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Poll: When a potential job is described to me, the word I dread hearing most is... | Finally, a fun poll

Lingua 5B — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:21:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: When a potential job is described to me, the word I dread hearing most is...
Poster: Lingua 5B
Post title: Finally, a fun poll

Also: “Welcome to our family. Kindly send your CV and best rates.”

Dude, since when are we family?

Poll: When a potential job is described to me, the word I dread hearing most is... | "Hi Team!"

Matthias Brombach — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:40:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: When a potential job is described to me, the word I dread hearing most is...
Poster: Matthias Brombach
Post title: "Hi Team!"

...when approached the very first time. And, of course, "We are a London based agency..."

Poll: When a potential job is described to me, the word I dread hearing most is... | Easy/straight-forward/won't take long

Thomas Pfann — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:32:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: When a potential job is described to me, the word I dread hearing most is...
Poster: Thomas Pfann
Post title: Easy/straight-forward/won't take long

Experience has taught me that anything described that way will be none of the above!

Poll: When a potential job is described to me, the word I dread hearing most is... | Low budget and MTPE

Alex Lichanow — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 12:08:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: When a potential job is described to me, the word I dread hearing most is...
Poster: Alex Lichanow
Post title: Low budget and MTPE

Both are red flags that I usually don't even dignify with a reply.
Another major red flag is "exciting opportunity", which seems to mean nothing but "soul-sucking editing and annotation" in the translation industry's own weird kind of Newspeak.

Poll: When a potential job is described to me, the word I dread hearing most is... | "Kindly"

Lingua 5B — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 11:26:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: When a potential job is described to me, the word I dread hearing most is...
Poster: Lingua 5B
Post title: "Kindly"

Also, "Kindly...(insert something here, usually send your CV or something)". Yes, "kindly" definitely scares me off.

Please is OK..Could you..is also OK. But Kindly makes me steer clear.

Poll: When a potential job is described to me, the word I dread hearing most is... | Best rate

Edith van der Have — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 10:01:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: When a potential job is described to me, the word I dread hearing most is...
Poster: Edith van der Have
Post title: Best rate

"Please give your best rate" 🤪

"Linguists", "required" and "greetings of the day" also scare me off.

Poll: When a potential job is described to me, the word I dread hearing most is... | None

Zea_Mays — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:45:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: When a potential job is described to me, the word I dread hearing most is...
Poster: Zea_Mays
Post title: None

I don't dread words in a job description. Some words - often in the subject line - just act as reading stoppers and move-to-junk triggers.
Sometimes this applies also to the sender's name for various reasons.

[quote]Lingua 5B wrote:

Why asking this question? So your AI and algorithms can take this word out of the job descriptions? We are not dumb, we can understand all the weird constructions you keep coming up with to hide the MTPE intent, such as "a rockstar transcreator".[/quote]

Since most polls are proposed by ordinary members like you and me (who proposed at least a dozen polls meanwhile), there is no reason to be paranoid. Instead, let's be glad to see some polls that aren't about boring AI subjects.

[Bearbeitet am 2025-10-16 09:54 GMT]

Poll: When a potential job is described to me, the word I dread hearing most is... | Our budget is low

Lingua 5B — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:22:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: When a potential job is described to me, the word I dread hearing most is...
Poster: Lingua 5B
Post title: Our budget is low

But I don't dread it, I just disregard it. Or put it in a "special" folder in my inbox labeled with a special name and a special color.

Why asking this question? So your AI and algorithms can take this word out of the job descriptions? We are not dumb, we can understand all the weird constructions you keep coming up with to hide the MTPE intent, such as "a rockstar transcreator".

[Edited at 2025-10-16 09:38 GMT]

Poll: When a potential job is described to me, the word I dread hearing most is... | Low budget

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 08:38:00 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: When a potential job is described to me, the word I dread hearing most is...
Poster: Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Post title: Low budget

I'm always willing to negotiate, but I'm not cheap...

Poll: When a potential job is described to me, the word I dread hearing most is...

ProZ.com Staff — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 08:10:05 +0000

Forum: Poll Discussion
Topic: Poll: When a potential job is described to me, the word I dread hearing most is...
Poster: ProZ.com Staff

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