View Full Version : Glad I didn't take that job...
Mockery
Mar 9th, 2009, 12:31 PM
When I first moved out here, I was offered a full-time job by National Lampoon as one of their staff writers. After visiting their office and speaking with some employees, not only did it feel like they had no direction, but it also felt like they were all broken down by the job and only there to collect a paycheck. I also knew of rumors that they were inflating reports of their own site's traffic by claiming that their actual traffic was that of all the sites in their new ad network combined. That's the equivalent of me saying I-Mockery's traffic stats are the combined numbers of every site that we're affiliated with (Fark, Newgrounds, etc.).
And now today I read this:
http://wehonews.com/z/wehonews/archive/page.php?articleID=3205
Sometimes you second guess whether or not you should've taken a job, but that is one I'm really glad I turned down.
Kitsa
Mar 9th, 2009, 12:55 PM
Yeah, that was probably a good call.
Tadao
Mar 9th, 2009, 01:05 PM
This sounds like one of their movies even.
Aaarg
Mar 9th, 2009, 02:23 PM
Van Wilder won't save you now!
McClain
Mar 9th, 2009, 02:47 PM
National Lampoon's Employee Eviction Extravanganza Pt. II: Stock Swindlers
NL is a corporation that has been at their sophomoric film antics for over 20 years. It spends most of its time throwing fund raisers, stock schemes and shitty humor. When the landlord decides that it's finally time for a rent payment, Lampoon doesn't pay their share. So Lampoon owners manipulate the stock even more! Much fucking funnier than any of their movies! At the same time, consultants who manage Lampoon's high profile portfolios (clown nose and fart bag bonds), realized they're fucked and that their witless employees will soon be peddling Cracked on street corners!
mburbank
Mar 9th, 2009, 02:47 PM
Sad, sad, sad.
ZeldaQueen
Mar 9th, 2009, 03:36 PM
This sounds like one of their movies even.
Hmm, I'm smelling an opportunity here...
But yeah, good call on that one!
Geggy
Mar 9th, 2009, 03:58 PM
They're going downhill as fast as chevy chase on a sled during a christmas vacation!
ZeldaQueen
Mar 9th, 2009, 06:01 PM
They're going downhill as fast as chevy chase on a sled during a christmas vacation!
To use a quote from their own movie: Faster than s#it through a goose.
Emu
Mar 9th, 2009, 06:38 PM
For the longest time I thought National Lampoon was one guy.
pac-man
Mar 9th, 2009, 08:27 PM
They're going downhill as fast as chevy chase on a sled during a christmas vacation!
Or as fast as Chevy's movie career after the 80's.
Mockery
Mar 9th, 2009, 08:45 PM
In case some of you never saw it, here's a collection of some of the stuff I still had backed up from when I was freelancing for National Lampoon (this was before I was offered a full-time position):
http://www.i-mockery.com/lampoon
Wish I had more back-ups of my stuff, along with Max's pieces. We both did a lot for them, but the archives on their were completely wiped out as if our work (along with the work of many others) never even existed.
pac-man
Mar 9th, 2009, 08:50 PM
40 years!? Rog, that's how I look now. :tear
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