First of all, right after my last article on CurrentPhotographer.com came out, at 11:45 that Thursday night, I was kicked off of the site. This is the email that I got from Trevor Current, the owner of the site.
Chris,
I'm writing to inform you that your services are no longer required at CurrentPhotographer.com.
Thanks,
Trevor Current
CurrentPhotographer.com
E: Contributor@currentphotographer.com
W: http://CurrentPhotographer.com
W: http://DigitalPhotographyCafe.com
T: http://Twitter.com/TrevorCurrent
F: http://Facebook.com/CurrentPhotographer
Since this, not only has he refused to answer any emails from me when I asked why I was kicked off the site, but he has gone and started stealing my unpublished articles and gave them to other writers on the site so they can change around the wording a little and publish them under their own name. This is complete bullshit if you ask me and it hasn't just happened to one article, no, this has happened to three articles that I know of thus far.
When he kicked me off of as a contributor for the site, he also cut off my access to my unpublished articles in their pipeline so I could go and delete them.
I have sent him emails, texts, tweets and even tried to call him and he refuses to return anything. I know for a fact that this is copyright infringement...and it pisses me off. I really just don't know what to do.
In other news, I have been three weeks now in my new job. It is a good job, not something that I would go through and choose to do, but it is a job and it pays pretty well. My last day of training was today, so after three and a half weeks of training, tomorrow it is finally time to hit the floor. Fun times.
However, this does bring up a very interesting topic. I had to take a hardcore personality test when I started my job there and I finally go the results back today. They basically split personalities up into three different categories:
Actions
Emotions
Opinions
Reactions
Reflections
and Thoughts.
They gave you two personalities according to this, your base personality and a phase personality. Your phase personality is one that you resort to if after 18-24 months of your base personality isn't working or you.
I turned out to be a very special case (no pun intended). I am the only one that they had ever seen with both my base and phase personalities being the Reaction personality, which is basically very heavily artistic. I guess that is a good thing right?
I have lost almost 10 lbs since I started my new job too...Let's just see if I can continue to take more off.
In other news...well, I still don't know about my grant yet. I hope that by the end of this month I will be able to find out about the grant that I applied for with the New York Foundation for the Arts. If I get that, I swear I will go through and be the happiest guy in the world. And I will visit anyone who wants me to (not that I'm expecting a lot of people from here to jump out of their seats saying "OH ME ME ME ME" but still, just throwing that out there).
And that is about it in a nut shell. Went out on a date last weekend with a girl that I like. That went well, and I hope to see her again. But we'll see about that. Maybe some of you can tell her to go out with me again...lol Really though, we did kiss, and she said that she had a great time and that she did want to go out again soon, just didn't know when because she was going to start school back up soon.
Hopefully your new job can pay stuff and its not too bad & corssing fingers so you get the grant!
btw, thanks for stopping by and saying hi