Forum: Wordfast support
Topic: Trados v Wordfast analysis - large discrepancy
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @Neilmac
[quote]neilmac wrote:
I'd simply tell them to take their custom elsewhere. I see agencies that operate this way as chisellers and avoid them like the plague. [/quote]
Isn't it more the translators who are the chisellers? Convert this case from a per-word scenario to a per-hour scenario. The client hires a typist and tells him that he calculates that it would take 10 hours do to the typing job, but the typist says "I prefer to do these jobs while sitting on my one hand, so for me it will take 20 hours to do the typing... and I expect you to pay for 20 hours."
Topic: Trados v Wordfast analysis - large discrepancy
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @Neilmac
[quote]neilmac wrote:
I'd simply tell them to take their custom elsewhere. I see agencies that operate this way as chisellers and avoid them like the plague. [/quote]
Isn't it more the translators who are the chisellers? Convert this case from a per-word scenario to a per-hour scenario. The client hires a typist and tells him that he calculates that it would take 10 hours do to the typing job, but the typist says "I prefer to do these jobs while sitting on my one hand, so for me it will take 20 hours to do the typing... and I expect you to pay for 20 hours."