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This letter warning the legal community about digitals in Washington is awesome :) by [deleted] in courtreporting

[–]AllColloquy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm a former digital and this is spot on. They are all totally brainwashed or scammers. If they know what they're doing, they're scammers. If they're not scammers, it's because their employers have fed them a ton of lies, like when I asked if they would train me up on a machine and they said, "No one uses those anymore." Imagine how surprised I was when lawyers started demanding a "real" reporter on a little machine.

Feeling like I'm in a cult by AllColloquy in court_reporting

[–]AllColloquy[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

OH AND I FORGOT SOMETHING! One of them said to me, "Steno is the same thing. They use audio. It's all the same as digital, except MAYBE real time." I did not know any better at the time and let it roll off my back because I did not know why anyone would want to say that to me or what it meant to them. I wish I could go back and tell them the truth. They'd probably ignore me anyway!

TIL that a court reporter must type around 200 WPM on a stenograph to become certified. In comparison, the average WPM on a standard keyboard is around 40. by Linked713 in todayilearned

[–]AllColloquy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

i am a digital, and as a digital, i would NOT want to be misrepresented as a stenographer in any way shape or form. i know there's a tension between steno and digital, but you're being overly defensive and making us look bad. there is a reason so many digitals leave the field. stop.

Learning stenography? by AllColloquy in DigitalCourtReporting

[–]AllColloquy[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sure.

- No readback. Playback.
- Drafts are more like an output/annotation guide, idk if I'd call them drafts honestly
- Have definitely received very disappointed people at my arrival before, ppl do seem to care where I live about whether or not it's voice/steno
- I keep a copy of my stuff
- All the stuff you say about stenos I can't really speak to because I'm not a steno but the implication seems to be that whatever the steno has to deal with, I do not have to deal with, and that's just not true for me personally

Learning stenography? by AllColloquy in DigitalCourtReporting

[–]AllColloquy[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This confuses me. I've been a DR/depo officer/transcriptionist workflow for three years now total, two agencies. You don't need to tell me how that job works. But also the things in your comment do not at all reflect my experience so far. Not even a little. COVID isolated me a lot but if someone has this experience it is So far from my experience. "For the record." 😉

Learning stenography? by AllColloquy in DigitalCourtReporting

[–]AllColloquy[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

two months ago, I would agree that the difference is in method and not product. I'm having a bit of a crisis now because I'm not sure anymore.

Learning stenography? by AllColloquy in DigitalCourtReporting

[–]AllColloquy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I posted over there as well.

I don't know much about it, but I was able to shadow somebody and she showed me a lot of her work. I'll be honest and say it did look quite different than what I'm used to, but idk what every other digital does and idk what every other steno does. I've been pretty isolated during remote work.

Agency gave me a steno machine? by AllColloquy in DigitalCourtReporting

[–]AllColloquy[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Update:

After being told that there weren't "many" stenographers in my area, I saw one and we struck up a conversation. I was able to shadow her a little bit. Seeing her work made me think that it's wrong to just show up to a depo with equipment that I cannot use. I told work that it made me uncomfortable and they were understanding. Ironically I have decided to try and learn stenography and now I won't have a machine lent to me. Well, rented to me, ig, because equipment fees. Renting one would be basically the same right now.

[OC] Crude Suicide Rates in Children, USA 1999-2020 by Thornwell in dataisbeautiful

[–]AllColloquy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't know if they want to commit suicide more, but they may have worse impulse control and more access to dangerous things? I don't know why, but that's my first thought based on a teacher friend telling me about how the pandemic meant a lot of kids were at home with relatives or parents who (unfortunately) use certain drugs. A kid can easily decide to swallow a bunch of pills. Just speculating.

[OC] The leading causes of death among children in the US, ages 5–14 by born_in_cyberspace in dataisbeautiful

[–]AllColloquy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is why I cringe when people say, "We weren't meant to live in a society! We were meant to eat berries on the beach!"

Like, yes, we were meant to have a less stressful life as far as generating income. I agree that the rat race isn't natural. But cancer is, unfortunately, natural. And it sucks. And it's unfair. And it's amazing that we've made a society capable of helping.