Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
I Don’t Eat Shark Fin Soup by Stacy Lomman. Courtesy of 39thandbroadway.com
This is an excerpt from a great post on 39thandbroadway.com Have a good look at this site, lots of great personal stories only we in the industry can relate to.
I refused to eat the shark fin soup. It sounds crazy, but I’m convinced that played a major role in the recent loss of my design job. Over the past fifteen years, I have held some rather difficult jobs and worked with some seriously crazy people. It’s definitely been character building, to say the least. I had been working in my latest role for just over eight months and I walked on egg shells every day because I feared that I could lose my job at any moment. I knew it was coming, the pattern had long been established. I heard from a girl in the production department that the owner fires a designer every six months or so. Apparently, some of them had quit long before that and walked out in tears because they were treated so badly. I was there when the designer from the other division was fired after she had put in eight months. “I can’t work with you,” the owner told her. Hmm, I thought she was a lovely person.
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January 3rd, 2010 at 11:58 AM
Thanks for the linkage. Sad but true how common these stories are in the fashion industry.
Loved your interview with a colorist, personally I have never used one but it is a great topic. I think we will post your interview too and link to you of course. It’s an often forgotten about position, so great info.
Happy New Year!