Poll: Have you ever signed a contract with an agency which subsequently did not send you any jobs? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Have you ever signed a contract with an agency which subsequently did not send you any jobs?".
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| Yes, many times | Jan 4, 2022 |
I also had a few cases where agencies sent me a project some years later…
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Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:57
Member (2008)
Italian to English
| Maybe 10 times | Jan 4, 2022 |
ProZ.com Staff wrote:
This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "Have you ever signed a contract with an agency which subsequently did not send you any jobs?". View the poll results »
Maybe 10 times. And some of them still send me Christmas greetings.; so I know I'm on their databases - pointlessly.
[Edited at 2022-01-04 09:05 GMT]
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if you mean contracts like NDAs. And it irritates me.
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Michael Newton 
United States
Local time: 10:57
Japanese to English
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| agency-no jobs | Jan 5, 2022 |
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
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Jessie Xiao
China
Local time: 23:57
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I think I signed lots of NDA, but any several companies frequently send me projects.
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I wouldn’t get to that stage unless they had a specific job they wanted me to do.
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Samuel Murray
Netherlands
Local time: 16:57
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English to Afrikaans
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Yes. It's a normal part of doing business online. New translators should do their best to impress such clients but should not get their hopes up. I have often suspected that getting new translators signed up (with no prospect of work) is a task given to new project managers to help them get a feel for the business. Essentially, we help train them by responding to their queries as if we take it seriously... because every once in a while, there truly is a job waiting there.
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Michael Newton
United States
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Japanese to English
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| Signed contract with no jobs | Jan 6, 2022 |
This is a typical part of the onboarding process. Agencies will often do this just to "pad" their translator list. "Gee, we have 10,000 translators on our books" (but they might use maybe only several hundred). Potyomkim village. The more laborious the onboarding process, the less likelihood of any jobs. Nowadays I refuse to do any onboarding. It has made my life a lot easier.
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William Yang
China
Local time: 23:57
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| can we ask the client put a kind of volume for the tenure of the NDA | Jan 6, 2022 |
Michael Newton wrote:
This is a typical part of the onboarding process. Agencies will often do this just to "pad" their translator list. "Gee, we have 10,000 translators on our books" (but they might use maybe only several hundred). Potyomkim village. The more laborious the onboarding process, the less likelihood of any jobs. Nowadays I refuse to do any onboarding. It has made my life a lot easier.
Like a contract
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