Does your employer exploit you?

Question

In our play a blackout on the furnished living room set is followed almost at once by lights up on an empty room with an estate agent showing a couple round and we the actors are expected to help carry off all the furniture because of the quick change. I'm an actor not a removal person and there's no extra money. "I don't mind a joke but f*ck a pantomime" as an old actor friend of mine used to say. How are you used in your work?

Answer 1

I would hardly call actors being expected to help with stage prop removal as exploitation. If that's beneath your ego's ability to do, though, then you are free to either join another acting troupe, or find a different job.

Are all actors such prima-donnas? It certainly seems so at times. Sorry, but until your work involves making shoes 16 hours a day for a nickel an hour, at gunpoint, I don't think you really know what exploitation is.

Answer 2

your an actor, well here are a few tips...

1) remember you are an actor, possiblly some over pain jumped up upstart who has never done an honest day graft in there life.

2) get a real job. Try furniture removals

Answer 3

i have managers that spend so much time in a day having bl~~dy meetings , looking at targets and ways to generate leads that they don't actually do any work , and whilst everyone else is being abused by customers or sorting out problems generated by them , they continually demand to know why we are not performing?

Answer 4

I guess everybody needs to help sometimes with things we´re not payed for... we all started from somewhere and doing a bit of all...don´t you think? If you still complaining then talk to your buss...

Answer 5

I think you should get a real job.

Then see if you still complain.

Answer 6

We're ALL industrial prostitutes!!!

Answer 7

i'm not employed