Quality assessment - how much do you charge?

Ice Scream wrote:

Yes, one fixed rate. An hour of my time is an hour of my time.

(That said... I do charge some clients a lower hourly rate because they wouldn't stomach my standard hourly rate, just as I charge some less per word. But I only take their work if I'm sitting there twiddling my thumbs or if it's something I really enjoy.)

Philip Lees wrote:



There's a character in Catch-22 who tries to spend as much of his time as possible being bored. The reason is that when you're bored, time passes more slowly, so by maximising your boredom, you live longer - subjectively, anyway.

I wouldn't go that far, but I do charge a higher hourly rate for work I know I'm going to be bored silly by, than for work I expect to find interesting. I suppose I could justify this by saying I'm charging for subjective time, rather than objective time.

I wouldn't mention the Catch-22 part, though.

Philip Lees wrote:

There's a character in Catch-22 who tries to spend as much of his time as possible being bored. The reason is that when you're bored, time passes more slowly, so by maximising your boredom, you live longer - subjectively, anyway.

I wouldn't go that far, but I do charge a higher hourly rate for work I know I'm going to be bored silly by, than for work I expect to find interesting. I suppose I could justify this by saying I'm charging for subjective time, rather than objective time.

I wouldn't mention the Catch-22 part, though.

Vladimir Pochinov wrote:


As a separate note, you need to clarify what the client means by proofreading.

ISO 17100 standard:
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2.2.4
post-edit
edit and correct machine translation output (2.2.3)
2.2.5
check
examination of target language content (2.3.3) carried out by the translator (2.4.4)
2.2.6
revision
bilingual examination of target language content (2.3.3) against source language content (2.3.2) for its suitability for the agreed purpose
Note 1 to entry: The term bilingual editing is sometimes used as a synonym for revision.
2.2.7
review
monolingual examination of target language content (2.3.3) for its suitability for the agreed purpose
Note 1 to entry: The term monolingual editing is sometimes used as a synonym for review.
2.2.8
proofread
examine the revised target language content (2.3.3) and apply corrections before printing

Clients often want revision but expect proofreading rates




[Edited at 2021-10-28 13:26 GMT]

Philip Lees wrote:

There's a character in Catch-22 who tries to spend as much of his time as possible being bored. The reason is that when you're bored, time passes more slowly, so by maximising your boredom, you live longer - subjectively, anyway.

I wouldn't go that far, but I do charge a higher hourly rate for work I know I'm going to be bored silly by, than for work I expect to find interesting. I suppose I could justify this by saying I'm charging for subjective time, rather than objective time.

I wouldn't mention the Catch-22 part, though.

Tony Keily wrote:



Although it sounds like a Brasseye/Chris Morris wind-up, I read today about a relatively recently controlled substance called 'spice' (really an umbrella term for a whole range of synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists) that's all the rage in UK prisons because it knocks you half out and makes time pass faster (and UK prisons are increasingly filled with people on long sentences).

It might be useful to develop a variant that could be used while QAing (long sentences).