Comments on: Free Advice Friday: This Job, Not That Job https://wordsonpageblog.com/2016/08/free-advice-friday-this-job-not-that-job-7.html a freelance writing resource. Fri, 26 Aug 2016 20:23:16 +0000 hourly 1 By: Cathy Miller https://wordsonpageblog.com/2016/08/free-advice-friday-this-job-not-that-job-7.html#comment-15307 Fri, 26 Aug 2016 20:23:16 +0000 http://wordsonpageblog.com/?p=5230#comment-15307 I don’t understand how they can post this without following it with a Just kidding. Absolutely. Nuts.

]]> By: lwidmer https://wordsonpageblog.com/2016/08/free-advice-friday-this-job-not-that-job-7.html#comment-15305 Fri, 26 Aug 2016 15:15:34 +0000 http://wordsonpageblog.com/?p=5230#comment-15305 In reply to Paula Hendrickson.

Proof that there are way too many red flags in this one to even consider it.

Paula, I love that you tweeted to them, too. Ridiculous rates deserve pushback from all of us.

]]> By: Paula Hendrickson https://wordsonpageblog.com/2016/08/free-advice-friday-this-job-not-that-job-7.html#comment-15304 Fri, 26 Aug 2016 14:16:27 +0000 http://wordsonpageblog.com/?p=5230#comment-15304 But wait! There’s more! The little mini-post that was sent out to whet the appetite of what eager freelancers was misleading. It posted the rate as $160. Not $20 times eight “articles” per day.

Another thing: Even the complete job listing didn’t even state the length of the “articles.”

I didn’t really care about revealing the company’s name. I tweeted to them saying something like, “…You want experienced, reliable freelancers and only offer $20 per article of unspecified length? #goodluckwiththat #writing” and hashtagged the site I found it on. I had to hashtag them because their Twitter account has been suspended.

And over on Anne Wayman’s forum, we’ve been brainstorming to come up with some good hashtags to include in social media posts about similarly bad job offers.

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