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Originally Posted by assistantguy  Redvelvet, yeah we've had a heart to heart and he keeps assuring me that he's doing all he can to get the studio bills caught up as well as payroll. His logic is that if he pays me and doesn't pay the power bill the studio will close down, but if he pays the power bill and puts off paying me, then the studio can continue to employ me. I see what he's talking about, but it's still no legal and I'm still on call at a moment's notice to work, yet not getting paid for it.
I think I'll be sticking it out while looking for another position, AND try working my contacts a little bit just to get the heck out of here.
oh and to Ronan, every other gearslut, and jerky assistant engineer for that matter keeps trying to get me out of this industry just because I have a family already, they can shut it, I'm not going anywhere. |
best of luck to you man - sounds like he's being honest with you and doesn't have the dough himself. also sounds like you've signed on for this - I honestly don't see you being taken advantage of - you have cosigned this now.
If you are only sticking around to see what if he'll pay what he owes you - I'd leave now - he owes you either way, and you need to get paid sooner than later - the sooner you find work that pays, the less interested you'll be in the money he owes you (which you may, or may not ever see).
there's an old saying in the music biz "hits cure cancer" but I don't know what that means in the studio biz unless you book a big fat A Lister for a month or two...
you may want to get out a calculator and see how much time he'd need to book to get current, and then ask yourself if you think that's realistic...