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Boycott Ed Hardy!
- June 25, 2009 16:27:52
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I have a long time friend that got a design internship with Ed Hardy Clothing Co. with promises that if he was a great artist, he was promised a full time position in the company. The internship was unpaid and worked designing Ed Hardy T-shirts, baby clothes, keychains, etc. My friend worked really hard for 3 months, unpaid, and all he got in return was Ed Hardy shot glasses and hats. Although he interned with Ed Hardy for free working 20 hours a week, he can testify that he was treated like trash and was often told his designs sucked and that his pieces of art will never make it to the stores! --- Until the day came that he found out one of his T-Shirt designs were being sold for $179.99 a piece at the Northridge mall. He immediately contacted Ed Hardy claiming that he deserves some kind of pay or at least, what he was promised, a full time position. Which one did he get? Any! My friend was immediately fired as an intern and was scammed. It is pretty shitty that a company like Ed Hardy hires unpaid interns, sells their designs for more than 100 bucks, and gives their interns nothing whatsoever in return.
People if you worked for Ed Hardy or any other company under the pretense of internship that was actually an unpaid job please pursue you legal rights and sue them. Internships have specific requirements please look them up. Just calling something an internship does not allow any company to have people work for them for free. Know your rights and sue the bastards. Boycott Ed Hardy!
People if you worked for Ed Hardy or any other company under the pretense of internship that was actually an unpaid job please pursue you legal rights and sue them. Internships have specific requirements please look them up. Just calling something an internship does not allow any company to have people work for them for free. Know your rights and sue the bastards. Boycott Ed Hardy!
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And you should boycott Ed Hardy....did you see what he did outside MJ's house after he died? Shameful!
As a designer I will add that their staff is extremely tasteless and I cannot imagine how people can pay so much money to get their staff. Even the worse designer or illustrator couldn't possible design and make those. Look at the color combinations. Only non professionals could put staff like that together. I see this company dont care about anything besides making money, so I guess the best punishment for them is to make people stop buying their products. I will call their designs anti - design which are randomly put together. And I cannot understand those who will intern for them, how can you put their name in your resume? It's a shame. That means you are so vulgar and untastefull that you spend your time on those designs. Their staff is for low - low class people who think that if they pay more for clothing they will become better. Those are so esthetically unpleasing to my eyes that I better see some overweight person naked in front of me than someone who have their products on. I could go over and over but I want to finish my saying. And PLEASE dont buy untastefull products, respect your body and be aware of what's good and what's not. Thank you for attention.
The U.S. DoL utilizes the below listed criteria, as created by the U.S.S.C.
(Walling v. Portland Terminal Co. (1947) 330 U.S. 148), to determine whether
a person is really an intern, or whether they are an employee who must be
paid and treated according to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA):
1. The training is similar to that which would be given in a vocational school;
2. The training is for the benefit of the trainee;
3. The trainees do not displace regular employees, and work under close observation;
4. The employer that provides the training derives no immediate advantage from the activities of the trainees and on occasion the employer’s operations may
actually be impeded.
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http://www.twc.state.tx.us/ne...
Long story short interns are not a source of free/low pay labor so proceed carefully as the wage and hour folk have no sense of humor and often link the information to the IRS which includes an element of personal liability.
there may be issues of copyright abuse but you'll need a lawyer that knows IPR law (garden verity lawyers are not qualified)
http://www.sahrma.org/images/...
A Rep for Ed Hardy came up to the House of a Very Famous Pin-Up Artist I used to work for in Malibu, I know alot of people don't know who this "Guy" is, but the Rep, CEO or whom-ever drove up in a Lamborghini Murcielago, it wasnt a Rental either. We are talking BIG BUCKS here, forget about Boycotting because you have some fukhedz here that will "still buy ANY shirts even Ed's because theyre cool" or they just dont care or live out in the Backbone of America, the REAL people that do an honest living and keep the country thriving. They could care less for what the folks here in Ca. or New York or what-ever big city types wear.
Gather petitions, but mostly, Get a Lawyer, bite them in the Ass where it hurts-theyre pockets, SUE them.
The Pin-Up artists Husband asked my co-worker "what do you think?" (He hand-prints his own T-Shirt line) and he just told him, from what he heard, he doesn't like how they handle and market things and do business, "theyre kinda' shady". Plus, the "offer" they made to the Artist was really lame, especially for an Established Artist who is famous around the World.
This isn't a joke people, if you heard of Ed or not, YOU all have to look at ANY shirt you own with Print, someone had to draw that, it takes a special skill to crea...
A Rep for Ed Hardy came up to the House of a Very Famous Pin-Up Artist I used to work for in Malibu, I know alot of people don't know who this "Guy" is, but the Rep, CEO or whom-ever drove up in a Lamborghini Murcielago, it wasnt a Rental either. We are talking BIG BUCKS here, forget about Boycotting because you have some fukhedz here that will "still buy ANY shirts even Ed's because theyre cool" or they just dont care or live out in the Backbone of America, the REAL people that do an honest living and keep the country thriving. They could care less for what the folks here in Ca. or New York or what-ever big city types wear.
Gather petitions, but mostly, Get a Lawyer, bite them in the Ass where it hurts-theyre pockets, SUE them.
The Pin-Up artists Husband asked my co-worker "what do you think?" (He hand-prints his own T-Shirt line) and he just told him, from what he heard, he doesn't like how they handle and market things and do business, "theyre kinda' shady". Plus, the "offer" they made to the Artist was really lame, especially for an Established Artist who is famous around the World.
This isn't a joke people, if you heard of Ed or not, YOU all have to look at ANY shirt you own with Print, someone had to draw that, it takes a special skill to create Art that people think good enough to market and Brand their Company.
Lets take it to the extreme, EVERYTHING around you had to be drawn! So if you get paid for your 9 to 5, shouldnt an Artist with a Professional Skill get paid? You bought it, so that means a Product works for you, the creator then- needs to be compinsated.
Here in Lost Angeles/California, Ed's stuff is huge, and all I see is posuers, middle aged Men who want to look "young" and Female fashionistas wear their stuff, but they are "buying/paying" those rediculous prices for them.
PLEASE tell your friend, to not only SUE them, but create a Blog because it may have happened to other Artists as well.
Remember Ed himself may have not Ripped your friend off personally, but his Reps represent HIM, its HIS name. SUE the Fux!!!
For Ed's story see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I wish your friend great success, from one Artist to another. And you "Buyers", realize the Artists that create the shirts you like, usually get hosed, but once in a while, we work with fantastic people :D
This also happened to me, but I was working 40 hours/week for a local company unpaid! Screw internships.
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