 Hello everyone. So this is just a quick, well a public service announcement let's say and I just wanted to point out something that might affect you if you're looking for jobs if you're looking to be hired by translation agencies and also because stuff like this occurs every now and then so I wanted to bring it up and just show you how I deal with it and basically what happened was I came across this article it says federal court tosses lawsuit over forced company sale and as far as then I could I can understand what happened is there's this company called Transperfect Global which is it was set up by this guy Philip Shaw and his former fiance Elizabeth Elting and what happened was they had a fight you can see it says former fiance which means that they are not together anymore and this probably you know they had personal problems which probably kind of came to be reflected in the business itself so I mean the article here is just saying they tried to appeal or I guess to dismiss the lawsuit or sorry they had a lawsuit challenging the judge's decision and that lawsuit was dismissed by the federal court in essence upholding the judge's decision before because their relationship had become dysfunctional again why why do you care right you know this is semi interesting because it's the translation world but why should we care in our day-to-day lives well because this might be a company that we might have to do within the future or might try to hire us you know it might still be in business this company and so we suggest kind of keep it on our radar what I like to do in this situation is go to the blue board of pros the blue board is where they keep track of the job outsourcers basically the translation agencies the people that hire translators this is where they keep track of them and so if we insert the name Transperfect there we go we get a couple examples I'm going to go with this one because it has 151 entries and seems to be the biggest one so you know if we click on here then we can see I had an average of 3.9 which isn't that bad remember it's out of five though so it's not all that good either and here we can just look at the entries they have now the top pinned entry remember it's pinned by the company so I mean you know don't put too much stock in that but here we see the other ones and we see four one two two three three you know we see one five otherwise two one another five three two five five five and and there are more fives but still lately they've been having quite a few issues it seems most of these things you know if they don't have a five they should have a reason for not having it and and if you compare it to any other company you'll see that most of them tend to have fives see even here with a four he says steady provider good pms only hitches very bureaucratic payment system simply not worth doing small jobs for them you know so already there's something wrong with that every now and then you'll get a one or two because someone's just mad look it's like yelp or anything like that right but usually it should center around you know on the high end what you know people if they're going to give a score they they usually like to give it on the high end and if they have a problem they'll tell them personally and that's how people usually deal with it so these are a bunch of red flags i don't know if this has anything to do with what's going on in the article but usually when i see an article about a company having problems i like to search for it and then you know see what's going on with the company itself on on the blue board and here let me give another example of a company i had problems with in the past and it's this one intertrado and you can see their average lwa is very low here very few entries i'm pretty sure they're out of business and i'm hoping that fact is reflected here yeah outsource has been banned from posting jobs and pros dot com because they've just been i mean completely crap and uh they in fact someone unfortunately relatively recently did something for them i wrote a bad review for them because i had problems with them and uh since then yeah she had someone write a very good review but i'm you know i don't know i don't know who that was anyway she was a crook and um and so a lot of these things will be reflected anytime you deal with any company actually it's a good idea to look them up on this blue board and it'll give you a good idea of what you're dealing with unfortunately this person right here if she or let's see this person sorry um if she had looked up the um this company ahead of time she would have seen all these negative ratings which you know hopefully should have helped her she carried out three translations and didn't get paid so you know that's not nothing anyway long story short whenever you come across the name of a company whether it's in the news or anywhere else just a reminder to look them up on the blue board and you know to get a better idea about that company and whether you should be working for them or not and what problems there might be so i hope you found this useful if you do please don't forget to click like because i really do appreciate that and um and don't forget to subscribe if you want more videos like this in the future dealing with freelance translation and freelancing in general otherwise i'll talk to you in the next video thanks bye