It's nice to be wanted.
Oct. 6th, 2006 12:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tyggerjaiSo, yesterday, I get a call from the boss of one of the crewing companies I work for, to confirm that I have my dogman's ticket. I do, since it's a pre-req for the rigging tickets I have, so she's able to send me on some gig for a notoriously ... difficult client, about which she was glad, because I, apparently, have a fabulous reputation for actually doing work, and doing it well. It's not hard, to be honest, to shine when you're working with career roadies.
But more exciting than that, on a day when I was going to sit at home and make phone calls because it's a slow week, I got a call from the rigging chief at a local hire company, with whom I'd worked (through the crewing company) on Wednesday. Now, this was a slightly tough ethical decision for me - if crewing company A send me to work for hire company B, and hire company B like me, and *I* suggest to hire company B that they might like to hire me directly, that's ... dubious. Even as a freelancer. But if I mention to someone from hire company B that I'm a licensed rigger, who's a freelancer and thus always looking for work, well, if they then call me, that's a little different, I think.
To be honest, the crewing company know I'm not going to be lugging roadcases forever - they're not a rigging company, so they never get asked for riggers (well, dogmen, apparently, but that's different), and I won't do grunt work for the hire company. So there's not a *huge* ethical clash there, they'll still have to hire grunts from the crewing company to bolt my truss together even when they're hiring me as a rigger.
And goddamn, it's just nice to have people call and say "My boys say you're a pretty good rigger ...." on a friday morning when you're about to start looking for more work.
[Edit: The answer, of course, is to call teh crewing company boss, say "Uh, I have an ethical question", and get her to say "Well, since you had the balls and courtesy to ask, and since they're hiring you as a rigger, which is not a service we really provide, I say go for it - you've got to earn a dollar. I'm not worried about the ethics as much as I'm worried about losing you!".
Daw. Now, to work a little harder at parlaying the reputation into cold hard cash ....]
sol.
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But more exciting than that, on a day when I was going to sit at home and make phone calls because it's a slow week, I got a call from the rigging chief at a local hire company, with whom I'd worked (through the crewing company) on Wednesday. Now, this was a slightly tough ethical decision for me - if crewing company A send me to work for hire company B, and hire company B like me, and *I* suggest to hire company B that they might like to hire me directly, that's ... dubious. Even as a freelancer. But if I mention to someone from hire company B that I'm a licensed rigger, who's a freelancer and thus always looking for work, well, if they then call me, that's a little different, I think.
To be honest, the crewing company know I'm not going to be lugging roadcases forever - they're not a rigging company, so they never get asked for riggers (well, dogmen, apparently, but that's different), and I won't do grunt work for the hire company. So there's not a *huge* ethical clash there, they'll still have to hire grunts from the crewing company to bolt my truss together even when they're hiring me as a rigger.
And goddamn, it's just nice to have people call and say "My boys say you're a pretty good rigger ...." on a friday morning when you're about to start looking for more work.
[Edit: The answer, of course, is to call teh crewing company boss, say "Uh, I have an ethical question", and get her to say "Well, since you had the balls and courtesy to ask, and since they're hiring you as a rigger, which is not a service we really provide, I say go for it - you've got to earn a dollar. I'm not worried about the ethics as much as I'm worried about losing you!".
Daw. Now, to work a little harder at parlaying the reputation into cold hard cash ....]
sol.
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Date: 2006-10-14 03:45 pm (UTC)See you back im Melbourne in time for the summer man.