[jazminerose]

I am a freelancer and I warned my compatriots about this over and over and over.

In my profession we sometimes work part time or full time under contract as 1099s for various companies to keep steady income streams. It can be kind of quasi-permanent or long term, i.e. 3-5 years.

They would weep, wail, and gnash their teeth about putting in well over 40 hours, no benefits, blah, blah, blah.

I TOLD them that the worst outcome will be that they will get what they want.

Predictably, California led the way.

Now they weep, wail, and gnash their teeth because postings for gig work always include verbiage indicating that the company will NOT contract with any freelancers in California.

A few more states have been added to the do-not-fly list. I believe they are MA and NJ, but, I could be wrong. Often am.

These people used to irritate the snot out of me with their constant whining about how *unfair* it was not to be given W2 employee status. There is no reasoning with entitled brats.

This was all pre-WuFlu. Now all of the work gets snapped up by red staters.

[tbw2]

I’m a freelancer. A number of gig sites kicked off anyone from California to eliminate the hassles for their customers hiring people to write an article or create a book cover.

I’ve also seen a definite shift in who gets writing gigs. We’re back to:
* write for exposure, hoping it leads to paid work
* a knowledge professional writes it to publicize their services, like a lawyer answering questions in articles
* hiring Indians and Africans to keep costs down

[Mr. Jeeves]

These people used to irritate the snot out of me with their constant whining about how *unfair* it was not to be given W2 employee status.

I never understood that. Same with joining a union: why would you want to guarantee yourself a maximum salary?