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amazing eric New user Amazing Eric 43 Posts |
I agree that it all depends on where you go as to the treatment you receive, particularly in parking. One example is that I did a show at a school in Connecticut and I was not allowed to unload my equipment near the auditorium due to security reasons. I had to enter the front way and walk down a long way to the front of the auditorium and then lug my gear on the stage. I also used a sound system. What made this trek tricky was that I was only allowed to use a certain door when entering the building due to security reasons, and upon entering, I had to use another "certain" door just to get to the hallway that led to the auditorium. Upon getting to the auditorium, I then had to find a custodian to unlock the door I was to enter. Two trips and it felt like I was moving my house. On the other hand, I did a show at Columbia University and was given a parking voucher and my venue was very close.
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TomFoolery New user Gloucester 83 Posts |
Taking a booking from a customer.
Customer: Can you do your show in the middle of a field Tom Foolery: Yes not a problem, I have a great bit of kit I can plug in to my van to power my PA system. Customer: Great sounds ideal, see you you then. Tom Foolery: Great many thanks Day of booking. Tom Foolery: Good morning I'm Tom Foolery the children's entertainer. Security: You can't bring your van on site! Tom Foolery: I have my contract here Security; Park over there and unload from there. Tom Foolery: OK not a problem Phones the Customer who who arrives and lets one on site and shows one where to set up. One hour later Ready to go, show and PA set up Security: You can't leave your van there. Tom Foolery: My booker said I could. Security: I really don't care I have a job to do. Tom Foolery: I do need my van for power Security: So Tom Foolery: Look heres my contract please phone the booker. Security:Errrr let me phone my manager. Various degrees of frustration |
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Red Shadow Inner circle 1788 Posts |
You should have bought along an exercise bike that can generate power and told the security guard that you will move your van if he offers to peddle the bike for the full duration of your show.
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JamesinLA Inner circle Los Angeles 3400 Posts |
Batteries.
Jim
Oh, my friend we're older but no wiser, for in our hearts the dreams are still the same...
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Christopher Rinaldi Veteran user 347 Posts |
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On 2011-01-04 11:20, MoonRazor wrote: So true man, couldn't agree more with this post! Suck it up, it's a job and it's a lot better than other jobs out there and we ain't rock star premadonnas! I WANT ONLY RED M&M'S!!!! |
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Cheshire Cat Special user Wilmslow, UK 941 Posts |
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On 2010-12-27 05:05, ku7uk3 wrote: Ok Steve, I'll dip in here quickly to comment on your post. To be quite honest we can sometimes find schools the most rude, hostile environment of all in the course of entertaining. SOME teachers I believe, do not like children, and are under stress tolerated purely for financial gain (employment) within the profession. Yet these people are in line for huge public service employees pensions at the expense of our taxes. If we treated our Customers like some of these people treat everyone and everything whilst they are at their "factory" then we'd be out of business. Years ago an entertainer at a school was a very "special guest" and treated as such. We had a few Private Schools like this last month. Now we had a great December and could live until the end of March off it. For one thing we didn't disappear to the Canary Islands for the first time for years. We decided to do the "big push" with the rest. You get to see what people have to endure at 8 a.m. on winters mornings in rush hour traffic and feel totally blown out at the end of the day like the rest. But I diversify, - yes, we had two incidents of rudeness this December, but we walked away with their cheques, so they are forgotten amidst the dozens of happy parties we entertained at. There are two of us working together so as long as we are not liable to parking fines at a party we just "swallow" the need for close-by parking as such. The rest of the year usually no sweat, no bother at all! Believe me Steve, you are just going through the same feelings that some of us felt nearly 30 years ago. We all have been there, seen it and done it. Water off a couple of Wilmslow ducks' backs!! All the best - Tony |
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Julie Carpenter Regular user Watford 139 Posts |
I was lucky enough to get the only road space outside my venue today. All the guests were late because there was nowhere to park and the hall looks so derelict that they were walking past it.
With so many church halls and community centres around - why cant these clients look at the bigger picture and work out how the guests are going to get there. |
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keeblem Inner circle Essex, UK 1167 Posts |
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On 2011-01-07 08:02, Cheshire Cat wrote: I don't want to paint all teachers with the same brush - but I worked as a volunteer at a school a few years ago and I was quite surprised at how some of the teachers/staff spoke to the children. It did make you wonder why on earth they got into that profession. Mark |
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Red Shadow Inner circle 1788 Posts |
I use to be a secondary-school ICT teacher. I left mainly due to the other teachers. They made the job so miserable I couldn't stand it. The head of department was angry all the time. She shouted at the children and ran daily detention.
In my classes, I used magic as a means to get the children working. Do the job and I will award you at the end with magic. It worked and so I rarely had bad students. This meant I did not have to give detention. This made the head of department angry who would shout at me for not doing any detentions. I looked at another member of staff who had been there for ten years. You could tell that under his exterior, he was a nice man. But he had been 'bullied' so much by the head teacher that he was scared of her and shouted at the children just so he wouldn't be shouted at by her. Another member of staff had decided to join the 'art club', so that for the short time I was there, he was on a skiing holiday with the school, another holiday elsewhere and taught art instead of ICT. I taught most of his classes. The third teacher quit the second week I was there. He couldn't stand it any-longer. She was just so miserable it made us all sick and there was nothing we could do about it. Eventually that, along with the absolute stupid amount of paperwork involved got me to say to myself - why I am here? I have a wonderful profession in magic, which is a successful business. My initial idea at the time was to get my teachers qualification so that I could sell my educational shows to schools and they could pay me as a supply teacher. I finished the qualification and decided to never ever go back into teaching again. Too much politics. Also, they started each day at 8-15am with a staff meeting where they would inform us on which student was killed / abused / arrested last night. It was the absolute worst way to start the day you can possible imagine, and this was suppose to prepare us for a whole day with them! Sad, but true. |
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