Mission Impossible

I'd like all you readers to imagine for a moment if you please that you get a phone call…
That goes something like this:

*Phone ring*
Me: Hello?
Boss: Yea, Hello Liz
Me: Hello [Boss], What's up?
Boss: I was just calling to see if you would be interested in working
Me: I got your e-mail about the reschedule for yesterday
Boss: You got that? Good...
Me: I'll e-mail you back later
Boss: I was just calling to see if you would be interested in working crew for a show
Me: Sure, what time?
Boss: I... uh.. I don't know
Me: What day?
Boss: I'm not sure...
Me: What's the name of the show?
Boss: I don't know
Me: What will I be doing?
Boss: Well.. I'm just trying to find some people for someone who is looking for crew for his show at Essex...
Me: Who?
Boss: You'll get around 200 dollars for doing it
Me: What will I be doing again?
Boss: I don't know.. I mean I know what I'm doing for one of the shows but I don't know what they need you for
Me: So you want me to work a show that you don't know the name of to do something you don't know about for 200 dollars for someone you don't really know at an undetermined time?
Boss: I have his e-mail.. he e-mailed me asking for help
Me: Well send me his e-mail so I can get in touch with him
Boss: Okay. I'll talk to you later
*click*
Me: I HATE you.


To be fair tho.. this is a typical correspondance with Our Boss.

Boss: Hey Liz can you work this week? Monday through Sunday
Me: What time?
Boss: uh.. I'm not sure.. I think you need to be there at 8 am, until 9 pm
Me: What will I be doing?
Boss: I.. uh, I'm not sure
Me: Am I just sitting in the booth baby sitting someone using the stage? Usual turn on the lights and set up and stay out of the way unless I'm needed?
Boss: That sounds about right.
Me: I can do that.
Boss: Okay thanks, bye.
*click*
Me: I HATE YOU

But when I show up, I'm actually required to sit through a dance show rehearsal all week and then, unbeknownst to me, run both the light board and sound board by myself as well as put light cues in. This is NOT baby sitting the usage of the stage.

Somewhere in the communication between the people using the stage and Bill these fanciful stories get told about his Techs who can run both Light board and Sound board at the same time as well as run the curtain. His Techs who can magically fix any light to be exactly what the customer wants. his Magical techs who will set up whatever the customer needs even if it;'s not our job.
Then we show up after he has told us that all we need to do is set up for this event and in actuality the event is poorly organized and being changed at the last second and we must scramble to fix it all with no thanks but instead a really nasty stage manager who has no clue how to do cue calls.
The customers tell us that Bill told them they would get kicker speakers. Bill tells us that they never asked for kicker speakers.
The customers tell us that Bill told them we would fulfill all their Lighting needs.
Nate noticed in the e-mail to us Bill said that they didn't pay for any special lighting changes.

I could sit here and go on ALL night. But I won't I'm done complaining. I want to go watch Tosh.0


Yours Angrily
_Liz