Doug B.
Late. Like every time ABS is the Payroll Company
Late…due to an “I.T. Meltdown”. Or “Solar Flares”, or a wire-transfer glitch. I don’t know who runs ABS, but my gut tells me they’re a running-dog lackey of the AMPTP. Production blames ABS, and doesn’t question whatever ABS says. ALSO, ABS snail-mails your paystubs to your home address. They may or may not send a .pdf of all the stubs to the Production Office. On the shows I’ve done with ABS, Production didn’t tell the crew this…I knew to ask, because on a previous show, ABS said sending them to the Home Address was their policy. We had to raise holy hell to get them to give us our stubs on location. This is actually a big deal, because without your stub, there’s no way to audit your pay until the show’s wrapped, you’re back home, and the Production Office has packed-up and gone.


