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Agency Based Discussion => iStockPhoto.com => Topic started by: antoniodalbore on August 07, 2009, 12:28

Title: iStock Business Development in Italy
Post by: antoniodalbore on August 07, 2009, 12:28: Hi All,

just want to share with all of you the breaking news that iStock HQ in Berlin have just hired Giorgio Fochesato as General Manager for the Italian operation.

Read the whole story here (http://bit.ly/8YU9f)

bye!
Title: Re: iStock Business Development in Italy
Post by: Perry on August 07, 2009, 12:57: Wow... last time I checked Berlin wasn't located in Italy... :D
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Post by: bittersweet on August 07, 2009, 13:24: Aw, you know...those European countries, they're all the same. :)
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Post by: Graffoto on August 07, 2009, 13:48: Way to go IS! Whoo-yay.....
Dangit, wrong forum. Again.
Title: Re: iStock Business Development in Italy
Post by: willie on August 07, 2009, 13:51: Quote from: Perry on August 07, 2009, 12:57
Wow... last time I checked Berlin wasn't located in Italy... :D

1)his name is unmistakably Italian.
2) maybe your atlas is out of date. Did you download the update?

well, like Leonard Cohen once sang, "first we take manhattan, then we take berlin".
maybe just the same, after the Italians took Manhattan with their fashionistas, they could have just taken over Berlin without us knowing, and moved Berlin to Italy... :D

let me check my atlas or globe, if not I will get one from Ebay. A new up to date one dated yesterday, of course !
Title: Re: iStock Business Development in Italy
Post by: madelaide on August 07, 2009, 16:15: Quote from: whatalife on August 07, 2009, 13:24
Aw, you know...those European countries, they're all the same. :)

One who mixes Berlin with anything Italian has surely never been to those places. ;D
Title: Re: iStock Business Development in Italy
Post by: Graffoto on August 07, 2009, 17:09: I have been to Berlin. Never seen anything like it anywhere else.
But then I've never to Italy!
Title: Re: iStock Business Development in Italy
Post by: hlth on August 08, 2009, 05:07: Being a general manager for the country doesn't mean one has to work in it. Particularly for online businesses.
Title: Re: iStock Business Development in Italy
Post by: Adeptris on August 08, 2009, 06:42: Quote from: hlth on August 08, 2009, 05:07
Being a general manager for the country doesn't mean one has to work in it. Particularly for online businesses.
That explains why the general manager of nearly every UK companies call centre speaks with an Indian accent, when I say UK company they are not often owned by UK businesses but just trading here!

Still I suppose we have exported Alamy to the US.

David ;D
Title: Re: iStock Business Development in Italy
Post by: zymmetricaldotcom on August 08, 2009, 13:54: This is 2009, if they still have an Indian accent they are probably physically working in the UK. ;) The competition is so fierce on mainland India that if you haven't excelled in your 'midwest joe' or 'birmingham pete' accent classes you could be in a serious trouble for securing a good job in the outsourcing field, no joke.
Title: Re: iStock Business Development in Italy
Post by: Graffoto on August 08, 2009, 14:46: I work closely with programmers from Tata in India.
Can't understand half of what they are saying, seriously.
Maybe if you need a job in customer support you take classes for your accent, but if you are a programmer....nope.
Title: Re: iStock Business Development in Italy
Post by: PixelBytes on August 08, 2009, 15:36: Quote from: zymmetrical on August 08, 2009, 13:54
This is 2009, if they still have an Indian accent they are probably physically working in the UK. ;) The competition is so fierce on mainland India that if you haven't excelled in your 'midwest joe' or 'birmingham pete' accent classes you could be in a serious trouble for securing a good job in the outsourcing field, no joke.

Good.

I just closed a credit card account because I couldn't manage to reach anyone at their customer service center who was capable of understanding or speaking English beyond a few canned phrases.
Title: Re: iStock Business Development in Italy
Post by: Clivia on August 09, 2009, 02:22: A few years ago I changed banks for the same reason. Now the major banks advertise that your call will be answered by someone in Britain!