Dear Language Line

This is part of an email I just sent to Language Line. For context I live in Cambridge.

Hi Hayley

Is there any news on this? I am being deluged with irrelevant job requests.

I just went through my email archive and notice a few things that might hopefully help Language Line sort this out. The problem is so bad that I now open and respond to emails from other agencies before bothering with Language Line currently.

  • I didn't get any daft job requests until July this year. Only two in July. Two in August. 107 in October.

  • It went mad on October 21st or 22nd. Prior to that, most requests were local to me. Just a few oddities.

  • Now four out of five are for either London, for which I would have to charge about £50 travel and a full day fee because of the time, which LL wouldn't accept, or for insane places that I couldn't get to if I tried. Wakefield. Liverpool. Conwy. Brighton. Preston. Others.

  • (Many places just say something like "Huntley Street", which could be anywhere. This is presumably a problem of London-centric clients not understanding they need to write the city on the CITY field, but also an LL problem because the web server works so slowly that it's not worth clicking on the job link to check the full details.)

PLEASE get somebody to resolve this. I very much want to receive no emails about London or anywhere over two hours from me. I'm aware you will divide things geographically within certain areas so I'll have to accept some weirdness, but currently it is mad.

Thanks

Jim

Be aware that this isn’t intended to single out Language Line particularly. Clarion is currently such a shit show I don’t have the energy to post about it here yet.

Jim Cromwell