Seriously!!! >:(
1) We're not a charity organization.
What do I mean?? Well, some girls would receive job messages from agents with unreasonable pay and whenever they do, I get annoyed. For example, expecting girls to wear bikinis and paying them at a super LOW rate. Then, they'll end of their message with "sorry budget low for this job."
So... budget low means I have to give you this "special" rate? Is it our problem that your budget is low, we need to earn a living ya know!!!!!!
Also, we encounter certain photographers asking us to do FREE portfolio shoots for them in different outfits (lingerie, bikini, casual) claiming that it will widen YOUR portfolio.
Yes, we are freelance girls but we are not a charity organisation who offers free services.
Most of the time when I work with low rates is because I am offering a favour to close friends of mine. For that, I close one eye.
2)Time factor.
I understand some of the freelance girls cannot compete with international model standards but if clients have known so in the first place. Do not waste our time just by simply asking us to go for castings if you don't intend to pick us girls in the first place and then go for agency girls.
We are not pissed because we got "rejected" for certain jobs. We are pissed because our time is
wasted!! Do you know how annoying is it to just do make up and dress properly for a merely 15 mins casting at town or somewhere further from where we live?
Plus, most of the girls are studying part time and I really feel for them whenever they have to rush down for jobs or castings right after school or in between 1hr school breaks.
3) Welfare.
We are all humans, we need food to eat whenever we are hungry.
I absolutely hate it to the core whenever clients make a fuss when they see girls eating event food. When I say food, I mean small servings of canapés, or either a small bite of food just to last us for the whole event. For me, I always wake up just in time for preparations and travelling time and I ALWAYS do not consider the time I need for dinner or lunch, so I go to work empty stomach.
WHY SO STINGY??? Hello? You have hundreds of guest attending in your event, just by eating one canape won't hurt!!!!!!!! Ok.. maybe some clients are nicer, they give us food but its cold..
-.-
Ok, we appreciate it but do you know how it feels like eating cold food?
Oh well, we can't ask for much can't we? By the way, I think whenever event girls get to eat food while working, we eat like monsters!! Hahahahaha!
Not to forget, our nice agents would help us to get food and make sure we had or meals:)
4) Photo taking
Keep your hands and your eyes to yourself.
I don't really favour doing public party events because you will meet so many weird people.
Really. It happens often and even we recognise a few pervert photographers. I don't hesitate to walk away and reject taking a photo whenever I see them. Simply because I don't want photos to circulate around forums and have weird people talking about them. Urghh and throughout these years working, they are still the SAME FEW! Yes, they go to such extent. IT SHOWS, fashion shows, whatever that is open to the public. I don't understand what do they do with these photos. Worse of all, they follow you around when you have a roving job.
Wanna kick them with my heels >:(
5) Punctuality.
PAY. Usually for us, we get our pay at every end of the month either that we will be paid a month later. For example, if I am working for an event on 2nd of march, I should get my pay by the end of 2nd april. Sincerely, I appreciate those agents or clients submitting pay on time or even earlier than expected. :)
BUT, for those we keeps us waiting for months and months and months, need to spare a thought.
*flips table*
Do you know how tiring is it to chase for our pay and sending texts like "is pay in? When is pay coming in? " Ok. Maybe some would have reasons like because main client have not paid them so pay is not in yet.
So.. am I going to starve to death for the next month? or maybe my family need to(some girls work for the money because they have a family of their own .)
Come out from your own pocket first la!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One of the major reasons why we do not want to work for agents is because their pay takes TOO LONG to come in. I had to wait for 9 months just for $300, it was just too depressing asking and asking.
Get irritated because we kept asking right? We are irritated also ok, nothing is free in this world so better pay up!!
To conclude, this post is not directed to any one in particular. These are some things that I cannot tolerate whenever working for events.
Nevertheless, I love my job and I love it even more whenever I'm working with the same few girls :)
Today, I survived a 8 hour shoot with my sista, eexuan. Both of us were completely drained by the end of the shoot, but I'm glad the pictures came out very nicely.
Being back home, lying on my bed is bliss!
Nights :)
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