Academy award nominated actress Juliette Lewis calls out brutal working conditions in the industry

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Juliette Lewis, 48, posted a message to her fellow actors on instagram. She wants them to talk about the working conditions that have been normalized on sets, such as 17 hour work days six days a week. She says if it’s bad for actors she can’t imagine what it’s like for the crew that shows up hours before and

Comments

[doriiansz]

Good! Now call out Scientology for all their fucked up practices too!

[howlin_wolf_66]

Haha; can't see that happening. That'll be different, somehow!

[genbu_no_miko24]

Samuel L. Jackson also showed support on his IG.

[erin805]

Yay I had only heard of actresses speaking out glad the guys are stepping up too

[zibbydoo324]

LOVE his #fuckaroundandfindout hashtag.

[fluffybb]

sweet of her

fortunately we have no fix sick days at work, some pp abused it but i definitely feel pressure to work before when im sick, but usually i make sure im not infectious before i came back. honestly, before covid, i would say a lot of my cold & flu probably was passed on from sick colleagues.

[januarysix]

using sick days for whatever reason is not "abusing them" I hate that we've been conditioned to think like that.

[seenghost]

Some ppl do abuse them. At my old job there were unlimited sick days and my manager would be out ~3-5 days/month, usually on Mondays or Fridays or when there was already a long weekend from a holiday. She’d give me and my coworker her work to do while also coming in late and leaving early. After 3 years of this I finally left.

[josiefier]

Sounds like one of my former managers. She even had the audacity to say she felt she didn't have assistants despite the fact my co and I did all the manager's damn work. And when her boss found out about her never being there when she was supposed to be? She got promoted by one of her boss's bosses.

[836am]

We're allowed sick days, and thankfully it doesn't count against vacation/holiday leave (yay UK laws). But no one really picks up the slack in my absence, so then I spend a few days playing catch-up.

Working from home really helps for those days when you're not feeling great (and possibly contagious, so you don't want to spread to others) but well enough to get some work done. Hopefully one silver lining from this pandemonium is that more employers will let their employees continue to WFH now that we have "proven" business won't colllapse if we're not all in the same building at the same day every day. (Obviously that doesn't apply to all jobs/businesses etc)

[goldenshopper]

Working from home really helps for those days when you're not feeling great (and possibly contagious, so you don't want to spread to others) but well enough to get some work done. Hopefully one silver lining from this pandemonium is that more employers will let their employees continue to WFH now that we have "proven" business won't colllapse if we're not all in the same building at the same day every day.

THIS!

[xellabelle]

I hate when bosses feel like the economy is going to collapse because we can’t see our colleagues in person. People have worked together in different countries or continents before the pandemic and it was FINE. Not to mention the pandemic is still happening and people are still dying. I just don’t understand.

[curdlesnoots]

Plus it saves most businesses so much money what with smaller premises, lower equipment and utility costs, fewer time-wasting meetings etc. I really struggled with WFH because illness means most of my social interaction is through work but even I noticed productivity was better without all the unnecessary distractions.

[t_snake]

I worked from the A&E. My boss says I need to take time but my manager is perennially on holidays and I'm always alone. I don't think I can't take time off