Jun 01, 2006 02:39
on thursday we got pulled into a meeting with our operations director (read: my boss's boss). they're outsourcing some of our work. TO. FUCKING. INDIA.
a) my official title is Publishing Support Assistant (II). my job function is COPYEDITOR.
b) most of the contracts i get i have to send back for SPELLING AND GRAMMATICAL ERRORS (amongst other things, like THE INABILITY TO FOLLOW SIMPLE FUCKING DIRECTIONS)
c) what, on God's GREEN EARTH, makes the company think that outsourcing our work to fucking INDIA is going to make this situation ANY BETTER?!?! if people whose FIRST LANGUAGE is english CAN'T GET THESE CONTRACTS RIGHT WHAT MAKES THE BUSINESS THINK THAT PEOPLE WHO DON'T SPEAK THE LANGUAGE AT ALL WILL GET IT RIGHT?!?! IS EVERYONE COMPLETELY MOTHERFUCKING GODDAMNED ASSRIPPED SHITBRICKED CRACKED OUT RETARDED?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!!?! CHRIST ON A STICK!!!!!!!!!!!!
d) yes, i know indians are highly educated and ambitious and blah blah blah. but i doubt the ones that will be getting paid absolute FUCKALL SHIT to do this stuff are the educated ones. you know. simple business economics and whathaveyou.
whatever. you get what you pay for.