We recently had to hire a guy named Vincent in our office because his parents are friends with the producers of our show. Ok. Fine.
So today we bought a dry/erase board so that we could hang it up in the office and write the call time and what shots we're doing every day and all that nonsense. Important TV stuff. So we have the board leaning against the wall here because we wanted to drill it into the wall because these things have a way of vanishing from the production office.
So we send Vincent out for a drill. And it gets really busy here and by the time he gets back the dry/erase board has vanished. So I look around and spot it in the wardrobe department. Our Costume Designer, however, is a bitch on wheels and I'd rather not deal with her. AND I have to leave the office for a while, which I used as my official excuse. So I send Vincent to reclaim our board from the wicked wardrobe department, and to drill it into the wall IN THE PRODUCTION OFFICE. And with that I depart.
I get back about 2 hours later to find this note on my desk (courtesy of our other PA, Cynthia) -"Vincent tried to drill backwards for a 1/2 hour", meaning that he had the setting on reverse and therefore couldn't drill anything in.
So I go over to the wall where I asked him to put the board up and it's COVERED in little holes, but the board isn't there. So I go over to Vincent. He's beaming.
"Where is the board?" I ask.
"It's up" he responds proudly.
I look over to the wall covered with holes, but no board.
"Where?"
"Where you asked me to."
"I'm looking right at the wall. I don't see it."
The phone rings, Vincent answers. And then it hits me. I walk into the wardrobe department, and sure enough the dry erase board is drilled securely into the wall, never to be removed.
He's the best.
So today we bought a dry/erase board so that we could hang it up in the office and write the call time and what shots we're doing every day and all that nonsense. Important TV stuff. So we have the board leaning against the wall here because we wanted to drill it into the wall because these things have a way of vanishing from the production office.
So we send Vincent out for a drill. And it gets really busy here and by the time he gets back the dry/erase board has vanished. So I look around and spot it in the wardrobe department. Our Costume Designer, however, is a bitch on wheels and I'd rather not deal with her. AND I have to leave the office for a while, which I used as my official excuse. So I send Vincent to reclaim our board from the wicked wardrobe department, and to drill it into the wall IN THE PRODUCTION OFFICE. And with that I depart.
I get back about 2 hours later to find this note on my desk (courtesy of our other PA, Cynthia) -"Vincent tried to drill backwards for a 1/2 hour", meaning that he had the setting on reverse and therefore couldn't drill anything in.
So I go over to the wall where I asked him to put the board up and it's COVERED in little holes, but the board isn't there. So I go over to Vincent. He's beaming.
"Where is the board?" I ask.
"It's up" he responds proudly.
I look over to the wall covered with holes, but no board.
"Where?"
"Where you asked me to."
"I'm looking right at the wall. I don't see it."
The phone rings, Vincent answers. And then it hits me. I walk into the wardrobe department, and sure enough the dry erase board is drilled securely into the wall, never to be removed.
He's the best.