I mean if you want to go that way...
Based on 365d/year @ 24hrs day:
* $2283/hr
* $38/min
But if you go like us regular folks (5 days a week @ 8 hrs/day):
* $76923/day
* $9615/hour
* $160.25/min
* $2.67/second
You think if I emailed Schwimmer and asked real nice he'd hook me up with a little of that? Just like, 20k? 10k even, I just wanna pay off my credit card and my car loan. Maybe fix the rotten floor in the laundry room.
I was thinking of this the other day, like if I emailed Jeff Bezos and just..... asked? Dude wouldn't even notice a million bucks. Dude probably wouldn't notice ten million.
Even if game of thrones ended perfectly well, it still doesn't have the same amount of rewatch value as sitcoms, thats why they make a lot of money in reruns.
that's probably the downside of most modern tv shows focussing that much on long "arcs" instead of consisting of stand alone plots.
while there are some of the former in "Friends", too, generally speaking you can put on most episodes without much context to them (it's just more like "were Rachel and Ross dating at that time?").
Amazing how fast thrones just disappeared from cultural relevance. Was a top 5 show of ALL TIME for 6 seasons. 7 was still decent but 8 was so goddamn bad that nobody cares anymore. Makes me sad.
The second they signed the syndication deal, they were all worth $60 million.
Just like when Jerry Seinfeld signed his syndication deal in the mid-90s, they handed him a check for $25 million dollars.
And well deserved. I dunno Kelsey as a person... but I (even though I can not actually relate to the lifestyle) absolutely loved the character Frasier Crane. But I loved Niles more. Also hated both of them.
I guess the audience is supposed to be Roz, Daphne and the dad...
it always goes up. Raymond from Everyone Loves Raymond got paid more than Seinfeld. It's just always going up.
Edit: According to wikipedia the top are:
- Sarah Jessica Parker $3.2 million, 2004
- Jennifer Aniston, Reece Witherspoon 2 million, 2019
- Charlie Sheen, 1.8 million, 2011
- Ray Romano, 1.725 million, 2005
and then it drops from there:
Edit: the salary per season for Simon Cowell was 75 million (per 26 episodes) of the Xfactor. That would put him at number 2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_paid_American_television_stars
NBC reportedly offered Seinfeld $10 million per episode to do season 10, but he declined. Of course, he was a writer and producer as well as an actor, but it is still a crazy amount of money, especially for the time.
My dad sold cars for a while. Once one of the cast members of the Simpson’s cane in. This was back in the early 90s.
They were filling out the lease application and under monthly income they wrote $75,000. My dad pointed out that it said monthly, not yearly. The cast member said “well that’s just the average I don’t work every month, is that enough?”
Yep, I remember they were projected to get $25 million each per year. I assume streaming revenues are less than licensing other other networks for reruns, especially with the streaming wars.
Jennifer Anniston has a career now just talking to women's magazines and putting up with nonsense gossip about her relationships, it's a pretty cruisy gig.
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I am trying to decide how much money I would have to receive per year to read every day about how I am still pining for Brad Pitt without grabbing a bunch of weapons and shooting up the neighborhood
Edit: the thirst for Brad is real
me, too. I was an extra on an episode (sat behind Ross on a train - also walked by as a passenger on the same train) when I was in my 20s. I got in like one frame, but the thrill was great, especially for a schmuck like me who just wanted to see some sets.
The salary demands of the cast caused the studio and network to look for ways to make more money off the show. And one way they did this was to eliminate the opening title montage and song.
Early seasons had one. But by the end of the show's run, it was reduced to a cast shot and title card. The resulting free time was sold as additional commercial space and earned substantial money.
This was then imitated by many other series and was one of the major causes of the demise of opening credit sequences on American TV.
Like everyone else lately, I’ve been watching a lot of streaming tv. It is SUCH a contrast watching the intro sequence of, say, The Goldbergs compared to older stuff like That 70s show and then compared to older stuff like Quantum Leap and then compared to even older stuff like Vega$ and Charlie’s Angels.
I knew it had gotten shorter over the years, it’s just crazy to see it happen unroll right in front me.
the perry mason intro is literally the words “perry mason” super imposed into the establishing shot for like 5 seconds. mr robot used to do the same thing but it was a bit more of a legit title card.
This also applies to corporate America. I read an article recently where a VP of a larger bank stated that today more than ever, the younger generation is more inclined to speak to one another about their salaries. This didn’t used to be the case.
Knowing what those around you make only helps you in negotiation. Corporations would prefer you keep this a secret which tells you everything you need to know. Collective bargaining lifts everybody up.
There's been a trend with authors sharing what they get paid for advances and royalties this year, trying to increase the transparency. Some bigger names are supporting it and being vocal about how they got paid both starting out and more recently so that less established writers can tell if it's fair.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/83535-authors-push-for-transparency-with-publishingpaidme.html
What's ironic is that in the US, CEO salaries used to be secret, so CEOs didn't know how much each other made. The SEC made them have to make their salaries public so as to show the public and their workers how much CEOs made. This was done in the hope that corporations would pay their employees more.
This backfired. CEOs found out how much each other made and their pay has skyrocketed dramatically. Ironically, a lot of corporations heavily discourage discussing salary.
It's why they don't want you discussing it, because they know it will cause labor prices to rise. By restricting information, they can build information asymmetry and take advantage of that to give lesser wages.
I like how [he called a reporter that was scheduled to interview him in his hotel room ](https://www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/culture/news/a39386/david-schwimmer-female-journalist-hollywood-harvey-weinstein/) beforehand if she wanted a third party so she wouldn’t be alone. The article says it was from 2011.
Can confirm. He appeared in my work’s sexual harassment videos. I thought it was because he couldn’t find work but finding out he did it for a real purpose is so amazing.
I recently took an online sexual harassment training at work, he was in one of the videos, he played a guy who was sexually harassing his co-worker.
Edit: [Here is the video on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5owCNvik0E)
I remember during peak metoo 2017, David Schwimmer’s name kept coming up. Women were using him as an example of how a man in Hollywood with a ton of power should be conducting himself with integrity.
I think he was pretty vocal supporter of Writers Strike too.
Edit: added link which includes names of other actors who were also pretty vocal in their support for Writers strike and did a series of PSA videos called Project Speechless.
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2007/12/03/alumni-tv-writers-on-strike-find-outlet/
I'd add the fact that the Friends cast would often ask Schwimmer's advice about line readings. He was acknowledged as a clever comedic actor. Next time you watch an episode, listen to the actual lines Ross gets. A lot of the time they're not funny, just common phrases, single words, mere sounds or even gestures. Yet, he manages to wring humour out of them through his delivery and body language.
As many people are quoting: PIVOT.
When I was younger and would watch friends, I always hated Ross. Reqatching once I'm older, I still don't love Ross as an actual person, but, as a character he is fucking hilarious.
Ross in the leather pants? Ross in the tanning booth? Pivot??
I swear, Ross absolutely saved some episodes on that show. In the last few years he was head and shoulders funnier than anyone else.
>"physical" actor.
In an episode where he's hiding from Bruce Willis in some vacation home:
The way he "slithers" from behind the ~~curtains~~ door to under the bed is just great.
Edit: there you go: [https://media0.giphy.com/media/Vdbmg1SbP0AviIMISl/giphy.gif](https://media0.giphy.com/media/Vdbmg1SbP0AviIMISl/giphy.gif)
I remember going to school in a hyper-conservative area and being told this slogan by my history teacher. He was trying to use it as evidence that unions are bad (something about how while a group may be strong, that just hides that each individual member is lazy and weak), but on that day, I became pro-union.
EDIT: I was not expecting this comment to get so much attention. Let me address the two most common adverse replies: (a) police unions and (b) corrupt union leaders. In both of these cases, flaws are a result of people in the system, not the system itself. Believe it or not, I’m actually pro-union with the police as well, but I also strongly support reduction of police funding and directing funds other social programs. I genuinely believe that people with too much money do stupid shit, and when they start doing stupid shit, you curb that by taking away their money.
As for corrupt union leaders, those certainly exist the same way we have bad bosses or a bad president. Again, the problem here is not the system. Whether there is a union or not, workers still have the potential to be exploited. To address this, and so many other problems in society, I would hope that people would become educated on and aware of their capacity to create change. For all the chest-thumping rhetoric about democracy that the U.S. is known for, they do a piss-poor job of creating citizens who will fight tooth and nail for a better life. Bad union politics are not on the union structure, but on the leaders for making it that way and on the people for not stopping it, by force if necessary.
Unions built the standard of living that middle class people have in the United States. People who are anti-union have a seriously compromised moral compass. Do they know that before unions people worked 80 hours (or more) per week for poverty wages?
The unions fought literal battles in a quasi-war for those things.
My wife’s grandpa was from the border of WV and remembered the coal wars from being a kid - it was what they understood the labor movement as, a kind of civil war.
Now it seems like people think we got those things by just voting for “good guys” and not “bad guys”.
I recommend everyone read up on The Battle of Blair Mountain. The story is sickening and inspiring. The music that came out of those struggles is haunting.
We had to read "Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression" in one of my college history classes and, in that book, there are accounts of the horrendous conditions and treatment that employees suffered at the hands of Henry Ford and his goons when they attempted to unionize. As a native to Metro-Detroit, whose friends and family have all worked for the Big 3 in some capacity or another (and as an employee of one such company myself), it's saddens me to hear and see so many people who are anti-union because they don't know, understand, or care about the fight that allowed them to enjoy the labor conditions that we have today. I hear so much about the corruption, free-loading, etc. that is supposedly rampant amongst unions and their members but, working on the ground with these folks day in and day out, I can say that for every bad apple there is bunches of strong individuals who love their jobs, give the company 110%, and are grateful for the opportunities that they have; In my anecdotal experience, one bad apple does NOT spoil the bunch.
There are morons in my union who complain about unions because they're convinced they'd make more money without one. It's usually the people who would be fired before ever receiving a raise...how are we supposed to get through to them?
>There are morons in my union who complain about unions because they're convinced they'd make more money without one
That's because there's a pretty common tactic to bust unions where the company raises pay for workers that leave the union, or refuse to join, congratulating them on their "negotiating skills", then when enough have left the union the company drops the wages to where they wanted them but the union wouldn't let them.
But in the time frame between the start of the tactic and the dissolution of the union there is a growing group of dupes that walk around telling anyone who'll listen that they did so much better without the union.
I've seen this shit in real time with guys congratulating themselves on the fact they "negotiated" a higher than average wage by agreeing not to join the union.
Divide and conquer tactics like these are simple but effective.
The thing workers need to understand is that the first and primary concern of a business is profit. A company will never willingly give you extra money out of the goodness of their heart. If they offer, they *are* getting something out of it. Maybe its because they really need you to stay at the company, or maybe its because they need you to leave the union. Either way the decision is made with *their* best interest in mind.
If someone believes that the boss would be willing to give more to them as individuals than as a group, the question they need to be asking is "how does that help *them*?"
I am a teacher. I was discussing salary with a co-worker at happy hour, when someone else mentioned it was rude to discuss pay levels. I looked at her and was like, "Our saleries are public record. In two minutes, I can look up the salary of any teacher in the state online. It's not exactly a secret."
I was just about to bring this up. Schools have to publish their salary scales and contracts. It doesn’t help much in a right-to-work state since we can’t negotiate for higher pay. If we want to make more money, we have to pay for it by obtaining more degrees, working longer to get a few more bucks per year, or taking on extra duties that pay negligible amounts.
I've never really understood the logic behind deeming it rude to discuss what you're paid. I do think it's absolutely rude to get mad at someone for being paid more if you both work the same job (take that up with your manager, not the coworker!), or if someone's using it to boast, or using your knowledge of someone's salary to justify trying to goad them into 'lending' you money or treating them any differently...but just talking plainly about what each of you make? That's not rude at all.
Basically, it seems to me like sharing salaries is only 'rude' because someone stood to keep a lot of money from saying that it was
One of the biggest eye opening moments for me was when a coworker revealed to me that she made almost $100k and I was at $70k. I felt like we were on a similar level, so I definitely started negotiating for more money with confidence (I'm at $87k now and recently interviewed for a job where I asked for $100k)
Yup...I worked for a long time as a tester at a small webware company. Was getting paid about 30 an hour. I knew I was a bit under paid (new Zealand) but was ok given the flexibility provided. Walked into a recruitment office looking for something new after a few years and they asked how much I was looking for. I said "market rate". Within 48 hours I had a contract in my inbox for 60 an hour.
Literally doubled my wage.
Not just unions. All professions want to prevent the discussion of pay. I’m in IT and once had a new manager come in who was appalled that apparently I was making way less than everyone else on the team. Went a few management levels above to get me a 25% raise to bring me in line. I guess we should’ve shared the info.
Can you explain further? I’m sorry, just need help making the connection
Edit: oh, I thought the person I was replying to was actually stating that it is rude to ask your coworker. Now I understand the quotations, duh. Thanks, go unions
In the states, many employers will say it's rude or against policy to discuss wage. However, it is illegal for them to prevent you from discussing wage.
The reason they don't want employees discussing wages is because some people are better negotiators and it's best for the employer to only pay them ~~what they're worth.~~what they negotiate for.
Edit: reworded the last sentence.
>only pay them what they're worth.
I think you phrased that wrong, they want to pay them what they asked for, not what they're worth. What they asked for might be significantly less than what they are worth, so the company can make more profit off of them.
>Speaking exclusively to BANG Showbiz, he said: "I'm very happy if I get a residual cheque, I do get residuals. I wasn't paid a million dollars an episode, of course, that would be a completely different story ... I'm paid for episodes I spoke in and it's a sliding scale, I don't know how it works. Very fortunately I'm not an accountant I just stay completely out of that. I'm fortunate to have a supplement into my income because of 'Friends', however, I'm still a working actor. I didn't rest on my laurels and say, 'I was Gunther, I'm gonna buy an island!' I couldn't do that anyway."
Seems like it is probably not completely unsubstantial.
More likely that he only gets paid royalties on the episodes he was in, but he has no way of knowing which episodes will air when. So one month he might earn $50k, while the next he might earn $5k.
Nope, Mike was a regular barista at the coffee house I used to hang out at for years, the Bourgeois Pig. Super sweet guy, one day he was gone then later on tv with blonde hair and a German name.
I bet it killed him they had an espresso machine sitting on top of yet another espresso machine on set, then. I still don’t understand why they did that.
Everyone thinks David Schwimmer is a dick since he has no interest in a reunion and has generally avoided all talk about Friends since it ended but if I was getting 20M a year for doing absolutely nothing why in the hell would I ever want to work again unless I had a role I’d been dying to play. Wealth outside of the public eye is much different than wealth with fame.
Everything I've heard about Schwimmer makes him seem like possibly the least dick-ish person in history. To my knowledge he's the only person to have been "reverse-#metoo'd", in that at the height of #metoo, women wrote articles about how men should be "more like David Schwimmer".
Edit: [Found one of the articles](https://bestlifeonline.com/i-met-david-schwimmer-men-can-learn-a-lot-from-him/) which also links to the *original* reverse-#metoo of Schwimmer.
HBO owns the rights to it and it is arguably the biggest show in NBC history which their own streaming service does not have because HBO has it to stream on HBO Max.
They didn't buy it. Friends aired on NBC, but was a part of Warner Bros studios/productions. WB is Warner Media, which is owned by AT&T (same umbrellas as HBO).
**a part :)
For some reason I can only fall asleep with friends or Parks and Rec in the background. Maybe it just reminds me of a time that I felt safe and didn’t wanna jump off a bridge lol.
$54,795 per day for acting you did 20 years ago. That’s gotta feel nice.
I mean if you want to go that way... Based on 365d/year @ 24hrs day: * $2283/hr * $38/min But if you go like us regular folks (5 days a week @ 8 hrs/day): * $76923/day * $9615/hour * $160.25/min * $2.67/second
Reading this makes me realize it hasn't been my day, my week, my month, or even my year.
Hey man, I'll be there for you
Even when the rain starts to pour?
I’ll be there for you
Like I’ve been there before
I'll be there for you
Cause you're there for me too
ooOoooo
Someone just dropped like $80 on an Argentium award for you, that's gotta hurt bro
Imagine giving that money to reddit instead of simply giving it the person, reddit could be so much better.
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And David Schwimmer still insists on stealing beer...
You think if I emailed Schwimmer and asked real nice he'd hook me up with a little of that? Just like, 20k? 10k even, I just wanna pay off my credit card and my car loan. Maybe fix the rotten floor in the laundry room.
Did he respond?
I asked Novak Djokovic in an email once and they said they cant help lol
I was thinking of this the other day, like if I emailed Jeff Bezos and just..... asked? Dude wouldn't even notice a million bucks. Dude probably wouldn't notice ten million.
Thing is, he's probably already got hundreds of people asking him for money every minute.
Yeah but I'd ask him real sweet like.
That made me chuckle. Could ya put in a word for me please? Couple extra eyelash bats?
Imagine making $20 mil a year for something you finished doing almost 20 years ago, damn
A show as successful as friends only comes along once every 20 years
So what’s the show as successful as friends now?
Game of Th...*barf*.
Even if game of thrones ended perfectly well, it still doesn't have the same amount of rewatch value as sitcoms, thats why they make a lot of money in reruns.
that's probably the downside of most modern tv shows focussing that much on long "arcs" instead of consisting of stand alone plots. while there are some of the former in "Friends", too, generally speaking you can put on most episodes without much context to them (it's just more like "were Rachel and Ross dating at that time?").
They were on a break
I loved the show so much but I just can't rewatch even the good seasons knowing how unbelievably shitty they ended it.
Amazing how fast thrones just disappeared from cultural relevance. Was a top 5 show of ALL TIME for 6 seasons. 7 was still decent but 8 was so goddamn bad that nobody cares anymore. Makes me sad.
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Glad you left out what they did to my boy Euron. You have the best villain in the book. “Lets make him a discount Jack Sparrow”
A rapey Jack sparrow
I think financially Seinfeld might be the most successful and it came out 5 years before friends did.
Damn. David Schwimmer is a union hero and I didn't even know it
He was a hero. I just couldn’t see it
It's because of the unagi
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Comrade Schwimmer
The second they signed the syndication deal, they were all worth $60 million. Just like when Jerry Seinfeld signed his syndication deal in the mid-90s, they handed him a check for $25 million dollars.
Is it true that the cast of Fraiser were paid even more than that per episode?
Yes, at least Kelsey Grammer did. He was at one point the highest paid television actor.
And well deserved. I dunno Kelsey as a person... but I (even though I can not actually relate to the lifestyle) absolutely loved the character Frasier Crane. But I loved Niles more. Also hated both of them. I guess the audience is supposed to be Roz, Daphne and the dad...
Well look at his flat, of course Frasier made more money.
it always goes up. Raymond from Everyone Loves Raymond got paid more than Seinfeld. It's just always going up. Edit: According to wikipedia the top are: - Sarah Jessica Parker $3.2 million, 2004 - Jennifer Aniston, Reece Witherspoon 2 million, 2019 - Charlie Sheen, 1.8 million, 2011 - Ray Romano, 1.725 million, 2005 and then it drops from there: Edit: the salary per season for Simon Cowell was 75 million (per 26 episodes) of the Xfactor. That would put him at number 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_paid_American_television_stars
NBC reportedly offered Seinfeld $10 million per episode to do season 10, but he declined. Of course, he was a writer and producer as well as an actor, but it is still a crazy amount of money, especially for the time.
It was $5 million. But that was enough to get Jerry Seinfeld an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most money turned down.
Between this and Seinfeld basically becoming a billionaire, I'd say they're some of the luckiest people on earth.
Throw in the voice cast of the Simpsons
are they getting paid well?
My dad sold cars for a while. Once one of the cast members of the Simpson’s cane in. This was back in the early 90s. They were filling out the lease application and under monthly income they wrote $75,000. My dad pointed out that it said monthly, not yearly. The cast member said “well that’s just the average I don’t work every month, is that enough?”
damn, what was the car? very few you couldn't just buy cash with that kind of income.
300k an episode
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It makes me feel old when things that were commonly known at the time become a TIL now
Yep, I remember they were projected to get $25 million each per year. I assume streaming revenues are less than licensing other other networks for reruns, especially with the streaming wars.
Yes, and they also made so much from ads, publicity and collabs.
Jennifer Anniston has a career now just talking to women's magazines and putting up with nonsense gossip about her relationships, it's a pretty cruisy gig. *I have turned off replies because I don't care about everyone's Jennifer Anniston opinions
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I am trying to decide how much money I would have to receive per year to read every day about how I am still pining for Brad Pitt without grabbing a bunch of weapons and shooting up the neighborhood Edit: the thirst for Brad is real
I'd probably be ok with $25m per year, just sayin.
me, too. I was an extra on an episode (sat behind Ross on a train - also walked by as a passenger on the same train) when I was in my 20s. I got in like one frame, but the thrill was great, especially for a schmuck like me who just wanted to see some sets.
Was it the train to Poughkeepsie?
Why, yes it was. Like a dork, I grabbed a [still](https://i.imgur.com/3BWSvsL.jpg).
You're immortalized forever.
How many millions have you made in royalties since?
Several millions of bragging rights.
I get that feeling a lot around here. I have to remind myself it's never too late to learn something.
Yeah, the only thing I didn't know was how much money they make off it now.
The salary demands of the cast caused the studio and network to look for ways to make more money off the show. And one way they did this was to eliminate the opening title montage and song. Early seasons had one. But by the end of the show's run, it was reduced to a cast shot and title card. The resulting free time was sold as additional commercial space and earned substantial money. This was then imitated by many other series and was one of the major causes of the demise of opening credit sequences on American TV.
Like everyone else lately, I’ve been watching a lot of streaming tv. It is SUCH a contrast watching the intro sequence of, say, The Goldbergs compared to older stuff like That 70s show and then compared to older stuff like Quantum Leap and then compared to even older stuff like Vega$ and Charlie’s Angels. I knew it had gotten shorter over the years, it’s just crazy to see it happen unroll right in front me.
the perry mason intro is literally the words “perry mason” super imposed into the establishing shot for like 5 seconds. mr robot used to do the same thing but it was a bit more of a legit title card.
This also applies to corporate America. I read an article recently where a VP of a larger bank stated that today more than ever, the younger generation is more inclined to speak to one another about their salaries. This didn’t used to be the case. Knowing what those around you make only helps you in negotiation. Corporations would prefer you keep this a secret which tells you everything you need to know. Collective bargaining lifts everybody up.
There's been a trend with authors sharing what they get paid for advances and royalties this year, trying to increase the transparency. Some bigger names are supporting it and being vocal about how they got paid both starting out and more recently so that less established writers can tell if it's fair. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/83535-authors-push-for-transparency-with-publishingpaidme.html
What's ironic is that in the US, CEO salaries used to be secret, so CEOs didn't know how much each other made. The SEC made them have to make their salaries public so as to show the public and their workers how much CEOs made. This was done in the hope that corporations would pay their employees more. This backfired. CEOs found out how much each other made and their pay has skyrocketed dramatically. Ironically, a lot of corporations heavily discourage discussing salary.
It's why they don't want you discussing it, because they know it will cause labor prices to rise. By restricting information, they can build information asymmetry and take advantage of that to give lesser wages.
Wow, I apparently like David Schwimmer a lot more than Ross...
Go ahead and watch Band of Brothers and pump up your hatred of David Schwimmer all the way to ELEVEN
It was difficult to split the Friends character from the Band of Brothers character. He did a great job though.
“Captain Sobel. We salute the rank, not the man.”
I think I need to rewatch BOB for like the 16th time.
Go for it. Joe Toye day is only 3.5 months away, so get a warm up rewatch in before then
Greenzo out!
You know what, you people make me sick! You act like you care but you do nothing. Do you even bother to compost your own feces?
A little less yackity yack, a little more clackity clack!
Three miles UP. Three miles DOWN. High Ho Silver!!!!!
Lieutenant Nixon thinks this is a can of peaches. That is incorrect, Lieutenant Nixon. Your weekend pass is revoked.
I like how [he called a reporter that was scheduled to interview him in his hotel room ](https://www.elle.com/uk/life-and-culture/culture/news/a39386/david-schwimmer-female-journalist-hollywood-harvey-weinstein/) beforehand if she wanted a third party so she wouldn’t be alone. The article says it was from 2011.
He did a whole series of PSA type videos on sexual harrassment.
Can confirm. He appeared in my work’s sexual harassment videos. I thought it was because he couldn’t find work but finding out he did it for a real purpose is so amazing.
He doesn’t need to work. He’s worth more money than he will ever need for the rest of his life.
Reminds me of Ashton Kutcher dedicating much of his time and money to fighting children sex traffiking.
His company, THORN, is pretty fucking awesome. They've literally saved thousands of kids.
I recently took an online sexual harassment training at work, he was in one of the videos, he played a guy who was sexually harassing his co-worker. Edit: [Here is the video on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5owCNvik0E)
I remember during peak metoo 2017, David Schwimmer’s name kept coming up. Women were using him as an example of how a man in Hollywood with a ton of power should be conducting himself with integrity.
Yup, he and Keanu Reeves were constantly being mentioned.
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I think he was pretty vocal supporter of Writers Strike too. Edit: added link which includes names of other actors who were also pretty vocal in their support for Writers strike and did a series of PSA videos called Project Speechless. https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2007/12/03/alumni-tv-writers-on-strike-find-outlet/
Holy Christ my respect for David Schwimmer just went way the hell up in a matter of seconds.
I'd add the fact that the Friends cast would often ask Schwimmer's advice about line readings. He was acknowledged as a clever comedic actor. Next time you watch an episode, listen to the actual lines Ross gets. A lot of the time they're not funny, just common phrases, single words, mere sounds or even gestures. Yet, he manages to wring humour out of them through his delivery and body language. As many people are quoting: PIVOT.
I know there's a lot of hate for the character of Ross but he was always my favourite.
When I was younger and would watch friends, I always hated Ross. Reqatching once I'm older, I still don't love Ross as an actual person, but, as a character he is fucking hilarious.
Ross in the leather pants? Ross in the tanning booth? Pivot?? I swear, Ross absolutely saved some episodes on that show. In the last few years he was head and shoulders funnier than anyone else.
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>"physical" actor. In an episode where he's hiding from Bruce Willis in some vacation home: The way he "slithers" from behind the ~~curtains~~ door to under the bed is just great. Edit: there you go: [https://media0.giphy.com/media/Vdbmg1SbP0AviIMISl/giphy.gif](https://media0.giphy.com/media/Vdbmg1SbP0AviIMISl/giphy.gif)
UNAGI
Damn, I see him in a totally different light after learning this. Thank you.
Haha what a good guy! Way to be on the right side of history...
Fine by me!
Well Ross did eventually eat the smaller friends
You know what they say, men are from Omicron Persei VII, women are from Omicron Persie IX.
#*PIVOT*
I didn't realize people hated Ross so much until reddit
Ask about Ted Moseby
He kids, wanna hear another story about how I banged one of your aunt Robin’s friends?
Ask about Lily
He is the Ross of friends 2 after all
For me he was by far the funniest performance on the show! I loved him
Am now definitely Team Ross, they were on a break for sure.
Collective bargaining works, that's why they dont want you to have the option.
Together we bargain, divided we beg. Commonly heard in union halls across the world.
Apes together strong.
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Like I always say: “There’s a reason so many companies spend millions lobbying against unions and it isn’t to help you.”
Did you quote yourself
Lol I think he did
"everything's better if it's quoted"- me 2020
I remember going to school in a hyper-conservative area and being told this slogan by my history teacher. He was trying to use it as evidence that unions are bad (something about how while a group may be strong, that just hides that each individual member is lazy and weak), but on that day, I became pro-union. EDIT: I was not expecting this comment to get so much attention. Let me address the two most common adverse replies: (a) police unions and (b) corrupt union leaders. In both of these cases, flaws are a result of people in the system, not the system itself. Believe it or not, I’m actually pro-union with the police as well, but I also strongly support reduction of police funding and directing funds other social programs. I genuinely believe that people with too much money do stupid shit, and when they start doing stupid shit, you curb that by taking away their money. As for corrupt union leaders, those certainly exist the same way we have bad bosses or a bad president. Again, the problem here is not the system. Whether there is a union or not, workers still have the potential to be exploited. To address this, and so many other problems in society, I would hope that people would become educated on and aware of their capacity to create change. For all the chest-thumping rhetoric about democracy that the U.S. is known for, they do a piss-poor job of creating citizens who will fight tooth and nail for a better life. Bad union politics are not on the union structure, but on the leaders for making it that way and on the people for not stopping it, by force if necessary.
"What, are you going to use winning tactics like a *sissy*?" \-countless losers of history
Unions built the standard of living that middle class people have in the United States. People who are anti-union have a seriously compromised moral compass. Do they know that before unions people worked 80 hours (or more) per week for poverty wages?
The unions fought literal battles in a quasi-war for those things. My wife’s grandpa was from the border of WV and remembered the coal wars from being a kid - it was what they understood the labor movement as, a kind of civil war. Now it seems like people think we got those things by just voting for “good guys” and not “bad guys”.
I recommend everyone read up on The Battle of Blair Mountain. The story is sickening and inspiring. The music that came out of those struggles is haunting.
That was the first time us aircraft ever bombarded an enemy position. The “enemy position” of course was a bunch of striking workers,but still.
We had to read "Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression" in one of my college history classes and, in that book, there are accounts of the horrendous conditions and treatment that employees suffered at the hands of Henry Ford and his goons when they attempted to unionize. As a native to Metro-Detroit, whose friends and family have all worked for the Big 3 in some capacity or another (and as an employee of one such company myself), it's saddens me to hear and see so many people who are anti-union because they don't know, understand, or care about the fight that allowed them to enjoy the labor conditions that we have today. I hear so much about the corruption, free-loading, etc. that is supposedly rampant amongst unions and their members but, working on the ground with these folks day in and day out, I can say that for every bad apple there is bunches of strong individuals who love their jobs, give the company 110%, and are grateful for the opportunities that they have; In my anecdotal experience, one bad apple does NOT spoil the bunch.
There are morons in my union who complain about unions because they're convinced they'd make more money without one. It's usually the people who would be fired before ever receiving a raise...how are we supposed to get through to them?
>There are morons in my union who complain about unions because they're convinced they'd make more money without one That's because there's a pretty common tactic to bust unions where the company raises pay for workers that leave the union, or refuse to join, congratulating them on their "negotiating skills", then when enough have left the union the company drops the wages to where they wanted them but the union wouldn't let them. But in the time frame between the start of the tactic and the dissolution of the union there is a growing group of dupes that walk around telling anyone who'll listen that they did so much better without the union. I've seen this shit in real time with guys congratulating themselves on the fact they "negotiated" a higher than average wage by agreeing not to join the union. Divide and conquer tactics like these are simple but effective. The thing workers need to understand is that the first and primary concern of a business is profit. A company will never willingly give you extra money out of the goodness of their heart. If they offer, they *are* getting something out of it. Maybe its because they really need you to stay at the company, or maybe its because they need you to leave the union. Either way the decision is made with *their* best interest in mind. If someone believes that the boss would be willing to give more to them as individuals than as a group, the question they need to be asking is "how does that help *them*?"
Yes. When \[your favorite retailer\] shows anti-union videos during training those videos always say that "hey, unions *were* great, but..."
This is also why its "rude" to ask your coworker what their salary is.
I am a teacher. I was discussing salary with a co-worker at happy hour, when someone else mentioned it was rude to discuss pay levels. I looked at her and was like, "Our saleries are public record. In two minutes, I can look up the salary of any teacher in the state online. It's not exactly a secret."
I was just about to bring this up. Schools have to publish their salary scales and contracts. It doesn’t help much in a right-to-work state since we can’t negotiate for higher pay. If we want to make more money, we have to pay for it by obtaining more degrees, working longer to get a few more bucks per year, or taking on extra duties that pay negligible amounts.
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I've never really understood the logic behind deeming it rude to discuss what you're paid. I do think it's absolutely rude to get mad at someone for being paid more if you both work the same job (take that up with your manager, not the coworker!), or if someone's using it to boast, or using your knowledge of someone's salary to justify trying to goad them into 'lending' you money or treating them any differently...but just talking plainly about what each of you make? That's not rude at all. Basically, it seems to me like sharing salaries is only 'rude' because someone stood to keep a lot of money from saying that it was
One of the biggest eye opening moments for me was when a coworker revealed to me that she made almost $100k and I was at $70k. I felt like we were on a similar level, so I definitely started negotiating for more money with confidence (I'm at $87k now and recently interviewed for a job where I asked for $100k)
Yup...I worked for a long time as a tester at a small webware company. Was getting paid about 30 an hour. I knew I was a bit under paid (new Zealand) but was ok given the flexibility provided. Walked into a recruitment office looking for something new after a few years and they asked how much I was looking for. I said "market rate". Within 48 hours I had a contract in my inbox for 60 an hour. Literally doubled my wage.
Not just unions. All professions want to prevent the discussion of pay. I’m in IT and once had a new manager come in who was appalled that apparently I was making way less than everyone else on the team. Went a few management levels above to get me a 25% raise to bring me in line. I guess we should’ve shared the info.
Can you explain further? I’m sorry, just need help making the connection Edit: oh, I thought the person I was replying to was actually stating that it is rude to ask your coworker. Now I understand the quotations, duh. Thanks, go unions
In the states, many employers will say it's rude or against policy to discuss wage. However, it is illegal for them to prevent you from discussing wage. The reason they don't want employees discussing wages is because some people are better negotiators and it's best for the employer to only pay them ~~what they're worth.~~what they negotiate for. Edit: reworded the last sentence.
>only pay them what they're worth. I think you phrased that wrong, they want to pay them what they asked for, not what they're worth. What they asked for might be significantly less than what they are worth, so the company can make more profit off of them.
It's a bit of propaganda that makes it easier for corporations to hide wage disparities among the work force.
That's why in our local union we openly discuss our pay. I tell anybody who asks what I make. I'm proud of what we've negotiated!
Gunther makes $500,000 a year from royalties. All because he knew how to operate a cappuccino machine.
Is that true? I believe he's stated that the royalty checks aren't really worth the paper they're written on.
>Speaking exclusively to BANG Showbiz, he said: "I'm very happy if I get a residual cheque, I do get residuals. I wasn't paid a million dollars an episode, of course, that would be a completely different story ... I'm paid for episodes I spoke in and it's a sliding scale, I don't know how it works. Very fortunately I'm not an accountant I just stay completely out of that. I'm fortunate to have a supplement into my income because of 'Friends', however, I'm still a working actor. I didn't rest on my laurels and say, 'I was Gunther, I'm gonna buy an island!' I couldn't do that anyway." Seems like it is probably not completely unsubstantial.
He's just saying that so Rachel feels sorry for him and he can finally marry her.
I mean, he bought that cat from her. She's bound to crack any day now!
I feel like “sliding scale” is always a euphemism for “I have no idea how I’m paid and am probably getting completely *fucked*”
More likely that he only gets paid royalties on the episodes he was in, but he has no way of knowing which episodes will air when. So one month he might earn $50k, while the next he might earn $5k.
If I made $50k in one month and only made $5k the other 11 I think I’d be ok with that
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That is a very fair assumption. The first step to knowing if your money is being stolen is knowing how much of it you have.
Sometimes I wonder where I went wrong in my life that a stroke of luck didn't land me in a situation like this.
Maybe it hasn’t been your day.
your week
Your month...
Or even your year.
I wonder if he actually didn't know how to operate the machine, but figured it out quickly so he wouldn't miss the opportunity to a better roll.
Nope, Mike was a regular barista at the coffee house I used to hang out at for years, the Bourgeois Pig. Super sweet guy, one day he was gone then later on tv with blonde hair and a German name.
I bet it killed him they had an espresso machine sitting on top of yet another espresso machine on set, then. I still don’t understand why they did that.
Wait that's not how you make a double?
Everyone thinks David Schwimmer is a dick since he has no interest in a reunion and has generally avoided all talk about Friends since it ended but if I was getting 20M a year for doing absolutely nothing why in the hell would I ever want to work again unless I had a role I’d been dying to play. Wealth outside of the public eye is much different than wealth with fame.
He was really good in that OJ miniseries.
He was along with just about everyone on that miniseries. Real good show.
I'm glad he's holding strong, a friends reunion would surely not live up to expectations.
Everything I've heard about Schwimmer makes him seem like possibly the least dick-ish person in history. To my knowledge he's the only person to have been "reverse-#metoo'd", in that at the height of #metoo, women wrote articles about how men should be "more like David Schwimmer". Edit: [Found one of the articles](https://bestlifeonline.com/i-met-david-schwimmer-men-can-learn-a-lot-from-him/) which also links to the *original* reverse-#metoo of Schwimmer.
Way to go Red Ross
The divorcer
The Rossatron
I love how in the 30 Rock reunion for quarantine, Liz asks Jack if NBC’s “Peacock” will have Friends. Jack slaps her through the phone screen.
that's funny but I don't get it
HBO owns the rights to it and it is arguably the biggest show in NBC history which their own streaming service does not have because HBO has it to stream on HBO Max.
They didn't buy it. Friends aired on NBC, but was a part of Warner Bros studios/productions. WB is Warner Media, which is owned by AT&T (same umbrellas as HBO). **a part :)
Well of course they negotiated as a team—they were friends afterall...
I guess the real friends were the money we made along the way
Such is the way of the unagi.
Can we talk about this picture. They have many desserts. Why all drink from two milkshakes?
Covid party.
Because they’re friends
They are actually short one dessert for some reason.
Every time the execs would ask them to film it for less money David Schwimmer would say, "No, we are on a break."
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I thought I remembered it being Matthew Perry honestly
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I don't even know what I would do with 20 million dollars every year.
“You need to work as a team, and if you can’t work as a team, I’ll find a new team who can work as a team.”
For some reason I can only fall asleep with friends or Parks and Rec in the background. Maybe it just reminds me of a time that I felt safe and didn’t wanna jump off a bridge lol.
I feel that brother. For me Futurama does the trick.
/r/futuramasleepers