Monday intrigue
Feb. 4th, 2019 02:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jkatkinaToday, someone anonymously dropped off a cake in the kitchen that had, on the top, giant and in icing, UNIONIZE.
I also saw a coworker with fairly radical political leanings leaving with all her stuff in a box, not ten minutes later. Skinny says said coworker was moving to Ottawa, not that she got fired, but this does seem like exactly the kind of parting shot she'd make.
Honest to god the animation in this city does need to unionize. I live in a city with one of the highest costs of living, period. They pay us okay, they pay us what would have been good twenty years ago, but no one in the studio floor is making enough to have a decent living in this city, much less have a family or buy a house. It's only a matter of time before a. We unionize; b. Another Canadian city with a lower cost of living subsidizes animation and we all offload there to the first studio that opens; or c. We all boil off to more affordable cities and the studios here run out of workers.
We'll see if any of that happens before TL and I are forced to make the choice whether to keep living here or not.
In any case, the weekend was a lovely one. We went to a movie on Friday, spent most of Saturday in a coffee shop writing, and hosted DnD on Sunday. With the exception of having ruined a load of my favourite clothing by leaving a lip balm in a pocket (WAUGH), it was about as good a weekend as it could be.
I also saw a coworker with fairly radical political leanings leaving with all her stuff in a box, not ten minutes later. Skinny says said coworker was moving to Ottawa, not that she got fired, but this does seem like exactly the kind of parting shot she'd make.
Honest to god the animation in this city does need to unionize. I live in a city with one of the highest costs of living, period. They pay us okay, they pay us what would have been good twenty years ago, but no one in the studio floor is making enough to have a decent living in this city, much less have a family or buy a house. It's only a matter of time before a. We unionize; b. Another Canadian city with a lower cost of living subsidizes animation and we all offload there to the first studio that opens; or c. We all boil off to more affordable cities and the studios here run out of workers.
We'll see if any of that happens before TL and I are forced to make the choice whether to keep living here or not.
In any case, the weekend was a lovely one. We went to a movie on Friday, spent most of Saturday in a coffee shop writing, and hosted DnD on Sunday. With the exception of having ruined a load of my favourite clothing by leaving a lip balm in a pocket (WAUGH), it was about as good a weekend as it could be.
