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In Reply to: RE: Personally, you never worked for Stereophile. But I agree: enough already. (nt) posted by samtellig on February 19, 2015 at 11:54:37
Yeah, you have no private life. You are a 'National Treasure' and cannot make any choices which annoy your followers...
They may decide to hang you for not doing what they expect Sam...
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I lasted for as long as I did by avoiding Mr. Atkinson and his gravitas. After Stephen and Ariel left, I had to deal directly. Stephen and Ariel were very helpful. Stephen even helped me (and the other unsalaried writers) get paid, although that was Atkinson's (shirked) responsibility, not his.
"Stephen even helped me (and the other unsalaried writers) get paid, although that was Atkinson's (shirked) responsibility, not his."
Typically, how long did it take you to get paid after submitting a review? No one enjoys waiting on their money after rendering a service. Creditors have a term for such people/institutions who systematically defer payment after receiving a product or service. Is this unsavory practice something new at Stereophile or has it been in place for years?
Usually, non-salaried (Form 1099) writers were paid within a week or so after an issue appeared. This was about 60 days after submitting copy.
("I cannot deal with late copy," snorted Lord Gravitas in an e mail, after years of intermittent late payments and a day after telling writers their payments would be several weeks late. This is what really set me off. Do you want to talk about being callous? rude?)
Payment became more irregular after Source Interlink took over. You can Google Source Interlink and see if the word "unsavory" comes to mind.
Sometimes Lord Atkinson just forgot about approving payments to writes. A piddling matter, that. If you're British why pay promptly?
At one point (during the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy), I was promised payment within a few days ... only to learn that some bigwig had apparently put a hold on all payments to independent contractor writers. For all their magazines, I assumed.
They improved their cash flow at the expense of mine. Thank you and f*** you after 30 years.
This -- ahem, pause -- did not include the salaried executive himself nor the salaried Atkinson and those cronies he put on salary. (I didn't want a salary, by the way.)
Still, I kept my fury bottled up.
I never put up a fuss until payment was at least two weeks late. Then I would phone the underpaid Stephen Meijas, whose responsibility this wasn't, who stood up even as Lord Gravitas evaded and possibly abjured his responsibility.
How many times did this happen? I lost count.
Finally, I found myself paid up and fed up.
By the way, what does Stereophile do about delinquent advertisers?
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Edits: 02/21/15
To be fair, though, isn't that what editors have to do? I've always understood that the writer editor relationship is not an altogether harmonious one, by its nature.
It's not good to be paid late, time and again. I took the comment "Payment became more irregular after Source Interlink took over" to mean that this was to some extent out of "Lord Gravitas'" control, probably not everybody could be paid on time, in the circumstances. It doesn't sound like a good situation.
If ST isn't happy, I doubt if "Lord Gravitas" is either. It sounds like a difficult job.
Daniel
I am very sorry to see this sort of thing on a public forum. Sam, I have admired your work very much for a long time, but the public airing of these kinds of private issues is not going to lead any reasonable person to decide them against Stereophile and, to me, is only going to tarnish your reputation among hobbyists who otherwise hold you in very high regard. Just saying, the rest is up to you.
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I couldn't disagree more strongly. I've been a long time subscriber to Stereophile and TAS. Lately I have been thinking of dropping both magazines. Maybe as I get older I'm tired of reading about overpriced audio equipment.
I always figured I would renew out of loyalty. When I read this crap about how the reviewers get stiffed on payments for articles they wrote, it makes my decision to drop Stereophile that much easier.
These people who criticize Tellig about sucking it up for the loss of pay should go a few weeks after their employer withholds a paycheck. Then we would hear the complaining I'm sure.
(nt)
Just interested in how Sam defines "liberal" ?
His points are well taken
Thanks.
I have no idea what "liberal" or 'conservative" has to do with this discussion.
I have a lot of conservative friends way into good audio. What's more, I know many working class guys who are way into audio who have systems you'd think were beyond their means but they SAVE for it and WORK for it.
If the point is that "liberals" are not supposed to like the rich (or are not themselves rich) I'd say too much Fox News watching has produced some bad results---like reading Stereo Review.
(nt)
Face it, Fremer if you love Wilson, DartZeel, and Taralabs, you MUST hate America...LOL!
nt
. . . and go to work as a copy writer for AudioQuest. A company with the gall to market $11,000 Cat 6 cables (specially treated with proprietary snake oil, no doubt) is bound to pay well, and on time.
Ha, chump change .....
"A company with the gall to market $11,000 Cat 6 cables"
I'd be more curious (and amused) with the individuals who are stupid enough to purchase them.
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