Reserving reporters far in advance - and then the job cancels! - CSRNation2024-03-28T19:20:40Zhttp://csrnation.ning.com/forum/topics/reserving-reporters-far-in-advance-and-then-the-job-cancels?commentId=1736041%3AComment%3A1353995&feed=yes&xn_auth=noIt's not necessarily the Agen…tag:csrnation.ning.com,2018-12-13:1736041:Comment:13786872018-12-13T00:40:33.496ZProfessional Reporting Services,http://csrnation.ning.com/profile/JerryKProctor
<p>It's not necessarily the Agencies Fault. Law firms schedule in advance and then cancel the day before all the time. It's been like that forever.</p>
<p>It's not just the Court Reporters who lose the work but the Agencies as well. </p>
<p>It's not necessarily the Agencies Fault. Law firms schedule in advance and then cancel the day before all the time. It's been like that forever.</p>
<p>It's not just the Court Reporters who lose the work but the Agencies as well. </p> I don't think you're living "…tag:csrnation.ning.com,2018-10-31:1736041:Comment:13751602018-10-31T18:02:34.389Zkathy - iamwrdsmthhttp://csrnation.ning.com/profile/kathy33
<p>I don't think you're living "wrong," just that this entire</p>
<p>system of communication has grown so much that it is</p>
<p>like wading through mud knee deep!! I also have to </p>
<p>check where I am when I post!!! lol, good luck with your issue!</p>
<p>I don't think you're living "wrong," just that this entire</p>
<p>system of communication has grown so much that it is</p>
<p>like wading through mud knee deep!! I also have to </p>
<p>check where I am when I post!!! lol, good luck with your issue!</p> Hi, Kathy
I went to the CaseC…tag:csrnation.ning.com,2018-10-31:1736041:Comment:13749162018-10-31T15:30:48.048ZDavid Levyhttp://csrnation.ning.com/profile/DavidLevy
<p>Hi, Kathy</p>
<p>I went to the CaseCatalyst group and saw many discussions, but I didn't see anywhere to add mine. So I wrote it again, and indicated it was for the Stenograph category, but I see that it posted in the general forum instead.</p>
<p>I must be living wrong or something!</p>
<p>Hi, Kathy</p>
<p>I went to the CaseCatalyst group and saw many discussions, but I didn't see anywhere to add mine. So I wrote it again, and indicated it was for the Stenograph category, but I see that it posted in the general forum instead.</p>
<p>I must be living wrong or something!</p> did you try posting your ques…tag:csrnation.ning.com,2018-10-31:1736041:Comment:13751532018-10-31T00:09:32.872Zkathy - iamwrdsmthhttp://csrnation.ning.com/profile/kathy33
<p>did you try posting your question in the Case Catalyst group?</p>
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<p>did you try posting your question in the Case Catalyst group?</p>
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Has anyone on Case…tag:csrnation.ning.com,2018-10-30:1736041:Comment:13751522018-10-30T23:52:55.860ZDavid Levyhttp://csrnation.ning.com/profile/DavidLevy
<p>New Topic:</p>
<p>Has anyone on CaseCATalyst run into this? I was on a job Thursday with two witnesses. During the break between witnesses, I merged the new J-defines into the job dictionary, sent the updated job dictionary to my writer, and reopened the realtime with a new file for the next witness.</p>
<p>Certain outlines which have been in my personal dictionary for years if not decades, woudn't tran. It seemed to affect a lot of outlines beginning with the SKP, SK, ST, or SP…</p>
<p>New Topic:</p>
<p>Has anyone on CaseCATalyst run into this? I was on a job Thursday with two witnesses. During the break between witnesses, I merged the new J-defines into the job dictionary, sent the updated job dictionary to my writer, and reopened the realtime with a new file for the next witness.</p>
<p>Certain outlines which have been in my personal dictionary for years if not decades, woudn't tran. It seemed to affect a lot of outlines beginning with the SKP, SK, ST, or SP prefixes. This, of course, included the question bar. I cannot account for this. I redefined them, and merged them into the main dictionary. It made no difference. I've had to create a new job dictionary filled with all these untranned words to use with every job. Job dictionaries seem to have no problem.</p>
<p>I tried replacing my personal dictionary with an older version from my backup files. It made no difference. So I'm stumped.</p>
<p>Just as an aside, I don't have a software contract because it is just too bloody expensive. Stenograph charges upwards of $500 for a contract, and if you</p>
<p>are using an older version of CATalyst (I am on Version 14) they make you upgrade and charge you a hundred dollars for each version that you are behind. There was a time when, if you didn't have a contract, they would charge your credit card a $75 fee and give you tech support over the phone. Those days are gone. I think this amounts to gouging reporters. It would cost me nearly a thousand bucks to get a contract, which is money that I don't happen to have lying around right now, and I have enough monthly bills. I think they are outrageous! I think there's a forum (or used to be) where reporters in my position would help each other with tech advice. I wish I could find it.</p> Christine,
I think you have…tag:csrnation.ning.com,2017-05-03:1736041:Comment:13539982017-05-03T22:01:41.983Zkathy - iamwrdsmthhttp://csrnation.ning.com/profile/kathy33
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<p>Christine,</p>
<p>I think you have hit the nail on the head!! Perhaps reporters should consider a cancellation fee. Or is that what the appearance fee is?? Like the doctor, or at my dog training class, I pay for the session if I do not cancel 24 hours in advance. </p>
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<p>Christine,</p>
<p>I think you have hit the nail on the head!! Perhaps reporters should consider a cancellation fee. Or is that what the appearance fee is?? Like the doctor, or at my dog training class, I pay for the session if I do not cancel 24 hours in advance. </p> That's so frustrating. It can…tag:csrnation.ning.com,2017-05-03:1736041:Comment:13539952017-05-03T21:40:59.544ZChristine B. Smithhttp://csrnation.ning.com/profile/ChristineBSmith
<p>That's so frustrating. It can affect your whole team, too (proofer, scopist.) It would probably help to know WHY something gets canceled, but I know that's not always possible. It could be SO many things. In so many other fields, though, there is recourse for the professional. If you don't show up at the doctor's office, sometimes you can get billed for a no-show. </p>
<p>That's so frustrating. It can affect your whole team, too (proofer, scopist.) It would probably help to know WHY something gets canceled, but I know that's not always possible. It could be SO many things. In so many other fields, though, there is recourse for the professional. If you don't show up at the doctor's office, sometimes you can get billed for a no-show. </p> David,
I 100 % agree with yo…tag:csrnation.ning.com,2017-05-01:1736041:Comment:13539472017-05-01T19:27:50.995Zkathy - iamwrdsmthhttp://csrnation.ning.com/profile/kathy33
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<p>David,</p>
<p>I 100 % agree with you!!! even in court it seems as though the reporter is being more and more frequently down-graded to a ministerial level!! at least here in Orange County, California, where they have put us on part-time (even though we are still doing the full-time work in the courtroom) and accordingly reduced the medical and retirement benefits to part-time level!!! </p>
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<p>And perhaps we should consider a "late cancellation" fee. Or how about a…</p>
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<p>David,</p>
<p>I 100 % agree with you!!! even in court it seems as though the reporter is being more and more frequently down-graded to a ministerial level!! at least here in Orange County, California, where they have put us on part-time (even though we are still doing the full-time work in the courtroom) and accordingly reduced the medical and retirement benefits to part-time level!!! </p>
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<p>And perhaps we should consider a "late cancellation" fee. Or how about a "booking" fee? Charge them $50 or $100 to book the reporter, paid whether the job cancels or goes??</p>
<p>Seems reasonable to me.</p>
<p>:)</p> and the "bs reasoning" offe…tag:csrnation.ning.com,2017-05-01:1736041:Comment:13535342017-05-01T19:23:48.223Zkathy - iamwrdsmthhttp://csrnation.ning.com/profile/kathy33
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<p>and the "bs reasoning" offered by the agency is not necessarily the reporter's fault. sometimes agencies will pull a reporter from one job to cover a more important or more lucrative job. Just because the reporter doesn't show up, doesn't mean it is always the reporter's fault.</p>
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<p>and the "bs reasoning" offered by the agency is not necessarily the reporter's fault. sometimes agencies will pull a reporter from one job to cover a more important or more lucrative job. Just because the reporter doesn't show up, doesn't mean it is always the reporter's fault.</p> I don't understand why a repo…tag:csrnation.ning.com,2017-05-01:1736041:Comment:13539442017-05-01T01:28:19.140ZDavid Levyhttp://csrnation.ning.com/profile/DavidLevy
<p>I don't understand why a reporting service would confirm a job the day before, and a reporter would not show up. We reporters are professionals, and we try, I hope, to act as professionals, and we appreciate being treated as professionals which, unfortunately, is not always the case. I know of one situation where one reporter (unavoidably) showed up late, and forever after that, every reporter had to pay for that by being given a false start time, earlier than the actual one, "just to make…</p>
<p>I don't understand why a reporting service would confirm a job the day before, and a reporter would not show up. We reporters are professionals, and we try, I hope, to act as professionals, and we appreciate being treated as professionals which, unfortunately, is not always the case. I know of one situation where one reporter (unavoidably) showed up late, and forever after that, every reporter had to pay for that by being given a false start time, earlier than the actual one, "just to make sure." That is inconsiderate and unfair. Unlike lawyers and law firm employees, we don't receive a salary. We are not paid by the hour. It costs the firm nothing to bring in a reporter early to sit staring at the four walls for an hour, for free, "Just to make sure." </p>
<p>And the fact remains that, if the agency has booked the reporter three weeks ahead of time, and the reporter has turned down other work in the meantime, and then it cancels the afternoon before, no matter what the reason, the reporter is THE ONLY ONE who is left without a livelihood for that day. I once went to a deposition and was told the deposition was cancelled because the attorney's mother had passed away. I was sorry to hear about that, of course. But somehow, that lawyer, or his firm, managed to notify all the other parties involved of the cancellation, but somehow just couldn't manage to notify the reporting service. I came out running a fever to take this deposition. Why couldn't they bother to keep the reporters in the information loop?</p>
<p>My point is, we reporters are not some ministerial function like the conference table. We are, actually, people. The normal rules of decency and courtesy should apply to us, too! Perhaps if the reporting services would charge clients for unreasonably late cancellations, there would be fewer of those.</p>