT graduate toting a CMT credential. Why would you pay for a "credential" if you weren't entirely 100% sure what
While I can sympathize with your
involves more than just "typing." In fact, medical transcription requires approximately 90% research. Had you adequately researched "CMT" you would have realized exactly what it was and what was involved in it. Unfortunately, it's a lesson learned. The tip-off to a new employer was - new MT graduate toting a CMT credential. Why would you pay for a "credential" if you
While I can sympathize with your
involves more than just "typing." In fact, medical transcription requires approximately 90% research. Had you adequately researched "CMT" you would have realized exactly what it was and what was involved in it. Unfortunately, it's a lesson learned. The tip-off to a new employer was - new MT graduate toting a CMT credential. Why would you pay for a "credential" if you weren't entirely
While I can sympathize with your
involves more than just "typing." In fact, medical transcription requires approximately 90% research. Had you adequately researched "CMT" you would have realized exactly what it was and what was involved in it. Unfortunately, it's a lesson learned. The tip-off to a new employer was - new MT graduate toting a CMT credential. Why would you pay for a
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