rants

  • Reminder: You Deserve To Get Paid

    Reminder: You Deserve To Get Paid

    Alicia Adamczyk

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    In the media world, working for free is not unheard of. Writers, reporters, editors, photographers and, shudder, “content creators” are routinely told to contribute for the exposure, credit, for whatever – as long as it’s not for “money”. Once you’ve done that for…well, it is unclear how many years, exactly, but once you have “paid…

  • You Don’t Really Need To Soak Your Dishes

    You Don’t Really Need To Soak Your Dishes

    Patrick Allan

    You wake up in the morning, groggily go to pour some coffee, and that’s when the smell hits you. It’s robust, wretched, and it’s coming from your sink – dirty dishes. The night before you filled some crusty bowls and pans with water under the pretense of cleaning them later on, but you forgot and…