tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839368858765224916.post1466813005788631736..comments2023-11-25T02:05:12.827-08:00Comments on The Hollywood Temp Diaries: My life in Hollywood sucks because...Temp Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05758244499684711232noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839368858765224916.post-53808267286662684112012-04-12T18:33:38.820-07:002012-04-12T18:33:38.820-07:00Where do I even begin... I am an Office Peon and I...Where do I even begin... I am an Office Peon and I get walked over more than your average door mat. On a seemingly daily basis I have to deal with the dreaded Stage Mom, the self absorbed actor, the pretentious co-worker and Hollywood Hopefuls. Instead of getting mad I write a blog about all my misadventures. Check it out http://confessionsofanofficepeon.tumblr.com/post/19189073415/the-one-about-mr-moneybagsTheOfficePeonhttp://confessionsofanofficepeon.tumblr.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839368858765224916.post-24463762140877002372012-04-04T19:51:03.385-07:002012-04-04T19:51:03.385-07:00Sent out 20 resumes for jobs I'm overqualified...Sent out 20 resumes for jobs I'm overqualified for in hopes that ONE of them will just give me a phone interview. After doing that I went down to the street to move my car for street sweeping only to find out it had been towed. I paid the $489 in ransom for my car only to get back to my tiny apartment with e-mails from two separate friends who are having out of the country weddings this summer... So, all of those min. wage jobs should be coming in handy to pay off student loans, rent, traveling and not to mention wedding gifts. FMLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839368858765224916.post-61008175339188431132012-04-03T15:31:07.426-07:002012-04-03T15:31:07.426-07:00I was blamed for a creditor charging my boss' ...I was blamed for a creditor charging my boss' business account for a medical bill of her daughter's that she failed to pay. She swore up and down that I must have given them approval to take the money and screamed at me for days. After calling and calling them I found out that they charged her becuase she gave them her billing info and had promised to mail a money order... After I relayed this info all I got was an "Oh".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839368858765224916.post-70726492030970811302012-03-05T06:20:47.520-08:002012-03-05T06:20:47.520-08:00Because I'm about to graduate terrified that I...Because I'm about to graduate terrified that I won't find employment and default on my loansprettysummergurlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18198523740635785106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839368858765224916.post-68641272325454466972012-03-04T04:16:55.229-08:002012-03-04T04:16:55.229-08:00I've been in entertainment for 4 years...........I've been in entertainment for 4 years.........and somehow manage to be paid less than the day I started.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839368858765224916.post-60597651863986756932012-03-01T16:08:54.598-08:002012-03-01T16:08:54.598-08:00After graduating college I received a job as an ex...After graduating college I received a job as an executive assistant for a production/casting company. After loyally working 9 months for less then minimum wage, no lunch breaks, no over time and always working a 60 hour week I was fired (via email after closing the office up at midnight) because another casting office emailed me interested in offering me a job with higher pay. How my boss came across the email in my personal inbox I will never know, but the worst part is that I had told the offering casting office I was not interested because I felt I couldn't leave my boss in such a time of need. So in the long run being loyal to a company proved nothing and Hollywood is teaching me the hard way to become extremely selfish to get ahead. No thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839368858765224916.post-11097586648216829642012-02-17T23:12:19.683-08:002012-02-17T23:12:19.683-08:00And I love this site. All of your comments are ho...And I love this site. All of your comments are honest, refreshing, and sadly reflective of what many of us smart, qualified people are going through. I grew up in the entertainment industry with a TV/film producer father, but he's gone now, and I'm running up against the fierce "unsolicited material" rule when trying to submit screenplays to agents, managers, and studios. <br /><br />But as one inspiring person wrote on this site, we can never give up, give in, or abandon our dreams.<br /><br />Good luck to everyone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839368858765224916.post-3327411344782843222012-02-17T23:07:57.907-08:002012-02-17T23:07:57.907-08:00I'm a published entertainment author and publi...I'm a published entertainment author and published journalist. I cover screenplays for a major talent/literary agency, and am sleeping in my car with my dog. Laid off from a 7-year radio broadcasting job, and don't make enough money to get a decent apartment in Los Angeles.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839368858765224916.post-81398807440351303062012-01-06T13:39:42.065-08:002012-01-06T13:39:42.065-08:00Because I get cry-baby, whiny emails from my boss ...Because I get cry-baby, whiny emails from my boss like this, "the window in front of me is making me nauseous with the birdpoop all over it. can office services maybe clean it today?"<br />AND I get a daily "List" email that are 98% personl & MAYBE 2% work related & I was hired as an Exec. Asst., not a personal asst.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839368858765224916.post-82009935812481628582011-12-05T12:06:32.897-08:002011-12-05T12:06:32.897-08:00I slept my way through a temp agency and still can...I slept my way through a temp agency and still can't get hired.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839368858765224916.post-77876058000935239372011-10-17T11:21:40.064-07:002011-10-17T11:21:40.064-07:00Because I'm smarter than the other unemployed ...Because I'm smarter than the other unemployed workers here, including the one who thinks "irregardless" is a word,and the one who wrote "scene" instead of "seen." I was laid off by my boss (and now former friend) exactly two days after Christmas 2010, during an illegal forced hiatus at ABC, and I don't mean the Alcohol Bureau of lack of Control. Because a crazy writer-director who stalked me has a career, while my script about the deviant fool doesn't get a bite, and that bites. I have no problem getting a parking spot in Manhattan, but can't get a fucking break here after 24 years. Oops, am I allowed to say "fucking?" Fuck it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839368858765224916.post-83634256622636146572011-10-09T21:55:28.022-07:002011-10-09T21:55:28.022-07:00...Because I invested 30,000+ to better myself wit......Because I invested 30,000+ to better myself with a higher education, and now I go to work each day where I empty out my bosses trash and fetch him his coffee, not to mention the 30 other people that all need and want something out of me. All that hard work in the books as you can tell has paid off for me. I apply every day to at least five places, but it seems like you can only move up with if you have a title, I am more confused about what the heck it is I am supposed to be doing in life. The guy I am in love with and confessed that to has been using me for the past year, sure you say get rid of him, but I have to see him everyday, not by choice, it makes it so hard to have self confidence. I am a person of talent, but am terrified of believing in myself because I let my fears get the best of me. All I want is to just follow my dreams and be given a chance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839368858765224916.post-4815180228461572632011-10-07T11:04:27.662-07:002011-10-07T11:04:27.662-07:00Been looking for full time work for 2 years. Got b...Been looking for full time work for 2 years. Got backstabbed from my last paying gig. Got let go from my internship when my boss tried to steal my project that i pitched to her. Not to mention thanking someone for giving you an opportunity in this town is scene as inappropriate. All i have to say is F this bullshit. I love how there are so many idiots who do the hiring these days. They choose to hire morons instead of smart people with a brain. What has the world come to. Take me back to pre 2007.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839368858765224916.post-12557287068730304732011-10-05T15:35:13.893-07:002011-10-05T15:35:13.893-07:00been evicted, homeless, unemployed, charged for cr...been evicted, homeless, unemployed, charged for crimes I had nothing to do with, and back stabbed...<br /><br />It's a rough world out here but Praise God, He will lift us up in His time. Wish you all the best. We can't give up. The rest of the world escapes through our dreams.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839368858765224916.post-42035370348500826942011-10-05T13:41:20.430-07:002011-10-05T13:41:20.430-07:00When I asked why the pay was so low for assisting ...When I asked why the pay was so low for assisting an A-list producer, was told they want someone that wants the job, not the paycheck.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839368858765224916.post-56948358296103414442011-08-01T13:01:59.633-07:002011-08-01T13:01:59.633-07:00I've been looking for a permanent job for 2 ye...I've been looking for a permanent job for 2 years because of this damn recession. Went on interview for publicist asst last week where an Accountant interviewed me in place of the Publicist because they were busy. I then get an email saying they are going with another candidate when initially they wanted to take their time in recruiting. Now I see the same position still open on the "Temp Diaries"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839368858765224916.post-79325746768305801992011-06-04T14:38:22.340-07:002011-06-04T14:38:22.340-07:00I took a conference call while in bed with a 102 d...I took a conference call while in bed with a 102 degree fever. Then my boss called to say I need to be working harder.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839368858765224916.post-44686832414068296902011-05-09T11:30:29.040-07:002011-05-09T11:30:29.040-07:00I am interning with two companies and struggling t...I am interning with two companies and struggling to get any assistant work or any type of PA set work, no one will call back, I am just getting into cold calling but with little light at the end of the tunnel! not to mention even getting restaurant work seems even harder! i've had half a dozen interviews have been offered two jobs then they pull out at the last minute.... WHAT AM I DOING WRONG!!!!!<br />Does any one have any suggestions? Or is it just this hard here?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839368858765224916.post-58432806472310658772011-03-31T11:04:15.159-07:002011-03-31T11:04:15.159-07:00I'm a Personal Assistant.
I've worked all...I'm a Personal Assistant. <br />I've worked all over the US and in Cannes. Can I get a call back on anything? No.Figmenthttp://www.theunexaminedshelves.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839368858765224916.post-44332897353171457272011-03-21T14:44:32.953-07:002011-03-21T14:44:32.953-07:00I'm 28, and have over ten years of work experi...I'm 28, and have over ten years of work experience. I graduated with honors and a Bachelor of Arts degree from a top film school. A job application just asked me if I've completed the first grade.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839368858765224916.post-72947071778084251532011-03-02T15:08:55.767-08:002011-03-02T15:08:55.767-08:00The first temp job I got since December... cancell...The first temp job I got since December... cancelled. The last film I worked on (for free) was purchased at Sundance, but my credit turned out to be... "intern", so guess who doesn't get deferred pay?!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839368858765224916.post-73112180882945905282011-02-14T23:09:07.385-08:002011-02-14T23:09:07.385-08:00I am in a state to applaud your creativity dude…ho...I am in a state to applaud your creativity dude…how can you ever think that something as common as this can do like this.These one is just awesome and a refreshingly new article.Discount Viagrahttp://www.mynetpharma.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839368858765224916.post-9140657172276859262011-02-07T01:58:58.082-08:002011-02-07T01:58:58.082-08:00i had to mail my bosses feces to a lab. oh lawd. t...i had to mail my bosses feces to a lab. oh lawd. two degrees. and its come to this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839368858765224916.post-56230067602252753012011-02-03T13:20:52.265-08:002011-02-03T13:20:52.265-08:00Because I helped a friend get a job in my departme...Because I helped a friend get a job in my department, only to find out she's the BIGGEST kiss ass and is moving in on my job. And lord knows everyone in this town loves a kiss ass.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7839368858765224916.post-85540514717894193632011-01-20T21:55:24.643-08:002011-01-20T21:55:24.643-08:00Was laid off from the highest grossing studio last...Was laid off from the highest grossing studio last September because they wanted to save 10 Million and my position was "redundant" then read the comments on the Huffington Post article about it and just loved how people grabbed a calculator to find the average of 188K, assuming we all made the same pay. Try maybe 1/6 of that, asshole, and now I'm unemployed with no leads working an unpaid internship. Oh, and my HR rep had steered me away from transferring to a new position because it was a big pay cut. I think unemployment is a bigger cut, bitch.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com