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

welcome to 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 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 like 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 kendall jenner i drew your sister and then opie posts the picture and it's really lifelike beneath that someone else replies the irony of this is that kylie jenner can afford to pay you for this yet you did it pro bono i wanted you to draw me a struggling single female and you wanted 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 dollars 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 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 are like why are you scared of a girl's 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 durham 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 bye then opie just sends laughing face emojis b-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 the 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 non-profit 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 in 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 them asking 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 five percent of the time when i get asked to work for free in those instances i'm being asked by for-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 bale 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 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 that 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 events 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 noticed 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 hi 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 as misguided your page has less than 200 fans i know a little bit about facebook that probably means your posts reach about four or five 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 guests 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 on this next post op's instagram handle is 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 lull 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 pose lol beautiful name by the way lol how about i pay you twenty dollars i really really need the name thirty dollars anything please girl are you alive i'll pay you forty dollars 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 alright 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 lull and then down in the comments opie 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 gonna 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 you at in detroit west side 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 say i can't then you ugly rat face dope hit mental family op 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 haven't eaten in 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 candidates 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 man imagine paying to get your bachelor's degree then paying to get your master's degree than 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 cake for 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 her best offer message me now or i'm about to throw this garbage down the street serious offers only no lowballers 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 dollars for a bust can you please give me a discount for twenty dollars 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 where i publish extra episodes also hit that subscribe button because i put out new reddit videos every single day

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Length: 15min 26sec (926 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 20 2021