When I was a PA, I loved it too even though I got paid nothing. I was paying my bones for being in the industry just like everyone else SHOULD do. But let’s face it, these writers aren’t fighting for you or any other PA, they could care less. They demand respect by way of money. That’s just a way to sound less greedy. Do you know how much a coordinator makes? Or a 1st A.D.? Now do you know how much MORE they work? How they are the actual glue that holds production together? Probably not. Is the WGA fighting for them? They only say they are to gain favor while they put those people out of work. They didn’t make 6 figures for the past 5 seasons while they put away for a rainy day. They don’t get ANY residuals whilst sitting at home waiting for the WGA to put their dicks back in their pants. They don’t even get to bargain if they wanted to. As for PAs, they get no rights at all. BUT, they do learn everything from the ground up. It’s the apprenticeships of hollywood. But so many of these WGA and many above hte line people have never been there. They have no clue to what actually goes on. They just see money and prestige, not the multitudes that help them get it.

But guys like Jesus will work for 8 bucks an hour. What a loser.

Illegal aliens get more than 8 bucks an hour when they negotiate at home depot’s parking lot. In Spanish no less !!

Maybe you can feed the mutitudes on 8 bucks an hour, because your Jesus.

The devil

One thing I love to watch, as a PA, is how people express anger and disbelief upon hearing bullshit. I had a 1st AD once, the only words he’d ever speak were ‘Are you kidding me?’ and that was his gauge of anger. The man could put a million inflections on ‘Are you kidding me?’

Well, Mr. Verrone, Mr. Winship,

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME.

How foolish do you think we are, that we would continue to swallow your bullshit? Yes, it’s easy to paint a portrait of struggling Joe Gillis out on the picket lines for a few weeks, but when you red-shirted jackasses realized you were backed into a corner, needed something -ANYTHING- positive to report to keep from going belly-up, yes, you’ll cut a deal with WWP. But don’t fan that tired bullshit around. Why’d your reviled moguls leave? Because you chose the single most incendiary moment to make demands about reality television jurisdiction (what?). Fuck off. Quit wasting our time.

I make eight bucks an hour and I fucking love my job. Just because a script reader got blown one morning before sitting at a desk and reading your pile of garbage doesn’t make you cut from a different stock. Get to work. You’re part of a bigger picture, and your childish dick-measuring contests are only hurting an entire industry.

Jesus.