March 13, 1998

In 3MR:

SF Weekly Takes a Bite Outta Snap!

In the SF Weekly Dog Bites column:
"...The free-lancers who write the reviews that comprise the bulk of Snap!ís content earn $600 each for writing a required 175 Web site reviews a week. Which, for those of you caught without a calculator, works out to $3.43 cents a review.

"Oh well. Luckily, Snap! content producer Suzanne Herel sent a memo last Tuesday to her contract-work minions instructing them that they'd have something to spend their paychecks on -- new software. As of this week, all free-lancers will be expected to own their own copies of Filemaker Pro.

"'I'm sorry, but we can neither provide this software nor reimburse you for the cost,' Herel told the memo recipients, after chirpily assuring them that if they shop around they should be able to find a copy for $99 or thereabouts. Which would be, oh, 23 reviews or so."

What's next? Freelancer bake sales to help get Snap! out of debt? The wonderfully snide SF Weekly was even kind enough to include a link to our DeathRace 2000 site online. Our servers await inundation.