Hello, for obvious reasons this is a throwaway account so no one from work can find me. I work on a tv set for a show that plays locally and I am doing a variety of jobs including seting up lighting, filming, editing, doing audio, and making graphics and other elements for the program. I have a bachelors degree and am around 30k in debt with student loans. The show has been on around 10 years of which I have been working on it for less than a year.
This is where it gets tough. The boss is awful, she is always screaming and swearing over any little thing. Ive had unpleasant bosses before but this one takes the cake for sure. She is an older woman and has technological problems of all sorts and she is always calling for help at different times and keeping me on the phone for 4-8 hours after work fixing her computer problems and while she picks apart all of my work. It could be 1 am and I have to pick up the phone at risk of being fired. One of her favorite passtimes is telling people on set how she could fire them at any time. A normal day is around 12 hours of work filming then editing.
Well our program is getting significantly more popular and has been growing. Were getting a new set to film on and I will be getting a new office with a new computer to edit on. Until recentley I was getting about 22$ an hour for all my work on the show but we only filmed a few times a month, now that we are going to be on set more often she is offering me a 30k salary and said she will double it once I have "proved my worth" when that would be I am unsure.
Nothing is in writing and I was told I will essentially always be on call to help her and must remain by a computer to help her if she calls at any time of day or night.
People keep telling me how lucky I am that I will be working on a show that is getting this big but to me it is just awful. Is it worth staying with this job to get the experience and pay off my debt? At my previous job I only made 13$ an hour. There are no benifits or breaks on this job and if I asked she would probably just let me go.
Submitted December 02, 2017 at 10:36AM by Throwaway51719393736 http://ift.tt/2zYAs0U
