Outsourced!
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- jonnyquest0
My company started outsourcing things like photoshoping masks for fashion and catalog work years ago... I also posted a thread about it here a year ago that the same company had a long term plan that eventually they'd start thrying to outsource design and production work and everybody ripped my head off as if it couldn't be done... The cultural gaps were too wide.
Here's what I've discovered...As long as a company has deep enough pockets they'll keep pushing till it works or they find a niche or if it brings in profits.
Currently my company is trying to train their indian staff to do retouch and color work and layout and ad production...
What i have found after several years of this is anything requiring abstract thought or if something wasn't explained from steps a through z they have a brain freeze... think automatons... you have to have a very specific workflow and they refuse to deviate from it... Only in America can you make it more difficult to get rid of the work than doing the actual work yourself...
Then if they do the work incorrectly you have to take that project offline... do it yourself prepare a packet explaining what you did upload it so they can then analyze and evaluate your work for "future reference"... I've even overheard assholes in management saying "ideallyy anything done on a mac here can go over there"