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Zeus posted...

Those are the good guys!

Zeus posted...

Those are the bad guys!

In this case, Group A is asking Group B to stop making them work in long, unsafe hours, and to drastically increase the penalties when the aforementioned are violated. Group B is saying no, and how about we also remove the penalties altogether, and how about we cut the 3% salary COLA per annum in half, despite 3% being the standard in *all* US industries.

I'll leave you to decide who the heroes and villains are, here.

So once I find a relatable main character in this story and watch a montage of their day, I'm rooting against the executives

I mean, you can use me, since I, you know, post here, and work in this very industry.

I'm not going to make it seem like the Studios and Producers are all routinely cackling villains that see nothing but the bottom line. I've been on a few shows this year where it was just the opposite, they were quite nice, thoughtful, and stuck to 10 hour shooting days (something the industry workers have long been pushing for).

THAT said, the amount of times I've heard Producers/Execs go "Oh no, anyways..." when told one of their Crew members fell asleep at the wheel due to long hours and locations are far away is far too often, including the very show I'm on now. "The peasants want more?" is a paraphrase of things I've heard said literally with my own ears. Luckily, the studio I'm on with now has started to react/crackdown once they got wind of conditions on the ground, but the very same people that blow-off concerns over long, unsafe working conditions are those NOT exposed to aforementioned working conditions.

This is one of those times where it very much is a David v. Goliath story, and the David's are tired of this shit.

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