Musicians walk out after London orchestra leaves them unpaid for months - eviltoast
  • jet@hackertalks.com
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    9 months ago

    Your absolutely right, people have a sense of family/community with their workplace co-workers which is why its so easy to “take one for the team” and skip a paycheck.

    This is why its necessary to tell people to walk as soon as the money stops, so they don’t fall deeper into the hole. A reasonable business will understand their people need to get paid, and if they sort out their finances will take back their employees even if they had to pursue other ventures during the insolvency.

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      9 months ago

      It’s extremely difficult to get a position playing in an orchestra - the competition is fierce. I imagine this is also a consideration: when you get a job like that, you really don’t want to give it up lightly because you’ve spent your whole life training for it and you don’t know when or whether you’ll get another one.

      • BURN@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Orchestra positions are often jobs that these people will keep for life or until a seat in a new orchestra opens up. There’s an extremely limited number of jobs. I had a fairly distant cousin audition for the Seattle Symphony, for the single open trumpet seat there were north of 200 applicants. It’s such an incredibly competitive field that if you walk out, you might just possibly never get back in.