A killer shift...
Aug. 17th, 2001 04:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpAfter a relatively quiet first half of the shift on console, I retired to the back room prepared for the quietness to continue.
Not so.
Got hit with an into-Russian translation and had three times the usual amount of "fun," because the document kept getting revised. When you factor in the fact that my into-Russian skills are much weaker than my into-English skills, it's easy to see we're talking a major time-hole, here.
After that document was beaten into submission and finally sent, another into-Russian message was tossed my way for translation, and as I reported that one completed, a message arrived from Moscow that needed to be translated into English.
Did that one, too.
And as I finished that one, RIO tells me there's yet another message in my "to be translated" directory.
This one is not trivial, as it summarizes some discussions among various folks earlier in the evening/night/morning, and it's into Russian to boot. Fortunately, the oncoming shift has arrived, and this document now belongs to them.
Anyway, that's enough of that for a while (i.e., until 8 pm tomorrow night); it's time to get ready to go home. Ciao.
Cheers...
Not so.
Got hit with an into-Russian translation and had three times the usual amount of "fun," because the document kept getting revised. When you factor in the fact that my into-Russian skills are much weaker than my into-English skills, it's easy to see we're talking a major time-hole, here.
After that document was beaten into submission and finally sent, another into-Russian message was tossed my way for translation, and as I reported that one completed, a message arrived from Moscow that needed to be translated into English.
Did that one, too.
And as I finished that one, RIO tells me there's yet another message in my "to be translated" directory.
This one is not trivial, as it summarizes some discussions among various folks earlier in the evening/night/morning, and it's into Russian to boot. Fortunately, the oncoming shift has arrived, and this document now belongs to them.
Anyway, that's enough of that for a while (i.e., until 8 pm tomorrow night); it's time to get ready to go home. Ciao.
Cheers...
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Date: 2001-08-17 03:05 am (UTC)I wish another shift was coming to relieve me of *my* "to be translated" directory. :)
It ain't a life... it's a timeline!
Date: 2001-08-17 04:11 am (UTC)Been there. Done that. Got the tee shirt.
(And it's so old, it's in the rag bin. :^)
I'll raise a glass to the successful resolution of your plight... à vôtre santé!
Cheers...
Re: It ain't a life... it's a timeline!
Date: 2001-08-17 04:23 am (UTC)And now, laundry and housework. You wouldn't believe the state this place gets into when it's been ignored for a week straight. ;)
Re: It ain't a life... it's a timeline!
Date: 2001-08-17 04:36 am (UTC)Mais, vingt-cinq mille mots!? C'est merveilleux! Sounds to me like it should be a nice payday.
Cheers...