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Can agencies dock your pay due to errors found during spot checks?
Thread poster: Karin de Jong
Charlie Bavington
Charlie Bavington  Identity Verified
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French to English
Unintended consequences? Jul 8, 2024

Rossana Triaca wrote:

Instead of dealing with the constant back-and-forth with spot checkers that is bound to happen under this flawed system, some unethical translators will be tempted to just turn in barely edited machine translation output. ...


Very cunning
I suppose after a while you might stop getting projects assigned but in terms of gaming the system, as it were, it might make them stop and think about how to approach the issue. And why they have an issue to be approached in the first place....
 
Annett Roessner
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Australia
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Member (2017)
English to German
A big fat NO! Jul 18, 2024

Hi Karin,

I would not agree to these terms. Most likely they don’t mean by errors actual mistranslations where one could argue that a dock in pay might be justified.

I feel this is just a way to mark preferential changes (that are very common and part of the process) as errors to lower your pay. And what about the odd comma that can get forgotten from time to time or the odd typo? We are all human after all.

I work for an agency where all translation revi... See more
Hi Karin,

I would not agree to these terms. Most likely they don’t mean by errors actual mistranslations where one could argue that a dock in pay might be justified.

I feel this is just a way to mark preferential changes (that are very common and part of the process) as errors to lower your pay. And what about the odd comma that can get forgotten from time to time or the odd typo? We are all human after all.

I work for an agency where all translation reviews are outsourced to an external company.
The agency sends my unedited translations directly to the external company.
So, I know how ridiculous the reviews and edits can get at times with the external reviewers.
I could write an essay.

You will waste so much time arguing with the reviewer that it will simply not be worth your time to work for this client.

I would tell the client politely but firmly that this is not acceptable.

Best of luck!

Annett ▲ Collapse
 
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