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[Chrissols]

Good Morning all Dict8 ladies

[Cherryblossom114]

@gally123 @carosel2 thanks for the reassurance.
Can you do a note asking them not to slurp and eat and hold the mic under their noses,😠😱

[Gally123]

@Cherryblossom114 er no, else you might end up with a with one of their "helpful" feedback messages. However you can just mention, I think, "background noise" or "faint dictation." I often put a general note at the start of a letter to ask them to "check it careful due to background noise and/or quiet dictation difficult to hear" but I think the quietness is becoming an issue and it is getting worse. (Not due to my hearing, thankfully, deffo them, don't have this problem with Tpro). I wonder what the cause is.

[carosel2]

Well had some excellent feedback from Tpro!!. However a different matter from the other!
You typed.....
Should be.....
You ?....
You?.....
You?......
You ?....
My (wishful) reply to the person who dictated
You dictaded Gobbledigook in the most unprofessional manner what did you expect!

[Gally123]

@carosel2 - as my IT teacher used to say "rubbish in - rubbish out".

[danblack87]

@Cherryblossom114: Where there is eating/slurping/phones/ringing, /apple crunching, etc I always but a note: Dictation unclear/indistinct dictation/non-intelligible!!!

[Cherryblossom114]

@gally123
👍
Excellent suggestion, so glad I found this chat,
Good weekend all

[Meha5a]

I gave up after 2 hours yesterday, was getting nowhere financially and the background noise on some tasks was far too loud and dictation appalling. Surely DICT8 must give these hospitals some direction regarding dictation and why, if the secretaries at the other end are getting letters with loads of notes attached, haven't they addressed this ? Maybe there are no secretaries, maybe they have all left as the money is certainly not enough to endure this shit day in day out !!!

[Gally123]

@Meha5a - you lasted longer than me - I did 2 letters then swapped to Tpro. Kept checking back but still the same dire dictation.

[danblack87]

I only typed handful yesterday.

[Cherryblossom114]

@Meha5a
Yes, financially we end up with bigger electric bills trying to fathom it out and the reward is "you typed"....

[carosel2]

@Gally123 - absolutely!
@Meha5a -

[Meha5a]

@Cherryblossom114 - "you typed" is very accusing maybe "you interpreted" said crap dictation would be more amenable. I know when I first started I found the feedback incredibly soul destroying, then over time I found it petty and now I just do not care !!!! 🤣🤣

[Meha5a]

@Gally123 it's nice to know I wasn't alone in my thinking yesterday, still I got a nice tan so there was an upside !

[Gally123]

@Meha5a - we only had cloud and light rain yesterday and it looks like the same today so no sloping off outside, unfortunately.

[danblack87]

What an awful day with dictation today ... I wonder where these letters are being dictated from (in my Specialties especially, and I have four) - just newbies s far as I can tell. Diabolical waste of a day .

[Meha5a]

ditto @danblack87

Getting halfway through a letter for the whole thing to be changed FFS that was me done

[danblack87]

@meha5a@ Soul destroying isn't it?

[Gally123]

@danblack87 @Meha5 - or when you've typed it and the doctor says - and it is usually a man - "Oh actually, I've already done this, just delete it..."

[danblack87]

@Gally123@ I agree that is so annoying - makes me so angry and that One letter can be like 10/15 mins of wasted time!!!!!

[danblack87]

@Gally123: best way round your previous comment (as I have found .... with no adverse feedback) is to type it - don't scrap the dictation *you have put in the time . ... So: in the notes box (Note to Sec: "Sorry, just delete this as already dictated" -- that way you get paid for the lines you have typed . It's a note is it not??

[danblack87]

p.S: I don't think we get penalised by adverse feedback as in fact anything typed is income to Dict8 ... whatever the outcome of that letter - Notes box, notes box 'fellow typists' we are encouraged to use??? That is down to the dictator to sort themselves out in my opinion?

[danblack87]

One further thing - the dictator has the option to delete that task before sending it through ot Dict* - not my problem ... all they need to do is rewind and scrap that task themselves. It must be rather annoying for the Secs at the other end to have to check that task and then find it is Null and void??

[danblack87]

I would find it ultimately annoying and the only way for secs to indicate to their respective in-house checking team is to 'flag it up' thereby negating time wasted by us and also the checkers at the other end??? We don't need to be rude about it ...it happens ... I have experienced it myself from the other side. AND in fact made a point about it at a Team Meeting years ago. It's called 'acceptable constructive criticism' AND 'unnecessary money being spent'. I recall where I was they did training sessions for the dictators !!!!

[flutterby18]

An hour in and one letter typed. Dictation this morning is absolutely diabolical. Why oh why can't they dictate properly and clearly is beyond me. I cannot get past the first five, they are all abysmal. It's getting beyond a joke.

[Gally123]

@flutterby18 - I had a couple of days like that last week. I just wish DICT8 would educate people on how to use the equipment, and the proper way to dictate as they remove any messages we might leave on dictator failings (such as please do not move around when dictating or please speak into the handset).