It’s one thing for a small operation to stiff you. I once got a credit card from a fellow for some consulting. By the time I’d delivered the goods and ran the card, it was bad and he was in bankruptcy. Call it planned sleaziness.
In case you think working for “big companies” avoids this problem, think again.
There’s $4.7 Billion in Unpaid Freelance Wages in New York City alone!
You work.
They publish.
The collect ad revenues.
They pay you later, way later, maybe!
“42% of the nearly 900,000 independent workers in New York state reported having trouble collecting payment for their labors last year, totaling an estimated $4.7 billion in lost wages,” according to a new first-of-its-kind study by a Rutgers economist, Crain’s reports.
Of course as a rural person living in “flyover country” this perfectly reinforces my stereo types of the Big City. Oddly enough, Time magazine is guilty of a great deal of this. I guess the fact they make the little guy wait for his check is why Time never makes the front cover as it’s own “Man of the Year”!
It’s not quite as bad as one writer from the Big Apple who was stiffed for $50,000 in writing fees! Ouch.
Simple word of advice.
Don’t keep writing for people who don’t pay! Even a country boy knows that!
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