*the girl who once told me my job was worthless and clapped in my face to get my attention*
Her: “I’ve never been mean to stage crew!”
Me: …
I’m sorry. She mother fucking WHAT!
SHE FUCKING WHAT!?!?
OH BOY HAVE I A STORY FOR YOU. For this show I was SM’ing, I was doing blocking and calling cues and helping with costumes and makeup and helping with set construction, because my crew is a little short staffed. This actor tried to take over makeup and oh BOY that went so terribly, but that’s a story for another time. But that same day I was working on fixing this set piece and I know she DAMN WELL KNOWS my name, we’ve been in the same production about 5 times now. But she snaps right in my face and yells “HEY STAGE CREW” then goes on to rant about how something else is broken. THE NEXT DAY: she approaches me for conversation, just casually asks how I am. I tell her I’m super tired since I’m pulling wayyyy more hours than anyone else because I’m doing sets, SMing, and helping with costumes and other stuff. She proceeds to say “Whatever, your job isn’t even hard. You just sit and tell people when to press a button, you’re basically just super lazy. If you just disappeared the show would be fine without you. Most of stage crew doesn’t do anything. The actors could do stage crews job and be in the show.” I was infuriated. But as it is my job to be calm and collected and work stuff out, I just said “okay” and walked away. The reason this especially bugged me is because in this show we had 250 or so light cues, 80 sound cues, 30 or so fly cues, 50 mic changes, and we had 2 snow makers and 2 fog machines. The set changes were also INSANE. There was a lot of other stuff we did that show but I’m not gonna bother to list it all, but it’s the most tech heavy show I’ve ever worked (well, second most tech heavy show). Unfortunately, I found out this same girl got callbacks for the lead for the next show I’m working. She was hard enough to deal with when she was ensemble and was only there for half of the rehearsals. So, guess I’ll die?
TELL THE PEOPLE HIRING ABOUT THIS.
REPORT. HER. ASS.
You can do something about someone with this kind of attitude and it’s called telling the hiring people so they don’t get to work at that company again.
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