I love this: The fantastic Rita J. King (SL: Eureka Dejavu) of Dancing Ink Productions blogged our recent interview with Cory Doctorow, imagining parts of it as a fotonovela.
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The audience chatted about their own struggles with employment in a changing world during Copper Robot. Calliedel Boa … dropped a link to her recent blog post, “You’re Hired! How Would You Like To Pay for Your Job Today?” in which she shares her outspoken views on outsourcing and her perceptions on the job market.
Kaseido Quandry: Gods deliver me from ever working in anyone’s office again.
epredator Potato: Having left corporate life, it’s much better out here, self-organizing.
Calliedel’s blog is worth reading:
I’ve been going on many interviews and applying for many jobs and the recent American scam seems to be paying to work somewhere. Not the old fashioned employment job service fee but the company telling me I am hired. I get excited I aced all the interviews, applications and BAM! I get the words I’m waiting to hear followed by “How would you like to pay for this? Money order, Credit Card?” And I am dismayed. In a “Right To Work State such as Florida I am certainly not going to invest the precious dollars I do have for a job that has a disclaimer stating I can be fired at any time.
