Wednesday, August 31, 2005
flakes this early in the year?
so I've been freelancing with this one talent agent, see. he has me going to these auditions, mostly print ad auditions.
I get to these auditions and I'm seriously surrounded by morons. absolute morons. the one for yesterday for example, there are signs around the waiting area that say that if you came in for the same audition last week you don't need to be here (no shit). well, this woman who appears to be coordinating this audition comes out of her office at one point and makes an announcement that reiterates what's said on the sign.
well this one dude pipes up and is like, "I don't know if I was here last week." WHAT. the woman didn't even blink, probably because she's so used to this flakiness (usually reserved for a pie crust). the dude's explanation was that he goes on so many of these things he can't keep them straight. meanwhile this other dude asked the woman to repeat the announcement, and proceeded to go way deep in thought. what's to think about? either you were there or you weren't. and then this conversation took place right next to me between these two dudes who weren't listening to anything what the other one said. and over on the other end of the room some woman was bitching about the rates she was getting paid as a union extra.
so now I look at the millions of advertisements we're bombarded with on a daily basis and I wonder what kind of flakes these people are/had to put up with in order to get that gig. and I come out feeling REALLY FUCKING SMART.
something tells me I'm going to have a similar experience when I have my jury duty next week.
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I get to these auditions and I'm seriously surrounded by morons. absolute morons. the one for yesterday for example, there are signs around the waiting area that say that if you came in for the same audition last week you don't need to be here (no shit). well, this woman who appears to be coordinating this audition comes out of her office at one point and makes an announcement that reiterates what's said on the sign.
well this one dude pipes up and is like, "I don't know if I was here last week." WHAT. the woman didn't even blink, probably because she's so used to this flakiness (usually reserved for a pie crust). the dude's explanation was that he goes on so many of these things he can't keep them straight. meanwhile this other dude asked the woman to repeat the announcement, and proceeded to go way deep in thought. what's to think about? either you were there or you weren't. and then this conversation took place right next to me between these two dudes who weren't listening to anything what the other one said. and over on the other end of the room some woman was bitching about the rates she was getting paid as a union extra.
so now I look at the millions of advertisements we're bombarded with on a daily basis and I wonder what kind of flakes these people are/had to put up with in order to get that gig. and I come out feeling REALLY FUCKING SMART.
something tells me I'm going to have a similar experience when I have my jury duty next week.
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