“I mean it’s just a misnomer because it implies you’re only working 10 hours…And it’s exhausting. Not all of us can afford cabs home late at night, trains run even slower and the further out you live because rent, the harder the cycle becomes.”
Anonymous – Northeast
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“As a woman from a low-income family trying to escape generational poverty, and as a
first-generation college student, I was barely able to enter this industry. I took internships in the beginning that didn’t allow me enough money to eat some days. I would spend my last pocket change getting home on the subway, and get home to an empty fridge. I went without health insurance for years while trying to work my way up. The amount of hours required of an intern, of a salaried employee, of an hourly worker – all are discriminatory and made to elevate people who can afford to work these hours.”“At my age (nearly 40), these kinds of hours have caught up with me. I have back problems, I have aches from on- the-job injuries that were entirely preventable if we didn’t have this culture of “do it faster and better” and “prove yourself.” If I had not been relatively healthy and able-bodied at the beginning of my career, I could not have taken the risks that I did back then.”
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“As a disabled individual, 10/12s and the 6-day work week are an incredible obstacle in my work. Among other things, I am immune-compromised and lack of sleep only makes my already fragile immune-system weaker. I often experience work-induced flare ups of my chronic conditions due to the long days and long work weeks. It makes it harder for me to be present when my body is fighting me and causes me to loose work because I can’t “struggle through” as we are too often expected to do.”
“I take about 7 different medications a day, some multiple times a day, most are time-sensitive and many require a strict eating schedule that the 10/12 or constantly varying work-days do not accommodate. I have to make impossible decisions choosing between taking my medications or eating enough; between work or medical procedures; between loosing work today because of illness/flare up or going and risking hospitalization; between fulfilling the expectations of my job and taking care of my body.”
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“I was working on a musical during Ramadan. 2 10/12 tech days while fasting. That’s sun up to sun down no eating food or drinking water. Instead of stage management moving the 2 hour dinner break until later in the day, they kept it as is. When the sun eventually went down, we weren’t even given a 10. We had to shove granola bars down and chug water in between lighting cues being set.”