Mar 05 2009
T-Shirt Hell is Hiring - Go Ahead, Be Their Grunt
If you’ve been reading this blog, you know my beef with T-shirt Hell and their fake going out of business sale which they say was a joke, but by selling 100,000 shirts (their estimate) to “suckers” (how they think of their customers) we know their “sale” by another term–fraud!
In a time when the economy is in the toilet, what they did was a dirty trick that still smells and was a huge letdown for people who looked up to them for being one of the original fearless internet vendors.
Now Sunshine Megatron, the T-Shirt Hell owner is no better than a corporate a-hole ripping the public off. Sunshine selling subversive T-shirts to white college kids in the name of free speech is like when record executives sold gangsta rap to spoiled white kids in suburbia. It’s all fake and it’s time to see through it.
So now it seems they’ve put the word out that they’re hiring: For all the web designers/graphic artists who lost their jobs recently or who are having trouble getting freelance work in this economy or are looking for a job that allows you to work from home in your crotchless underpants, while optimizing pictures of hot chicks wearing our shirts, time to make your move. We need you and are hiring.
Okay, since you guys lied to your customers what makes us think you won’t lie to freelancing artists and designers? I’ve already seen one comment on this blog about a reader who submitted a T-shirt idea for the 500.00 prize and their idea popped up awhile later without this person getting paid. Maybe it’s a coincidence, but how would you know? With a bad reputation you are constantly suspecting T-Shirt Hell of foul play.
The economy is bad, but I say F*** ‘em.
Elance.com has hundreds of freelance jobs and you can work from home, many of which offer good pay. T-Shirt Hell will allow you to sit home and jerk off to their oh so cool pictures they want you to crop in Photoshop, but are you sure you can count on them paying what they owe and in a timely fashion? I wouldn’t trust them.
If you’re going to do it–be a T-shirt Hell grunt–and risk getting pissed on as well as verbally abused, get them to sign a contract. Most likely they already have a contract of their own for you to sign in their favor. Like I said, rich jerks have lawyers.
