Concerning Nardina Alongi and Greenlandic translations certain things always struck me over the sporadic cooperation I had with them - and how her scamming operation worked.
A brief resume of points that made be suspicious of Nardina Alongi as a professional business:
(1) The freelancers she employed changed constantly. I mean she had difficulty finding German > English freelancers - I mean even one or two and that language combination is rather common but no one would work for her - quite apart from the miserable pay and the impossible deadlines.
(2) Nardina Alongi constantly complained to me about other freelancers behind their backs. Even when under short deadlines from her it was extremely difficult to get rid of her on Skype and her constant moaning about the quality of translations she received - although she is a staunch preacher of the 4 eye principle this basically never happened. Everything was last minute and often you were caught to translate something then in the middle to stop and translate something else which someone else had screwed up. The whole process was chaotic, unprofessional and she kept losing documents and asking for them again 2 or 3 times. This is not the hallmark of any translation agency worth its salt.
(3) Nardina Alongi is not a translator or reviser herself - in any language as far as I know. Her English is far from fluent. It is unusual to find people who are not translators or were translators running a translation agency.
(4) Her technical assistants changed constantly. They always - in her eyes - turned out wrong. I can name at least four in two years who have nothing to do with her and WANT nothing to do with her - without knowing the reasons - be they Turkish, Macedonian, Italian etc - they have all stepped back.
(5) Concerning payments when it suited her she would take charge of the situation when not she said she had nothing to do with finances that was the domain of her colleague Peter Rudolph but there was no clear delineation of duties. Today this, tomorrow that - just whatever pleased Nardina Alongi. She also lied on several occasions that payment had been made and she was then supposedly checking things with her bank to see what had happened. Nothing had happened other than Nardina Alongi lying to suit herself is what came out in the end. No conscience, nothing - just cock and bull stories to gain more time.
I hope that freelancers get a chance of read of these experiences before even thinking of working for her - at the prices she pays, take a step forward and let her find some other freelancer to fall into her trap.
