h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

As many of you already know from my complaints and comments, I am spending the summer working at an outdoor concert venue. Last night was the Tom Petty concert, and we were understaffed, with a sold-out crowd, half of them drunk by the time they got to the parking lot.

That is not a good condition to be understaffed.

Nine times out of ten, people were nice to me, and went where they were supposed to, but that one person ruined it for everyone. I had people spill beer on me, jump seats, I had to physically grab some people and haul them out, and I'm just an usher! One guy flew up on me so fast, that I had to chase him all the way around the section at a full run before I chased him out again! I've been called a... well, I won't say what I was called last night because I would surely get modded. On top of that, they trashed the place, and because we were so understaffed, I had to help clean up!

I get six bucks an hour to take this abuse. Seriously, folks.

And afterwards, one supervisor had the gall to tell us that we weren't doing our jobs, because we didn't check every single ticket, and someone in another section got hurt when a bunch of people rushed the gate. Luckily, before I completely lost it at him, my supervisor jumped in and said that we did the best we could checking tickets when there were people jumping seats, rushing us, and trying to knock us over. I didn't get a break, and since the employee window was closed before and after the concert, I had to pay $3 for a lousy pretzel- actually, the pretzel was good, I was just honked off that I couldn't get my discount because the lazy contractors don't want to open the window up in time for the employees to eat.

You know, normally I like this job because I'm too poor to go to concerts myself. I usually get to hear at least some of the music, and see a little bit of the show. But last night, I can't even tell you what Tom Petty played!



All right- rant over.

Thanks

anytime

Traveller in Time walking the fence
"Coiuld be an entry in it, not about a concert but about the 'public' .

And the music is better from Compact Disk anyway . "

Maybe at the end of the season- I'll have a better idea of what kind of people frequent which seats at which shows.

I'd better not catch any of you jumping!

Get yourself a new job, not even Bruce Springsteen and The Stones are worth this

Poor Scandrea

hello tinker

psssst "have a look around for a new job, after all its only a tempory job"

and with a nice mug of hot choccy from the rev!

Meh, it's only until August. Then I'll be a teaching assistant!

Ooo thatll be fun, what kind of teaching assistant?

A twisted one.

Nah, I'm going into geology. I hope I don't get mineralogy or petrology- I hated those classes with a passion.

I want to be a politician

Just don't call it political science, or I'll have to kick you out of my journal Just kidding!

Nah i do psychology too and politics is nothing like a science. The things you do are totally different, like labs instead of essays

Political science is definitely a misnomer. But what else are you going to call it, politicology? Doesn't quite roll off the tongue as well.

Well theres Political Ideology, Political Sciences, International Relations etc etc

how about Socio-political theory and it's aplication to public services? We had to do that as part of our nurse training last year

The public!

David

I'd just call it Politics. We science people really hate it when people try to make their stupidity respectable by calling it a 'science.'