Minor work annoyance
Oct. 9th, 2003 02:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousmeThis company advertised in La Presse that they wanted a translator. English to French. Salary would range between $46, 000 to $90, 000 a year.
Too good to be true, but I thought I'd give it a shot.
It's a large Toronto-based firm called All Languages. Spoke with Mr. Maurice Penzo, who made it clear to me from the start that he didn't want me. Kept insisting that it would be "a problem" for me to move to Toronto. Well, yes it would be a problem, but for $90, 000 a year I'd swing it, you know? Then he started insisting that I didn't write French as well as English. Umm, hi asshole: we've been speaking English the whole time. How do you know what my French is like?
Then he told me I'd have to pass a test in Toronto, and if I didn't pass I wouldn't get the job. Of course they don't pay transportation to Toronto, so that's a minimum of $200 that I don't have.
It sounds like one of those sweatshops that my friend Christine works for who work her to the bone and thus actually underpay her even though her salary is reasonably impressive.
In conclusion, they can bite me.
Too good to be true, but I thought I'd give it a shot.
It's a large Toronto-based firm called All Languages. Spoke with Mr. Maurice Penzo, who made it clear to me from the start that he didn't want me. Kept insisting that it would be "a problem" for me to move to Toronto. Well, yes it would be a problem, but for $90, 000 a year I'd swing it, you know? Then he started insisting that I didn't write French as well as English. Umm, hi asshole: we've been speaking English the whole time. How do you know what my French is like?
Then he told me I'd have to pass a test in Toronto, and if I didn't pass I wouldn't get the job. Of course they don't pay transportation to Toronto, so that's a minimum of $200 that I don't have.
It sounds like one of those sweatshops that my friend Christine works for who work her to the bone and thus actually underpay her even though her salary is reasonably impressive.
In conclusion, they can bite me.
