To all readers of this string.
to date, 675 people have looked at this string but only 20 agree with it strongly enough to bother to post even just a Yes or No. Which without getting the calculator out is roughly 3%.
Mandy can then happily inform us that 97% of subscribers either agree or 'don't mind' the imposition of telling their employers, new and old, that they MUST email your masters at Mandy.con and confirm that you were a day player on their film because you are not trustworthy enough (or not talented enough?) for it to be believed, that you have ever actually worked.
I have experience in this, during the nineties, the DSS would pay for you to go to interviews or for us, auditions, as broke as we were, nobody wanted the last memory of the casting director to be us awkwardly asking them to sign a form as we were unemployed (or unemployable).
While it is good to find a valid reason to reconnect with a director, wasting their time and suggesting you are not trustworthy, cannot be the professional way forward.
I have read the unhappiness with the lack of any level of experience needed to be able to give someone £20 a week - I hope that covers why it happens but to be clearer. Mandy is not finite. The Actors Centre is, The Actors Centre has levels of membership because the classes and its space are finite and the cost is quite high to maintain exclusivity. I wish that similar levels of membership, based on experience, paid credits and training, were mandatory at Mandy as they also hopefully are with your agent but Mandy can resell its information ad Infinitum and as a business, owned by a business which has shareholders, has a responsibility to them to do just that.
So we will not be able to change this and that is why aside from the odd advert needing a particular type, you will never even properly pay your rent with the money you can earn from Mandy jobs but you can get a foot on the ladder, you can get great experience and you can start to find your way in a very perverse industry. You will though, be put in the same bag with the same privileges as many who have never trained, have never worked, are perhaps just having a go. That is not your problem, that is for the poor employer who has to wade through the same no-hopers that would send in holiday snaps and handwritten non-CV's to jobs in PCR and The Stage (showing my age). Your job is to stand out from them, you have the training, the experience THE TALENT.
What we can do though is 'tinker around the edges' but we need to work as a collective to achieve this and the start of that would be to "Just Post Yes" on the Scrapping of The Verification Process vote. Then instead of 3% putting YES perhaps an actual majority could be found. We need 60% of people who look, to post. Even if you have never posted and don't like to make a fuss. This is about you and your Honesty your Dignity and your Respect. Let the liars lie, in the end, only ability will fly.
End The Verification Madness Now.
Post Yes.
Eden.
