Category: Techtoday
If you're working in a multinational company overseas or in your own country, it pays to have Google Translate or Bing Translator open in one of your browser tabs. It's easy to dismiss e-mails in other languages because you're busy. You're pretty sure if it was anything important it would be in English or your boss would tell you.
Wrong!
You're lucky if you can read Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, or German, especially if you're working for any of the companies that use the language because all sorts of important e-mail may come your way and you might miss out. Sure, corporate e-mail is mostly spam, but sometimes you might delete that missive about free goodies, corporate promos, or perks that some HR guy sent out not realizing there was that guy in the corner who can't read Thai.
I almost missed out on a free online service provided to all the employees of a hardware company if I hadn't set the e-mail aside and then translated it using Google Translate (and double-checked with Microsoft Translator) later on. So keep an online translator close by, you never know when some Czech e-mail about the fire escape or the contaminated food in your cafeteria will end up in your Inbox.
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