So, my new job involves localizing and updating Flash demos of products by a popular software corporation. The original english files were produced by said corporation, and I'm surprised at how truly spotty they are.

We were given a specification document to use as a reference, yet the original files rarely match their own spec. So I find myself rebuilding the movies, tweaking and writing action-script, and debugging... more than just swapping out a little English for Spanish.

It's hard to imagine how these things get past their quality assurance people-- the english movies are being used with the general public, as we speak. It makes me think that it's, a) not so hard getting a job at huge software corps, & b) they don't require you to do good work...

Although, I could be talking about the work of one person. I guess that shouldn't count for too much.