<div dir="auto">Ok, so funny story I used to work for Design Foundry. It was my first entertainment “job” in my career. Here is what I’ll say about my time there:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The firm is located right outside of DC, and pre-pandemic when they were fully staffed pretty much everyone one there was super kind, very liberal, and not anti-semitic in the list bit (I’m Jewish, so I would have noticed). They also produce amazing events, when I was “working” there we did an AFLAC charity event, MLB All Star Gala, and the CITI Open. Now as you may notice working and job are all in quotes, and that’s because like many companies in this industry they took advantage of young people new to the industry. I was brought on as an intern for the summer being told I would be paid minimum wage and possibly compensated for gas expenses. About 2 weeks in they decided they weren’t going to pay me. Not only that, but they were constantly bringing more people on because they were understaffed, and on-site I was out in charge of paid employees, and they charged the companies we were working for, for my time. One of the designers was disgusted with how I was being treated and convinced management to give me a $100 visa gift card and I was also compensated for parking on site. However, I owe them a debt of gratitude as because of that experience I got another events job the following summer, and was paid extremely well compared to my friends from college. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This was all a long way of saying they are not racist or anti-Semitic, but they like everyone else have issues. Also, if anyone out there is making salaries for college students we as an industry need to stop taking advantage of student labor. There needs to be an end to postings on off stage jobs offering 150/week for 80 hours of work for an entire summer. If you can’t pay at least minimum wage you don’t have the ability to hire skilled labor or have a season.  This kind of work also puts at a disadvantage kids of lower income who don’t have their parents to support them, and it is part of the reason our industry lack diverse voices. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I’m now going to climb down off my soap box. And as a TLDR Design Foundry is not anti-Semitic, racist, or prejudice (unless you are referring to age). </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jacob </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 08:24 ER Casey via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Well maybe it’s a sinister reference to malicious nazi iconography and maybe it’s just a prosaic example of unimaginative design work from a scene shop churning out the same old same old grasping for some cash flow. In my experience the dull and unexciting answer usually turns out to be the real answer.</div><div><br></div><a href="https://forward.com/fast-forward/465136/design-firm-takes-responsibility-for-cpac-stage-controversy/?fbclid=IwAR1LFiJYeAyFmsIK3ifPEDtFB1rfnbcvLDH5OuyuaQgNNm2XIRjGCkQr_Yg" target="_blank">https://forward.com/fast-forward/465136/design-firm-takes-responsibility-for-cpac-stage-controversy/?fbclid=IwAR1LFiJYeAyFmsIK3ifPEDtFB1rfnbcvLDH5OuyuaQgNNm2XIRjGCkQr_Yg</a><br><br><div>
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