The Dirty Secrets of Your TradeSo, Television is a hot bed of lies, deceit and made up competitions. We can't say that we are that surprised... every job is full of this stuff. It's not like the newspapers currently kicking TV whilst it is down are all that innocent.
We'd like you to even things out a bit. Spill the beans on your own trade. Tell us the dirty secrets that the public need to know.
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chthonic, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 10:31)
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Where to begin...I used to work for the Benefits Agency, and part of the counter/'reception' staff's job (unofficially) was to scrutinise the daily local paper and then advise us when to stop claimant's benefit based on said claimant appearing in the paper. This was generally for when they'd been detained by police, hospitalised, actually sent down or in one actual case - dead.
I now work for a very large international arts festival, and if you're a performer who has just spent August with us then the chances are your venue ripped you off. We charge commission on the tickets we sell for you, but not actually us much as your venue probably told you. Robbing cunts.
I'd love to go into more detail about certain venue managers who are on our board of directors and their conflict of interest with a ticketing company...but you never know who is reading this.
(, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 17:35, Reply)
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