Business Share Assery
January 8, 2008 by Deborah Ng
Filed under Entertainment
People who don’t want to pay their writers resort to all sorts of alternative "payment"options. There’s barter, donuts, resume builders, self-esteem, lash extensions, and the good old-fashioned byline. Today we add a new form of payment to the Craigslist Curmudgeon’s arsenal of assery, shares in a non-existent business.
Entrepreneur looking for someone to help with web content
Reply to: assapreneur@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-01-04, 2:25PM EST
I’m building a new website/resource for Mom’s who wish to return to work. I’m looking for someone interested in joining my team to help put some meat into the site. Someone who could not only write content, but who can help contribute ideas and comments. Compensation would be shares in the business.
If you are someone excited about helping start a new business, and you feel you are knowledgable in the area of writing articles regarding topics on how to get a job, how to return to work after leaving for a few years, among other things, then I’d love to talk to you.
- it’s NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
- Compensation: company shares
I’m not sure which nit to pick first. Here’s someone who is creating a website meant to be a resource for work at home moms. If there’s one thing I’ve learned about work at home moms it’s that they’re working to earn money to stay home with their kids. Funny how that works. Work. Money. Work. Money. Most of work at home moms need to earn the equivalent of a full time salary. Yet for some reason when people are looking for something for nothing, it’s the work at home moms they target.
So the website is brand new, yet payment is in the form of shares. A dozen shares in the business would amount to…? Anyone? Anyone? That’s right. Absolutely nothing.
Ass.
Yes–somehow people have decided stay at home Moms want to focus their talents on doing free work or cheesy $3 articles during their kids’ naptimes or at night, while some mythical “dad” brings home the serious cash. What is there is no “dad”? Do these people think women are stupid, sitting there simpering and saying, “Please, sir, just give me whatever you think is right”?
He’s not looking for moms to do this particular job, it’s just a site AIMED AT moms. It’s also not a site for work-at-home moms, but for moms looking to re-enter the outside workforce.
It’s still incredibly lame–yet another moron looking for a writer to dump everything they need to build a successful business in their sorry lap… for free.
And in the first sentence they lost me. I hate it when people use an apostrophe to make something plural. Hello? Anyone know English? Hello?
“a new website/resource for Mom
I was in Macy’s yesterday in the small electrics dept., and they had this hot dog machine for sale, the kind that cooks the dogs on rollers, like in 7-11 or a carnival or whatever. They had taken one out of the box for display, and right on the product itself, it said “Juicy, delicious Hot Dog’s.”
If there’s a store version of road rage (retail rage?), I experienced it. I just stood there seething at the thing. I mean, how do these companies actually get products as far as the store shelves without ensuring accuracy? It’s bad enough to see this idiocy in everyday life, but on an appliance?!
Laurie: Oh, the horror! How abysmal. More proof that we’re transitioning to a post-literate society.
Now if retailers like Walgreens and Menards would only ADD the freakin’ apostrophe to their names! That drives me crazy too. I saw an older Walgreens once (in Chicago, I think) that actually had the apostrophe in its neon sign. Couldn’t believe my eyes.