Freelance Freedom #96

Haha why is this so often the case?

It’s crazy how so many companies instantly treat you like a naughty school kid.

This so looks like a prison visit, not even comparable to school…

hehe, the beauty of being 100% freelance is never having to deal with these ***holes! I always avoid those kind of jobs.

Nc – this is great.

I’m glad those days are over for now….

NC, this is hilarious. You’ve turned this Freelance chap into a real prototype.
Excellent comic.

Oh man, I worked at a place that had those and when punching in or out for your shift you had to place your had on the scanner device, swipe your card and punch in your id number. Stupid crazy. I am just glad I don’t have to deal with crap like that anymore

Fantastic! You make me laugh a lot!
Thanks!

I’ve been thinkin about making one of these badges just for fun. I always see the cubicle workers come to Starbucks with them on and thought it’d be funny to make a really flashy design for my company (just me, I’m a freelancer) and see if I got any comments from the cubicle world haha

Hey at least it looks like this place has an automated process system. I used to work for a place where we were required to use these and also add in our time sheets into some slow ass Microsoft Access program.

@Smashill

Well usually at places like this they do treat their employees like prisoners. Make sure to look behind you when entering the staff lounge. Haha, I had too!

Welcome to Freelance, Inc. Please invoice the project, email to the client, re-invoice, call to request payment, call again to request payment, reply to email asking if the invoice was ever sent, “yes, it was sent 2 months ago”, resend invoice. Wait for mailman. Wait for mailman again. Get paid!

Great comic NC.

yeahhh… and did you get that memo about the new TPS reports?

@David – lol

*runs off to sit next to the door, eagerly awaiting the mailman – sigh*

Lol! Happen to most schools in Singapore! They are treating teachers like prisoners here.

Ohhh I can’t wait until I’m 100% freelance…until then I’ll just keep on dreaming…lol

Well, I only freelance on the side, I still have a full-time job, and let me tell you…the clocking in and out SUCKS!!! I really hate it, and it gives me enough motive to work towards freelancing full-time someday.

Haha… I have a client with swipecards when I work on site for them. I don’t mind it though. It’s one less thing I have to deal with…and they pay me within a week..

So there IS an upside to being reduced to a piece of plastic!

Guys, you just hate them.

I have one client who works in a secure building. I have to have an escort going to and from her area. But the good news is that she and the other people I’ve done for there pay quite well.

My old temp job!
“All this “high security” must mean you make something dreadfully important?”
“Nah, we make plastic boxes.”

Gyah!… so glad we can say.. HEEEELLLLL NO to jobs like that. Keep it up NC, always lookin forward to the next strip.

I always enjoy N.C. Winter’s skewering of Gestapo-like treatment of the people who work for some large corporations. But isn’t he repeating himself? I recall a very similar cartoon a year ago or so when the eponymous freelancer was being “greeted” to his gig by some buffoon who went through the list of numerous potential transgressions and then says “welcome aboard.”

@Bored:

The goal in this one was to point out specifically the nightmarish timecard badge situation that I specifically have had to deal with recently. Every now and then I return to contract freelancing and revisit some of the old frustrations. My goal is not to be repetitive but point out some of the myriad obnoxious “rules” of engagement in a corporate setting.

It’s very possible that I may be revisiting old issues, though I try to keep the content crescent fresh!

I’m glad that i dont even have to think about joining companies like that…

I JUST got laid off from a full time position that did exactly this! Horrible to work at a place that has more security then most airports—and treats the staff like your are in high school

@NC – agreed. Your little vignettes are classic. I can feel the knife of frustration twisting in my stomach thinking about that damned badge.

Well to be honest it does reminds me of my old office, glad I am a freelancer now and work on my own terms.

LOOOOOOOOOOOL
Been there, not with an ID but I had to sign a log book everytime I go to the company and start working… One day later I left the place

N.C you’re awesome

I have to swipe my ID five times to get to my office and enter a security code every time I go outside. *beep beep beep beep beep*