Aaron Cadieux
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Well, thanks for your input, and I appreciate your point of view. And if any potential future employers of mine read the cow, and my posts prevent me from getting hired, it’s probably for the better. If they don’t like my point of view, it would save them and me from an unpleasant working relationship. To tell you the truth, I wouldn’t really care if my current employer saw the posts. After all, it’s better to have someone venting to strangers online than causing a scene in the workplace (which I have never, and will never do).
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Yes, they are fully aware of my business. I actually handle their DVD duplication. Thus far, there haven’t been any conflicts.
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It’s interesting to see the difference of opinions I get on this site. Most of you are seasoned professionals, which leads me to believe that most of you are the boss. I think the bosses are giving me boss answers and employees are giving me employee answers (which is only natural). I can say I’m in a bad situation until I’m blue in the face, and the majority of the people on this forum (the bosses) will think I’m a snot-nosed spoiled-brat punk, and that’s fine. I tend to think that most of the people telling me to ‘suck it up’ have probably dumped personal crap on their employees at one time or another. And, unfortunately, in these economic times, it’s not as easy as packing up and moving on. But believe me, I’m always looking. Hopefully someday my own company will be solid enough for me to jump ship.
As a professional, I always try to do what’s ethical (especially when dealing with my own freelance clients and sub-contractors). Maybe I’m too nice, but I would NEVER ask an employee of mine (should I someday have employees) to work on a personal project of mine without additional compensation (no matter if it’s office hours or extra hours, no matter if we’re buried in work, or dead in the water).
In the end, I guess I’m just shocked that so many people find it acceptable that someone should have to work on personal projects for their bosses at work.
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We are chin-deep in paying gigs right now in addition to the personal project(s) that they’ve been having me do.
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Big Operations is my freelance company. It’s not a full-time ad agency, so naturally it doesn’t bring in as much money.
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I guess I should have mentioned earlier that we are absolutely swamped with paying gigs right now, one of them being a 100k account. So, they’re having me work on this personal crap while there are paying clients waiting for their finished products.
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Thanks to all of you for your posts. I take a completely different view to doing ANY personal projects at any time (office hours or not) at this agency. It’s been understood between my employers and I that I am long overdue for a raise. With this recent move to the new location, I was told I would see the raise shortly. It’s very difficult putting time and effort into projects that don’t bring in the dough. No dough = no raise. Them asking me to do personal projects on company time is like a nurse’s boss telling her “today you’re assignment is to go take care of my mother at my house instead of your patients on the floor”.
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Thanks for your input. But I have to respectfully disagree with you. Obviously it’s not unreasonable to ask a bi-lingual person to edit a video in another language. I, on the other hand, do not speak a word of Spanish (besides Gracias). It would be one thing if it were only a Spanish V/O track (I’ve worked with those before), but to expect me to edit interview segments in Spanish is absurd. Even if I get a translation done for me, I would only get the jist of what they’re saying, and would have no idea where to make precise edits. For what I get paid, taking out of my personal life to take Spanish lessons is out of the question. They’ll never find someone else, bi-ligual, or otherwise, to do what I do for less.
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Matt,
Did you ever have any luck with this? I am having the same problem.
-Aaron
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well, there is 0 street noise, i can tell you that. i’m not sure on the exact demensions, but it’s an extra wide 2 car garage. the ceiligns are 9 feet high. the floor is a run-of-the-mill concrete floor…very well poured and smooth. and yes, there is access to plumbing. obviously a garage can’t handle every shoot under the sun, but for relatively small-scale stuff, i dont see it being an issue. I’d have to have an electrcian customize the power situation in there im sure.