How to deal with outsourcing BS
There is no shortage of complaints about hired workers. Whether from elance, craigslist, offshore, or domestic, the the margins on good to bad labor seem to be around 1:50.
I recently hired 4 artists for a project. One delivered great work. Two got about 15% of the assignment finished. One has not sent me anything over a month later.
Focus on the worker who gets the jobs done on time instead of chasing down the non-performers.
Before you even hire someone, test them. Give them a job to perform. See how promptly the project is finished. Be reasonable. Just like yourself, the worker will have areas they are great at and others that they blow at. The good workers will let you know when project requirements are over their heads.
The less time you waste with outsourced labor the more time you have to do more profitable (or enjoyable) things. A dime saved today could cost you $10,000 tommorow.
Great tips, I tend to keep good contact with people who do good jobs, if you are a better ‘employer’ they will do more for you.
Comment by Glen — June 6, 2007 @ 9:07 am
I guess the previous comment is the kind of spam you were talking about in that recent post. See, to me that technique doesn’t work because it is not relevent to your post. It is only tangentially related to the topic you covered. Looks like it’s someone’s attempt to automate comment spam, while trying to keep it relevant with scraped content. They are probably running your post through Google looking for related text they can spam you with to get a link that you will not delete. So maybe this sentence will get indexed. AsiaWebMedia.com is a spammer. Asia Web Media is a major comment spammer. Hope they begin to rank for thise terms.
Comment by Marc — June 8, 2007 @ 11:43 pm
Well they got their link for 24 hours. Too bad for them, I’ve given outsourcing related companies incoming links and even dedicated posts. Its kind of like PR with a sledgehammer.
Comment by Andrew — June 9, 2007 @ 11:50 pm