some full-time freelance fuckery here
Quick, get in the car, ‘cause we’re off to drag this tweeted-out job posting from a Condé Nast site director:
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So far so good, right? Who wouldn’t want to work for big daddy Condé and make glossy food content all day?
Except, lol, maybe anyone who wants a 401k? and health insurance? and all the other normal benefits that are the whole entire point of getting up in the morning 5x a week instead of, ya know, lounging around and freelancing only when we feel like it?
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We don’t have to tell you guys that the media industry has always been notoriously awful at compensating entry-level positions, but this “full-time freelance” fuckery is some real oblivious stuff considering the mounting backlash against perma-lancing, overly homogeneous newsrooms (bc the type of people who can swing ^^that kind of job is a very specific type of people!), and all the latest media org layoffs. Read the room! We’re all getting sick of this!