Just now I received an email from an old man named Chalie who is from Antwerp. He is complaining that I didn’t do the translation for him and said to lily that I didn’t feel comfortable for that.

I knew none of them at the beginning, once Chalie came to China for his business, lily is responsible for his business in china, he wanted to arrange  a meeting with lily but lily cannot speak English while Chalie know nothing of Chinese either, so they need an interpreter for their meeting. Lily is one of my boss’s friends, then  she asked my boss for help, later I became the interpreter for them.

After the meeting, whenever they had emails, they just send to me to translate, for so many years, I don’t know how many emails and documents  I had translated for them, I never said something about that, just want to help.

I am quite busy sometimes, one of my colleagues resigned last year, and we didn’t recruit a new staff, so all the works  were put on my shoulder, most of time I cannot reply their emails in time, again and again they just pushed me over, I had to work overtime to do their work. Sometimes, Chalie send emails very late in midnight, I got up and do the work for him and then went to bed.

Days ago, he send me a text to translate, I read it, but I cannot understand it for most of items are professional items, I know nothing of it, he didn’t provide me any background information, knowing that he will use the text for advertisement, I told him that he’d better ask some one more professional to do it, I didn’t want to ruin his advertise, so then, he told lily that I didn’t feel comfortable about the translation.

With no thanks, I had  done translation works for them for  so many years. It was not my work at all. I spared my time to help him, now, he thinks that it is my duty to help him. I know nothing of his products and brand story, he wants to promote his goods in china and emphasizes his dream again and again, yeah, it is not wrong to pursuit his dream, but don’t just consider his dream, I have a dream too, I want to spend some time for my dream too.

when i read his email just now, i was some kind of angry, if some one help me in this way, i sure will show my greatfull to him, now i just want to tell him how i feel when i read his email. don't want to help him any more!