strike

I haven't blogged about the writer's strike yet...probably because it's a complicated issue with two different sides. Both sides have a point but my main problem with all the coverage is that the reporters have almost ignored all of the below-the-line employees. I know production assistants and coordinators who have been laid off. These are not people choosing to strike from their $10,000 a week job. These are 22 year olds who get paid $650 a week to pick up lunch and deliver scripts and sit in traffic all day. So I don't really appreciate it when picketers yell at my poor PAs as they drive on and off the lot every day. The LA Times published an
interview with a grip from "The Office" who has been laid off and I think he says it all very well.