Recap of the day:
-Had to take the bus since we still only have one (borrowed) car, and it broke down causing me to be 20 minutes late to work after walking an extra 2 miles in the Arizona sun in all black clothing
-Didn't really have a show, but instead I was ordered to not only help set up for a Church Service that is going on SUNDAY (?!), but to train one of our least-trained techs on how to use the advanced light board functions. Then I find out my supervisor HID a remote control unit for the lightboard that would've made our jobs TEN times easier, but only told Chase about it. Only reason I was "allowed" to know about it was because he didn't know how to use the ETC programing language.
-Found out the ENTIRE theater was ordered to keep my supervisor's resignation a secret so I could train the LEAST trained tech to replace him. That's right: I will work all the hard shows, train my new boss who used to be my stagehand, and he will get paid more than I will with more hours, leaving me the most difficult live Jazz performances because he doesn't have the Union certification. Seems that I'm still suffering the "lesson" of going to HR back when my supervisor tried to get violent with me, only to have him physically attack a female co worker not a few weeks ago. But I'm the problem.
-Sister forgot to pick me up from work, took bus only to have her call me halfway home to tell me to wait right where I was to pick me up.... an hour later. In the sun. Still in my show blacks.
-Got stuck loading TWO truckloads of boxes down then up several flights of stairs (since her shoulder is screwed up it seems... again!) and still in pain.
-Sister went to get clothes and her ex was there, calls me sobbing in freak out mode accusing him of a TON of vicious verbal attacks. I call him, and get a totally different story. Problem is, I don't know which one of these versions has all the facts if any
This is very hard for me to admit... but now I must handle ALL interaction between the two, including lease terminations and all things legal AND material (yes, I get to ferry each other's shit back and forth now) and handle ALL their phonecalls in regards to each other so they don't get into a conflict, risking her job.
-My laptop's Hard Drive suffers a critical failure. Used my old laptop's (smaller) Hard drive that is also corrupt but still functions and was able to salvage the restore program off the old HD. Oh, did I mention it's a netbook so no disk drive!? Was able to get my warrantied activation code for Windows 7 Starter, but lost ALL of my personal data that I haven't backed up since we moved. This includes the newest revisions to the script of the show I am working on, pictures of me and the girl... well, you get the idea
-Found out that the car we've been hoping to get on a great payment option from a fellow gun club member....IS IN OHIO and we're in ARIZONA!!! No car for us.
And my day still has a few hours to go.
I try, but fail....even harder than I've failed previous. Today was about as epic of disaster as you can imagine. I just need my stalking ex to show up and a fight between my girl and I to totally push me to munch on a luger. I'm seriously done. After YEARS OF THIS SHIT I cannot take it anymore. WHEN IT IS MY FUCKING TURN!?!?!?! EVER?
/rant off
-Had to take the bus since we still only have one (borrowed) car, and it broke down causing me to be 20 minutes late to work after walking an extra 2 miles in the Arizona sun in all black clothing
-Didn't really have a show, but instead I was ordered to not only help set up for a Church Service that is going on SUNDAY (?!), but to train one of our least-trained techs on how to use the advanced light board functions. Then I find out my supervisor HID a remote control unit for the lightboard that would've made our jobs TEN times easier, but only told Chase about it. Only reason I was "allowed" to know about it was because he didn't know how to use the ETC programing language.
-Found out the ENTIRE theater was ordered to keep my supervisor's resignation a secret so I could train the LEAST trained tech to replace him. That's right: I will work all the hard shows, train my new boss who used to be my stagehand, and he will get paid more than I will with more hours, leaving me the most difficult live Jazz performances because he doesn't have the Union certification. Seems that I'm still suffering the "lesson" of going to HR back when my supervisor tried to get violent with me, only to have him physically attack a female co worker not a few weeks ago. But I'm the problem.
-Sister forgot to pick me up from work, took bus only to have her call me halfway home to tell me to wait right where I was to pick me up.... an hour later. In the sun. Still in my show blacks.
-Got stuck loading TWO truckloads of boxes down then up several flights of stairs (since her shoulder is screwed up it seems... again!) and still in pain.
-Sister went to get clothes and her ex was there, calls me sobbing in freak out mode accusing him of a TON of vicious verbal attacks. I call him, and get a totally different story. Problem is, I don't know which one of these versions has all the facts if any
This is very hard for me to admit... but now I must handle ALL interaction between the two, including lease terminations and all things legal AND material (yes, I get to ferry each other's shit back and forth now) and handle ALL their phonecalls in regards to each other so they don't get into a conflict, risking her job.-My laptop's Hard Drive suffers a critical failure. Used my old laptop's (smaller) Hard drive that is also corrupt but still functions and was able to salvage the restore program off the old HD. Oh, did I mention it's a netbook so no disk drive!? Was able to get my warrantied activation code for Windows 7 Starter, but lost ALL of my personal data that I haven't backed up since we moved. This includes the newest revisions to the script of the show I am working on, pictures of me and the girl... well, you get the idea
-Found out that the car we've been hoping to get on a great payment option from a fellow gun club member....IS IN OHIO and we're in ARIZONA!!! No car for us.
And my day still has a few hours to go.
I try, but fail....even harder than I've failed previous. Today was about as epic of disaster as you can imagine. I just need my stalking ex to show up and a fight between my girl and I to totally push me to munch on a luger. I'm seriously done. After YEARS OF THIS SHIT I cannot take it anymore. WHEN IT IS MY FUCKING TURN!?!?!?! EVER?
/rant off
it'll be our turn soon enough. we're making progress, even if it's slow... it's still progress.