Today, my boss's son is training to take over my job as head translator, after having convinced his dad that he's fluent in Spanish, and that my skills suck. I soon walked in on him using Google Translate on a legal document. My boss refuses to believe me. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my boss got angry at me because my English is better than his. He accused me of trying to steal his management position, and implied that I'll be lucky if I still have a job by the end of the month. FML
Today, I noticed I spend most of my day translating French, German, and other languages for my boss, as he talks to people overseas. As his assistant I make crap money. If I were promoted to a Translator I’d make a lot more. He won’t promote me. In fact he threatened to fire me if I asked again. FML
Today, my co-worker and I were having a conversation in Russian. Our boss overheard us talking, shouted, "I know you're talking about me! I speak Spanish too!" and threatened to fire us. FML
Today, my boss is on the phone with a Russian customer, who keeps saying, "Speak Russian please!" My boss asks me to translate, as he hired me for my knowledge of Russian. He says something, I translate in Russian, then the customer says, "Speak English please!" FML
Today, I was unable to communicate with a customer who only spoke French. As a result, my boss called me a "monolingual idiot." I speak Spanish, German, and Japanese. FML
Today, a client came in and was struggling to speak properly. He said, “Sorry, no good English” so I offered a Spanish speaking colleague who could assist. He frowned and said he was from Greece. He threw a fit and got my manager involved. I got a write up and have to do an online sensitivity training. FML
Today, my English teacher kicked me out of class for being "rude and disruptive." In actuality, I had called her out for having blatantly used Google Translate for several example sentences, all of which sounded as if a semi-literate foreigner had constructed them. FML
Today, my boss brought his son in as our new manager. This kid has zero experience in our industry and yet waltzed into a £75,000 job where his sole responsibility is telling me how to do a skilled job I started before he was born. Plus half the stuff he tries to tell me is incorrect. Cretin. FML
Today, my boss asked me to read through a document. I gave my feedback, saying it seemed like it had been written by an 8-year-old. Turns out it was in fact written by him. FML
Today, I almost got written up for insubordination by my boss. All I did was explain to him that I couldn't help a tourist out because I speak Japanese, not Korean, and that it's not in fact "the same Asian shit" as he seemed to think. FML
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hghrider123456 9
bad time gonna have he translate
hghrider123456 9
bad time have sarcasm with you
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Nobody_Nowhere 12
...Google translate isn't even all that accurate. I was once texting a 'friend' and decided to translate a phrase to a foreign language and send it to her. It was supposed to say "You're mean. You think punching me is funny. I don't like you.". My 'friend' translated the phrase back into English also using google translate. Apparently it had translated to "You are meaning. I think if you punch me, you is interesting. I do not like you." ...yeahhhhh.
mrcbh 6
Snitches get stitches..
Bradley_Dillon 39
Snitches are bitches!
cho_bee 9
Find a new job, quick. Using Google for legal documents; that's rich! I wish I could see that.
realjojo 11
Google Translate on a legal document? Wow, don't bother to get evidence, get a new job. This company is going down...
katie1474 4
and Google translate isn't a reliable source when translating. I'm a spanish major...trust me.
onemellowidiot 2
OP, like all the guys above, I'm saying you gotta go and try for a new job elsewhere. Working under your current boss will only be mental torment for you. Good luck.
Bradley_Dillon 39
Finding a job can take months if you don't have good references, though!
razor12 2
It doesn't prove anything. A translator can use Google Translate to see some better variants, synonyms etc. There is no crime in using it. As a translator I do usually use Google Translate, or search for some terms to better understand them etc. You are simply too angry on him. But his use of Google Translate doen't make him a bad translator. PS. No, I do not translate to - or from - English professionally.
Bradley_Dillon 39
Most of the time Google translate uses basic words, though.
razor12 2
PS. And when you have a VERY big text, you may use a machine translation just not to type a lot of text. Sometimes it's easier (and faster) to edit machine text, however crooked it might be, than typing all the same long words. Machine translation enginges usually set in the text correct words, but with wrong grammatical connections between them.
yeongji 31
Just let his son do his thing. I'm sure his father will be begging you to come back sooner or later.
KenziDionne 14
I'd report the boss