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Spoeank posted:"In conversations with Deadspin, several sources who were pitched jobs running Maven team sites under Sports Illustrated branding described a bleak scenario. They said they were told they would earn between $25,000 and $30,000 per year, with vague opportunities to make extra money by hitting “traffic bonuses.” They would be expected to post three “news videos” per day to their site—they were to wear Maven polo shirts in these videos—as well as hundreds of posts per month. The message was clear: Quantity over quality. Prospective Maven “partners” were told by company execs that if they had trouble creating enough content, they should go to the nearest college and find eager young students who would write for free. These Maven partners would also be required to register themselves as an LLC, presumably so TheMaven would avoid any SB Nation–like legal liability for misclassifying workers as independent contractors instead of employees. Multiple sportswriters, all of whom spoke to Deadspin about their experiences with TheMaven on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, compared the company’s executives to “snake oil salesmen.”" Hahha that is a nightmare
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The polo shirts are an excellent touch. You know somewhere there’s some CMO saying that Maven will be a lifestyle brand and on-par with ESPN as a household name
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That LLC loophole is pissing me off and I hope no college kid falls for it.
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euphronius posted:Why are they still doing video the entire thing was a sham because themaven is run by loving idiots
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Spoeank posted:"In conversations with Deadspin, several sources who were pitched jobs running Maven team sites under Sports Illustrated branding described a bleak scenario. They said they were told they would earn between $25,000 and $30,000 per year, with vague opportunities to make extra money by hitting “traffic bonuses.” They would be expected to post three “news videos” per day to their site—they were to wear Maven polo shirts in these videos—as well as hundreds of posts per month. The message was clear: Quantity over quality. Prospective Maven “partners” were told by company execs that if they had trouble creating enough content, they should go to the nearest college and find eager young students who would write for free. These Maven partners would also be required to register themselves as an LLC, presumably so TheMaven would avoid any SB Nation–like legal liability for misclassifying workers as independent contractors instead of employees. Multiple sportswriters, all of whom spoke to Deadspin about their experiences with TheMaven on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, compared the company’s executives to “snake oil salesmen.”" Especially since odds are this company I've never heard of will be out of business in a year or two, and whoops there goes the icon SI
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Dango Bango posted:That LLC loophole is pissing me off and I hope no college kid falls for it. A bunch of kids will just for the sake of having "sports illustrated" on their resume which sucks
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Declan MacManus posted:their business model is literally pyramid shaped lmao 
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Remember: https://twitter.com/TheM_L_G/status/1162460984797290496
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Since SI is now dead man walking and ESPN is ending theirs, are there any good sport magazines left or are they dead like The National?
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I was halfway through reading this tweet and was like “this is fine? How could this go wrong?” Me 3 seconds later: 
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Mahoning posted:I was halfway through reading this tweet and was like “this is fine? How could this go wrong?” Same, my word
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rick reilly wants to stick his dick in a magazine, get over it
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Sportswriting work is work.
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Wanna gently caress that SI
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Bip Roberts posted:Sportswriting work is work.
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Blast Fantasto posted:rick reilly wants to stick his dick in a magazine, get over it That'd be a tough papercut to ignore
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https://twitter.com/Cianaf/status/1180661632290230272 aaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahaha holy loving poo poo
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DJExile posted:https://twitter.com/Cianaf/status/1180661632290230272 I was initially going to concede that at least it's in AP Style. Then I looked again.
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DJExile posted:https://twitter.com/Cianaf/status/1180661632290230272 Are we sure this isn’t some passive-aggressive thing on the part of the writer?
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General Dog posted:Are we sure this isn’t some passive-aggressive thing on the part of the writer? Given that his only writing jobs appear to have been for Rivals/SBNation type sites I’m gonna go ahead and call no on that one.
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Mahoning posted:“Webster’s dictionary defines dominance as...” https://twitter.com/jawickham/status/1180668685364711425
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:I guess you could say Notre Dame "burned down" their opposition. More like they "blew over" their opposition.
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Dango Bango posted:More like they "blew over" their opposition. 
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Dango Bango posted:More like they "blew over" their opposition. I don't get it
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:I don't get it Google “notre dame + scissor lift”
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Niwrad posted:So they're just going to turn it into a shittier version of SBNation? Which is just what Fansided already is, as mentioned before
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Blast Fantasto posted:rick reilly wants to stick his dick in a magazine, get over it he likes putting it in the rear
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General Dog posted:Google “notre dame + scissor lift” Why can we make jokes about that, but an engineering school loving up a bonfire is still taboo
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