For real, the difference between professional captioning and a freelancer who's paid pennies on the word/minute (of film) is night and day. In particular its becime abundantly clear that HBO's criterion collection is captioned by the latter. You have all these absolute classics, but anything in A Bit Of An Accent is "unintelligible." Its like so obnoxiously racist classist etc who doesn't even get an attempt at a caption, too. Really pisses me off.
Did you learn stenography?
No, they just had a one page guide and basic formatting rules to follow. I read the page, clicked the agreement, and produced some of the most terrible work that they'd still take. I think it was literally a cent per word or something like that.