The Company
Camignone di Passirano (Brescia)-based TRP Traduzioni Srl introduces itself thus on its website: "Founded in 1978 as one-man business and grown-up during the years, the current structure of TRP Traduzioni srl may well boast a twenty-year experience in the translations and annexed fields world. Our customers include clients based in Italy, Germany and Benelux, as well as a consistent number of translation centres in Europe with which we collaborate translating mainly from European languages into German. A staff of mother-tongue permanent translators guarantees qualified and punctual translations."
It continues in that vein ("The application of directives provided for by the UNI EN ISO 9001:2000 VISION regulation which we are certified to, is part of the company’s professionalism and reliability").
Evidently, their staff of "mother-tongue permanent translators" wasn't employed to translate their website into English.
The History
On 21 February 2007, a translator who had been employed by TRP Traduzioni wrote: "I advise caution in dealing with this agency: late payments, repeated requests ignored, etc. In the end, they did finally pay me."
The translator's life isn't all cocktails and canapés with big-name publishers. For as much as the profession can be rewarding, it can also be a Dickensian workhouse. And no more so than when clients, publishers, and agencies offer sweatshop wages, refuse to pay for work work they’ve commissioned, and basically treat translators like Kleenex: use and toss. But there’s too much silence among translators, and the omertà stops here. TranslatorLeaks is born. Il Segno di Caino names names.
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The Mark of Cain, in Biblical tradition, was bestowed for two equally important reasons: to identify the sinner and to warn others against taking vengeance into their own hands. Il Segno di Caino concurs: We identify sinners but in no way promote or encourage adverse action against them. Rather, Il Segno di Caino encourages translators to respect themselves and their profession and to act accordingly.
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