You know, sometimes...

[katikat]

... you just feel like kicking your boss, no matter how much you like him. I usually don't talk about RL related things here but this riled me pretty bad.

Most of you know that I work as a translator, translating fantasy books from English into Czech. In September and October, I was working on Dragons of a Fallen Sun by Hickman and Weis. In the meantime, I interpreted for R. Knaak in Brno and I went to the Book Fair in Frankfurt, Germany, with my boss. I had the Dragons book almost finished when my boss called me saying that he needed me to translate a novel really quick because the previous translation by someone else was unusable. I said okay but I warned him that it would set me back in my own translation approximately a week - no matter what he thinks, I can't work 7 days a week without my brain imploding and the novel was almost 100 pages long. But even though my boss knew all that, he started asking when the Dragons book would be done. So I gritted my teeth and worked twice as hard to get it done two days earlier. And I sent it to my first editor...

Who said he didn't have the time to work on it at the moment even though he knew how important it was! I thought that I would strangle the idiot! So, the editor finally got to it last night and my boss is pushing him really hard now because he needs the book Friday morning - 560 pages! And what does that mean for me? The first editor will read the book, make a list of changes I need to make - in names, titles, place etc. because these are given by the Czech RPG players - and I will have to correct 33 chapters within an hour or so. Have you ever tried to edit something this huge in such a short time? Even ctrl+f-ing takes some time! *izdead* And my second editor still didn't get back to me about the poem I asked him to put into verses for me for this book.

WhatEVER! *throws arms in the air*

Comments

[fools-game.livejournal.com]

Most of you know that I work as a translator, translating fantasy books from English into Czech.

I did not know that. That sounds like the best job ever.

[katikat.livejournal.com]

It is a great job and I love it. But sometimes, I feel like strangling my editors :D Or banging my head against the wall when I have to work on a book that's like over 600 pages long.

[dinofly.livejournal.com]

I feel for you. Today we had 4 severity 1 tickets in 1 hour! I am really beginning to hate the new setting of our team because we were 2 people working on it like crazy and still were at least one hour behind where we should be. And only because we can not ask a third person to help us.

I know, you are translating books and have to do it within ours, days, weeks, it is crazy. Because when you are tired, it just does not work. More errors then the usable thingies. I manage applications and when I am tired, just somewhere will not be tires created and it will cost a few millions. What do I care. Shoot you boss, or better the editors, but then patch them together and be go for a beer (tea).

[katikat.livejournal.com]

*smooches you* Today, I did only 20 pages because my head hurts like hell. Owie!

[dinofly.livejournal.com]

ONLY? You did more then most people in two days so what is the problem?

[disutansu.livejournal.com]

Ow, I can't imagine doing all that in an hour... do they think you're superhuman? o.o;

[katikat.livejournal.com]

But I did it. I got rid of the monster. It feels so good *happy sigh*

[yami-tai.livejournal.com]

*hugshugshugs* It is unreasonable of them to expect you to keep the deadline when others in the chain have let you (and your boss) down. What happened?

[katikat.livejournal.com]

In the end, I made it. I managed to finish it in time. But I hate to be put under such pressure :(