Jobs - where are they?
August 17, 2009 1:43 am Bugs, Growing as a teamHi all,
thanks to Walter Landesman I was able to detect a wrong behavior of the hierarchy by which emails / job offers are send out. The bug results in the fact that some translators were automatically skipped. I informed the developers right away and hope that the fix will be done still today.
It is my prior aim to have LingoZ based on a fair system. Everything that is in our ability to do so, will be done. Please note that are elements in the process that are not controlled by us, mainly the time and speed you receive the job offers. This mainly depends on your email server you are using.
Please, despite my truly late answers in many cases, do not stop to inform me about problems, either in the system or to adress me with any personal questions you might have.
With best regards,
Ursula
August 17th, 2009 at 2:49 am
How about posting available jobs in this channel (RSS)? All interested parties would see and reply to them promptly.
August 17th, 2009 at 2:54 am
Working fine now!
Got 2 jobs today and they still where pending when I logged in
Thanks heaps…
August 17th, 2009 at 3:02 am
Carlos - thanks for this input. We are currently checking additional ways to inform the translators, e.g. per SMS. Not sure if the RSS is a suitable way, as this might need a lot of development from our side, but I will keep it in mind. Also the translator lounge is only a temporary place of ours and let’s not forget this is a completely open space with free acces not protected by any password.
At the end I guess we will have our information platform on LingoZ.com. When we reach this point your idea could become feasible.
Thanks - Ursula
August 17th, 2009 at 3:52 am
I’ve got a question (please forgive me if you find it inappropriate):
I haven’t got any job since I was accepted as a LingoZ translator. Does the system issue some kind of e-mail notification when there’s a job available or I’m supposed to keep login in to check it out?
Thanks!
August 17th, 2009 at 3:59 am
Hi Marcelo,
you should get the job offers send by emails, so no need to keep logging in for checking. I will have a look at your personal case later on and will let you know my finding by a personal email.
Regards,
Ursula
August 17th, 2009 at 5:12 am
Ok, thanks Ursula for taking care of this issue. Hope it works this time. Let`s wait and see.
Walter
August 17th, 2009 at 8:36 am
Hi Ursula, so far, I haven’t received any jobs that I could take, only canceled/expired ones. Thanks
August 18th, 2009 at 4:16 am
Hi Ursula,
I haven’t received any job offers so far. Let’s see if the fix works now, and I was one of those ’skipped’ translators.
Kind regards.
August 18th, 2009 at 9:37 am
Hi Ursula,
I still haven’t received any job offers. Hopefully this will be fixed soon.
Thanks
August 19th, 2009 at 5:02 am
Hi Ursula,
I’m still in the same situation of the three previous colleagues who left their comments.
Regards.
August 19th, 2009 at 5:44 am
I haven´t received any job notification either for a long time. Please have a look at my profile to check if everything is working ok. Thanks.
August 21st, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Hi Ursula,
I am still facing the same situation as the previous colleagues who commented about not receiving jobs.
I also wonder if there is anyting wrong with my profile…
Thank you. Kind regards
August 25th, 2009 at 6:39 am
Hi Ursula
I have the same question as Marcelo:
“I haven’t got any job since I was accepted as a LingoZ translator. Does the system issue some kind of e-mail notification when there’s a job available or I’m supposed to keep login in to check it out?”
August 25th, 2009 at 7:34 am
Hi Ursula,
I received a job notification which I accepted, completed and submitted in due time. Nevertheless, I received a notice from Lingoz requesting the translation because time had expired. So, I submitted it again. Please can you check this inconvenience? Thanks
August 30th, 2009 at 5:00 am
Dear Ursula,
Firstly, thank you for adding my profile to your translator database. I have just received my first job notification and, after logging in in and checking the text for translation I clicked “Accept this project” then started the translation in a separate word file on my computer. I thought I was the first translator to accept it but the light blue panel at the right top corner showed all along Open Jobs: 0, Jobs in Work: 0, Completed: 0 - does this mean that I did not, in fact, get the job myself? Then, when trying to submit the translation, the job status was “expired” and therefore inaccessible. I do not understand what went wrong. The only available window for pasting text was in fact for customer use and I had a pop-up window notifying that I am about to submit a new project for translation, which I then cancelled. Could you kindly explain what went wrong?
Many thanks,
Camelia
September 8th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
I still have not received a single job in the DE-EN pair. I received one notification early in the process, but by the time I clicked on it, it was “cancelled.” Since then, not a word. Is there are a technical problem, or are there simply no jobs?
Susan
September 10th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Ursula:
I can´t navigate along the web page. Neither I´ve never received job offers or newsletters. I sent you an e-mail some dasy ago and I haven´t received any answer yet. Is there any problem? Best regards. M