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Bake-off winner!!
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Feb 27, 2014

The bake-off winner of the cake taker job announcements has finally been submitted.

Today, an agency (yes translation agency) in the heart of Europe (so not in some remote destitute location) posted a job on this site asking for volunteers (from the verb to volunteer, ie do a job for no remuneration, unpaid.....), but ONLY volunteers with CAT tools (others can't even see the posting details) to volunteer for "football (soccer) translation work. The work is supposedly ... See more
The bake-off winner of the cake taker job announcements has finally been submitted.

Today, an agency (yes translation agency) in the heart of Europe (so not in some remote destitute location) posted a job on this site asking for volunteers (from the verb to volunteer, ie do a job for no remuneration, unpaid.....), but ONLY volunteers with CAT tools (others can't even see the posting details) to volunteer for "football (soccer) translation work. The work is supposedly for an NGO but an NGO isn't a charity. It's just a non-government organisation and people who work for them generally earn very good salaries. And the job was posted by real translation agency. Are they volunteering their services? Perhaps bets can be placed in a different forum.
I won't even try to describe my astonishment/horror/disgust at seeing such a job posting. Of course it does make the bottom feeders that offer US$ 2 and 3 cents a word (no shortage of them posted today either) look very, very enticing.
Can anyone suggest a cake taker that rivals this? Imo they are the hands-down winner.

Rant over but the sour taste lingers.

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