{"id":406,"date":"2009-04-07T13:09:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T09:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=406"},"modified":"2009-04-07T13:09:59","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T09:09:59","slug":"unrealistic-job-advert-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/406\/","title":{"rendered":"Unrealistic Job Advert #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one was emailed to my wife:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We are looking for translators to translate Russia city names from English to Russian (Cyrillic alphabet). For the person who wins the project, we need a guarantee that you can complete this within 5 weeks but the earlier the better. Further, you should guarantee your work to be error free for up to 1 year. When our customers find translation errors, you agree to fix it within 10 days or less.<\/p>\n<p>There are 190,418 cities in Russia that need translation.<\/p>\n<p>The bid will be won based on cost and experience (the lowest bidder with the most experience wins the project so give us your best price). Please give us a project price, not a per city cost. We are looking for someone who can get started right away. Tell us about your translation experience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmmm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>5 weeks maximum.\u00a0 190,418 cities. Assume a 60 hour working week, excluding breaks.\u00a0 That gives us 300 hours to complete all 190,418 translations, which equates to one every 5.7 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Dream on.\u00a0 They need a computer programmer, not a translator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one was emailed to my wife: We are looking for translators to translate Russia city names from English to Russian (Cyrillic alphabet). For the person who wins the project, we need a guarantee that you can complete this within &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/406\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}