Work Dreams....
This isn't good... I've been having repetitive work dreams. Crashing, falling, accident type dreams. Every-time I get them I know that the next run is going to suck in some way. Sadly, I regularly get them before and during the tech of the summer musical for a particular employer. This year they're attempting, how shall I say it a Boutique version Les Mis. With less than 1/3 the regular crew on the big touring version. Which I've worked twice before, and took into the states back in 1997. So, I know what a physical burnout the particular show is.
The touring show crew's motto is: " It's O.K. We'll Sleep When We're Dead" - I have T-shirt somewhere in my storage place that says it on the back. It's an arduous show in the big form, and they plan to shoe horn the thing into a 650 seat building. Without a floor revolve to assist in scene changes. The cast takes up so many rooms in the basement that they have to put the wardrobe in a portable in the alley.
Thankfully, the dreams haven't been about me falling or being injured. It goes like this.... I'm asked to hang a backdrop on my own. On a large hastily built, rickety scaffold that cantilevers off to the side, over the front of the stage The backdrop is of the Paris, Skyline. As I'm struggling to hold it up and pull zip ties through the drops grommets. The main drape goes out, revealing the audience starting to stream in. My supervisor gets fed up with me struggling and goes out on the edge of the scaffold to continue the job. Telling me how worthless I am.
He ventures out onto the cantilevered side of the scaffold and it begins to bend over, almost cartoon like. I jump to grab something on the backstage wall to help hold the scaffolding up. And one of the other, bigger stronger crew guys tells me not to worry. Just hold on for a bit, and then relax so I don't strain myself. So, I try to do as he suggests. And when I let go, The scaffold bends even more extremely. To the point that the bottom supports finally snap like pencils and the boss crashes into the audience. Leaving me hanging high up on the backstage wall of the theatre.
This isn't good... I've been having repetitive work dreams. Crashing, falling, accident type dreams. Every-time I get them I know that the next run is going to suck in some way. Sadly, I regularly get them before and during the tech of the summer musical for a particular employer. This year they're attempting, how shall I say it a Boutique version Les Mis. With less than 1/3 the regular crew on the big touring version. Which I've worked twice before, and took into the states back in 1997. So, I know what a physical burnout the particular show is.
The touring show crew's motto is: " It's O.K. We'll Sleep When We're Dead" - I have T-shirt somewhere in my storage place that says it on the back. It's an arduous show in the big form, and they plan to shoe horn the thing into a 650 seat building. Without a floor revolve to assist in scene changes. The cast takes up so many rooms in the basement that they have to put the wardrobe in a portable in the alley.
Thankfully, the dreams haven't been about me falling or being injured. It goes like this.... I'm asked to hang a backdrop on my own. On a large hastily built, rickety scaffold that cantilevers off to the side, over the front of the stage The backdrop is of the Paris, Skyline. As I'm struggling to hold it up and pull zip ties through the drops grommets. The main drape goes out, revealing the audience starting to stream in. My supervisor gets fed up with me struggling and goes out on the edge of the scaffold to continue the job. Telling me how worthless I am.
He ventures out onto the cantilevered side of the scaffold and it begins to bend over, almost cartoon like. I jump to grab something on the backstage wall to help hold the scaffolding up. And one of the other, bigger stronger crew guys tells me not to worry. Just hold on for a bit, and then relax so I don't strain myself. So, I try to do as he suggests. And when I let go, The scaffold bends even more extremely. To the point that the bottom supports finally snap like pencils and the boss crashes into the audience. Leaving me hanging high up on the backstage wall of the theatre.
bedwelld:
That is not a good dream at all.