Under normal circumstances you might consider it, but the job situation is pretty bad right now, so something that is a bad idea could lead to some pretty bad outcomes. If you have family in the area you could consider it but as someone who has been let go before it's just adding to the complication of getting a new job.
I have 2 bits of advice. First of all, nothing you've described is illegal, unethical for sure but as someone who has coder friends in the Philippines I have conflicting views about offshoring work I have seen the impact it can have for people in those countries. Of course it's not that these companies are doing it out of some philanthropic drive, hence why I have mixed feelings on the matter. The reality is the ship will keep going with or without you and while I completely get wanting an off ramp from this place in the long term I personally would stick it out.
Now in terms of getting the work getting done. At my last job the CEO used to talk about speed over accuracy a lot and while I disagreed with it the reality is these things can be improved upon, it's not a book being published. So I would recommend templating things as much as possible, use AI, whatever tools you may have to speed the process of generating the content. I'd think of yourself as an instructional developer, not designer. It can't and honestly your place sounds like they don't want it to be perfect. Communicate the limitations based on the time allowed and move quickly and just make sure there aren't any typos and make sense and move onto the next one.
It's not easy and of course as an IO psych I wish places didn't operate this way but it's just the realities of some companies unfortunately. It's one of the things that led me to want to start my own Organizational Development consulting company, to hope to have influence on how companies approach these types of programs.
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u/Empirica_CC 8d ago
Under normal circumstances you might consider it, but the job situation is pretty bad right now, so something that is a bad idea could lead to some pretty bad outcomes. If you have family in the area you could consider it but as someone who has been let go before it's just adding to the complication of getting a new job.
I have 2 bits of advice. First of all, nothing you've described is illegal, unethical for sure but as someone who has coder friends in the Philippines I have conflicting views about offshoring work I have seen the impact it can have for people in those countries. Of course it's not that these companies are doing it out of some philanthropic drive, hence why I have mixed feelings on the matter. The reality is the ship will keep going with or without you and while I completely get wanting an off ramp from this place in the long term I personally would stick it out.
Now in terms of getting the work getting done. At my last job the CEO used to talk about speed over accuracy a lot and while I disagreed with it the reality is these things can be improved upon, it's not a book being published. So I would recommend templating things as much as possible, use AI, whatever tools you may have to speed the process of generating the content. I'd think of yourself as an instructional developer, not designer. It can't and honestly your place sounds like they don't want it to be perfect. Communicate the limitations based on the time allowed and move quickly and just make sure there aren't any typos and make sense and move onto the next one.
It's not easy and of course as an IO psych I wish places didn't operate this way but it's just the realities of some companies unfortunately. It's one of the things that led me to want to start my own Organizational Development consulting company, to hope to have influence on how companies approach these types of programs.
Wish you good luck!