Advice for editors

If you're ever offered a job editing a book or series of articles from non-native English speakers, run, don't walk, in the opposite direction. A gem from a text I'm editing today:

"Given the complexity of detailed analysis under this thematic obliges us to
work on with more preoccupation as this study calls on a plurality of
disciplines to reach the needs of readers."

You know you're in trouble when this is the first sentance of an article you have to edit...