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[quote]Lieven Malaise wrote:
I found an article from 2020 that states that a company has 10 years to invoice another company (it's 5 years for a company that invoices an individual).
[quote]Mikhail Kropotov wrote:
... they're citing this Belgian regulation:
https://economie.fgov.be/nl/themas/ consumentenbescherming/.... [/quote]
the French version being un
[quote]Zea_Mays wrote:
Perhaps it depends on ... language combinations. [/quote]
As I've said before, it's definitely an issue in Fr-Eng.
Worth noting that even if it's still pe
[quote]Cilian O'Tuama wrote:
Why do the Bugs .... [/quote]
I was expecting some gripe about whether or not your Moths thread should be in the Bugs category.
[quote]Abdulsamad Attayee wrote:
I might have sent translation rates, signed NDAs and also completed my profile for about ten agencies....[/quote]
The more things you have to do/
[quote]Yasutomo Kanazawa wrote:
Isn't late payment a bad sign that the client has no respect for the translator whereas on the other hand they insist you on delivering the finished produc
[quote]Yasutomo Kanazawa wrote:
... I suggest you tell them that if they are not going to pay on time, you would decline to do jobs for them.
And if the problem still persists, the on
[quote]Cilian O'Tuama wrote:
Do either (or perhaps both) of the words "gyros" and gyrus" contain the letter O? If so, as which letter does it appear?
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Copied that into v 4 t
There's a number of threads on this topic in this "Business issues" section dating back some months, really.
Experience varies with pair/subject areas, but as you say, there are enough
[quote]IrinaN wrote:
IMHO, payment in 3 months is a permanent point of danger.
3-month payment practice [/quote]
It's not quite like that.
You do work in April. You send an invo
[quote]Renate Radziwill-Rall wrote:
you should say who it is to avoid others to fall into the trap.
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There isn't a trap, yet anyway. The thread is (partly) discussing whethe
[quote]Christina B. wrote:
Well organised, regular interesting assignments, the same experienced staff for years.[/quote]
Yup, they were definitely OK to work for.
I should add I
I know who this is, I used to do a fair bit of work for them.
They went bonkers hoovering up agencies (I think I heard some private equity people were involved).
I found that work
[quote]Jonathan Cohen wrote:
Quick update: I have gone back to the client proposing to do another complete review, free of charge [/quote]
Stop offering to do free stuff until you kno
[quote]Giovanni Guarnieri MITI, MIL wrote:
....in many fields is to give you the possibility to remedy in case the client is not satisfied. Therefore, I would suggest you tell them
[quote]Rodrigo Rosales Sosa wrote:
....the total disregard for a valid professional concern made my blood boil. ....
So, should I just ignore or try to scale the issue up? [/quot
[quote]Natalia Pastor Pearce wrote:
(many of which are first-come-first-served*, I might add, so not ideal work but good enough for quiet times!), [/quote]
... tbh, I don't think yo
[quote]Natalia Pastor Pearce wrote:
I've been setting an email autoresponder saying that my schedule is currently full or that I'm unavailable for work, but as many clients use XTRF or
[quote]Lefteris Kritikakis wrote:
[quote]Charlie Bavington wrote:
A good contract will make provision, for when the first breach occurs, to prevent escalation of reciprocal breache
[quote]Lefteris Kritikakis wrote:
[quote]Charlie Bavington wrote:
...does not entitle you to unilaterally fail to perform obligations, even if the other party has failed to perform
[quote]Lefteris Kritikakis wrote:
then the case is on his side.[/quote]
There would need to be a "case" of some kind. In which case, one would hope it would pan out as you describe.
[quote]Daryo wrote:
(something sarky :) ) [/quote]
For one thing, the law in many countries treats contracts between businesses differently to the way it treats consumer contract
[quote]Christopher Schröder wrote:
I would think admin would be a step down for almost all of us.
[/quote]
That is undoubtedly true but the whole background (context, even? :) ) o
[quote]Lieven Malaise wrote:
[quote]Christopher Schröder wrote:
If you have a contract to supply buttons daily for 10 years.... [/quote]
I was talking about translation and the pra
[quote]Christopher Schröder wrote:
If you have a contract to supply buttons daily for 10 years, and after 1 year you haven't been paid anything, you cannot be expected to continue to s
I have translated contracts with provisions saying that if payments are late/don't happen at all, then service provision may be suspended until the payments are made.
But that is specifie
or indeed just bigging myself up for a job application, I'd say things like:
- can work independently
- meets deadlines
- won't just say 'yes' to everything but will consider feasibilit
[quote]Christopher Schröder wrote:
I'm still wondering whether they work "properly" in the new field (e.g. doctor) or their new jobs still revolve around writing (e.g. producing clinic
[quote]Christopher Schröder wrote:
I am indispensable to one top-three global agency because they don't have enough good pharma translators on their books.
I am indispensable to o
[quote]Carlos A R de Souza wrote:
Could you list sectors within the translation industry where translators possess significant bargaining power due to their irreplaceability, especially
[quote]Carlos A R de Souza wrote:
[quote]Christopher Schröder wrote:
They got themselves into this mess and are now making life harder for everyone.
[/quote]
You've essenti
[quote]Roser Bosch Casademont wrote:
Any translator who still has more than a decade left of working life and who is not looking into alternative sources of income is simply denying
Boy, you lot really do have a lot of spare time for here. I wonder why.... :)
Anyway, I wanted to be clear rather than play silly buggers, so back to yesterday briefly
[quote]Dan Luc
[quote]Carlos A R de Souza wrote:
We can only enhance our negotiating power as a group by staying together. [/quote]
The problem is, unlike a set of employees under one employer,
Certainly a few people with some spare time today. You bunch of part-timers :-)
[quote]Carlos A R de Souza wrote:
But the point is, if everyone says their life is peachy when it
[quote]Lieven Malaise wrote:
[quote]Carlos A R de Souza wrote:
So, even if you try to mislead it by feeding bad translations into it, you can ask the AI to compare bad texts with good
[quote]Tom in London wrote:
Money isn't everything. [/quote]
A view that, more often than not, is expressed by those who have access to enough of the folding stuff not to have to worry
[quote]Kay Denney wrote:
[quote]Lingua 5B wrote:
SEO is about reach, sales and conversions, not nice or readable writing. [/quote]
You mean, reaching people and converting an
[quote]Christopher Schröder wrote:
Are you saying those translators went into senior/highly specialised roles? In which case, I'd be very interested to know how.
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One was
[quote]Christopher Schröder wrote:
[quote]Charlie Bavington wrote:
Subject matter expertise also. For example, I know ....actual examples [/quote]
I get that to a degree, but the
[quote]Christopher Schröder wrote:
As for all this talk of transferable skills, presumably people mean things like
[/quote]
Subject matter expertise also. For example, I know a
[quote]Lingua 5B wrote:
[quote]Christopher Schröder wrote:
So, to me, writing for SEO is the opposite of good writing [/quote]
SEO is about reach, sales and conversions, not nic
[quote]Giovanni Guarnieri MITI, MIL wrote:
I will become a post-editor. Doesn't bother me. [/quote]
Ditto.
The drawback is that I get the feeling at this point (anecdotally) that th
[quote]Lingua 5B wrote:
People working in offices in various sectors .... did not lose their jobs over AI. [/quote]
These people are.
https://news.onclusive.com/news/statement-fr
I know & know of about a dozen Fr-Eng translators in the last year/18 months with perhaps 200 years of combined experience (most of them have been around for 20 years or more) who have lef
[quote]Baran Keki wrote:
this one is going for a record.
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I suspect the thread would still be running even now if someone hadn't blocked replies :)
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[quote]Andrew Morris wrote:
And yet you purport to be emailing her to dish the dirt on me from something that apparently happened 6 years ago? [/quote]
Tanya first said she "didn't
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