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Poll: How do you feel when clients don’t acknowledge receipt of your delivered work?
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satish krishna itikela
satish krishna itikela  Identity Verified
Indië
Local time: 04:59
Member (2011)
uit Engels in Teloegoe
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Contact them after one day for confirmation of the receipt. Sep 30, 2025

I don't feel bad or anything, why because we as a freelance translator have only a handful of works and as we may work mainly in one or two languages and we have some free time. But that will be not the situation for a client, as they look after many works as they deal with many languages and with many number of their clients and freelance translators around the world. So in my view a freelancer should not show any ego feeling regarding this situation, i am practicing this since my starting care... See more
I don't feel bad or anything, why because we as a freelance translator have only a handful of works and as we may work mainly in one or two languages and we have some free time. But that will be not the situation for a client, as they look after many works as they deal with many languages and with many number of their clients and freelance translators around the world. So in my view a freelancer should not show any ego feeling regarding this situation, i am practicing this since my starting career of 26 years and i will continue this for my life time. This is purely my nature and policy of work. ▲ Collapse


Marjolein Snippe
Kunal Jaidka
Maria Laura Curzi
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Portugal
Local time: 00:29
Member (2007)
uit Engels in Portugees
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Other Sep 30, 2025

Most of my customers do...

Liena V.
Christine Andersen
 
Ian Keith Jones Williams
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Spanje
Local time: 01:29
uit Frans in Engels
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Upload Sep 30, 2025

I usually have to upload projects on agency portals, so there is no real need for confirmation.

Kunal Jaidka
Liena V.
Yaotl Altan
Maria Laura Curzi
 
Agneta Pallinder
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Verenigde Koninkryk
Local time: 00:29
Member (2014)
uit Sweeds in Engels
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Ask for it! Sep 30, 2025

I always ask the client to confirm safe receipt, and then they do.

WolfgangS
Simone Linke
Michele Fauble
Maria Laura Curzi
 


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