How to Negotiate

I know someone who had a steady acting job (what’s sometimes called a “sit-down gig”) where their contract lapsed every year. The entire cast would be called, one at a time, into meetings with several members of upper management where they would be told whether or not they would be offered another year’s employment. The actors would then have to negotiate their salary for the coming year in that same meeting. They would go from worrying that they were about to be unemployed, to being grateful to have a job, to claiming that they weren’t willing to continue working there unless they got a raise within the span of one minute, while their bosses sat across a table, staring at them.

Which, now that I think of it, would be an amazing test of one’s acting abilities.

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