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Originally Posted by seki900
I suppose from an Agency perspective if a terp socializes at deaf events, why they are just giving there services away for free and we aren't getting our cut.
Or maybe I am just being cynical. I hope I am just being cynical.
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That sounds pretty mercenary to me but I'll say this, there are definitely some agencies that are in it primarily for the money.
Another idea is that an agency could be overseen by someone without any knowledge of the deaf community or Deaf culture, and who doesn't realize what a slap in the face this is to deaf people.
For example, some interpreting agencies are run by other service organizations, and also there are some companies that do all kinds of spoken-language interpreting and also have sign language interpreters. In both cases a person like this could have control over unwise policies due to lack of special knowledge of the deaf community.