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Outsourcing quality

luckat · 2007-04-11 11:52:12

Funny story from another province, where one of the papers decided to pay off all its subs and move in cheaper subs from the local freesheets. One of the subs who'd been outsourced took the redundancy, and came back later to do some reporting. He said some of the quality of the subbing was a little... variable. His best…

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Funny story from another province, where one of the papers decided to pay off all its subs and move in cheaper subs from the local freesheets.

One of the subs who'd been outsourced took the redundancy, and came back later to do some reporting. He said some of the quality of the subbing was a little... variable.

His best story about this: when he used the construction 'he had gone', the sub changed it to 'he had went'...

Peanuts... monkeys...

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#2 11-04-2007 7:38pm

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luckat wrote:

Peanuts... monkeys...

Yes but, given enough of them with and with an infinate copy deadline, you'll get either the complete works of William Shakespeare or an article entitled "Freddie Star had went and ate my Hampster".

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