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Written by Karen Woodward
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 When I read about the “recalculated” pay for WME Assistants, I couldn’t get past the fact that assistants are now paid hourly, which seems unnecessarily degrading.
In my day (which wasn’t that long ago) we were paid on a weekly basis, and I made $350/week as an assistant. The sucker agent trainees made $300. Note that this is before taxes, and is less than I make now on unemployment. Benefits were included and I recall that they were satisfactory and kicked in after three months. We didn’t get overtime until there was a lawsuit, and suddenly all the agencies had to pay up. But the caveat was that our boss’s had to sign off on it, and my boss refused to do so. It wasn’t until he found out that my parents didn’t supplement my income (?!) that he actually allowed me to get my overtime pay.
But I read this latest news about the WME assistants and I couldn’t get past the “hourly” scale. I did the math and realized that in a 50 hour week (the minimum that assistants are expected to work) I earned about $7/hr. I probably would have made more as an illegal fry cook.
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Written by Karen Woodward
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 I’ve been poking around Hulu.com during my funemployment time and came upon CTRL , an original web series. (It’s also on iTunes.) Now, I hate watching TV online and I hate webisodes, so I’m almost ashamed to admit that this one has me hooked.
The premise: Office drone Stuart (Tony Hale) discovers that his damaged keyboard can manipulate time and reality. This means that hitting “CTRL Z” on his keyboard will actually undo what just happened. “CTRL C” followed by “CTRL V” will actually copy and paste people. “F1” brings help, and so on, (when they run out of command shortcuts will the series be over? Will Stuart then hit “Shut Down”?).
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National Unemployment Day! |
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Written by Karen
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July 2nd is National Unemployment Day, a day set aside to celebrate the joys of not having to go to a job. The-day-to-day grind of job hunting is a miserable, humbling experience, and National Unemployment Day is the one day to blow off your job search and take a holiday in the middle of the week. It is a day to mock cubicle trolls who daydream at the nearest window. To giggle at the suckers slaving away in Wal Mart. To finally stop envying the postperson who gets to work in shorts. It is encouraged to “go large” on this day, (lap dances, shoe shopping, surfing) but just chasing down your local ice cream truck constitutes participation in the holiday. It is a day to get creative and exploit whatever pennies you may have in your bank and to care for the only person who really matters, YOU.
Drinking is not optional. Read all about National Unemplyment Day, including the legacy behind the day (featuring yours truly) at crackpotpress.com.
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