iditarod1928
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Hi everyone, I have a question about verbal agreements. My significant other is an interpreter who sometimes does translation work for a "friend." It's been a long time since he's worked on these translation contracts with her because he's had a job the last ten years that forbids it. now that he is self-employed again, he's getting back into it. Ok, so ten years ago he used to work with her in all aspects of these projects, including project management, and she would simply pay him half of the net income. Now she only wants to hire him as a translator, and that's fine, except: She told him she will pay him $20 an hour to do this translation work, including proofreading and corrections, and he said: "yeah, ok." There is no written contract, nobody witnessed this conversation, and there are no documents that could prove this conversation took place. However, she did write him a check which he accepted. He did not even He did not even give her any invoice of any kind for that.
They are just 2 weeks into this contract, and she has only paid him once to date.
Ok, after he brought home his first check, I started researching what he should get getting paid for this work, and it's: $0.12 to $0.20 cents per word. Professional translators bill by the word in the U.S. At 500 words per hour (proofread and corrected), he would be gettting 60 dollars an hour at the very lowest acceptable rate of $0.12 per word. He can and does do that many words per hour easily.
After he brought home his first check, I started researching what he should get getting paid for this work, and it's: $0.12 to $0.20 cents per word. Professional translators bill by the word in the U.S. At 500 words per hour (proofread and corrected), he would be getting 60 dollars an hour at the very lowest acceptable rate of $0.12 per word. He can and does translate that many words per hour easily. So he is being paid one third of what he should be getting, even at the very lowest rate.
I'd rather not discuss how dumb he was for agreeing to this; we've already had that conversation. My question to you all is: does he really have to work for this person for three months at $20 per hour, just because he said "yeah, ok" to this "friend" in a room all by themselves with no one else around?
We would both really like to get him out of this deal now. Any thoughts would be appreciated, thanks!
Hi everyone, I have a question about verbal agreements. My significant other is an interpreter who sometimes does translation work for a "friend." It's been a long time since he's worked on these translation contracts with her because he's had a job the last ten years that forbids it. now that he is self-employed again, he's getting back into it. Ok, so ten years ago he used to work with her in all aspects of these projects, including project management, and she would simply pay him half of the net income. Now she only wants to hire him as a translator, and that's fine, except: She told him she will pay him $20 an hour to do this translation work, including proofreading and corrections, and he said: "yeah, ok." There is no written contract, nobody witnessed this conversation, and there are no documents that could prove this conversation took place. However, she did write him a check which he accepted. He did not even He did not even give her any invoice of any kind for that.
They are just 2 weeks into this contract, and she has only paid him once to date.
Ok, after he brought home his first check, I started researching what he should get getting paid for this work, and it's: $0.12 to $0.20 cents per word. Professional translators bill by the word in the U.S. At 500 words per hour (proofread and corrected), he would be gettting 60 dollars an hour at the very lowest acceptable rate of $0.12 per word. He can and does do that many words per hour easily.
After he brought home his first check, I started researching what he should get getting paid for this work, and it's: $0.12 to $0.20 cents per word. Professional translators bill by the word in the U.S. At 500 words per hour (proofread and corrected), he would be getting 60 dollars an hour at the very lowest acceptable rate of $0.12 per word. He can and does translate that many words per hour easily. So he is being paid one third of what he should be getting, even at the very lowest rate.
I'd rather not discuss how dumb he was for agreeing to this; we've already had that conversation. My question to you all is: does he really have to work for this person for three months at $20 per hour, just because he said "yeah, ok" to this "friend" in a room all by themselves with no one else around?
We would both really like to get him out of this deal now. Any thoughts would be appreciated, thanks!
