Terrible management - exploitation and abuse are the core values of this company - Project Manager TransPerfect Employee Review

The pervasive management technique is instilling fear. The method used is quite simple: you will be praised highly and be told how very special and talented you are, and what great future is in store for you with TransPerfect. Then, when you make the slightest mistake, are unable to do overtime on a particular day or dare to question the decisions of your manager, you will be shouted at, humiliated in front of all your co-workers, be told you are a piece of s. and it would be better if you found another job. The next day, you will be praised again, told that you should not take the treatment of the previous day personally and should understand that your manager was just following orders from his manager in Barcelona. Then, after a week, the abuse will be repeated, followed by profuse reconcilliation again. This is how lover boys prey on their victims and make them completely dependend: your manager will play the same game with you. Staff turnover is unreal (between 50 and 100 per cent in any given year), pay is just above legal minimum (for project managers with a university degree) hours are long, overtime is mandatory (and unpaid). The unpaid hours are presumably compensated with time off, but taking time off is linked to meeting unreallistically high targets. You will hardly ever reach any of these, and lose the unpaid overtime hours when you quit your job. This is the standard system used at TransPerfect, and copied from the Barcelona office. Absolute dead end job - no financial prospects, no prospects of promotion in terms of job content. You will spend your days sending translation jobs to the cheapest translators you can find, trying to cut their rates even further, and fighting with Sales about impossible deadlines. This is a white collar sweatshop where workers are just a commodity; they can be used and discarded at will.