Ethics Schmethics?

Today I said okay to an audition. The details, as is customary, were vague. At 6 pm I got the breakdown and script.

The first thing that struck me was the rate. Pretty damned low.

The second thing that struck knocked me over and busted my head in was the script.

It's an anti-health care reform ad!

Fuck that noise! I called and canceled. I do have my limits. I've auditioned for Big Tobacco and Big Oil and Big Box Stores, but there is no way, no how, under any circumstance that I would do work for these people. Especially given the lies/hysterical scare tactics in the script I saw.

And I would like to think that the decision would have been just as immediate and just as easy if the pay wasn't so crappy. I'd LIKE to think that.

Actually, as I think about it, there's really no way I could do the ad. Hell, my former boss is running for the U.S. Senate right now. I hadn't thought about that, but it makes it doubly-triply wrong.

Bleh. Bath time.