TransPerfect reviews

Everything. 1. Hired as a sales person but had no time to do any sales all positions are essentially admin positions. 2. The hours are ridiculous and should be illegal sometimes forced into working until 8pm at night and if you didn't you weren't commited enough to you work 3. Wasn't told about the Draw until after I had been working quite a while. It's essentially a system whereby you pay back your salary before you make any commission. So if you make 8 % comm on every sale and your basic is € 40k per annum you have to make over € 500k in sales before you get any commission. Needless to say thats a huge number most people don't achieve so make sure you're happy with the basic. 4. Forced travel and unnecessarily long and tiring training. I had to live for weeks in different countries training with often unprepared people for excessively long periods with no breaks. Ended up taking 8 panadols a day just make it through. 5. LETTERING ! They wont explain this to you until after your hired but you have to stuff envelopes - first you have to find people to mail up to 1000 a week so you search and find these people then you have to find their addresses and input into a data system. then every week you have to print lettrers and envelopes and stuff them and post them. Completely absurd 6. EOD !!! End of Days Every day you have to send an e-mail to EVERYONE i the company telling them what you did that was meaningful and they have to be detailed 7. Ridiculously confusing systems. For every job you create you have to send all these complicated mails with their own language TP 500 wc 1300 12/03/2011 8am tyh llj 20000 in the heading and if you get one thing wrong your in trouble. this has to be reiterated in your mail and in numerous other places. 8. Unfair management - I overheard managers been told to keep new staff past 7pm to teach them a lesson ?!?! All in all they work their staff to the bone and take complete advantage. They lie and are underhanded and know a number of staff that had to seek psychiatric assistance after leaving due to stress, anxiety and panic attacks.

12+ hour work days with no overtime! -Managers are well aware that the workload they are handing out could not potentially be accomplished in 8 hours, especially for new people who don't have any connections. The office is also severely understaffed because of the incredibly high turnover rate. Taking a lunch is impossible. I calculated that if I had been working at an hourly rate with overtime, my pay rate would be less than $12/hour. What a joke!! This shouldn't be acceptable for anyone with a college degree. Non-transferrable skills. -the "experience" mentioned in other reviews is simply having an office job to put on your resume. The project coordinator position is all about sending out mass e-mails to find linguists who are willing to work for bottom dollar in a very short amount of time. Most transactions between PCs and linguists occur with very little professionalism, which would not fly at almost any other work place. There is little to no thinking in this job- just processing and meeting an overload of insanely tight deadlines. Poor training/Treated with disrespect -I spent the first 2 weeks I was there doing nothing but watching boring powerpoint presentations! There are over 100 power point presentations to watch and do a quiz that would ask for very specific information. These presentations usually took 45 min. each. They've got to be insane if they actually think this is effective in training anyone. When I actually started doing work, the amount of micro-managing was beyond belief. They expect you to ask a manager for approval with basically every click of the mouse. However, my trainer was always busy and seemed to get ticked off everytime I asked her to come over, but if I sent an e-mail or clicked a button without her, she would become infuriated. If I made a mistake she would point it out to me with absolute disprespect and intolerance. One of my coworkers actually told me she wouldn't speak to a dog the way the trainer addressed me!! Unhappy employees/Dismal workplace A lot of other reviews seem to convey an image of a fun environment with lots of smart young people that just have to work long hours. Some even say that their are rewards for "hard" work. The truth: There is absolutely no time for fun conversation or teamwork throughout the day. You are glued to your computer for 12 plus hours- processing projects and managing deadlines; there is no comraderie or socializing at all during office hours. Managers would come down HARD on mistakes- leaving employees who just worked 20 hours of unpaid overtime to the point of tears, with absolutely no thanks.