So I will be posting once more on the regular. Sorry guys. For full and complete updates on my undertakings I'll have other links up shortly.
As for CCBC I'm concerned that my employment there may be hanging by a thin thread.
I'm not going to get fired off course. I think I have finally come to understand that all this job gives me is anger and grief. I think I'll quit.
I was totally surprised too! Honestly I show up for work late every time I am scheduled to work ( that is if I show up at all) I gripe and complain, not so much because I hate being there but mostly because once I discovered I could get away with it I couldn't resist doing it.
Today Bill complained at me about painting lines on this set we're working on crooked. I told him that if we had new brushes or even better brushes then maybe the majority of the paint work would get done quicker and be better looking. He explained to me that the reason we can't have nice things is because people would just mistreat it.
I countered that that was not a reasonable explanation and that he should take the time to hire and train people who don't know how to use things to use them correctly then our things would be taken care of. Keeping crappy equipment so stupid people can build ugly sets makes no sense. Instead of training these people so they would know what they were doing with good equipment which will make BETTER looking sets.
He tried to argue with me some more but after countering all his points and possibly angrily diatribing about how he constantly has us do things that with proper and non broken equipment we could do better and fast and with more motivation and he angrily told me he didn't feel like having this conversation.
That's all well and good, I understand that he is my boss and that I am the employee , I also understand that he probably knows a lot more about a lot of things than I do but I also expect as an employee to be given the proper tool sto get the job done and that I have a few rights too.
LIke the right to having a steady schedule for a show. For steady hours. I shouldn't be getting paid every three or five or two or four weeks a 16$ check. with my lunch taken out of it even though I never got one. To be told nothing from my TD about a show i'm required to tech and then not having an idea what I'm to do there and flying every show I work by the seat of my pants. There are just so many terrible things wrong with this place. I used to giggle about how I'd blog about how terrible it is but I honestly don't feel I can even keep the charade of enjoying being on the campus any more.
It is just so dreadfully awful.
I'll decide what I want to do another day but at least now I feel like I vented a bit. I know no one I complain to at CCBC cares at all.
Example: At UMBC upper level students help teach numerous lower level students how to properly use tools and build things. In future semesters this practice continues. The shop is neat and orderly all things have a place. The T.D fully answers all questions and doesn't disappear after assigning you a task. Everything is planned out, discussed before any actual construction is built.
At CCBC there are no theatre tech students upper or lower level everyone who works there is a volunteer or a temp hourly paid by the college. Things are never completely put away and objects are continuously being stolen "borrowed" or simply broken and lost. The T.D doesn't know how to weld, to follow a construction plate build a platform with even legs or even explain anything remotely well. The plans for construction are dubious at best. Bill frequently assigns you a task, a single task then disappears for long moments before reappearing to tell you the next thing he wants you to do before vanishing more.
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