The F&*k#ng Olympics....
Are finally over... the last of the steel staging came down last night for us....Sure, changing the final numbers on march 1st strike day call. The same night that the Canadian team wins the gold and the closing ceromonies happens... Hundreds of thousands of local Blue Collar workers abandon their next day jobs and head down to Granville street to celibrate.
Of my crews... Of course a bunch all called in " hockey" sick, and the additional calls I had to make to find extra climbers where met with people drunken laughing at me. While I tried to yell call times to them over the crowds singing / screaming " O Canada!!!" I expected all the last minute guys not to show up... and sure enough... Some did... Canadians were just all too hung over, filled with cheap Pizza, expensive Beer and rare pride.
All these Sports and special venues, Provincial and state houses, media centres, and Beer tents that tripled the amount of work in town. The ones that set up over three to five weeks and even months on and off during the winter.... ALL wanted to strike march 1.
Real stupidity.... I mean did they not see the 500, 000 thousand and more people partying till dawn down town??? that's your work force... don't you understand why your lucky ANYONE showed up the next day??????
So while everyone partied til the wee hours out here on Granville. I stayed up calling guys til 10pm and then did updates til midnight. Only to wake at 6 am to listen to all the messages from guys who were suddenly "sick", or "twisted" their ankle, or" they're GF got Hit by a car"....Etc. Etc... I replaced most with 891 guys through our Sister dispatch, which even with their multiple dispatchers seemed to take forever. And hearded the new guys from the film local, like cats, to the site by phone.
I even visited the sites in the evening to the shift change to check people in personally. To bare all left over pain that hadn't been visited on apon our President earlier in the morning. Just hear out all the really pissed of production types try to blame me for, the lack of experienced people who were on the calls, preped people not showing and lack of the exact right numbers.
All I said was, " look... I hate hockey... but there was this huge event here called the Olympics and this big team in vancouver that won some important cup or medal last night, so everyone went out and raised hell - and some oddly are feeling "unwell" - So, I'll see what I can do about getting replacements.
Have A Nice Day....
Are finally over... the last of the steel staging came down last night for us....Sure, changing the final numbers on march 1st strike day call. The same night that the Canadian team wins the gold and the closing ceromonies happens... Hundreds of thousands of local Blue Collar workers abandon their next day jobs and head down to Granville street to celibrate.
Of my crews... Of course a bunch all called in " hockey" sick, and the additional calls I had to make to find extra climbers where met with people drunken laughing at me. While I tried to yell call times to them over the crowds singing / screaming " O Canada!!!" I expected all the last minute guys not to show up... and sure enough... Some did... Canadians were just all too hung over, filled with cheap Pizza, expensive Beer and rare pride.
All these Sports and special venues, Provincial and state houses, media centres, and Beer tents that tripled the amount of work in town. The ones that set up over three to five weeks and even months on and off during the winter.... ALL wanted to strike march 1.
Real stupidity.... I mean did they not see the 500, 000 thousand and more people partying till dawn down town??? that's your work force... don't you understand why your lucky ANYONE showed up the next day??????
So while everyone partied til the wee hours out here on Granville. I stayed up calling guys til 10pm and then did updates til midnight. Only to wake at 6 am to listen to all the messages from guys who were suddenly "sick", or "twisted" their ankle, or" they're GF got Hit by a car"....Etc. Etc... I replaced most with 891 guys through our Sister dispatch, which even with their multiple dispatchers seemed to take forever. And hearded the new guys from the film local, like cats, to the site by phone.
I even visited the sites in the evening to the shift change to check people in personally. To bare all left over pain that hadn't been visited on apon our President earlier in the morning. Just hear out all the really pissed of production types try to blame me for, the lack of experienced people who were on the calls, preped people not showing and lack of the exact right numbers.
All I said was, " look... I hate hockey... but there was this huge event here called the Olympics and this big team in vancouver that won some important cup or medal last night, so everyone went out and raised hell - and some oddly are feeling "unwell" - So, I'll see what I can do about getting replacements.
Have A Nice Day....