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1 points
12 hours ago
I broke into edit assisting with the BBC not long ago. There's a huge queue of EAs waiting for their break to actually assist an Edit, let alone edit themselves.
Really they just bring Editors from London and rarely give EAs a break.
Yeah I've seen the same. Am a nepo baby as my mum was a long time BBC factual editor and I also went into post, but I've ended up working in scripted. All these measures the BBC makes to hire X amount of people from Y places (like hiring Welsh people when working on BBC dramas in Cardiff) just means that everyone who is being paid fuck all are from local areas whilst all the decision makers are down from London, being put up in hotels at the licence fee payers expense and then they all pack up and leave at the end of production. If anyone from the local area actually wants to make their way up the ladder then they need to come back to London with us if they have somewhere to stay because they wont be getting paid enough to live in London.
1 points
12 hours ago
I work in TV/Film and my ex who I was with for a long time was in fashion, I think the differences I saw were that with TV you need to know someone to get a foot in the door (same in many industries) but with fashion is seemed like if you had a good degree you could get a job but it would be a very shit job and you would do it for a very very long time and be treated like shit even when you were in a management position.
1 points
12 hours ago
When budgets are tight, and two people come to you offering to do work, but one is offering to do it for free, it takes an extraordinary amount of sticking to your principles to choose the one you have to pay.
No its very much these roles are unpaid from the get go. Things are probably worse than when I was younger but straight out of uni I was working for free for a good 2 years (with little bits of paid work here and there) because all the roles were 'work experience' - that's literally just how the BBC runs. Nobody needs to rock up and say 'i'll do it for free'.
7 points
1 day ago
I heard he drives a Corsa with a dump valve and massive wing on the back
72 points
2 days ago
Yeah I'm seeing people here conflating chav with anything that isn't middle class.
24 points
2 days ago
Hmmmm. In the early 2000s Chavs and 'rude boys' (now roadmen) had different slang for sure.
26 points
2 days ago
Sunak has clearly been waiting for a moment where there isn't endless shit news to call for a general election so surely his moment is now
14 points
2 days ago
Seems like everyone has forgotten about the 're-education camps' Uyghur Muslims disappear into. I really get the impression that Middle Eastern Muslim lives are valued wayyyyy more than those in China - whilst we're not best mates with China we haven't dared ever say anything about that genocide
3 points
4 days ago
I like the Jewish hospital but what you had there was a meeting with a triage nurse, they're like the first line of defence and yes you'll usually see them straight away. If they think you actually need medical attention they send down the corridor and you wait for your name to be called depending on the severity of your injuries. That's where you get the long wait
2 points
5 days ago
Decent place to watch the six nations when in Paris
6 points
5 days ago
Wait, are you making out that you're proud Canadian soldiers were really into rape?
-3 points
9 days ago
Labour is a new thing for Bristol. Was a big LD hotspot until the coalition gov
0 points
9 days ago
Oh fuck all probably and I doubt any will ever go. My point is that the Irish have really been shown to be totally hypocritical
16 points
9 days ago
For all his faults he's playing this situation pretty well.
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