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polkadot @aesthetofsun7/4/2024, 8:16 AM

Tom @iiotenki

Tom @iiotenki7/2/2024, 9:21 PM

love to get offered a third to a fifth of what i can already get paid hourly writing and translating stuff from scratch to grade the robots on their plagiarized homework they're doing to try and replace me

linkedin is such a toxic dump these days if you work as a freelance translator, it's truly a thing of beauty

Tom @iiotenki7/3/2024, 10:43 PM

i have since received two additional inquiries along these lines from separate companies in the 24 hours since i originally posted this, 2024 is truly a cursed year to deal with recruiters in this line of work and this tech cannot blow up in these people's faces soon enough, christ

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bundthandelus cake @cake7/2/2024, 9:24 PM

the "bachelor's degree (completed or in progress)" bit is particularly harrowing. granted, I'm not sure if it's atypical to allow in-progress degrees as qualification -- but it comes off rather like "we're searching for young people who just don't know any better!", in this case

Tom @iiotenki7/2/2024, 10:05 PM

Yeah, that one made me crack up, too. It's not unheard of for actual translation agencies to waive a degree requirement if you're natively bilingual and/or can demonstrate sufficient skill and experience, but this definitely reeks of exploitation more than anything else. I've never seen wording quite like that on any legitimate listings in the decade and change I've been doing this, that's for sure!