DID WE JUST GET ANIMATION YAOI CRUMBS

ARE THEY GIVING IN

I DEMAND THAT THEY KISS WHEN THE ANIMATION WORKERS WIN

Also I need you to see the Bill they drew

I have worked lots of unpaid overtime, but the worst was over a period of three months where I worked about 13 hours a day. A friend of mine calculated what I should have made for that overtime (under BC Labour Law) and it was about $14,500. I lost almost $15,000 on unpaid overtime wages.

This didn't happen to me, but to my friend. They were working as an animator on a difficult show. They kept getting a handful of scenes sent back to them not because they weren't animated well, but because the director/clients kept changing their minds about what they wanted from these specific scenes. In 2 weeks of working full days + OT (including weekends) this person made 30 dollars. They told me if they weren't living with their parents at the time they wouldn't be able to afford this job.

I was made to feel guilty by a higher up when I had brought up the idea of asking for a raise. I had been working in that position for more than a year. They told me I needed to think of "all the others too" and not just myself. I ended up not asking for that raise.

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