Forum: XTM Cloud support
Topic: XTM is a murderer.
Poster: JaneD
Post title: Just say "no"
Just don't use it if it's that much hassle.
I have a client that occasionally contacts me and offers me jobs, and as an afterthought says "Oh, and it needs to be done in XTM", to which I always say "Well in that case I can't help you". They always then decide that in fact it doesn't need to be done in XTM.
I'm happy to try all CAT tools once. Or even a few times. But when it's clear that there's absolutely no benefit to me, and that in fact it makes what ought to be a simple job much more difficult, then I just refuse to use them.
I've recently made the same decision with a client with an inhouse system that was probably OK 8 or 9 years ago when it first came out but which now just can't compete with a fully fledged CAT. They need to take the decision to abandon it, but they refuse to accept the inevitability yet. But as a freelancer, there's no reason why *I* should accept their system.
Topic: XTM is a murderer.
Poster: JaneD
Post title: Just say "no"
Just don't use it if it's that much hassle.
I have a client that occasionally contacts me and offers me jobs, and as an afterthought says "Oh, and it needs to be done in XTM", to which I always say "Well in that case I can't help you". They always then decide that in fact it doesn't need to be done in XTM.
I'm happy to try all CAT tools once. Or even a few times. But when it's clear that there's absolutely no benefit to me, and that in fact it makes what ought to be a simple job much more difficult, then I just refuse to use them.
I've recently made the same decision with a client with an inhouse system that was probably OK 8 or 9 years ago when it first came out but which now just can't compete with a fully fledged CAT. They need to take the decision to abandon it, but they refuse to accept the inevitability yet. But as a freelancer, there's no reason why *I* should accept their system.
