bethb's Diaryland Diary

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VMS a letter to you

in the continued vein of unsent letter writing-

two years ago, i had to paint some scenery for a really shitty theatre company in virginia. the guy who runs it is ultra skeezey and kept adding things to the job even after we agreed on a set amount of money.
it went from building the hands and headpiece of lumiere to that and a tea cup head and three houses. and then added on some dungeon doors.
and then one or three plates? and then paint the castle interior.

it was so fucked up, i should have just walked away, but colleen and deanna totally helped bail me out and were totally awesome and then the fuckface tells me some of the stuff i made "was not up to par" and didn't want to be charged for it, so i cut the total in half basically to cut my losses and walked away.

so a few months after that whole fiasco, he sent an email asking how i was because i popped into his head. i didn't respond back.

then about 4 or so months ago, he sends me another email asking where i bought the battery opperated silk flame torches from because one of the ones in the hand piece has quit working.

i didn't respond back to that either. clearly he has a computer. perhaps he should google it his own fucking self.

so then i get an email from him telling me how "unprofessional" i am because I'm not revealing my sources or something. i prettymuch skimmed the letter and deleted it for ever and ever amen because i wanted to smash my laptop when i saw it was from him.

i should have penned this:

Dear Steve:
let me tell you what unprofessional is. your rinky dink theatre is unprofessional. agreeing to a set amount of work and then basically trippleing it without compensation is unprofessional.
staging a musical in a junior high with no facilities so my friends have to carry buckets of water fetched from the tiny sinks in the girls bathroom is unprofessional.
the fact that we had to work on the asphalt alcove between two buildings by the good grace of daylight is unprofessional.
not having any ladders so i had to use a chair to climb up onto your poorly made set is unprofessional.
and most of all, asking another designer to copy a Disney design is the most unprofessional thing of all. and if i ever hear or see that your company is doing that, i am turning you over to the Mouse tout suite and it won't be pretty.

7:06 p.m. - 2007-05-09

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