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I've started a new thread, as the old one seemed to have ended. Apologies if I have missed anyone.

Hello everyone, how you all doing. We've had some wonderful weather hope you all were able to enjoy it and not too busy tap tapping away
Xx💚

I wish I could tap tap away! It's dire! 😩

Dire it is. Pleased I get pension next month!!!!

@Lollybaz Not much coming in or the quality, From my side the quality is dire. I give up at the start of the names I don't bother they'll say it all different ways throughout the dictation just when you think youve got it right

Yes same here dictation is absolutely awful and then the proof readers have the cheek to nitpick and once they’ve picked up one “error” they seem to take delight in keeping on and on and on!

All because AI says when youve been typing before they were even born Forcing their ideas on to you. 🫩

I know. The nitpicking is atrocious. I think they are just giving us the scraps that voice recognition can't handle. No diaries at Christmas anymore!!!!

No dairies!...not even a thank you anymore..guess they must be feeling the pressure even when a little thank you goes a miss!!
I think they're working on a pay increase...lol

Oh yeh! Forgot about the thank you that didn't come either!! Pay rise? What is that ? Not in their dictionary 😠

Is this really the end for DICT8? Dire is no longer the word, it's just non existent! My workload is less than a quarter of what I used to get. Then when a letter comes in it's grabbed within seconds! Anybody else like this?! Yes I know it's half term too but the last year seems to have been like it's on permanent half term!

Hi Lollybaz. Yeh it sure is non existent. Me too making a quarter of what I used to. It's just pocket money. Can only blame AI. No communication either from DICT8 apart from picky emails on the pickiest of things. I think most of the time you just get dictation that probs AI can't handle!!!!

@Lollybaz - I have not typed with DICT8 for a while now, but I can tell you that it is much the same with other companies - little work, snapped up quick.

Shame, I yearn for the old days where I could log on at 6am and do pretty much a whole clinic, then when I felt I had done enough, pick my days off. Now it's the other way round! I'm scrabbling round for stuff to do. I used to like the notebooks too. Very handy.
Question .. does anyone know whether the checkers employed by Dict8 and on the payroll or just self employed like us with extra payment for the extra role? I ask because when there is nothing at all coming in, I wonder if they get first dibs so that they are actually doing something which would make sense! I just can't believe I can go for days with absolutely zilch!

Good point Lollybaz but then why are we just getting anything at all if not just scraps. Yeh the diaries stopped a while back. Last week I made the paltry sum of £9!! Somebody not telling us something!

Yep the waiting around for something descent is certainly longer. In the summer days ie., last month, I could go out to the garden and move the pots around to kill time but I have noticed the work that's left hanging around up to 5 pm that no one wants is all cleared by 7. I was wondering if there are evening staff

@Cherryblossom114 - not sure what you mean by "I was wondering if there are evening staff"? - typists are self-employed like you and me, and can work at whatever time we wish, morning, afternoon, evenings, weekends, bank holidays etc. I once worked all night as I had problems sleeping, and was just glad there was work to do.

All I suspect is there is something they are not telling us. We used to get emails when the workload was changing. Nothing in months/years

I see what you mean. I just thought most people clocked off at 5

@Cherryblossom114 an awful lot are people who work in hospitals by day and need to earn a bit extra in the evenings, or women with young families who type when the children are in bed. I hardly ever clocked off at 5 - I worked until 6.