Outsourcing Of Drive-Thru Order Takers! (Seriously) | 28 comments (28 topical, 0 hidden)
I've noticed that some advertisers are (none / 0)
outsourcing their human actors for cartoon characters like the PC vs Mac ads.  Also, some wireless carrier ad got rid of about four human actors with their new cartoon.

by gatekeeper50 on 01/26/2009 01:38:28 PM EST

Hmm (none / 0)
Interesting, I hadn't thought of that.

by Tom Hanc on 01/26/2009 01:43:07 PM EST

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That saves money? (none / 0)
You still have to pay voice over actors, you just have to pay the voice overs, but animators alos, I don't think it makes a huge difference

by nmaks on 01/26/2009 04:27:24 PM EST

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The animators are probably outsourced ... (none / 0)
isn't the global economy wonderful?  They can't outsource my job; just do away with it through automation.  There goes my union job, and if I want to retrain so I can operate or maintain the robot that takes my job I'd have to take a 50% pay cut.

by gatekeeper50 on 01/26/2009 05:04:39 PM EST

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Yes, it's "wonderful" all right (none / 0)
It's a wonder anyone buys the bullshit that unfettered free trade is the way to go.

But you knew that.

by Tom Hanc on 01/26/2009 05:07:38 PM EST

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There are a lot of examples of outsourcing (none / 0)
It wouldn't be fair to say that a possibility of animators being oustourced for two commercials and the drive through being outsourced for one restaurant chain is anything significant.

by nmaks on 01/26/2009 09:25:37 PM EST

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Sure, *now* it's ONE restaurant chain (none / 0)
But the point is that it's potentially a terrible sign of things to come.

Between outsourcing, insourcing and automation, the average worker is being triple teamed (or will be soon enough).

by Tom Hanc on 01/26/2009 09:27:47 PM EST

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Well (none / 1)
Next thing you know we'll strip away child labor protections too. Kids like to draw and color, right?

;)

by Tom Hanc on 01/26/2009 05:08:28 PM EST

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WTF? (none / 0)
Nmaks rated this comment a "1"? Man, we've got some tough critics here apparently.

;)

by Tom Hanc on 01/26/2009 09:25:45 PM EST

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It was a bad example in the first place (none / 0)
The example was bad, animation probably has little or nothing to do with outsourcing, and even still what americans lose their jobs from an animated as opposed to a live action commercial? Secondly the joke was rather asanine and had no factual basis.

by nmaks on 01/26/2009 09:33:20 PM EST

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Im starting to think you do have bias :) (none / 0)
feel free to rate this bad joke a 1.

by nmaks on 01/26/2009 09:34:15 PM EST

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I never liked the use of the word asinine (none / 1)
It always seems pretentious to me (especially when it follows a word like "rather"), even when people I like use it.

You know, it sounds something like this: "Tut tut bias, your remarks were rather asinine. I'm going to finish my plum brandy and then we are going to discuss more appropriate jokes for you."

:)

by Tom Hanc on 01/26/2009 09:44:59 PM EST

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ok (none / 0)
I wouldn't have rated it a one if I wasn't trying to be obnoxious :)

by nmaks on 01/26/2009 09:51:20 PM EST

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Outsourcing Of Drive-Thru Order Takers! (Seriously) | 28 comments (28 topical, 0 hidden)