Comment by austhrow743
6 years ago
I also found his full time employee cost argument weakened by his requirements. He's happy with $25/hr contractors from countries with weaker salaries than the US, speaks highly of them, but on the topic of hiring someone full time he uses a premium American employee living in Seattle as his example? Says he'd want to work with them in person despite wanting to work alone? What?
If dude just said "hiring one of my contractors full time would cost me $40k/year and i don't want to pay that" it'd be a reasonable argument. Instead he makes up all these unnecessary requirements that sound like they'd actually make the arrangement worse for him, and points to them as why he can't do it.
The difference is in the magnitude of work. When contracting he's going piecemeal which gives him substantial oversight on each and every piece to ensure it turns out the way he wants. For a full time artist, this would be micromanaging and isn't really conducive to a great working relationship. Add in remoting and it gets even weirder. What are you going to do, mail them every hour for updates?
>substantial oversight on each and every piece to ensure it turns out the way he wants.
The goal is to avoid this. Him having to do art direction at the moment is a necessity due to relying on a variety of ever changing contractors. He doesn't seem to view it as a strength noting that it would take more time than he's willing to put in to get good at it.
Neither of his articles need be written if this just boils down to him not wanting his art to change because he thinks he's doing a bang up job.
>for a full time artist, this would be micromanaging and isn't really conducive to a great working relationship.
For anyone, artist or not, it would be hell. My last two employers were owner/managers of businesses with ~20 employees and it was enough to make me think "never again". Working every day in a tiny office with just the two business owners, neither of which apparently understand what I do? Just put a bullet in me now. He absolutely should not hire someone to work full time in person, even if he suddenly decided his absurd $140k/year employee idea is worth it, simply because it would lead to terrible work and micromanagement.
>Add in remoting and it gets even weirder. What are you going to do, mail them every hour for updates?
No, you're going to leave them largely alone.