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The most dickish thing I do: I charge for Slack.
Or Teams or Flock or Hangouts or whatever other messaging app your company uses. If you want to add me, a freelance consultant, to your company's group chats it will cost a minimum of $2,000 a month.
And that's on top of whatever other project rates and billable hours our contract stipulates.
Yeah, seriously. I do this because I know the second I'm on these platforms, my time and expertise is now available to everyone in your company. I know I will be roped into group chats and calls that have nothing to do with me. And I know that people will expect an answer right away.
All stuff I'm not interested in doing.
Do clients pay for this? They sure do. They pay for me to be on their slack for about two months before they realize everything they need out of me is better handled through a few emails a week.
There are very, very, very few jobs in this world that legitimately require people to be at-the-ready, 24-7, reply-right-away. The companies who think they need this urgency to be successful are the ones who need to restructure how everything works.
No one is dying here. We're making ads and selling stuff.
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The most dickish thing I do: I charge for Slack.
Or Teams or Flock or Hangouts or whatever other messaging app your company uses. If you want to add me, a freelance consultant, to your company's group chats it will cost a minimum of $2,000 a month.
And that's on top of whatever other project rates and billable hours our contract stipulates.
Yeah, seriously. I do this because I know the second I'm on these platforms, my time and expertise is now available to everyone in your company. I know I will be roped into group chats and calls that have nothing to do with me. And I know that people will expect an answer right away.
All stuff I'm not interested in doing.
Do clients pay for this? They sure do. They pay for me to be on their slack for about two months before they realize everything they need out of me is better handled through a few emails a week.
There are very, very, very few jobs in this world that legitimately require people to be at-the-ready, 24-7, reply-right-away. The companies who think they need this urgency to be successful are the ones who need to restructure how everything works.
No one is dying here. We're making ads and selling stuff.