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If you want a vision of the future, imagine a wage slave typing: "I hate my job. I hate my job. I hate my job," on a keyboard, for ever. That's what a Manhattan court typist is accused of doing, having been fired from his post two years ago, after jeopardizing upwards of 30 trials, according to the New York Post. Many of the court transcripts were "complete gibberish" as the stenographer was allegedly suffering the effects of alcohol abuse, but the one that has caught public attention contains the phrase "I hate my job" over and over again.
We've collectively been around the professional block many times. What's the most spectacular flameout you've seen?
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by SecurityGuy on Thursday April 17 2014, @06:36PM
Even if they record, this stuff will have to be turned into text at some point, and there will still be a place for error or sabotage to happen. A related story:
When one of my kids was born, he spent a decent bit of time in the hospital nursery. Some of the nurses were strangely cold. Seeming to giving me us dirty look now and again. At some point, I noticed two abbreviations on the label of my son's bassinet. One was EtOH. I forget the other. I worked in the medical field and knew what EtOH was. Ethanol. The kind of alcohol you drink. The other, I had to ask about. A was told, rather stiffly, that those were codes indicating the mother had abused alcohol and narcotics during the pregnancy. I was embarrassed, angry, and demanded they be taken off because it was completely false. They refused, claiming that's what the medical record said. That's what the DOCTOR said. I demanded they check again, and they did. What they found was a transcription error. The medical transcriptionist dropped one word: "No." It was enough to change "No history of alcohol and narcotic abuse." to "History of alcohol and narcotic abuse."
They fixed the record and the label once they found the error, but it took them a day or two to find it.
(Score: 1) by Joe Desertrat on Friday April 18 2014, @01:45AM
Hopefully speech to text software will continue to improve and stories like yours can be avoided in the future.