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I'm curious, why Cheezburger Network is a sweatshop? Any experience first hand? or employees there blog about how sucky the company is?

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I worked at Cheezburger until a few months ago. Here's the deal with the sweatshop charges. It comes down to three items.

1. Disgruntled ex-employees are disgrunted. 2. Entry-level positions are entry-level. 3. Sleazy tabloids are sleazy.

While I worked there (as an experienced developer, not a fresh-out-of-college content moderator) I was a "real" employee (not contract) and I made a very decent wage, especially considering it's at least nominally a tech startup. (I wouldn't describe it as a tech startup but that's a different story).

You really did work at CN, given that accent/logic.

restating the hypothesis == proof. I love it.

Thanks for noticing.

I don't know myself, but the article has this link in the comments:

http://gawker.com/5488509/inside-the-low+paying-cheezburger-...

and that post has this comment:

http://gawker.com/comment/20269906/

shrug

It's a tabloid site of Nick Denton's so it must be true. Heh.

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