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Poll: In your experience, which is the least busy day of the week, excluding the weekend? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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Michael Harris 
Germany
Local time: 02:33
Member (2006)
German to English
| Objective view | May 10, 2016 |
ILAN RUBIN wrote: Michael Harris wrote:
I find it a bit of a shame that the ProZ staff are not listening to us about the anonymous polls.... A lot of the polls are thoughtless and irrelevant to our work but who cares whether or not the person posting them is anonymous? What difference does that make? As for this poll, it's a perfectly good question. I wondered this myself because for me Monday is hands down the least busy day. Now thanks to this poll I see that it's most peoples' experience too.
Because maybe many of us "normal" translators have posted polls and are not considered, and who knows if these "anonymous" people are even paying members?
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DianeGM
Local time: 03:33
Member (2006)
Dutch to English
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| I assume ... | May 10, 2016 |
the question is asking about new jobs coming in ... not workload in general.
So, for new jobs coming in usually Monday is quietest for me, unless, of course, Friday was quiet.
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| The plot thickens | May 10, 2016 |
Michael Harris wrote:
Because maybe many of us "normal" translators have posted polls and are not considered, and who knows if these "anonymous" people are even paying members?
As a non-paying member, I don't even get to submit polls.
I suspect the CIA are involved in it somewhere. I've read my Ludlum, they can't fool me.
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SteveMcD
Local time: 02:33
German to English
That's by design, actually. I don't schedule classes on Fridays ( I teach as well as translate) and I take a little time to tie up any loose ends from the previous week and plan out the coming week.
Other than that, my biggest concern on Friday is what I'm going to put on the grill on Saturday and Sunday
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John Cutler
Spain
Local time: 02:33
Spanish to English
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| That's the way I see it too | May 10, 2016 |
EvaVer wrote:
The least busy is Monday, by the same logic - people come in after the week-end, they need time to set in, tell their coleagues about their week-end, drink their coffeee - and even if they start working, they are unlikely to finish any documents sooner than Monday afternoon.
My experience exactly. On Monday mornings, people are organizing themselves and finishing up things that were left over from the past week. They don't actually "produce" anything until about Monday afternoon, so Monday morning I'm the least busy.
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Mario Chavez (X)
Local time: 20:33
English to Spanish
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| Patterns of busyness | May 10, 2016 |
Andrea Garfield-Barkworth wrote:
Have never really noticed a pattern.
Same here. Just when I think I've spotted a pattern (slow Mondays, busy Thursdays), the new week throws a monkey wrench in the works.
In my experience, questions like this are formulated by extroverted people anxious to have some chitchat topic to add to their day.
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Edward Potter
Spain
Local time: 02:33
Member (2003)
Spanish to English
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I find Wednesdays to be about the least busy. Mondays and Fridays seem to be the most busy for me.
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Erzsébet Czopyk
Hungary
Local time: 02:33
Member (2006)
Russian to Hungarian
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SITE LOCALIZER
is always ctrazy day. Everybody needs everything for Monday morning on the desk
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Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 21:33
Member (2014)
English to Portuguese
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| Doesn't exist | May 11, 2016 |
For freelancers, this question makes no sense.
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