Sometimes I'm Angry, 'Cause People Drink My Mi Wadi (And Don't Fucking Reply To My Emails)

As much as I love the fashion industry; the pace, the excitement, and the breath-taking collections some people manage to (and I hope to someday) create, I'm feeling more than a tad disenfranchised, and, to be honest, totally fucked off with the general attitude towards students.
I apologise for the obviousness and ranty nature of this, I'm just so sick of those at a certain label thinking they have the right to leave me hanging like this.

After emailing several brands of various levels, and magazines, just after the Easter holiday, I didn't get my hopes up that I'd hear back from any of them, so I was quite surprised and excited to get an email a couple of weeks ago (around 4:30pm on May 31st, to be exact) offering me a placement at an internationally recognised, london based label, provided I pass a trial day. They needed help from the second week in June, so the email told me, and if I was still interested, I was to contact them and they would organise a trial. Naturally, I replied within a couple of hours.
Fine, it was a Thursday, so I can understand them not getting back to me within that week, and yes, it was the Jubilee weekend, but I'd assume that what they consider to be the second week in June starts tomorrow, but I've heard nothing from them.

Again, this would all be fine, if I were living in London, but I am putting my life on hold for this opportunity: I haven't booked any flights back to Belfast, I can't sort out storage for my stuff because I don't know when I'm moving out of my flat, and I can't organise accommodation for when I'm there (if I get the placement), because I don't know for sure the when and for how long it would be. Every day they leave me waiting, it's going to cost me more. And knowing what some of the cocks in this industry are like, they'll probably come back to me and expect me to drop everything and be with them the next day; which again, would be fine if I lived in the same city and had no plans, but I'm a 2 hour (£50 return) train journey away, and the longer they leave it the more likely I am to have prior commitments. It'd be great if I heard from them tomorrow, but if they want me Tuesday I can't, because I've committed to a photoshoot; I'm not going to piss off to London leaving Sassoon one model short, especially after they've cut and coloured my hair for the shoot, and have been so generous to me over the past 7 months.

And, before you say anything, I know this is the reality of such a fast paced, competitive, high pressured industry, blah, blah, blah.... but I'm not going to sit here and happily wait, just because I've been graced with one email. This is a fantastic opportunity for me, which I know I'm lucky to get, and I'm not expecting to get it for doing nothing, but how can I work for it when they won't even get back to me about the fucking trial?! Do these people not realise that even first year fashion students who are desperate for experience, have lives that they need to work around, just as much as they need to work around the designer's schedule?

Anyway, I rang them on Friday and left a message; hopefully that'll prompt some kind of response, one way or the other. As much as I tried to sound professional, my annoyance and in-eloquence with voicemails may have crept in by the end. Although, if that makes me lose the placement, I really don't think I'd be as annoyed as I currently am; I just want to know what I'm doing.

I'm not naming the brand at this point, by the way, as it is someone I really do want to get the chance to work with, despite this utterly inconsiderate inefficiency in communication.

DSH. x

** In hindsight, I want to apologise to the people this is directed at. I'm currently in the last week of the internship, and since we finally got to the stage of organising it they've been lovely and totally accommodating. At the time I had a lot that needed to be sorted out, and I was wrongly projecting all of my frustrations onto one person. Granted, I still think there could have been more efficient communication, but I wouldn't want the people involved to get the wrong impression if they ever read this.