Posted on 10/08/2013 7:46:41 AM PDT by rktman
LOL
I have a similar can of nails. In my can there are some for the right wall, the left wall, the front wall, the back wall and even some for the floors and ceilings.
Clearly, the union is ripping off the patrons and the taxpayer. Even the non-union employees seem overpaid. Presumably, we, the taxpayers, can do something about us getting ripped off, in terms of NEA-type grants and in terms of the tax deductibility of contributions (one of the reasons I support a flat tax or a fair tax). But, if patrons, with their own money, want to indulge themselves, well, as they say, a fool and his money are soon parted.
In my new ministry as music director for a Biker Church, which meets in a tent behind a Biker Bar, I arrive at 9:00AM to set up the PA, and run the band through a last minute rehearsal before the service starts.
If the bar has had a particularly rowdy band the night before, I often end up cleaning beer bottles off the tables, sweeping up, and in one instance, REPAIRING the Stage.
Last Sunday, there was a guy sound asleep in one of the “pews” from the night before. He slept through the rehearsal.
Actually that probably figures in the shift time and overtime typical of the job.
I had a neighbor who did this sort of job in the midwest and while he didn’t make this much, he was very well paid. It is a niche job because some productions don’t have the union mandate but some do.
The big touring productions that came to town had to have someone when they needed the heavy and/or high rigging set and the expensive touring company equipment put in place with special electrical needs etcetera.
Its kind of like being the guy that sets special security equipment for nuclear bases -— not a lot of demand, but very specialized when it is needed.
This is a friggin joke, right? Please God , make this satire.
I have problems with all those right handed tools.
And people complain nurses make too much?
I think this HAS to be satire.
I have a friend whose daughter is involved with Manhattan choirs. The amount of money thrown around in those places is staggering.
Nice work if you can get it.
A friend of my brother attended a top tier university only to become a stagehand. Then I thought “crazy”, perhaps not so much now.
“I have problems with all those right handed tools.”
For some reason, Ace Hardware has never heard of a left-handed monkey wrench. What is the matter with those fools?
We used to do a lot of sub-contract work for McCormick place in Chicago. Basic stuff, King Valves on boilers, cleaning and replacing tubes, electrical, duct work, even basic electrical work on lights and stuff (like installing fixtures). They wouldn’t even clean the cooling towers once a year. Another sub-contractor did that.
We were sub-contracted because we were non-union, and to do City bids, you MUST be union. The main contractor gets HUGE money, then they sub it out to non-union for 40% what they were paid (but that’s a different story).
In any event, we knew several “electrical engineers” that could not read a schematic or they didn’t care (it could sometimes take us a few days to find the root problem in their books). A few steam engineers that were not certified to even inspect their own boilers.
They would sit on their golf carts drinking coffee and watching you, sometimes coming over and asking how to read a schematic book (the books for McCormick were HUGE) or some other dumb-ass question that anyone from a real trade school would know. I kid you not, several could not work a meter, and we would laugh when they would blew one up by putting it on Ohms (this was a standing joke if they left their meters around, my guys would switch the dial to Ohms)
Several of them were making 400k a year. Most were relatives of alderman or part of the “Bridgeport Connection”.
They did absolutely nothing, except change light bulbs and plug in extension cords for conventions
I several times heard that it was cheaper to ship a container from China to San Fransicso, and truck it to McCormick place, than it was to actually unload the shipping container and bring the convention stuff inside from the McCormick docks and set it up (all union guys).
419,000 — you gotta be kidding”””
Obviously I took the wrong classes in college—accounting. I should have taken painting or such.
How about a left-handed screwdriver? Either standard or Phillips...
Carnegie Hall is a privately owned non-profit, right?
As far as I’m concerned they can pay their employees anything they want.
talk about a state and a city in need of “right to work” laws - New York is it
And apparently they do. As long as they were negotiated.
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