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@whyourindustrysucks
Sometimes the product can be the source of destruction
Sometimes the thing you’re working on can be the cause of your and the business’ destruction. Give this a read.
Abuse of VFX Artists Is Ruining the Movies
https://gizmodo.com/disney-marvel-movies-vfx-industry-nightmare-1849385834
Know how much it costs to live!
This is really great - an organization has put out an info card detailing how much you would need to get paid per hour depending on where you live.
It factors in things that many employers don’t...like the fact that you need to pay for food, your accommodations, transportation and basic life expenses.
https://twitter.com/OnLivingwage/status/1455160612200275976
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I’ll just leave this one here...
If you can’t afford to pay people properly, you’re not a business
So you’re a huge YouTube channel? And get lots of views? Guess what? If you can’t afford to pay people properly, you’re not a real business. You’re being subsidized by your workers.
$400 to cut a trailer for a feature is less than minimum wage
A HERO EMERGES
A hero emerges to help reduce exploitation or at least, make people be aware that there’s a very big difference between asking a favour vs. a “job” vs. wasting people’s time.
You’d be better off investing in GameStop stock than working for these people...
You, YES YOU could be working as a video editor, making videos for others to show them how they can make money, while you, YES YOU, go into debt paying for your rent, food, transit, computer software and basic necessities at a measly $15 per hour.
I’m really glad they allow a casual dress code. Because at that rate, you’ll be showing up to work in a burlap sac.
IF YOU ARE APPLYING FOR A JOB IN A FIELD THAT MAKES A LOT OF MONEY OR IS ABOUT MAKING PEOPLE MONEY AND THEY DON’T OFFER YOU HARDLY ANY MONEY, THAT’S USUALLY NOT A GOOD SIGN.
Decipher "No pay" keywords
I didn't make this, but it's brilliant and sadly very true.
When you're posting a job, don't soft step around the fact that you're asking people to invest their time, in which, you reap all the benefits of free labor and they get a sandwich if they're so lucky.
Sourced via: https://www.reddit.com/r/Filmmakers/comments/2zhjxy/film_industry_terms/
Point of reference; people charge $50 per clearing to shovel snow for one house.
SO...YOU HAVE A BUSINESS!
Yet you can only afford $100 for motion graphics, of which the reference you provide, has a budget in the thousands.
Is this the kind of people you want to be helping?
Why should you only get $100 for what will easily be a few days work, so the person who owns this company can (assumedly) get richer.
Why would these people refer their friends? Do they not realize how much work it is? How much ancillary costs there are in pursuing this career? How a subscription to Adobe to be able to use After Effects to make this, costs $70 for one month?
3 Highly Skilled Careers, $100
They want someone to make a 8-10 minute video with full motion graphics, video editing, sound design and colour correction for $100.
Fuck.
This job posting is full of denigrating / smarmy comments lamenting that no one shows up for the interview.
Get fucked. It's because you're offering poverty level wages and asking for a huge skill set and professional experience and education to back it up.
If any employer is being smarmy in their job postings AND they're not offering proper wages, avoid them at all costs.
Clearly all these people who didn't show up for interviews did.
Minimum wage where this was posted is $14 per hour.
They’re asking you to use your own equipment, and presumably, software. A video editing capable computer up to par with what they’re expecting, costs at least $1800. Adobe Creative Cloud is $70 per month.
That means you’ll be working 133 hours before you have any net gains. Who needs to pay rent or eat or pay for transit, right?
This job was posted by a big pharma company with a market value of BILLIONS.
If you’re going to exploit people, be consistent.
This one is a doozy!
Let’s call this person who is posting the jobs, “The Poster”
Exhibit A:
They’re asking to pay someone $500 a day for their labor and camera equipment, the equipment alone of which costs $1,500 a day to rent (more with insurance).
Exhibit B - Social Media Responses to the post
The second person here has a point. Nothing will be left of our industry if people continue to take on jobs that actually are running a negative profit business model.
EXHIBIT C: More Social media Responses
You can’t even rent a comparable camera for less than $600 a day. The Poster is asking for $500 for the camera + labor.
EXHIBIT D: ANOTHER JOB POST BY “THE POSTER”
They’re asking for $150 a day. A typical film shoot is a 12 hour day. That would be $12.50 and below minimum wage.
Second, they’re asking for a COVID19 Compliance Officer. This person is responsible for ensuring proper social distancing, hygiene and safety regulations are strictly followed on set...you know...SO PEOPLE ON TINY INDOOR FILM SETS DON’T GET COVID19, SPREAD IT TO OTHERS, AND EVERYONE DIES.
Seems like an important job that would require skills and education should pay A LEGAL WAGE, no?
EXHIBIT E: SOCIAL MEDIA RESPONSES 1
People confirmed that the role The Poster is hiring needs to be a trained and certified paramedic. Not a wage that anyone with zero experience could take.
THE POSTER then turned off comments for this post, realizing they’re asking for criminal wages and violating several health and safety codes / bylaws in doing so, I presume. Or wanted to stop a social media dumpster fire from blowing up.
EXHIBIT F: DESPITE MANY SAYING HOW THIS POST IS BREAKING REGULATIONS / LAWS, SOMEONE SENT AN EMAIL AND THE POSTER THANKED THEM. AND ALSO, THE POSTER ADMITS THEY HAVE NO IDEA IF A COVID19 OFFICER NEEDS SPECIAL TRAINING.
When a person hiring a job such as a COVID19 safety officer responds to someone asking if you need qualifications for it that “It’s a google question”, why the HELL would you apply to this illegal wage job?
I get it, we’re in a COVID19 world, jobs are scarce. BUT
A) DO YOU WANT TO BE ON A CRAMPED FILM SET WHILE COVID IS STILL A MAJOR THREAT? Could you afford to pay your rent and expenses if you get COVID19 and have to self isolate for 2 weeks and be without pay? ARE YOU WILLING TO LITERALLY DIE WORKING ON THIS PRODUCTION?
AND
B) Can’t you see how other people are pointing out that what this person is asking is illegal and dangerous?
AND
C) ARE YOU TRULY QUALIFIED TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WELL BEING OF DOZENS OR A HUNDRED CREW MEMBERS? WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE KNOWN AS THE PERSON WHO CAUSED A COVID19 OUTBREAK, PERHAPS KILLING MANY?
Last...
EXHIBIT G: The Poster Posted A Few More Jobs, BUT YOU MIGHT NOTICE A DIFFERENCE...
Very interesting. So for combined talent and equipment positions, The Poster is offering $500 a day for what should be $2100 per day. Then they’re asking $150 a day for a COVID19 compliance officer, who should be at least $300 a day.
BUT when it comes to needing a sales agent, The Poster is offering $10,000 a month.
If that doesn’t reek of someone who doesn’t give a single shit about people in the creative fields, their earnings or health and well-being, I don’t know what does.
Do your research, ask good questions, find out if they’re short-changing certain people and then paying other people book rates.
If they are doing so, then you know - they don’t value you or the work you do.
“Peeling Potatoes” may pay more than you do
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“Cover Letters are as fun to read as peeling a bag of potatoes, so let your personality shine through, and tell us why we should really, honestly, choose you.” Dear prospective employer, I wish to work for you so that I may earn less than a person peeling potatoes might earn, despite my numerous skills I acquired over the years of expensive specialized education and talents I honed while working at other paying or non-paying positions. I have been working and volunteering so I may get to the point where I can get paid $2900 per month in a city where the average rent is $2100 + hydro + internet + phone + transit + clothes + equipment + massive student debt + taxes + medical expenses, and well, groceries & eating...I guess.
In a nutshell, I would like to work FOR YOU. In the sense that I will *LOSE* money working FOR YOU.
Also I am glad you do not discriminate against so many categories. Do you also not discriminate against people in poverty? As that’s what I’ll be a few months into working for you.
How’d you like that honesty?
Please pick me. Yours,
#whyourindustrysucks
MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR COMPANY; WAGES THAT DON’T REFLECT THAT
Nice to see a multi-million company paying so little and expecting so much.
How cute.
THE WORST OFFENDER EVER
“This is what you have been looking for.”
Not getting paid ANYTHING for 6 months, despite having a year of experience, volunteering for a MORTGAGE BROKERAGE who literally prints money for a living.
Fuck this and fuck them.
THIS IS HOW YOU DO INTERNSHIPS!
This company gets it!
See this internship posting? This is a company you want to work for!
Why?
1) They’re offering decent internship wages, which means that they understand that the rate should go up if you do good work and are hired (and they even mention the possibility for such).
2) They’re *paying* people to do a work-trial, rather than possibly trying to get away with free labour / contents, by not hiring their intern full-time.
3) The years experience they are asking for are suitable for the internship rate.
Everyone else - take notice! This is how you do internships. Legally in Canada, an intern cannot be doing work that a paid employee could do.