Read the title, twice.
Event or Cheap Labour?
Working in an event company is like working as a cheap labour.
*I will not mention which event company*
Or maybe I should say:
If you are working in a company WITHOUT a proper job description for everyone and WITHOUT a proper management system. Your title is just purely bullshit, something that makes your name card looks pretty.
WHY?
For example:
Working as a designer in the company, but he/she needs to run the event as well.
Working on operation but you have to do every single shit in the company:
1. "Helping" out on the event. (It was told in the first place but PLEASE, not HELPING out, you got to DO EVERYTHING!
2. Working on every weekend. (Well, can't be avoided because it's event. BUT SOME company made promises in the first place that if you are working on a weekend, you will get a day off to rest. It's all LIES. You got to be there (full day) to run the whole event (not sure what other's EVENT EXECUTIVE doing or even whether they have one working there).
3. Never mind if you run the whole event as long as you love doing event. What's worse? You are doing operation remember? The day and the night before, you got to WORK (setup an event)! which means, SLEEPLESS LIKE ZOMBIE but you still got to work on stuffs that are not within your job scope. Hello, without extra allowance hor, and they didn't fulfill the one day off promise.
4. On the other hand, you may have thought: "wow, so good, it's like working together like a family!"
PUI! At first I thought so... but they are just taking you for granted. They know you can do everything.
The company is small, but they taking up so many shows.
They have no enough man power to do everything. That's where the "working as a family" part came from. Everyone got to work extra extra extra.
Poor management system, that's why the company is still small after so many years. I wonder do they even have an ORGANIZATION CHART in the company.
and alot more..
Overall, it's not only operation staff got to do everything. Like designer have to do setup/tear down of an event too. Maybe event executive (if they have one) have to do other stuff as well.
Why? Not enough manpower lah. Pay out less, so you can earn more. Get what I mean?
And I think their designer can never get to sleep and have to camp in the office in case the customer have to do last minute changes.
Why I think so?
Like what? before the event you got to confirm everything with your customer. Why should you allow last minute changes from the customer?! It's not even your company's fault when the customer already confirmed it?! All I can say.. If you allow last minute changes once, then they (customers) will request from you the next time as well.
In the end.. wasting your cost for double/triple printing, makes all your staff unhappy (but they have no choice coz you bite)
I used to work part time for event company, but never for now, at least not for that event company.
Why someone will wanna work in such company? because they simply love to do event.
All I can say, if a company doesnt know how to reward their staff accordingly when they WORK more, no one will want to stay with you, because even the part timer earns more. And please, if you make empty promises, they hate you more.
