A while back I was alerted that the Indian Voiceover Scam outfit Voxbox has started to list jobs under a different name. Voice Up, or at least this is what we thought was the case.
Shawn Pereira was the one listing the jobs under Voice Up and Melroy DeMello was out of the picture… in hiding I suppose.
But today I was contacted my Shawn … and he wanted to clear his name. He sent me this email:
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A few years back when I moved back to Cairo from Toronto, I started working for the advertising company that I am currently with. I was hired back then as a Senior Art Director and thrown into the trenches. It was a bit strange to adjust to the Egyptian work environment after working for 4 years straight in Canada.
The working atmosphere in Canada is very different to Egypt. Egypt is far more relaxed and far more forgiving. In Canada you could get laid off in a heart beat.. In Egypt they feel that it is inefficient to lay off people since you would have to hire someone else and retrain them and reintegrate them in the work place.
I much prefer that side of the Egyptian way of working. Although I don’t enjoy coming to work sometimes and just sitting on my desk doing nothing (which means you browse the web, check emails, chat with fellow workers). When the work crunch comes back you just put your head down and scythe through it.
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Philip Banks has pretty much always been outspoken and to the point. His humor is often biting but to me quite straight forward. This is what he had to say about the conference… the last line he says was the most surprising though.
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The following are a few pictures of friends or acquaintances of mine (and a few celebs) that attended Voice 2010. These were uploaded by Dave Courvoisier and can be found on his site http://www.socialmediavo.com/ Dave Courvoisier (right) and Doug de Nance (left)... you might remember Doug wrote an interesting bio article called My Secret's Out for TVE a while back. Andy Boyns and Dave Courvo shmooz at Voice 2010. You might remember Andy from the article I wrote about him a while back... as you can see he was able to raise enough money and attend the conference. Philip Banks (left) and Bob
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Voice 2010
If you aren’t already there then you might know someone who is. Voice 2010 is in full swing and my friend and fellow VO and blogger Dave Courvoisier is presenting it this year (much the same as he did during the last the conference.). Dave is giving a blow by blow account of the events currently taking place at the conference on his blog here.
Although I couldn’t be there myself I did take part in Advertising The Vocieover Pavilion in the Event Brochure (page 22 if you are reading it from V2010):
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