Re: disorderly transcription

From: Donna (donna_at_croakerkillspamwoods.com)
Date: 07/07/04 

Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 13:25:50 GMT

blupencl@aol.combadstuff (Becky Young) wrote in
news:20040706231207.05740.00000809@mb-m27.aol.com:

> Cherrypickers are considered scum of the earth. I have fired somebody
> for it and it felt good.
>
> No matter your status, if you are taking dictation from a pool with
> other people - if you choose the fast/easy/fat/skinny reports, you are
> in effect stealing money from your co-workers.
>
> I have really strong feelings about this.

Becky, I'm with you on this, but there is reverse cherry-picking going on
too. I worked for an entity where the work was "assigned" and it was very
unfair. I often got the "harder" clinic work because no one else could
understand the accent of the Brit or get on with the nuances of the old
codger or whatever. How are they going to learn without doing? I wasn't
born understanding those people. I had to develop an ear. I asked to be
trained on ERs and ORs, and eventually someone allowed me to do ERs. I
loved them. I still don't do ORs and that's fine.

What I'm saying is that with the better of the entities I've worked for,
it's been a variety of things I could and "could not" do and I either
learned or did a crappy job (and learned after the editor hacked it up),
but at least distribution was fair - FIFO.

I dunno... I guess it also depends on who you work for. Masking and pools
can be fair, but picking in that mask or pool is not my idea of fair. 

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Donna
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