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[Chrissols]

Looking for people from the previous thread that closed as must of been full?

I have put more back today than I have typed......cannot hear/understand what is being said at all......think one was playing table tennis 😟

@Gally123: I don't have a mobile phone ... not for years (I think I mentioned before 'private patients want access all year round even on Christmas day (they are paying for a service)). I am going away end of September with my daughter, her partner and granddaughter and I will be looking after Maisie occasionally to give them some free space (they need to be in contact with me when they are in a restuarant or other to make sure that we are okay and meet up at an appropriate .
place. I have a mobile phone, unpackaged with no sim which I need to sort out ... I am waiting for my daughter to do that for me LOL. I am not a gambler (unless spending pennies in the arcade, icecream, burger, chips, etc.) - What a silly man throwing his money away (although I possibly understand he wanted to increase on the money he had LOL .

@danblack87 - I have a holiday, I hope, shortly, the tickets are due to be sent out this week, but I have a few doubts that it might get cancelled, or possibly part of it although it is only a week anyway. My yearly trip is my present to myself for all the other weeks of hassle with DICT8!

@Gally123: we are only going to Cornwall (caravan holiday) for 6 days - I have not been away for three + years. Where are you going? Hope it does not get cancelled for you ... we all need a break I think. Best wishes. .

@danblack87 - I have booked to go to the Channel Islands. I wanted somewhere where food would not be too much of a problem (I usually go somewhere like Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia etc, hot and with lots of historical sites to visit) as I have just been diagnosed with Coeliac disease and lactose intolerant so wanted menus etc in English. Jersey should not be a problem, other than probably a cancelled day trip to St Malo in France, but due to spend 3 days in Guernsey, however they still require people from UK to quarantine for 7 days. I booked with Saga and it has been a nightmare with misinformation, downright lies etc. They refuse to send out letters out to confirm bookings so I just hope I get the ferry tickets okay.

@Gally123 Jersey is a lovely place, I spent most of my late teens/early twenties there....would love to live there.

@Chrissols - I read that Sark is looking for people to go and live there to boost the community. I have a scheduled day trip but that may get cancelled as well, but it sounds a nice place - I don't drive so there being no cars would not bother me.

I am really looking forward to going - We had a holiday planned to Jersey about 20 years ago but the hotel suddenly closed down due to sudden illness of the owner.

@Gally123 oooo that's interesting about Sark, I do not drive either so would be great. Will have to google that......

@Chrissols - I don't know if they are looking for young families as the article I read mentioned about 500 residents and looking to increase to 1,000, and at present the average age is about 62 or something! But sounds nice.

Also has very low crime rate. Not sure how people move house with furniture etc if everything has to go by horse and cart or tractor!

HI everyone, how you doing today? Slow for me, only 10 tasks typed ... there were a few more which I wasn't quick enough to catch (that's £11.04 since work starting coming through at 10 am. .

@danblack87 It's been fine for me today with a steady stream of work. Feels a bit like the old days to be honest (although tomorrow will probably be bad for me now for saying that) {sad} . Hope yours picks up soon.

Very slow for me today - only 6 tasks so far - hardly worth logging on.

slow day today.

Two tasks, fortunately a reasonable length

I think the Add Note Box is being abused at the moment - sometimes longer than the actual letter - hope DICT8 is reading the thread - I do not see it mentioned anywhere on their site that typists get paid for what goes in the Add Note Box ? :0

@Meha5 - we don't get paid for notes in box so I make mine as brief as possible. Also, as we do not get paid I don't think they can legally comment/feedback on a note left, as we leave such messages out of the kindness of our hearts!!

Recently I typed a letter where the doctor left instructions at the start and then repeated them again at the end of the letter - I only left a message at the start as I felt there was no need to duplicate it and waste my time.

I am not sure that DICT8 has manged to follow us across from the other thread.

@Meha5 I know what you mean about the notes box. Over the years I have thought about why we don't get paid for what goes in the box - especially when you sometimes type more notes than text! I suppose the problem from Dict8's perspective is that we are at liberty to type our own notes for the recipient/secretary and, if we had a mind to, we could say something in two sentences when one would suffice! Can you imagine the feedback emails relating to whether you could have been more succinct in the notes box?! What I find a pain is sometimes having to type out long winded friendly chit-chat directed towards the secretary which has absolutely nothing to do with the letter at all!

@Gally123 - I have had comments about notes left in the past! :)

got told off for advising the person check the equipment as dictation was coming through distorted for weeks !

@Poppy379 I think if we did notes verbatim it should be added to our line count - and yes had loads of the friendly chit chat ones too :)

Crap day today for me

@Meha5 I'm with you - it would be lovely to be paid for the things we type in the notes box. I can't imagine there is any understanding at the hospital/clinic end that transcribers don't get paid for typing notes. Plus, if we need to type notes other than those which have been dictated we are only doing so because it directly relates to the task and is relevant. It might bring in a few more pennies if this was added to the tally, but I can't imagine there'll be a change in policy any time soon.

@Meha5 - snap - been told off for leaving a message that I thought their heads needing cleaning as they were sticking, and was told just to say 'please check this letter.' I was not blaming the dictator, however I suppose if the equipment comes from DICT8 they don't like the suggestion that there is anything wrong from it. Working in a hospital, the only person in the right place to know if such equipment needs looking at is the secretary/person who types the letter. Just shows their mentality really.

Dict8 do check what is in the notes box and NO we don't get paid for those notes: I had an e-mail about 3 weeks ago: my note was not acceptable basically, although I can't remember the exact wording I put [1] Note to Sec: please listen to the note from dictator here ...
The e-mail I received was that you should type in the note box exactly what the Dr said and that I would be monitored in the future!!
I think I did it twice, the note was so long and complicated I thought it best that the Sec heard it for herself as having been a PA in the private sector myself in the past I would have listened to the note myself (it was about codes (fees) and types of surgery optional and information further to be sent). So there you go, I just do as I am told. .

HI Chrisolls
How are you getting on with Tpro?

Incidentally, have they told you how we will be paid, do we need to contact them about this?
Dict8 is still quite slow isnt it. I do keep checking in for work there.

@danblack87 - I think that just illustrates how doctors take advantage of us, esp now as I don't expect they see much of their secretaries but messages like that could be phoned through. Perhaps they don't realise how little we get paid.

I once did a long message (in my early days with DICT8, I would reject such a task now) where the doctor did a long note about private practice fees (charged at several hundred pounds per hour), there was no letter and I all I got paid was the basic 8p for typing the date.

@Lucylizzy123 finding Tpro quite slow as getting used to the terminology with strong accents isn't easy lol. We have to invoice them at the end of the month, by email if I remember correctly. I have been doing Dict8 work for the past couple of days but need to get back on to Tpro to familiarise myself. How are you finding it?

I find it slower than dict8 for the same reason, accents and different specialties that I am not too familiar with. I am concentrating on Tpro at the moment to familiarise and get used to things. I have done very little dict8 the last week consequently. I find the system quite easy to use, they just like some things done the complete opposite of Dict8 though don't they, so hopefully won't get too confused dipping in and out of both!!