Poll: When a potential job is described to me, the word I dread hearing most is... Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "When a potential job is described to me, the word I dread hearing most is...".
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I'm always willing to negotiate, but I'm not cheap...
| | | | Lingua 5B 
Bosnië en Herzegowina
Local time: 08:43
uit Engels in Frans
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| Our budget is low | Oct 16, 2025 |
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]
| | | | Zea_Mays
Italië
Local time: 08:43
uit Engels in Duits
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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.
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".
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.
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Edith van der Have
Nederland
Local time: 08:43
Member (2016)
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"Please give your best rate" 🤪
"Linguists", "required" and "greetings of the day" also scare me off.
| | | | Lingua 5B
Bosnië en Herzegowina
Local time: 08:43
uit Engels in Frans
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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.
| | | | Alex Lichanow
Duitsland
Local time: 08:43
uit Engels in Duits
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| Low budget and MTPE | Oct 16, 2025 |
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.
| | | | Thomas Pfann
Verenigde Koninkryk
Local time: 07:43
uit Engels in Duits
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| Easy/straight-forward/won't take long | Oct 16, 2025 |
Experience has taught me that anything described that way will be none of the above!
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...when approached the very first time. And, of course, "We are a London based agency..."
| | | | Lingua 5B
Bosnië en Herzegowina
Local time: 08:43
uit Engels in Frans
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| Finally, a fun poll | Oct 16, 2025 |
Also: “Welcome to our family. Kindly send your CV and best rates.”
Dude, since when are we family?
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