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infortuantely i've always had the opposite, in my days of freelancing SM'ing i never once worked with a competent ASM sadly, its just fate probably but i would certianly let them know when they fucked up big time, descreetly ofcourse and i hope fairly because i never really had loyalty issues...

no you mis understood me, i'm a lighitng tech, i mean i find it easy, i find sound difficult, i mean i an run a concert and stuff but i cant get it to sound any good.

yeah but if that food is pizza its gets inside the spot which really sucks coming in the next morning to work to clean out food from a grill on the spots. but the one thing i wont work without is good coffee, either starbucks or oddly enough mcdonalds black is quite good for a crappy fast food...

yeah me 2 i bought one while over in the states, just a 20gb but still i've only got 10gb of music on it so i doubt i'll fill it up, lol i'm look into getting some lazy boy chairs for the booth that'd just be awesome. and a bigger fridge, our one only holds 24 cans of lager at a time, which...

yeah all theatres are like that, i work in the oldest hemp rope theatre in the UK so as you can imagine its very creepy, constantly during shows you can hear things moving about above your head, the orchestra pit its the same, you can hear things in the dark, spooky huh, its not a nice theatre...

lol that is very smooth i think i'll impliment something like that.

thats probably cause i'm not at school matt i actually work in a theatre lol which makes it compltely stupid as there is no-one checking up on us, bar the police lol. and the coffee thing is a great idea, on a cold icy winter monring it works beautifully, for a lage theatre the heating never...

yeah but after a couple of years in the same place you get to know when its ok, as a tech TD, to talk and when its not. i still chat with my colleauges about things, often its just telling whoevers on call in the kitchen to put the kettle on as we'll be down in a bit but otherwise we talk about...

yeah cheers for the tip, its been bout 3 months since that exam, it all worked out fine, got an A for it, i did use window gobos in the end, looked pretty sweet.

just tell them you wont be coming back, i assume you wont?

of course not all junior techies are bad but these one's are its more that i often find the people new to it think they know alot more than they do, and yeah sally j i am the TD of that lot now, i use to be the SM but after the TD left i took over and i'm starting to put together some training...

yeah but they like to look important mainly for girls, if it looks like they've hooked up some 'really complicated' system then they must be cool or something, never quite understood that one. i jsut put my ipod on or let em borrow it.

hehehe our box contains the 'emergency box' for when things get a bit tough or boring or someone brings their girlfriend along or in some cases wives (or someone elses!), its just a small coolbox with vodka, gin, tonic, coke, JD and nacho's. it comes in very handy during boring / long...

I think ship was spot on with his reply, while it may have been a bit long. there are too many kids turning up at our theatre and saying that either they've got a BA in theatre productions or they've had loads of experience (which turns out to be about 20 hours of am-dram stuff) and that they...

as everyone else has said it i might aswell just repeat, you lead by example, if your doing things well your crew are gonna learn from you and be inspired to do it right aswell, i'm one of two stage managers at my college, the other one shouts at the crew till they get it right, i prefer to do...