rachelrose wrote:
The industry can be very cut throat at times. To the point where I think that some MUAs get paranoid. I assisted for a lady who wanted me to sit in a corner with my head down, for fear that somebody might offer me a job. You think I am kidding... I am not. This was hard on me because I am a big people person and I always get along with crew people.

I also don't hand out my number or my card when I am assisting on jobs. It just makes life easier. Although there have been times when I have wanted to kick myself for it.

Karma is real and what goes around comes around. If you are honest in your career, you will succeed and although other people might be dishonest and succeed too, you will always have the satisfaction that you took the higher road.

I haven't really had that happen to me a lot, but I have witnessed it firsthand happen to other people. I was working a fashion show (one of those BS charity ones like what deadly design went through) and my friend was making up one of the models, and while she was doing the girls makeup one of the other make-up artists (who was TOTALLY unsanitary by the way) went up and starting handing out her business card and telling her about how she will do her makeup so good and all this stuff. Needless to say my friend and I were pissed off. It was more rude than anything.

Oh, I can't stand the business card thing. Its so...unprofessional, for lack of a better word. I only ever hand out a business card if someone asks for a way to contact me or what my number is.

I actually have a funnier happy eneding version of the whole "job stealing" thing:

I'm working on a fashion show with this really great artist. We got to talking about recent work and she said she'd worked on a music video. I get a sneaky feeling, coz I'm sort of quick with these things, and ask for which band. She tells me and I start to laugh.

Turns out that I had tried out for the same job, the producer/director had sort of dragged me along and kept me out of the loop and then finally let me know they'd gone with "someone else", and that someone else was her!

I wasn't bitter about it at all (why would I be) and asked her how it went and we kept chatting and have now managed to secure myself a great future contact and possibly a film to work on.

Cha-ching.

chupacabra wrote:
I've had something happen that's not THAT similar, but since we're talking here... I've had a former employee get jobs based on photos of makeups that I, MYSELF created. He was hired for applications. I have no problem with former employees doing such a thing, but its imperative that they state "application only" or some other disclaimer on the work so as not to mislead prospective employers into thinking that they, themselves, are responsible for the creation and sculpture and fabrication of the prosthetic appliances.

well that really sucks...some just have enough balls to even try...