I love my job...

[fiere redfern]

So here I sit at my computer at work, waiting on a rediculously slow PDF generator to do its thing, when the fire alarm comes on. No notification, no "this is a test, this is only a test", just a loud and rather obnoxious noise. Our VP of HR had to call the front desk to find out just what was going on. Fast forward ten minutes - this time, we get notified. Twice. Has there been another alarm sounded? Nope. /sigh

The thing that keeps me going though is the fact that tomorrow and Thursday will be a completely different story. I'll be doing my freelance stagehand bit, playing squint and splinter (that's electrics and carp crew) for something in the neighborhood of 12-16 hours tomorrow and another 8-12 hours on Thursday. That number of hours in two days = beaucoup overtime, and on top of that I already get paid more schleppin' road boxes and playing with rigging then I do as a desk jockey.

Gee, enginerd or crew monkey?

Decisions, decisions...

[un4]

I'll be doing my freelance stagehand bit, playing squint and splinter. . . .

+50 bonus points for the reference.

Thesbians of the world untie!

[usonian]

Thesbians?  Aren't those straight women who act like they're lesbian?  Perhaps lesbian actresses?

[un4]

Thesbians?  Aren't those straight women who act like they're lesbian?  Perhaps lesbian actresses?

Exactly.

[snort] 

[fiere redfern]

Hehe ^_^

Re: said gig... it was awesome. We built a set and rig for a Vera Wang/Kohl's fashion "event" (can't call it a show, there wasn't any runway).

Highlights:
- the freakin' PARK (with real sod!) they built in a corner of the ballroom. We rigged two sets of swings over it that the models sat on
- nifty-lookin' center stage (two levels, with birdcages, a ladder, giant picture frames... I quickly came to the conclusion that set designers for the fashion world are very.. strange)
- being able to work with a pretty awesome crew
- other set pieces - giant mushrooms (i kid you not), real evergreen tree-bushes, giant fikuses (fiki?), and a bed in the middle of the park. This makes sense how?
- sitting down with the crew after strike finished (We'd been there since 8am for a touch-up/focus call, it was nearly midnight by then) and knocking back what was left of the cold beer from the show.

Lowlights:
- Let me stress: I am NOT a people-person. Especially when said people have their knickers in a twist over the fact that THEY are(want to be/claim to be) top dog and YOU are moving in (supposedly) on their turf. I think I made a new enemy when one dude demanded to know "How long are you going to be here?" and I (in my typical smartass you're-being-a-jerk-so-slow-down-and-ask-again way) replied "forever and a day." Sigh... some people just have no sense of humor. At all.
- Idiot women who are oh-so miffed about the fact that there is a MAN (of all things!) in hair and make-up. Said man was the guy actually in charge of the production portion of the gig and my boss (and very cool, at that). Seriously... do you want your show to happen in the dark, or what?
- Ever get one of these people: "So um... could you like... go and do this for me?" (read: Drop whatever you are doing and attend to my every whim and possible need for the next hour or so) Yeah. We had ALL of them. Kinda fun when you're CLEARLY running cable somewhere and they want you to go to the other side of the ballroom to turn on a light for them. >_<

Yeah. Two days, 26 hours, and a couple beers later here I sit, wondering why I'm at the office today because my everything hurts. But it's a good hurt, and a good tired, and the reason why I really do enjoy this job =)

/satisfaction

/grin

[un4]

I know a guy who does makeup better than any woman I know... he aged me about 50 years for a show once, and made it look real.


Cheers.  It's just the same for us n'er-do-well actors