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Craigslist Curmudgeon

Archive for the ‘Webbery’ Category

March 11th, 2008

The Curmudgeon Recommends: "7 Heinous Freelancing Practices You Should Stop Immediately"

The Craigslist Curmudgeon isn’t in the practice of recommending reads. I do like to be fair and balanced however, and not in a Bill O’Reilly sort of way. I mean really fair and balanced. I generally complain about employer assery and client lamery but there are times freelancers can do with a dose of the […]

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January 5th, 2008

The Craislist Curmudgeon’s Top 10 Posts of 2007

The Craigslist Curmudgeon has a couple many fans and both of you you’re all very loyal. As a reward, I thought I’d offer a best of piece. Here are the Craigslist Curmudgeon’s Top 10 Posts of 2007.

Lamery With the Olsen Twins - Who knew the Olsen Twins would be too cheap to pay their writers? […]

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January 2nd, 2008

Scab Hunters

As I was perusing Craigslist this evening, I came across this interesting bit:
Were you burned by NY Press on Craigs List?
Reply to: burnedcauseImascab@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-12-31, 7:17PM EST
Class action law suit pending against Craigs list and NY Press for false advertising for writers during the writer’s strike. Were you falsely solicited for work against the rules […]

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November 24th, 2007

Bloggers Union Strike

This isn’t from Craigslist, but I saw this at Freelance Writing Jobs and thought it was so funny, I had to bring it here.

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October 22nd, 2007

Craigslist Commercial

I’m not sure if this is a real commercial for Craigslist or not, but it’s rather amusing.

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October 20th, 2007

Job Interview from Craigslist

Ever wonder what would happen if you accepted a job interview from someone on Craigslist? It might go something like this:

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July 27th, 2007

Fair Wages

There’s an interesting discussion raging at Deb Ng’s Freelance Writing Jobs blog as to what’s a fair wage. I see lots of writers throwing out numbers such as $25, $50, $75 and up.  I don’t see any writers admitting to $3 a gig. So who’s taking these jobs? Certainly they’re quite popular or we wouldn’t […]

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