When you're the only one to hear the casting doorbell ring

When you spend 5 minutes explaining something over the phone to someone just for them to ask you to 'ping it all over in an email'

When someone goes to change the channel from 6 Music to Kiss FM

When a client insists on consulting an Art Director for a legal text edit

When Greg walked in on WYCTTWD and wasn't WHCT

When you boil the kettle and someone else beats you to it and uses up all the hot water

When a lone freelancer arrives at the SC Christmas Dinner

The reaction you get when you forget to put two sugars in Nadia's hot beverage

When you're CC'd in an email with some seriously bad news about the production and you know that it's only a matter of time until the Producer reads it

When you send off the Christmas Dinner invitations

When you hope to God that the mammoth Adstream order doesn't crash halfway through

When the buzzer goes and you're not sure who's going to get up to get it

The moment you realise your train has been delayed putting you at a high risk of being late for Wallboard

When Nadia was crowned 'Miss Space City Productions' without even needing a vote

When you receive an invoice from a crew member and he hasn't charged you for those two hours of overtime

 

 ...and when someone you previously loved charges you overtime

When the runner walks past you with a box of Celebrations

When a female producer meets the new all-male crew on a shoot for the first time

When you ask Greg if he wouldn't mind coming in on a Sunday to do a VO record

The moment you're told you're going to be an 'Ass Prod'

When we're so close to getting a new project into production that we throw in a few free transmissions to seal the deal

When it's gone past 6pm the day before a shoot and the Production Assistant is going nowhere

When you read the email about the 200 Smart re-versionings

When word gets around that there's only one spud left at Alf's

When a client wants us to do a transmission when there aren't three clear working days

When the client prematurely touches and/or hugs and/or kisses Lucy

When you try to butt in to a conversation to say that we can't possibly do that idea on the budget...but then give up

When the DIT asks if you want the transcodes in DNX 36 or at a higher bit rate.

When you think you've done a mistake with transmission

When the crew asks if it's ok to charge for overtime

When you get an email about an ASA complaint.

When Josh rocks up and does a guide VO and a broadcast quality edit on his first day.

When all three edit suites are in use and clients are in and there are more re-edits to be done and quotes to draw up and there's a shoot tomorrow and we get a new business call and Goodfellas are out of curly fries

The moment you tell the crew that the shoot is going to run late

When we ask the extras to come to the shoot ready and in wardrobe

When the actor's agent has sent over outdated wardrobe measurements

When you're in an Addison Lee after a 15 hour day and you have a really chatty driver

When one of the crew asks the Production Assistant how many shots we have left

When the crew tell the producer that they're going to charge for overtime

When we have to wait for DIT after a shoot

When Lucy has to go to a meeting...up North

When a model shows up to a casting and she looks NOTHING like her spotlight profile pic

When you take the necessary precautions to back up all the rushes in case of accidental (/forceful) deletion

When you put yourself forward to be an extra in the ad. Usually accompanied by a feeling of instant regret.

When VO artists get upset by their star rating on Voice123

When you take a new business call

When the casting is already really busy and another 5 people come in at the same time

When Lucy demands where her scissors are...and they're on Stoof's desk

When you avoid opening an email for hours only to find that it's just a 'thank you'

When the producer practices his/her client facing fake laugh skills