Death to spec work. Period.
Frankly, I'm sick and tired of people asking for spec work. I sometimes engage in pro bono work, or work at a discounted rate for a particular client, but this is solely at my discretion and on my terms. Trying to get people to work for free or cheap by dangling vague, unspecified future rewards is frankly insulting, devalues both myself and my professional peers, and is bad for the industry - in fact any industry that indulges such behaviour.
I bring this up as I was reminded of the subect by the fantastic 27b/6 post Simon's Pie Charts, which I was in turn reminded of by a friend.
So, I possibly shouldn't be advertising my penchant for precisely this kind of bitterly sardonic humour, but there is a very serious point behind it.
One that is illustrated perfectly well by the NO!SPEC campaign, so I shall let them get on with it.
I also sometimes get annoyed with people asking me to do them 'little' favours with no ideal what the favour entails , particularly those to whom I owe no favours in return. "Oh it will only take you five minutes..." Really? And you know this how? It being an area of such expertise for you, I wonder why you ask me to do it.
27b/6 again illustrates rather well just how this can make me feel, in the post Missing Missy
Check out the rest of 27b/6, and see if you don't wet yourself at least a little.
Oh, and one last thing, while we are on the topic:
Stop asking me questions for which, in order to answer, I'm only going to use Google. GIYF.
