It’s work, not a play-date
Yesterday, in the NY Times, Matt Richtel wrote about how on the Internet there are writers blogging twenty-four hours just to be to be the first “to get the story.” These bloggers are suffering stress:
If a blogger is beaten by a millisecond, someone else’s post on the subject will bring in the audience, the links and the bigger share of the ad revenue. “There’s no time ever — including when you’re sleeping — when you’re not worried about missing a story,” Michael Arrington, the founder and co-editor of TechCrunch, said, “Wouldn’t it be great if we said no blogger or journalist could write a story between 8 p.m. Pacific time and dawn? Then we could all take a break,” he added. “But that’s never going to happen.”
“Wouldn’t it be great” is the phrase that launched a thousand laws. I didn’t read anywhere in this article about any of these effectively, “self-employed” workers showing a bit of recognition for their former bosses who had provided them with jobs. I would dare to guess they belly-ached of their old bosses for providing them with “stressful” and “inhumane” working conditions. If you want to understand stress — meet a payroll!
