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Jun 19, 2017
Current employee, less than 1 year
New York, NY
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
What can I say? I learned how ugly business can be.
Cons
When I started translating, upper management contacted me and actively encouraged me to request purchase order corrections. Now I'm reading that Transperfect deducts hundreds of dollars from their bonus for every "faulty purchase order" accounting has to correct. (So if your bonus doesn't reflect what it should, now you know why). Likewise, project managers are actively encouraged to deduct word counts if needed to meet the high markup required to get a bonus. It sounds to me like they have created a system where the two teams who have to work together have been pitted against each other. If one wins, the other has to lose. But the owners always win. I