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SMNetwork Archives / Re: Call Board Karma: Keep or drop?

« on: Oct 08, 2006, 03:34 pm »

Unless you've changed the forum layout (I use Simplicity, which doesn't have the Karma buttons on it.)

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Employment / Re: Part-Time Work

« on: Oct 06, 2006, 06:25 pm »

Starbucks is great for flexible scheduling, although with limited availability comes limited hours; the system they use for scheduling tends to favor those employees who are available anytime over those who are only available for specific shifts.

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Stage Management: Other / Re: Sming for Dance

« on: Oct 04, 2006, 03:04 pm »

"Merde" is used in the same sense as "Break a leg" when one is dealing with dancers; when you would ordinarily (outside of the theatre and our insane superstitions) say "good luck," you'd instead say "merde" to wish dancers luck in their performance.

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: My Strings are Unstrung

« on: Sep 28, 2006, 11:32 am »

Well, I think the wordless resignation kinda gave away the "bad SM" part... I don't think there's any reason a halfway-decent stage manager would have to leave without at least formally speaking to the director and production staff.

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: My Strings are Unstrung

« on: Sep 28, 2006, 11:01 am »

Wow... Having stepped away from a show at the worst possible moment for personal reasons, I can only imagine what that SM must have been going through. However, to leave a show without taking the time to arrange for a replacement is selfish and inconsiderate, and borders on professional negligence. It's one thing to hand over your prompt book and keys to a capable, knowledgeable, and skilled ASM who has been with the show from the first rehearsal, but another thing entirely to simply abandon your post without even having the cojones to resign face-to-face.

I assume this was a community theatre production, and that the stage manager in question wasn't actually qualified to be a stage manager...?