Picking up from last time –
I don’t remember what exactly was going on with Shahs, but I think for all intents and purposes it wasn’t coming back at least for a long time, because there was about a year break between episodes from early 2014 to early 2015.
So, in early 2014, as the season was coming to a close, I needed another job. Yet again, I turned to StaffMeUp.
I applied to basically any place I might even kinda sorta kinda be qualified for. I kept wanting to explore different areas of TV and things I might be able to do.
Being good at admin stuff, and having experience in post-production, I got this interview to be a post coordinator.
Now, at this place (Gurney, I’ll just tell you; I don’t care haha), they don’t actually have post-coordinators. They only have post supervisors. If you got hired as a post coordinator there, you were going to be acting as a post supervisor. You were going to be communicating with the network and holding a lot of the responsibility.
The only hired ‘coordinators’ (as supervisors) because they were trying to save money – which was a running theme.
Most even just coordinators (who didn’t have supervisor responsibilities) were making ~$1,200/week, give or take. But I was only offered $900/week since I had no credits in this role. That in an of itself seemed fair. You’re new, you make some less than standard.
But I was told if the first show went well, I’d get rolled over and get a raise. Well, when I got there, I learned that many people had been there with years and no raise – just an empty promise of one. Some even had to carry 2 or 3 shows which no raise.
It was a wild environment that grated on me more and more as time went on.
Every little thing just showed people being taken advantage of, and ethical things I thought were weird (like using illegal copies of software instead of bought ones).
And this is where I’ll pick up next time!