rSlash - r/Choosingbeggars Young Workers Don't Deserve To Be Paid!

Episode Date: February 20, 2021

r/Choosingbeggars Are you a totally radical kid who wants to experience the gnarly world of digital marketing? Are you a cool enough dude to become a corporate slave and work for free? That's right, FREE! If you expect to be paid for your hard work, then you're just not hip enough to come work with us. After all, young people don't deserve to get paid -- the only thing they're good for is a source of free labor for giant mega-corporations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Today's subreddit is R-Slash Choosing Beggars, where a company tries to hire PhD graduates for minimum wage. We're recruiting, we're calling for the best designers, researchers, media nerds, animators, managers, writers, vide nerds, animators, managers, writers, videographers, and thinkers. To join, let's say a very big passion project, wink. If you require pay, you are not what we're looking for. The only requirement to apply, the passion of making cool stuff.

My favorite thing about this post is that it looks like one of those old 90s commercials with like rock guitar and kids going RADICAL! So this was obviously made by some boomer who just literally believes that younger people don't deserve to get paid. Hey Kindle Jenner, I drew your sister, and then O.P. Post the picture and it's really life like. Beneath that someone else replies, the irony of this is that Kylie Jenner can afford to pay you for this, yet you did a pro bono.

I wanted you to draw me a struggling single female and you won a $120. I would have marketed your drawing so hard. We all want to get to the top. I promise you she'll never see this. First of all, I draw celebrities because it gives me exposure and it's a good way to advertise. And secondly, if I draw people for free, where will I get the money to live? Have you had much luck with your advertising on Twitter?

Any celebrities actually pay you to draw them or just regulars like me. The thing you don't understand is that I've never wanted or expected them to pay me. You don't understand anything so stop commenting. I feel like $50 would have been fair. If you can't take feedback, I don't know how you'll ever be successful. On this next post, OP does Photoshop edits and he gets this message. Can I ask you to do an edit? It's kind of a nude, but I don't need you to edit the nude part.

I just need you to edit the nude part. I just need you to edit my fingernails. Sorry, I don't like working with nudes. You could crop out the portion you need to work on, and I can send back that portion. You can place that portion where it goes, kind of like a puzzle piece. All you would need is MS Paint. It's just my lady parts, though. No, thank you. Sorry. You're annoying and weird. Bye. Lol. You're annoying and weird. Bye. Lol. You're annoying and weird. Bye. Lol. You are. Like, why are you scared of the girls lady parts? Are you a virgin? Lol. Are you?

Lol. Okay, I'm done here. That's why your dick is small. Lol. This is the weirdest argument I've ever seen. Why won't you look at my lady parts? Giving away a free chair. Can you deliver it to me tomorrow? I live in Durant, okay?

It says no deliveries in the description. I can't drive. I don't have a truck. This is really starting to piss me off. Buy. Then OP just sends laughing face emojis. Be word. This person lives in Durant. They live in a Pokemon. On this next post, OP is a magician and a balloon artist and he has an interesting encounter with a Fortune 500 company. He writes about it in his blog post. As an entertainer and a creative professional, I get asked to work for free a lot. Like really a lot. So often, in fact, that I have a very standard reply ready to go when a charity asks me.

Because to be clear, about 95% of the time, it is a charity or a nonprofit event asking. Sometimes it's an animal rescue, sometimes it's for research for a disease, and sometimes it's just a mom trying to raise awareness for a rare genetic disorder that her child suffers from. In almost every instance, I decline. Please don't think I'm heartless, though. I actually do quite a bit of volunteer work, even though I don't really talk about it much. I've been humbled by the work that I've done for organizations like the Make a Wish Foundation, the Ronald McDonald House, and other nonprofits that do so much for kids and members of my community. Later this year, I'll be volunteering for supper with Santa, a fundraiser for a mom and my community who recently lost her six-year-old daughter.

But as heartbreaking as it is for me, a father of two beautiful girls, to say no to a mom trying to raise awareness for a genetic disorder her child is living with. The simple fact is that I can't say yes to all of them, especially when they fall on a weekend. I'm not a big business, I'm just one guy, and the vast majority of the work that I get comes on the weekend. Still, I don't mind the masking. It's a numbers game, and maybe their event is the one that I'll choose to say yes to this time. This story is different however. It's from the other 5% of the time when I get

asked to work for free. In those instances, I'm being asked by 4 profit companies. Always companies much larger than my company. And it's almost always by large national brands. Sometimes these requests come with a thin veil of charitable work. Won't you please volunteer for our give-back night? That's just another way of saying, won't you subsidize our charitable giving? However, in some instances, these large companies dispense with even the pretense of helping others

and simply ask for me to work for free because what? Who knows? the pretense of helping others and simply ask for me to work for free because… because what? Who knows, although usually there's an offer of exposure. It's impossible to surprise creative professionals. We deal with this all the time, whether it's a graphic designer, a writer, or even a balloon artist, some people value our work only until they're asked to pay for it. The one bit of context that I want to provide for this email chain is that it comes from a Fortune 500 company, specifically a company

that sells high end items in its field. Think BMW or Apple. It's not either one of those companies, but that's the kind of company this is. They were writing about an event to celebrate a collaboration with another Fortune 500 company that controls a major worldwide brand. Good afternoon. Our company is hosting an event on an upcoming Saturday for the launch of our new partnership with another Fortune 500 company. We want to make this kid friendly and we're looking for a balloon artist to be a part of our event.

We're hoping you might be interested in donating your time and talent to this event. We do have a small stipend to help cover the cost of your balloons. In return, you'll be able to advertise your business at our event and we'll also post your business information to our social media pages. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions we look forward to hearing from you. And then I replied, hello employee, my rate for balloon twisting is such and such per hour. Please feel free to visit my website and read my reviews and see why I'm worth that. If you'd like to book me for this event, please let me know.

Hi Matt, thanks for getting back to me so quickly. Although we would love to work with you, we're looking to partner with someone for this event. When we found your website, which is awesome by the way, we did visit your Facebook page. We notice that you have monthly get-togethers with other balloon artists. Do you know of anyone in your group who's new to the party industry and who would be interested in partnering with us to get their name out in the community? Any help you could give us we would greatly appreciate. Then OP replies, high employee.

I'm going to assume that your request is an honest, good faith attempt at finding a local artist to work with in a mutually beneficial way. And I'm sure that you personally are a really nice person who's just trying to do a good job for the company you work for. But for the sake of sharing my perspective and hopefully helping you see things in a new way, I want you to understand that what you're asking for is incredibly insulting. You represent a Fortune 500 company holding an event to celebrate your business partnership with another Fortune 500 company. And you're trying to get a small time local

artist to help make your event better by working for free. The other thing I want you to understand is that you're not offering anything of value in return. The notion that anyone will get business by being shared on your Facebook page is misguided. Your page has less than 200 fans. I know a little bit about Facebook. That probably means your posts reach about 4 or 5 people through natural engagement. An advertising campaign that isn't targeted would need to reach thousands and thousands of people to be effective. And your promise to let me advertise at your event is basically to say that I can hand out business cards, right? Well, no balloon artist has a hard time finding somewhere to work for free and hand out business cards. I could walk into any store at the

mall and offer to provide their guest with free balloons in exchange for handing out my cards and I would find a store owner overjoyed at his luck. Look, I understand that while your company certainly can afford it, it may not want to spend the money to hire a balloon twister for this event. I'm a business owner too, so I can understand the need to be careful about how you spend your marketing budget. But if you don't want to pay for a balloon twister, that means you don't get to have one. I really do wish you luck with your events, but I hope that in the future you'll only ask artists to work for you if you're willing to pay for their services.

And after OP sent this email, the employee never responded. OP, you handled that really well, but why redact the company's name? A fortune 500 company operating like that deserves to be called out on social media. WholeTrendFrew is sharing joy for the holidays with gifts for everyone on your list, and maybe even a special treat for yourself, too. Discover the new collection for Burberry by Daniel Lee. Add some ambiance with Louis Bay Home. Give Gorfcore a try in Solomon Sneakers

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at AskMoreVai.com. On this next post, OPs and Serim handles her real life name and she gets this message. Hey girl, hope you're good. So I hope this isn't too much trouble, but I started a brand, it's your name, a clothing brand. And the username is taken. Is there any way that you could change it?

Like just add a number or an extra letter or something low? It would mean the absolute world to me. I have everything ready to launch soon and this is the only thing holding me back to post low. Beautiful name by the way lol. How about I pay you $20? I really, really need the name. $30? Anything? Please? Girl, are you alive? I'll pay you $40. It's just your effing Instagram tag. Help a girl out. Hi, no thank you. Seriously, LOL.

As soon as I get the brand registered, I can legally get the name from you, but I'll write. We'll just wait to register the name, then I'll have my lawyer deal with Instagram. Women supporting women face palm. Apparently, there's no such thing. And then OP just replies, oh lol. And then down in the comments OP posted an update. I get around one or two people a month who asked me if they can have my Instagram URL. Mainly they're people who want to be streamers

or start their own brands. One verified brand asked me for my URL which is against terms of service and they tried to pay me even more, so selling it for this much is not going to happen. This particular person tried to follow me and DM me back in January and I knew what they wanted so I ignored them. I decided to be nice and say no thanks. She blew a gasket on me. As for her lawyer threat, she's already changed the name of the brand to have another name in it, and she followed the person who owns the URL of that name on Instagram.

That person is already followed by 10 other people with the same name who also feel entitled to that name. Are the headphones still available? Yes, it's available. Can you deliver tomorrow? Where are you at? In Detroit, Westside. I can try. I have a few things I have to get done tomorrow. Oh, okay. Well, if you can't let me know now. I'm gonna. I have a few things I have to get done tomorrow. Oh okay well if you can't let me know now. I'm gonna say I can't then. You ugly rat face don't hit a mental family. Oh P, I think you might have just dodged getting stabbed or something because this guy has issues. Hi, sorry to bother you. I need help with food, especially pads. Please? I have two children, and their father doesn't want to take care of them.

We have an evening, two days. Please? Hello choosing beggar. Please write down everything you'll need. I'll try to buy and deliver them to wherever you are in Johannesburg by Saturday the latest if that's okay. No, give me money. I want money, so send it. This next post is a job posting for an internship. I really want to emphasize that point, so

keep this in mind when I'm going through this job posting. This is an internship position. Minimum requirements. Senior MS or PhD candidate. Knowledge of antibody-based assays, cancer genomics, gene expressions, and drug pathway interactions that influence sensitivity and resistance of tumors. A background in cancer biology. Demonstrated publication records. Job type, this is a full-time internship with pay starting at 20 bucks per hour. Education, doctorate preferred. time internship with pay starting at 20 bucks per hour. Education.

Doctorate. Preferred. Man, imagine paying to get your bachelor's degree, then paying to get your master's degree, then paying to get your PhD. And after all that study, like 6 to 10 years of study, you get a job offer for 20 bucks an hour. Wait, it's not even a real job, it's an internship. My wife bought me a Range Rover Kate from my birthday.

Look at this garbage, I'm mad as F. This garbage looks like a smart car or a stuffed pillow. Or even that dumb truck from the movie Cars. Now her and her friends are mad because I cursed all of them out. I'm selling it for 20 bucks or best offer. Message me now or I'm about to throw this garbage down the street. Serious offers only, no low ballers. And then OP includes pictures of a cake that looks like a car.

And yeah, I'll admit that it does look kind of amateurish, but still pretty impressive. I mean, if my wife got me, I don't know, a cake that looked like a computer with like a YouTube screen on or something, but it looked kind of amateurish, then I would be really delighted by that. It's a really sweet gesture, and hey, free cake, so can't complain about that. So instead of appreciating his girlfriend for getting him a free cake, he instead yells at her and then tries to sell it online. Lady, please move on to another dude. Hello, I would like to know your rates.

Hello, they're on my profile under the Highlight Titled Commissions. $60 for a bust. Can you please give me a discount for $20? I'm sorry, but it's a fixed price. Can we do $25 and I'll promote you on my page? I have more followers than you, so that will guarantee you get more clients. Sorry, but I can't do that. Exposure is nice, but it doesn't pay the bills.

I'm being nice here and offering you a lot more than what your art is worth. The least you can do is accept it. Art is relatively easy, I get commissions done for under $10. I don't want your garbage art anymore. I gave you a chance to make money off of your art, but you just lost it. There are actually people who pay more for my art. I don't understand why I have to lower my prices for you when people who know my art has worth are willing to pay the right price for it. I'll be blocking you now. Have a nice day. That was our slash-choosing beggars, and if you like this content, check out my Patreon

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