Why Suit Up to Get Beaten Down — a Career Hell contest

January 5, 2009

We’re starting off 2008 with a bang. The Why Suit Up to Get Beaten Down contest will feature your best work stories, videos and commentary and actually reward you for your best workplace misconduct.  Is the economy getting you down?  Then why not engage in some passive aggressive fun and replace random words in your boss’s memos?  Or record a video about why you hate your job from your supervisor’s desk while he’s in a meeting.  The best submissions will be featured on Career Hell, and the very best as determined by the Career Hell staff will win a Career Hell hoodie like the one featured on iwearyourshirt.com.  We also have a prize for the worst submission, a Career Hell “tank top” like the one on iwearyourshirt.

What you do is up to you — just be careful: we don’t want you to actually get fired.  And we are NOT encouraging you to do anything illegal, so don’t call us from jail expecting a bailout. Just have some fun and submit your best work.  We accept written accounts and videos.

FOR THE WORST SUBMISSION (as determined by the Career Hell staff): we’ll publish the worst submission(s) received and award the very worst with a Career Hell “tank top” (some of you might know them better as “beaters").  You could even wear it to work.

The prizes look like these ones here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/iwearyourshirt/3162911827

Two runners-up will receive Career Hell t-shirts.  Two special runners-up for the worst stories will receive our ugliest misprint t-shirts (we even have a terrible day-glo orange one we might have to give away).

So that’s it.

Submit your work to ... by submitting, you are granting Career Hell license to publish your submission on CareerHell.com and any future media (books, magazines, etc.) that Career Hell chooses to publish.  You also affirm that your work is an original piece written by you, and you have the sole copyright to the work.

Please specify whether your work should be published anonymously or under your name.  If you would like a link to your website, please specify the location of your site and what text you would like hyperlinked.

Winners will be chosen at the discression of the Career Hell staff.  To be eligible, you must be human and not related to the Career Hell staff.  Entries must be submitted by January 19, 2009.  Winners will be announced on February 2, 2009.

We’re serious about not doing anything illegal.  While it might make great press, we don’t want to get in trouble, and we don’t want you to get in trouble.  Even if what you’re doing is legal, don’t do anything to get yourself fired (unless you really want to for some reason, but we hope you already have another job lined up if that’s the case, especially in this economy).

 

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