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Screwing The (Fired) Hired Help

Dear Edwina,

 First off, so glad to have you back, slinging poo for the creative masses.

I have a new line item for you to add to your Bottom Twenty list and it is legit and being done to former employees of a certain design agency whose home office is in London.

After laying off half the staff the Monday before Thanksgiving with no severance and then all but one of the rest of the staff the Monday before Christmas (again, no severance), they have 1099ed employees for their business expenses.  This means that the hard working (former) employees who took money out of their own pocket to pay for extravagances like printer toner and batteries and then waited upwards of 70 days for reimbursement of their expenses have just had those reimbursements reported to the IRS as taxable income.

 And oh yeah, this lovely company ONLY sent out the 1099s to these employees.  They didn’t send W-2s.

Happy New Year Erstwhile Employee!  We are more creative in ways to fuck you over than we are with our artwork!

The Check Is In The Mail

Greetings comrades! We are back following a months-long stint in rehab to treat our affluenza and an unfortunate addiction to huffing Bestine®.

As many of you know, there’s nothing like a court-ordered respite from entertainment advertising to see the true craptacularity of this business. Case in point: the age-old custom of screwing over the hired help. 

We would tell you which creative shop we hear is perpetrating the heinous crime of not paying their fearless freelancers, but that would NOT be OK. In fact, it would be the exact reverse.

So, with that in mind we are revising our Bottom Twenty and putting this in at Number One.