I don’t get why their “friendship” is such a huge sticking point. I have liked most of my coworkers, and even gone out for drinks with them once or twice, but once I moved on to a new job...I moved on to new coworkers. Having good relationships with the people you spend a lot of time with is great and makes for a good…
The thrill of being ripped off.
I’ve got a friend who is super into cosplay. She hand casts accessories for costumes, of which she makes about two a year. It’s amazing work, but I have no idea how she finds the time. She’s got that “I don’t need to sleep” gene.
An uncomfortable number of RenFest fairies have told me how corsets are also their fetish. Your opening line should never be, “How does just wearing the corset feel? No, I mean with nothing else on” while attempting to touch a total stranger. Just let me look at the crystals and dragon plushes.
That language also has the insidious side-effect of implying you did not work for your job. This was gifted to you, through no effort of your own, and can be taken away at any time as if you were a spoiled child.
People treating these jobs like golden tickets is a real problem. You’re supposed to be grateful you got this honor. Anyone else would be so happy just for the opportunity. If you want to get ahead, this is what you have to do, there’s no other way, why are you being so difficult? If you’re too fragile to handle it,…
Ok but is the original costume design crew coming on board?
Illustration and design, all for publication. Starting out, I was a studio assistant and I did all the production work on top of a substantial portion of the art produced by the studio and got paid garbage. I didn’t find out how garbage I was paid until much later. I ended up despising where I worked and quit. A few…
I got a day gig a couple years ago after I got burnt out and needed just a nice, steady income stream and the ability to turn down some work that I found truly soul-crushing. Doing that and still freelancing in the evening is super tiring, but I also can’t imagine just stopping illustrating. I miss the pure freelance…
Freelance is feast or famine, it’s instilled in a lot of us to never turn down work, ever, because you don’t know when you’ll work next (especially if you’re just starting out). Doesn’t help that it’s an industry where people like to say, “you should be HAPPY to be doing this at all” and bosses reminding you how…
I’m really into Iceland’s idea where companies are audited and have to justify pay inequalities. I’m fine with other people being paid more because they do things I don’t, just so long as that’s the actual reason.
Fuuuuuuuuuck. Sing it from the rooftops.
I wouldn’t ask anyone to take that risk if they didn’t want to, is hard enough out there. But I would love politicians to make this an issue. Can’t we get those people banging on about the first amendment on this?
Yeah. It’s a shitty practice and I can’t believe someone hasn’t tried bringing it to court. Or if they have, they’ve failed, which is depressing.
It’s hard when you know there are professional repercussions for talking about it. My friends and I talk quietly to one another, but we found that people of a certain generation in the industry (40 and up) do not share our views so we keep the circle close. We don’t know if they’re retaliate, but I’ve been lectured by…
I really want it to be more ok for people to discuss their salaries. People are so money-squeemish. Having it instilled in us that talking about pay is uncouth has only hurt us. But keeping pay secret only helps employers, for the rest of us it’s powerful information.
I see this as a place where people in other parts of the food chain would start exercising this new Morality superpower.
Though not from a new organization, this is my favorite piece on the subject.