I don't know you and you don't know me. If you know Alan that is your problem...
When someone hires you for a job and says they will pay you something are you expected to be paid for the work or not? I stand on my own two feet just fine thank you... However when someone says they will pay me for a job / service I expect to be paid for it. I have forgiven much of the debt by reducing my rate for the shows produced I was not paid for. I still have yet to be paid that lesser amount and if I ever will who knows... Even though Alan is my father I expect to be paid especially since the money has already been collected...
See this is how it works...
Each client pays - X
X becomes a total amount of Y
Part of Y goes to Z
Part of Y goes to A
Part of Y goes to B
Well, Y went to Z and A, but it never made it to B even though the amount of Y was satisfied... Y may not have been satisfied on time by the clients who pay X, but that doesn't mean I should not ever be paid or still be waiting over a year.
With current "work" where I am told I would get a certain amount, I still do not get it.... How long would you continue to do work?
Well... I've only continued to do work for him because he is my father. That is the nicest way I will put it.
With the amount this has grown to over a year we are pushing the amount of a $10 royal.
Alan may say it's "Part Time" work... What he leaves seems to forget is:
- Editing which he is not there for: Anywhere from 4-8 hours. Not including rendering time and making sure full upload of the 30GB file is completed successfully.
- Being there to take his calls to hear him bitch about this client didn't pay and this client didn't pay. Crazy ideas about this or that kind of like the whole one dice shows X whats the probability of the other dice showing X as well... The exact same as that but in relation to the business.
- While I stopped "filming" with him... He always expected me to be available any day to go do a shoot. While the shoot may only take a half hour or so... We would sometimes spend an hour or two in the car each way getting there (my car)((in all fairness he has offered his car, but its a deathtrap... 300K miles on it now, suspension bushings are all worn, horribly harsh seats and ride, it is scary)).
- The daily rate of what he would pay someone else to do the same work... Even if I just work for 2 days is GREATER THAN what he is paying me... Yet he always threatens to hire someone else... That is fine if he wants to do it. If he can't afford to pay me how is he going to pay someone else?
- I am a partner in the business the way things were originally setup. Yet I have not been paid my set share per show.
You don't know the entire story and situation so it is best you just STFU and stay out of it. I'm fine dropping this and moving on. But if you or Alan are going to say something I'll speak my mind.
I don't have it wrong and if Alan is going to say something I'll be glad counter what he claims.
Lets just say... When I purchased my house they told me they were not going to look at my income from the TV show... I was like, why its significant... That is when I found out that I made 20% of what I was supposed to from the work I performed.
Go play poker in a casino and get pushed 20% of the pot you won... Do that for over a year... See how you feel.