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However, in the past I had mostly BAD experiences with this company and these experiences also showed, that it does not pay (literally!) to work for Transperfect. The current exchange rate also greatly contributes to this situation.
Transperfect apparently also a bad reputation as a non-payer.
Yet, the responses from the project managers force me to believe, that I am either dealing with DO NOT care (at all) about the people they are dealing with, or else are so rich, that they run this company purely for fun.
Below a few quotes from communications with PMs
Transperfect: (2012/02/24 8:50)
We have a new *English**into **German *Translation and Proofreading job we need your help with!
My response:
My experiences have shown that it does not pay (literally!) to work for Transperfect. But I have to survive too and therefore cannot afford to work for peanuts.
Transperfect: (2012/02/24 10:13)
> Would you be able to do the Proofreading for $25? It should only take about an hour to do.
My response:
Well, you should know that the funny payment practices of Transperfect inevitably lead to a situation where I have to PAY the bank -
one way or other - about 30 USD or more in bank fees to get your 25 USD!
I prefer to do work that actually pays ...
Transperfect:
We have a new English into German Translation job we need your help with!
This will be a flatrate of $10 to do this super small job!
My response:
NO thank you.
I believe I explained this before.
10 USD: the bank fees to get this would be about 30 USD!
Even if I would ask for PayPal (which does not give me any money at all; only some virtual nonsense that I can ONLY use to buy useless things on ebay), YOUR COMPANY applies a fine (they call it handling fee) of 10 USD for this "extraordinary difficult" transaction.
Funny, for everybody else on the planet that usually works fine and is free.
So, again and again, you ask me to work for free.
Having a family, I cannot afford to do that.
And I would like to believe that you couldn't afford it either.
Or do I have to assume, that I am dealing with people (Transperfect) that are so rich, they do not need to work at all and are engaged in these activities purely as a pasttime??????
Transperfect:
Sorry about that. Will keep that in mind
Transperfect: 2/29 (= next day!) 12:07
We have a new Egnlish into German Translation job we need your help with!
Stats are 78 new, 16 fuzzy, and 3 gold words.
DEADLINE: Translation 12pm EST 2/29 Wednesday. This will be a flatrate of $10
Just yesterday this very person said: "Sorry about that. Will keep that in mind."
Maybe there is not enough mind to hold this information ...
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