Freelancer's Union highlights yet another article pertinent to all freelancers and contractors...
Cheers,
Connie O'Dell
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Begging for Your Pay - NYTimes.com
"Freelancers often engage in a delicate, disquieted dance. People showed me drawn-out e-mail chains with a subject line of “URGENT,” but the sign offs are peppered with “Thank you!” and “Please tell such-and-such-colleague I hope he feels better!” and assurances from the exasperated, resentful freelancer of how much she is looking forward to working with the company again in the future. “I’m in the professional equivalent of an abusive relationship,” said Ben Ryan, a low-income freelancer writer who says his former employer owes him $12,925. “I would describe an overriding, constant sense of anxiety. Of course, that’s what the freelancer experience is.”"
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