Gotta love those agencies...
Sep. 16th, 2005 07:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpFor laughs, I dropped in at the Proz.com site, only to find a job posting that starts off with a SCREAMING HEADLINE about how urgent the work is, and then uses the well-worn promise of incredible volume - to appear later on, naturally - to conclude: "Considering the huge volume involved, we will not go higher than 0.04 USD per word."
Hello? Anybody home?
Throw in that they're looking for native English speakers (without specifying American or British variants) who can prove their skill and reliability and can work to an initial deadline of 5,000 words for this Tuesday, and it's really a classic case of wanting the job done fast, cheap, and well (which conventional wisdom indicates is one too many).
I pity the poor client, because when push comes to shove, the only two readily measurable factors are time and cost, leaving quality twisting slowly in the breeze.
The thought has briefly crossed my mind of trying to slip a machine translation past one of the managers of such a project, and although the exercise might be interesting, if just to gauge the reaction (if any), I don't think I could bring myself to do it.
Cheers...
Hello? Anybody home?
Throw in that they're looking for native English speakers (without specifying American or British variants) who can prove their skill and reliability and can work to an initial deadline of 5,000 words for this Tuesday, and it's really a classic case of wanting the job done fast, cheap, and well (which conventional wisdom indicates is one too many).
I pity the poor client, because when push comes to shove, the only two readily measurable factors are time and cost, leaving quality twisting slowly in the breeze.
The thought has briefly crossed my mind of trying to slip a machine translation past one of the managers of such a project, and although the exercise might be interesting, if just to gauge the reaction (if any), I don't think I could bring myself to do it.
Cheers...
