tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078779326914378322.post3696447276074822910..comments2024-03-22T14:40:33.276-07:00Comments on Blood, Sweat, and Tedium: Confessions of a Hollywood Juicer: PaperworkMichael Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02569781786039595929noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078779326914378322.post-22798824138134037682014-03-24T20:32:30.125-07:002014-03-24T20:32:30.125-07:00Odo --
Ouch -- taking the fall for a production o...Odo --<br /><br />Ouch -- taking the fall for a production office mistake like that sounds like one very bad day on set. You have my sympathy.<br /><br />PA's who think they're too good to do PA work baffle me, and I suspect most of them are not long for this business. Anybody who isn't willing to take the lumps and pay their dues isn't worth hiring in the first place.<br /><br />It's been a long time since I've seen your e-moniker here -- so welcome back, and thanks for tuning in...Michael Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02569781786039595929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078779326914378322.post-21147059494643146152014-03-24T11:37:46.880-07:002014-03-24T11:37:46.880-07:00Given the desperation of recent film school grads ...Given the desperation of recent film school grads to get hired as PA's, I'd say, "Too good to do the paperwork? I'll find someone who'll be happy to do it."<br /><br />Now the real "fun", for me, was getting into what should have been an avoidable confrontation with an actor, on location, because he's sure that he provided all the required docs, but the production office insisted that he didn't. (The production office was wrong, btw, and I had to take the hit. Yay!)odocoileushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15162147214174195198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078779326914378322.post-22043576471495539532014-03-24T10:07:00.836-07:002014-03-24T10:07:00.836-07:00Anonymous --
No doubt government paperwork takes ...Anonymous --<br /><br />No doubt government paperwork takes the cake when it comes to bureaucratic redundancy. I suspect much of what we in the film/television industry confront when starting a new job stems from efforts by the parent corporations to comply with government rules. <br /><br />Far more distressing than the hassle of filling out all this paperwork is what happens to it once the job is over. I've talked to people who found masses of such paperwork -- with personal ID info for an entire crew -- in dumpsters on studio lots or used on other shows as set dressing for office sets. <br /><br />Back at the dawn of the digital era, there was much talk of the future "paperless office." It didn't quite work out that way, did it?<br /><br />Thanks for tuning in...Michael Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02569781786039595929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078779326914378322.post-50173896188215556532014-03-23T21:38:28.767-07:002014-03-23T21:38:28.767-07:00This post hits home. I do auditing work. We're...This post hits home. I do auditing work. We're actually paid reasonably well given a state license prohibiting competition by others without the right paperwork. <br /><br />The first killer is the *incredible* repetition of information. <br /><br />I will mention that absolutely NOTHING compares to government paperwork for folks inside govt projects. This is on all sides, from the expanding list of pamphlets that need to be handed out / posted or mailed within various periods to employees to the paperwork that must be collected and completed by employees. By the time Federal, State, County and City and employer boilerplate forms and acknowledgments are completed (beyond the ones everyone does by law) - that can easily be a FULL day of work. <br /><br />I especially love the ones that just reference obscure code sections without explaining even what they are about. Employee agrees that they understand that US code section xxx, sub-paragraph 2 as interpreted items a-e, exclusive of d applies to this agreement (over and over)<br /><br />The government will in some cases make it a condition that VOID paperwork be completed. So staff are required to fill out paperwork that must simply be shredded at some point after termination (usually obsolete forms like W-5's etc). <br /><br />Now pity the auditors, who have to write up someone very low on the totem pole for not forcing someone higher up on the pole to fill out some random form no longer even used within the allowable time-frames.<br /><br />It truly is a wild system.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com