Rahul Lakhani

Now that all is said and done… Working for Breaking Media/Football Insider, what was it like for someone who spent 20 months there before having my contract terminated by email on a day off? The people? Some of the best colleagues I’ve worked with, and that’s something I’ll continue to say for a long time. Genuinely some of the best people, and now friends, you could hope for. The rest of it? 😬😬😬😬 For the majority of my time there, I felt undervalued, overworked and underpaid. From my experience, late payments weren’t uncommon. On one occasion, my final invoice, payment was only made after several emails went unanswered and I made clear that I was considering legal action. There were also restrictions that, in my experience, felt difficult to reconcile with being described as self-employed. I felt that I had many of the restrictions associated with employment without the security or benefits I would have reasonably expected to come with it. Communication from the top, i.e. Wayne Veysey, was, in my experience, amateur at best, regardless of the topic at hand. And after 20 months, my time there was ultimately summed up by my contract being terminated by email on a day off, while I was two months into a three-month notice period. While the contract outlined their ability to do that, for me, that spoke volumes about how I felt I was valued and viewed during my time there. Would I recommend working there? I think my opinion on that is clear.