Senior Editor, SportsXChange

You'll get nothing and like it!

 

I'm very new to this Web site, so hang with me as I find my bearings. I feel bad for you folks who never got paid for work with the previous existence of SportsXChange, but I can't feel too sorry for the person out there who didn't get his or her $500 or the one who is still owed $1,200.

I know that's important money for making a car payment or house payment, but cry to me when you've topped the $14,000 I earned in six months' work for the "old" Golf Illustrated and never received a dime. The parent company was owned by some Jabba-looking guy, spoiled rich kid of a Phoenix family who flew Daddy's private planes and ran the company into the ground, so that by the time they filed bankruptcy, I was helpless as a nonsecured vendor. Yeah, I was naive and too nice a guy while yapping at them to get paid, but by the time I get a buddy lawyer of mine involved for me, it was hopeless and I was out $500 of attorney's fees.

You win some and you lose some. But, yeah, this Broadband outfit sounds like a bunch of slimeball losers, eating through venture capital like it's a whole bunch of Krispy Kreme freebies.

hang in there.

 

I can vouch for the veracity of everything ESPNguy said.

 

I bet the lawyers got something ... the lawyers ALWAYS get something ...

 

If they owe a million bucks, that might not be financially feasible. Plus, there might be a legal reason why they don't want to assume the liabilities of a now-defunct company that apparently drowned in debt. If you pay one group (the writers and editors), won't the other creditors come asking for theirs?

 

By the way, Clutch, how are Spinner and Paddlefoot?

 

now THERE'S something we can ALL agree on!!!!

 

Thing is, there's truth to pretty much everything being said here. I've had odd dealings with these guys -- really odd, in some cases -- but the guy whose name is on this ad is also one of the better guys in the business and would never screw anybody over. It's largely a good group of professionals/guys, but I've heard that the workload requires a special kind of dedication, which perhaps borders on the unwieldy. Take it or don't take it, but don't worry about getting paid ... worry about the job's expectations.

 

I'll vouch for the unevenness of TSX's copy. Having seen it on the other end, after it's allegedly been edited, I can only hope a good editor gets this job.

 

I'd say a lot of that unevenness has something to do with the large volume of copy TSX's editors are asked to plow through in a given night.