Laurawrites wrote:
This is probably some temp position where they have no intention of giving the writer any real opprotunity. These ads usually mean someone is falling short on a deadline and just wants to make it out alive.
Or they're desperate to make a cutback and would rather sacrifice quality. I'd say someone will take them up on it as bad as the economy is. That is sad. There is price gouging if consumers pay, but it's just reversed in cases like this. People aren't paid what they deserve.
Of course it's a temp position. It's freelance, and by definition, freelance is a job-by-job way of working.
I doubt it has much to do with deadlines. It's just another jerk who wants to get rich riding on other people's backs. They're also probably not making cutbacks. Their business plan almost certainly calls for cut rate writing--and everything else but the salaries of the founders.
I understand Dickens occasionally had to work for a penny a word: that might have been semi-sane in Victorian England, but it's total idiocy for any professional writer today.
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