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Semi-Spitting Mad

I was Hired to write two different blogs for a Certain Unnamed Media Company. One on movies, one on entertainment in general. I was to write four posts a week for each, and bill at the end of the month. The contract said the first payment would take 30 days to process, so I didn’t think anything of it when I didn’t get June’s payment by the end of July. But then I still wasn’t getting it, and I never got July’s either. But I blogged all through August, because I figured once this was sorted out, I’d want to be able to bill for August. Well, an e-mail has been sent out to all of us already-underpaid blogging employees, and apparently there are like no funds left in the company, and they’re “trying” to pay us as soon as they can. Bullshit. BULLSHIT. How do you figure you are going to compensate me for two hours a day, four days a week, for three months? Maybe I’m an idiot to keep writing, but it doesn’t seem so crazy when you get paid monthly.

So then two weeks ago, I got hired to write for Another Unnamed Blog – and I was so excited. First of all, the blog focused on one of my number one passions (which I won’t name for fear of giving too much away), and it was better paid than some of my other gigs. It was for three posts a week. I wrote three posts I was really proud of – which is rare for a self-deprecating self-loather like myself – and my “boss” commended my work and paid me. I wrote my three posts last week, but the payment scheduled for every Friday never happened, and still hasn’t. Getting madder…

UPDATE: the guy paid me for this just now, there was a technical glitch. woops. sorry…

Last week I was hired for yet another blog, entertainment based, and I had a phone meeting with the “boss.” I was supposed to be paid for my time by Friday. Never was, and also have not received information to start blogging. So…no go? Getting even effing madder…

Here’s the thing. I don’t give a fuck if you can’t afford me, them’s the breaks. But be a man, or woman, or whatever you are, and tell me. That way, you’ll avoid making me effing furious because I can simply quite wasting my time on you and go find another gig that can pay me. What kind of slimey, spineless waste of life just lets the writer they’re supposed to be paying keep logging hours for them everyday, knowing full well they’re not going to pay? Where has it been decreed that writers can be treated like shit? I could get treated better working at a drive-thru.

 

Breathe…




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