I am with you J. Jericho those complaints in that clip are typical of all low paid jobs in USA and Europe in all sectors and professions, high hours, low pay, no tenure, having to hold down more than one job just to pay the rent.
At will workers in many states in USA like nurses or teachers can be sacked at a moments notice.
Look at that musical director in Birmingham Alabama who was conducting 150 band members at a high school game. They were supposed to be playing after the match it was all agreed and arranged that they play after the game.
They were part of the game like the cheerleaders or the ground staff or the coach and the football players.
The kids had all rehearsed long and hard for their appearance, they were in the middle of their set, the fans were still in the stadium and the school called the cops to kick the band out mid performance and shut off the lights in the stadium with fans and band still inside.
I believe laws pertaining to health and safety of fans and staff were broken by the school here in an effort to bully the musicians into obeying and leaving.
The director quite correctly in my opinion refused to silence the band mid performance and was then tazed by the cops and arrested. The kids were screaming seeing their director tazed and jumped on by the cops.
What about the safety of the musicians who lost their director when he was taken away to the cells.
This must have been traumatic for the school band, and the parents of the players, not to say very dangerous forcing the musicians to carry their instruments in darkness.
Musicians are treated as no better than criminals by many people, and are victimised for fun, I know what I am talking about here. I have been on the receiving end of a lot of physical abuse.
I have been physically attacked many times during performances.
Complaining about low pay and having to hold down a second job is just pathetic and laughable.
I dont think that musician in the clip could cope with the reality that we face as performing musicians every day of the week.
Of course we receive adulation and bouquets of flowers as well and that makes us continue.
The blues brothers movie showed it very well and truthfully, being showered with glass or beaten up in one venue and then receiving adulation in the next venue.
That is the way it is and how it has always been.