Because it won't fit on twitter. Stolen from Jon Olsen, who stole it from Aine.
"A public union employee, a tea party activist and a CEO are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies on it. The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, turns to the tea partier and says, 'watch out for that union guy, he wants a piece of your cookie.' "
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Catching up with my life.
I know it's been a long time, I get distracted and then don't know what is new in my life... Or interesting. I'm typing this from my phone, and I didn't check my last post, which I vaguely recall covered my birthday. After that I worked on a dance show, I feel I covered that to, with a link. Then I went back to work with two week of lighting maintenance, where we got a lot done, more than normal because the designs for the rental that was in next were late. Then one last week off and I'm back for real.
So, this season I am doing the job of two people, they eliminated the second props artisan, so when I have free time while running shows, I work in the prop shop, it's what I have been doing for the last two weeks, and I've learned a little photoshop. I've been downloading copies of the Seattle Times, all the Sunday covers and some filler from August '46 and '47. Then I paste them together in a printable way and clean up the black lines and other mess from the originals. It's pretty fun.
Other than my fun job, the Intiman is funereal, it turns out, they say the previous managing director liquidated the endowment, and this is why we are fucked. But, this doesn't make much sense to me, an endowment is there to make use of the interest for special projects, and if he liquidated the endowment, only one million, why aren't more bills paid off. The only thing that makes sense is he used the endowment fund in the 2009 season, and ran out of money last season, then he got caught. But then why did it take so long for people to catch on, many vendors where not paid from the end of the season 2009, and each time an excuse was given, an account at a time unfrozen, and we were not allowed to question, or if after a long time same bad filling or some such excuse wasn't flying, then a different confusing lie, like our credit card limits do not reflect our actual limit, so that's why those are declined. Then something else. The midseason letters announcing that our health insurance had not been paid since the beginning of the 2010 season, were blamed on Evan. But the real reason was those funds were misdirected, that got fixed, but our pensions and union dues stopped. I think our union rep cornering our business rep was the first she knew anything about it. Who over sees this stuff.
Now, with a reduction in shows and performances and the like we might lose 24% of our wages from last year (already less than the year before) plus they want us to give up our $0.25 raise we got this year. If I thought the $300 dollars this raise represents next to the $10,000 I am already giving up, might save the theater, I might do it, but I don't trust the people who didn't know anything was happening, for a year, and tend to lie to make themselves look good. So, I might have to look for a new job for next year.
So, this season I am doing the job of two people, they eliminated the second props artisan, so when I have free time while running shows, I work in the prop shop, it's what I have been doing for the last two weeks, and I've learned a little photoshop. I've been downloading copies of the Seattle Times, all the Sunday covers and some filler from August '46 and '47. Then I paste them together in a printable way and clean up the black lines and other mess from the originals. It's pretty fun.
Other than my fun job, the Intiman is funereal, it turns out, they say the previous managing director liquidated the endowment, and this is why we are fucked. But, this doesn't make much sense to me, an endowment is there to make use of the interest for special projects, and if he liquidated the endowment, only one million, why aren't more bills paid off. The only thing that makes sense is he used the endowment fund in the 2009 season, and ran out of money last season, then he got caught. But then why did it take so long for people to catch on, many vendors where not paid from the end of the season 2009, and each time an excuse was given, an account at a time unfrozen, and we were not allowed to question, or if after a long time same bad filling or some such excuse wasn't flying, then a different confusing lie, like our credit card limits do not reflect our actual limit, so that's why those are declined. Then something else. The midseason letters announcing that our health insurance had not been paid since the beginning of the 2010 season, were blamed on Evan. But the real reason was those funds were misdirected, that got fixed, but our pensions and union dues stopped. I think our union rep cornering our business rep was the first she knew anything about it. Who over sees this stuff.
Now, with a reduction in shows and performances and the like we might lose 24% of our wages from last year (already less than the year before) plus they want us to give up our $0.25 raise we got this year. If I thought the $300 dollars this raise represents next to the $10,000 I am already giving up, might save the theater, I might do it, but I don't trust the people who didn't know anything was happening, for a year, and tend to lie to make themselves look good. So, I might have to look for a new job for next year.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
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