Dec 2009, 13:04
The Food Chain

Is not it good to show up at work and find in your mailbox an attractive offer? Some SHYAM SANGHI from LINGUISTICS INTERNATIONAL (India) offers a job to translate 400 pages from Russian into English. Why Shyam has got an order for translation from Russian to English remains unclear, but further investigation reveals that not only Shyam is a talented marketer, but also he is a generous employer as he offers no less than $3 for a page of translation. God, save the client! More…

Dec 2009, 11:25
A Sketch From Nature

You just have been assigned an international project manager. You have plenty of issues to worry about. On top of that there is a tiny irritating problem: the project documentation should be provided in two languages.
You hire someone, low-skilled, you call her Translation Manager; it makes the person feel important. After all, the job is just find translators and get the documents converted from one language into another. Now you can get back to important stuff. More…