I am very angry and upset at the moment and I feel like I need to let off some steam.

So I did a last-minute mini-job in June for English-Chinese interpretation and just now, I received an email from my supervisor telling me how dissatisfy the client was with my service. In the comment, the client wrote all kinds of mean and false things about my service like how I didn’t dress professionally and how I couldn’t communicate in either English or Chinese.

Well, guess what, you were wearing jeans and T-shirt and you call me dressing unprofessionally? Plus, no one bothered telling me what the damn thing is about. How am I suppose to know what to interpret?! They said they would provide training so I’d be prepared with what I am walking into but no one provided me with any training. All I was informed was I’d be going to a meeting. What kind of meeting? With who? What will the meeting be about?

Nothing, no one provided me with any information. What, did they expect me to know everything? No one is that good, everyone’s either good at English or the other language and even translators need to look up dictionary during an interpretation.

Another thing is, I asked about the satisfaction at the end and they told me they were quite satisfy with my service. Well, if you were not satisfy then, why didn’t you say anything? Why wait four months to go behind my back and tell my supervisor? Why not just tell it to my face?

Seeing this comment was like getting slapped in the face. This guy didn’t even need an interpreter, he understood and spoke Chinese and English and the Chinese couple, I don’t believe for a second that they didn’t understand any English. I shouldn’t have been there that day. It was all for the sake of the money. It’s always about that, isn’t it. Now I have to cough it back up because the client demands a refund. I swear, I am never doing live interpretation ever again because apparently, this is what I get for doing my work.