Posted on June 23rd, 2009 by Barbara
A common misconception people have about not-employees is that they squirrel away in their home offices and come out only to meet clients. I’m not saying that doesn’t happen, but there are times when not-employees want to hang out in a work setting with other not-employees. Often you just need to get out of the [...]
Posted on March 16th, 2009 by Barbara
The telephone rings as I’m leaving the shower. I’m expecting a call, so I answer, and this is what I hear (paraphrased, of course):
Hello! My name is Robo Interruptor, and I work for A Company You’ve Never Heard Of. Times are tough, so we’re offering our fabulously unnecessary service to you at half-price!
Me: *Click*
There were [...]
Posted on March 30th, 2008 by Barbara
Something they teach you in business school (and should do in high school) is basic financial accounting. Something else they teach you in business school is managerial accounting. These two topics are related like competitive and social Magic the Gathering. One emphasizes the rules, while the other emphasizes the story, but they’re both based on [...]
Posted on March 23rd, 2008 by Barbara
One of the themes of Not An Employee is collaboration. Here we’ve created a little website and a small business run by people who have never once sat down and said “Ok, we’re going to start a business and have a website and Laura will design it and Barbara will handle the paperwork and Brian [...]
Posted on March 5th, 2008 by Barbara
One of the events that lead to the formalization of Not An Employee was the threatened, enacted, and then rescinded sales tax on services in the state of Michigan. Some of us were expected to charge sales tax on some services (like graphic design) and not others (web design). (Or perhaps more interestingly, on phrenology [...]
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