"Not ours"
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Another promising student internship comes to a premature end.....
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As I have said many times, this stuff would have gotten me drummed out of the journalism program in college.
@mik said in "Not ours":
As I have said many times, this stuff would have gotten me drummed out of the journalism program in college.
It was weird to see this sort of shit start from the ground up. In my corner of the world, circa 2008—and the first of many times I saw something like this:
First they decimated the editorial staff. Our team's proofreader got laid off. Then the graphic designer I worked with. Then one or two editors. I have no idea why I didn't get canned. Probably because my salary was a joke, but no way to know.
Then they brought in these kids just out of college and gave them fancy job titles. Now we had "SEO Editors" and the like running around. Their job was to write advertorials that would also be highly visible via organic search. And the problem wasn't that they didn't know what the hell they were talking about—that's pretty much how everyone started—but that there was no mechanism for them to work with us so that we could help keep both them and their articles out of trouble. Inevitably people complained, readership tanked and the company was bought out.
Wash, rinse, repeat any number of ways.
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@mik said in "Not ours":
As I have said many times, this stuff would have gotten me drummed out of the journalism program in college.
It was weird to see this sort of shit start from the ground up. In my corner of the world, circa 2008—and the first of many times I saw something like this:
First they decimated the editorial staff. Our team's proofreader got laid off. Then the graphic designer I worked with. Then one or two editors. I have no idea why I didn't get canned. Probably because my salary was a joke, but no way to know.
Then they brought in these kids just out of college and gave them fancy job titles. Now we had "SEO Editors" and the like running around. Their job was to write advertorials that would also be highly visible via organic search. And the problem wasn't that they didn't know what the hell they were talking about—that's pretty much how everyone started—but that there was no mechanism for them to work with us so that we could help keep both them and their articles out of trouble. Inevitably people complained, readership tanked and the company was bought out.
Wash, rinse, repeat any number of ways.
@aqua-letifer said in "Not ours":
I have no idea why I didn't get canned.
Maybe because you provided such entertainment value?
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@aqua-letifer said in "Not ours":
I have no idea why I didn't get canned.
Maybe because you provided such entertainment value?
@doctor-phibes said in "Not ours":
@aqua-letifer said in "Not ours":
I have no idea why I didn't get canned.
Maybe because you provided such entertainment value?
My rhetorical style has never really been considered a marketable skill, outside of maybe my time as a delivery driver and line cook.
