December 12th, 2012 / 6:26 pm
Snippets
Snippets
Nick Antosca—
Do you enjoy keeping your opinions to yourself and being seen but not heard? Have you been looking to de-prioritize parts of your life like “family obligations, writing, involvement with other organizations, degrees to be finished, holidays to be taken, [and] weddings to attend in Rio”? Looking to earn a low-level salary while living in fear of “immediate dismissal” if you don’t answer emails fast enough on a Saturday night? Well then, apply now for a job at Dalkey Archive Press!
Nick Antosca read a bitch.
They should televise this. I’d pay good money to watch “Probationary Period.”
Sign me up. I want to have absolutely no life. I want to be treated like a slave. I want my superiors to never appreciate my work. I want to suffer a nervous breakdown and end up partying with the other basketcases in a mental ward. Dalkey Archive slave FTW.
At least they’re honest about being evil employers and the job being horrible.
This sounds like the summer internships at investment banks that finance/math kids do (70-90 hour weeks, on call 24/7, etc), except the finance/math kids make okay money as ‘interns’ and then get jobs afterwards that pay $100k+ when they graduate.
The political economy of literature – especially the internship part of it – is really disgusting. I have to pretend it’s not real when I enjoy the books…
Must enjoy light BDSM.
John O’Brien sounds like a guy with a sense of humor. –whether in a constructive way or for evil, hard to say from the evidence of this application drift net.