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- - - - 3. Consistency is not the norm in much of the production world. You work project to project. A day, here a week there, a month, a couple of months or maybe an entire project. Hustling culture is big in the biz.
        
        4. Fringe of society people, people in recovery. There are so many of these people there are even AA meetings at big events. It is a big attraction for eccentric types who don't fit into office corporate environments. Not many places for them to go for employment. You can have a tattooed neck & wear a goat whore T - shirt, go to work and not get in much trouble.
        
        5. Extremes in all aspects of the biz, from hours to workloads and so much more, it draws in a certain type.
        
        6. Easy to create fear FROM SCARCITY
        
        getting grounded this is used to scare staff and keep them in their place. They will stop calling you for months sometimes or even tell you that you did something wrong so they will not call you for a few events. Often you don't know what you did exactly, you know they are upset but about what you don't know. Then they will start to call you again and they spread the word about you to everyone so no one calls you. It is often very confusing.
        
        The arts are viewed as a place full of artists and society affords them a big berth of tolerance as far as behavior goes because we see artists as eccentric and accept it. This is a great way to hide if you are disordered or a criminal. Most people in the biz consider themselves artists even if they are not, it is how you have to treat them and talk to them. The actual talent in the biz is very small but it is hard to define what an artist is so most people there see themselves as such.
- - - - 3. The actual companies who put on events, festivals, or tours often do not own much of anything. They hire companies to do these things. One company does the stages, one does the garbage, one does the catering, etc. Those companies then continue to farm work out to subcontractors so someone is actually working for someone entirely different than who runs the entire event. Even if the company itself is hiring you they find loopholes and you are not really working for them but for a payroll company. It is set up this way to get around any liability.
        
        4. A company can simply go out of biz, file bankruptcy and drop all responsibilities to creditors and employees. Then start another company in the biz doing the same thing and start all over again within months.
        
        5. Government agencies don't care and in states like CA are ignoring problems because the industry is such a big moneymaker. There is so much red tape in even reporting that most people don't bother. I am sure the oil and gas biz, as well as manufacturing, get far more scrutiny than entertainment does here, so much so that many have left the state.
        
        Companies are not keeping track of what is going on within their own organizations, they have diversity teams but no one watching these things. Managers are working several jobs including leaving that one to work on another one sometimes in another country or state, their teams are expected to lie to admins about it.
        
        Things are very fly by night and short in duration by the time the event or project is over everything is torn down and the people you work for have gone onto another project in another state with another company very hard to track anything.
        
        Managers are monopolizing all the work in the biz. There is no union or job board really to keep track of anything many of these companies have a scant HR department. The job sites that cater to this biz are also scams and no one gets any real work.
        
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  - - - CrewNation & Musicares are now these companies profit tax free while appearing to provide care to people in the biz. They do nothing. No real mental health services, financial services. Actually you don't have time to really focus on health at all.
        
        How legal is it employment wise to have an entire industry doing this? Sure this is entertainment but these companies are still corporate at the end of the day so you have very corporate companies taking money from their own staff for future work and payment from their clients for future services. How many other industries would be given this much ignorance from media had they been caught doing it?
        
        The transientness of the biz is how this has happened. A small group of people manage the same thing for several companies so who you work for changes all the time as far as what name is on the payroll but it is the same managers. A small group of women who control it all. It is easy to get lost and create your own little world in a situation like this with everything else around you changing. Location, company, days.
        
        zero meritocracy - these are jobs that people get via word of mouth and because they are friends with someone who gets them in but I does beg the question then are people getting work based on their merit or simply on knowing someone and paying into stay there? How safe is it?
- - - - 3. The only education you get from any of them is sexual harassment training, occasionally that is missing a lot & stops no sexual harassment. No protocols for handling money, dealing with serious issues like security or a terror attack. Managing vehicles & heavy equipment. Zero training on much of anything.
        
        Lack of financial control or literacy. That is why the staff are always paying for the managers lives. FAST MONEY GOES FAST! They don't save, the work is inconsistent and contracts about what you will actually get paid are flighty. No support for people in the biz with this.
        
        5. You pay to work. Often on the hook for your own expenses, travel, meals etc. You often don't even break even on some of these.
- - - - Disconnect from the company to the event and the departments in them. Again, the company is out of 1 state, but the event is in another state. Crew and staff are from other states & if they have an office on site it is far away from where their department offices are at. Basically the companies have no idea what is going on in their organization & no where for people to go for help.
        
        Girl boss culture - The middle managers of the biz are women, mostly white, upper-middle-class, educated, heavyset, heavily tattooed with facial piercings, wearing leggings, colored hair, not many are married or have kids and those that do are often married to foreign men looking for green cards and a US passport for their careers. While US citizens doesn't get such luxuries in other countries.
        
        POWER - The middle management in this biz have tremendous power despite their low pay and complaints that they suffer in a male-dominated world. They are the gate keepers to the biz they control entry-level work and those who do those jobs. They can decide if you move up and where or if you get called back at all for another job at all.
        
        BIG MONEY/LITTLE CHIPS - Again the management & admins of these big companies know this is going on but if they are asked about it will say they didn't know. They move around large & small amounts of money in that biz. The amount that their middle management are taking is small compared to the bigger amounts they are dealing with so they ignore it & them. Until they are faced with it they will continue to pretend & view it as collateral damages.
  - - - Tough culture the attitude that you have to be "tough" and roll with the punches you do, but if you get abused, physically, financially or mentally and if you speak up about the amount of work etc you get called weak. The irony is that so many of the managers in this biz are asking for money and super dependent upon their staff for emotional support out of work.
        
        DRUGS & SEX AND ROCK & ROLL - Mental health issues are common due to the hours, the extremes and the types who seek out the biz. Massive drug abuse mostly of prescription drugs. Ambient, Adderall, benzos. I know 5 women with serious thyroid issues and things like H-Pylori are common. Not a lot of sleep, moving in and out of time zones all the time. No one has time to really take care of themselves with the hours they keep so they self medicate with drugs and alcohol, bad alcoholics. Booze is used to buy off people.
        
        TELESCOPIC PHILANTHROPY - LEFT-WING WOKE MENTALITY AMONG SO MANY IN THE BIZ ESPECIALLY AMONG THE MANAGERS & TALENT. GIRLBOSS AGAIN. YET FINANCIAL AND MENTAL EXPLOITATION OF LOW WAGE PEOPLE IS GOING ON, THESE PEOPLE WILL GO ON STAGE OR SOCIAL MEDIA TO PROTEST INJUSTICE IN THE WORLD BUT IGNORE IT GOING ON IN THEIR OWN WORLD.
        
        VICTIM MENTALITY AMONG MANAGERS VICTIMS TO THE "MALE DOMINATED" INDUSTRY THEY ARE IN, VICTIMS TO "MANSPLAINING". ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THEIR ACTIONS, IT IS ALWAYS SOMEONE ELSE'S FAULT DESPITE THEM CHOOSING ENTRY LEVEL WORK AS A CAREER WHEN THERE ARE OTHER OPTIONS.
        
        The talent is never allowed to know this goes on for plenty of reasons. They should know it is happening in their name & with their advances.
        
        INFLUENCER CULTURE - MANAGERS ARE ALWAYS USING THE CREW AND THE SITE AS WELL AS SOME OF THE TALENT AS A BACKDROPS TO THEIR LIVES ONLINE. THEY ARE LIKE INFLUENCERS IN THE INDUSTRY AND DEFINITELY IN THE PRODUCTION WORLD. YOU ARE ALWAYS EXPECTED TO GO TAKE PICTURES WITH THEM ALL THE TIME.
        
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      - FIERCE COMPETITION EVERYONE WANTS TO BE IN THE BIZ WHICH IS A BIG PART OF THE HUSTLE. No consistency. You don't go to the same job everyday or even the same place.
        
        LAZY: The people who set this situation up, don't want to compete with anyone, like the thousands of others who still have to compete for jobs and opportunities in their industry. They have an arrangement where they don't have to, they don't want to improve skills or develop new ones so they can grow out of these entry-level jobs & move into careers. They have found a nice place to stay, profit, and control others from the young and impressionable, to the truly eccentric outsiders to the seasoned professionals dependent upon them regularly, all the way up to the most powerful in the biz. The jobs they do are clerical, often inside an office, and something most people could do with just a GED or high school education (I know because I can do them). There are many very skilled people in the business, they get paid well enough to not resort to manipulation to pay their bills, they have responsibilities and a realistic attitude towards their lives and finances. They don't expect anyone to pay their way through anything and realize that their "career" is just that a career. They understand that their pursuits of going into the business will be hard, uncomfortable, and exhausting they will face the elements, live a life unlike most normal people and they will be responsible for life and death situations, the reward for their hard work will be a decent paycheck but that they will be ultimately responsible for their career & personal life. Everyone else in this biz has to make sacrifices, personal, familial, and professional sacrifices, except these individuals. The only effort these people really put into anything is creating drama to keep their jobs so they can look like they work so hard and sacrifice so much, they put a lot of effort into keeping their terrible jobs that pay badly and are not careers. Zero effort into themselves, their profession, their families or the own health.
    - - Many, but not all people there think it is okay to be like this, they don't see problems with how things are going. They just shrug their shoulders and go along with it. They see nothing wrong with it, but definitely have opinions of how other industries are or should be.
        
        Any questioning or disagreeability on your part is viewed very negatively. You are not to question your managers at all. Even if you are asked to do things that are illegal or unethical, dangerous etc. You are expected to work for free as much as they can get out of you.
        
        You spend so much time with these people, often more than with you own family, friends etc. They call you family a lot.
        
        If you dare to challenge or disagree you are at first targeted, they needle you constantly, finding fault with anything you do, even if you do nothing wrong at all. Then they stop calling you and then spread rumors about you to everyone making it very difficult find work. You get black listed. So people don't speak up out of fear of losing work. You learn about the rumors way after and have no recourse to defend yourself.
        
        You are expected to be available whenever, wherever with the managers. Paid or not, when they call you better answer immediately. Your answer better be yes and if it isn't that also puts you on a type of list where they stop calling so much.
        
        You are supposed to surrender your whole life to the work, they want to know all kinds of aspects of your personal life and if you keep your personal life private they don't trust you. They use social media to follow up with you and all the jobs are there as well in FB groups. You are supposed to put your personal life on display for them as well often on social medial
        
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