'Trash'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
My next one thing is a bitch. I'd rather declutter.
My next one thing is either dusting or cleaning the bathroom. And I do not want to do either one, on an epic scale.
We accept Word or LaTex files. The conversion vendors convert these files to .xml which is what we edit in, in something called "Epic".
WHAT. You edit in xml???
...I feel better now.
many pubs have been "outsourced" to being edited by the same vendors
Holy. Shit.
shrift, I like that Unfuck Your Habitat site! I can use the inspiration.
WHAT. You edit in xml???
I KNOW. It's ridiculous. I can't even describe how ridiculous it is.
...I feel better now.
Good, good. Is your company hiring?
Holy. Shit.
Yeah, that's one of the things we are not supposed to even mention to the Editors-in-Chief at the upcoming conference. For obvious reasons. We staff editors are specifically not allowed to speak up in the meeting.
Good, good. Is your company hiring?
Ahahahaha. No, we aren't even replacing my co-worker who died. We're cut so close to the bone it's comical.
Timelies all!
My folks are here, so the weekend plans involve them. Haven't figured out where we will take them for touristy stuff tomorrow. (Sunday is meals with Gary's folks-brunch with his mom and dinner with his dad and step-mom)
We outsourced final editing and printing of our magazine; the first company pretty much drove it into the ground. We've started with a new company and it's better ... it's now a quarterly journal and the content is much better (they've arranged for some freelance writers to do some sections) although advertising remains in a slump. The point of this is that they insist on receiving all materials two months before they hand it over to their production people. Jeepers - when we did it in-house I'd have two or three WEEKS to copyedit, lay out, do the pre-press work, and get it uploaded to the printer.
Jeepers - when we did it in-house I'd have two or three WEEKS to copyedit, lay out, do the pre-press work, and get it uploaded to the printer.
Right-o, Toddson. That's where we're headed.
I'm just ... amazed ... that they can say they need two months to edit, copyedit (badly), fact check, etc., before it goes to production. And this is much smaller than the version I did pretty much by myself. Oh, and I also dealt with the ads - kept track of what was sold, the size, contact, etc. There was the awful night I was in the office until 11:00 because the printer had switched our job to another branch and rather than downloading the image files from the company's FTP site (it'd take too long, since they were in a differnt office) so I had to zip and e-mail every single image.
I went through and tried to finish taxes, but I forgot that if I pay by credit card there's a 3% fee, so now I'm pouting at having to pony up any additional jack. I suspect I'll go back in and finish it that way anyway, but first I need to sulk.
And maybe go make the company deposit.
What are people doing this weekend?
We are headed to Minneapolis. Olivia is going to a junior roller derby camp with the Minnesota Roller Girls and Owen is going to the Lego store in the Mall of America.