Parenting Without A License

Tag! I’m It!

Posted by Kimberly on December 1st, 2007 — Posted in Kipple, Blah Blah Blog, iVillage

So, it’s not bad enough that iVillage took away my blog, forced me into linking my name with a woman that I can best describe as “odious,” and then fired me for complaining about that and other slights (let’s not forget the complete rewriting of my entire philosophy of life and personality to fit their construct of the perfect single mom: A pathetic, lonely woman bravely making the best of a bad lot as she desperately searches for Mr. Right. blech). Now, they’re not even paying me anymore.

For the longest time, iVillage and I used to do a little dance where they would fail to send a cheque for a month or three and I would finally work up my courage to get past my innately Canadian distaste for confrontation, particularly confrontation over money (how unseemly) and politely ask them if they could please look into the issue if it wasn’t too much bother. And they would come back with a story about the accounting department in India, and you how that goes and then finally get on with it and issue me a cheque. This went on for just about ever. Then two things happened:  1) I stopped being such a girl about the whole thing and left the apologies behind.  Instead of a weak, apologetic email, I began to simply inform them of the problem and my expectation that they fix it immediately (I also started posting only memes and blogthings until I received payment) and 2) They started trying to soften me up for The Daily Mom blow. At that point, they actually amended my contract to state that I must be paid within 30 days of receipt of invoice and all was good and the cheques began arriving like clockwork.

Except, no cheque this month.

hmmmmm.

Now, really, the thing to do would be to stop work immediately. To refuse to post until I’m paid. But, I’m pretty sure that that’s what Girl Genius did, and those of you who follow iVillage saw how that worked out (within 24 hours, iVillage had pulled her blog and her archives off the site.). It’s definitely a way to go, but the thing is, I think it’s what they want me to do; if nothing else, it gets them off the hook for paying me for December, plus they don’t have to put up with me anymore. I’m not into giving them the satisfaction, so instead, I’m planning a week of memes.

So, tag me! You’ve got a meme out there? No matter how asinine, boring, or lame, tag me! I’ll do over at The Daily Mom, make my post commitment, and make a statement about getting what you pay for. (Not that Funny Mom doesn’t do that on a regular basis…..)