[Jedd]

I find the term 'full time' unnecessarily ambiguous.

Certainly 'employee' suggests something contra to 'contractor', but there's no reason someone working 40 hours a week can't or shouldn't be considered full-time regardless of their permanent / contractor status.

I can't tell if this is irony, in the context of being 'precise in your communications' and advice to 'edit ruthlessly':

> You must ruflessly cut out bullshit, bloat, ...

[titanomachy]

Maybe it's not the best term, but it's pretty widely used. Either you're a "full-time employee" or you're a temp or contractor. Certain perks or systems are described as "FTE-only".

[soneca]

I believe it is just an unimportant mistake from someone that might not be a native English speaker. I do those all the time, something like a "phonetic typo"; I write things as they sound in my native language and don't realize it.

[Jedd]

Perhaps.

Note that the author asserted:

> It helps to actually take time 6 hours, 12 hours before a reply. Meditate on the email. Write the email by hand on your notebook. Edit ruthlessly. Type it up on your computer. Only then, send it.

So, a) they knew how to type ruthlessly at least once, and/or b) had spell-check pick them up on that one.

But the gist of the particularly prescriptive advice was to word your missives carefully lest they be misunderstood.

In good faith, let's assume it's an unimportant mistake.

So let's consider:

> Fuck “working for Free”

> If you work for free. You are contributing to tyranny. You are facilitating the spread of tyranny. Nobody in their right mind and right intentions work for free.

I'm typing my considered and reasoned response on a computer that's running almost exclusively free software, the authors of which I'm eternally grateful to.

Because I'm currently employed (full time, contractor) for an agency that's doing good work (by my assessment) I'm quite happy to perform occasional non-billable work.

Certainly, in my time I've worked in places that made me feel something approaching TFA's emotional response, but it's not a set of rules that I feel can or should be casually applied to all contractual engagements.