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Clodfobble · 04-27-2007, 10:33 AM

Work from yesterday since I do most of my work late at night:

The educational software company I do contract audio for picked up a new corporate client (major snack food supplier, needs safety/training courses for their warehouse distribution centers.) The client did not select me for the voice, which would usually mean I'm out of the loop entirely, but then I was informed that the random programmer who has been running the daytime sessions of non-me voiceactors since I had the baby has been laid off. They had cobbled together enough knowledge to get the recordings done without help, mostly thanks to the voiceactress being sorta familiar with the system they have, and now just needed me to edit the files. Okay, no problem.

Of course the files were all screwed up from an organization standpoint--in the wrong folders, useless default names like "Audio 1_01," out of order from the script they were supposed to be following--but eventually I got everything sorted out, and then wrote up a manifesto about naming conventions and how they need to be setting things up in the future. Finished everything up just after 11:00 PM.

The project manager thanked me and said ominously, "We're going to be needing you a whole lot now that Joe's gone, more than you're doing right now." I casually didn't respond to this, because what I was thinking was, "That's nice beyotch, but I'm not putting my kid in daycare and you can't make me so your 'need' better just scale itself back to whatever I'm willing to provide." As long as it doesn't require me to go into the office though, the extra hours are nice.

04-27-2007, 10:33 AM	#7
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	Work from yesterday since I do most of my work late at night: The educational software company I do contract audio for picked up a new corporate client (major snack food supplier, needs safety/training courses for their warehouse distribution centers.) The client did not select me for the voice, which would usually mean I'm out of the loop entirely, but then I was informed that the random programmer who has been running the daytime sessions of non-me voiceactors since I had the baby has been laid off. They had cobbled together enough knowledge to get the recordings done without help, mostly thanks to the voiceactress being sorta familiar with the system they have, and now just needed me to edit the files. Okay, no problem. Of course the files were all screwed up from an organization standpoint--in the wrong folders, useless default names like "Audio 1_01," out of order from the script they were supposed to be following--but eventually I got everything sorted out, and then wrote up a manifesto about naming conventions and how they need to be setting things up in the future. Finished everything up just after 11:00 PM. The project manager thanked me and said ominously, "We're going to be needing you a whole lot now that Joe's gone, more than you're doing right now." I casually didn't respond to this, because what I was thinking was, "That's nice beyotch, but I'm not putting my kid in daycare and you can't make me so your 'need' better just scale itself back to whatever I'm willing to provide." As long as it doesn't require me to go into the office though, the extra hours are nice.