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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: More musicians lose jobs |
| Date | Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:27:12 -0500 |
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At 10:56 AM 3/31/2004 -0700, Sam Smith wrote:
>>I don't disagree that real actual people are being screwed here, on both
>>the artistic and the business side of the equation, but these people
>>presumably went into this business relationship with their eyes open. As
>>the old fable goes, they knew EMI was a snake when they let them in.
>>
>I think what you say here is both true and somewhat beside the point.
>It's more true in an environment where jobs are easy to come by, but in
>an economy where there just AREN'T any damned jobs, your sympathy for
>folks has to increase. It goes from "took the job with open eyes" to
>"took the job and prayed it would last."
Believe me, as someone who depends on freelance writing jobs in the midst
of the absolute worst magazine economy EVER, I sympathize profusely. But
at the same time, I've never expected any job I've ever had to last
forever, or expected any company that's employed me to never go out of
business. It sucks when that happens. (Hell, it sucked when I was on the
other side of the equation and I had to fire people, too.) Unfortunately,
though, it happens. And I can't help but think that in the long run, EMI
having to cut a few thousand jobs is better than EMI having to go out of
business entirely.
S
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