The Final Bell Tolls for David Mays and Benzino

I'm happy to see this. However, the question remains: when will all the freelancers get paid? It's no joke how much money is owed the people that wrote for them and it's funny to me that it was a subject never brought up by either enemies at Hot 97 or friends Wendy Williams/Ed Lover when Mays and Benzino tried to do damage control.

okay they're desperately adding a new chapter to a tragic comedy

Sagesse:

I'm not for people being ripped off, but if people were writing for The Source recently, and not just as a resume-/portfolio-stuffer, they were pretty foolish.

Joe,
no arguments here on that one. But it's very disheartening nonetheless even for a beginner such as myself to see the gross negligence of the company not just to people like me, but to long-time contributors and even those on payroll.
I'm just hoping that when the smoke clears, checks can finally be made out.

Yeah I don't want to blame the victims -- I mean not payin people for their work is flat-out illegal -- but this reminds me of a friend who worked for a video game company.

Two paychecks in a row were late. Then the next one was delayed, as was the next, and by the next month, he still hadn't received them. He was finally laid off when the company basically went bankrupt.

I was like dude, that's messed up that they dicked you over like that. But there also should have been giant warning signs that it was time to dust off the resume.

I'm just sort of curious -- waht was your motivation in writing for the Source? I know hindsight is 20-20, but didn't it seem like the place was a mess? Maybe you figured they'd pulled it off so many times in the past, they'd continue to somehow hold it together?