We're involved with a pretty sizable benefit event next week... Much of the gear, and some of the labor is being donated by various companies... We are providing some staging, lots of labor, and some heavy equipment (scissor lifts, and parking lot light towers)... This all seems fine at first glimpse... Where it gets nerve wracking is that I can't be sure that everything that is needed for my labor force to be useful is going to be provided... For example, the notes on the light plot specify a number of things that are important... They miss however some of the nuts and blots type gear like tape, tie line, zip ties, truss wrenches, etc... No big deal really if I could find out who is responsible for that sort of stuff on this event... I tracked down half the answer over the last two days, only to be posed with another mystery person to track down to find the balance of the answer...
Part of me is thinking that we're all professionals, and those very basic things shouldn't have to be listed in the notes... The other part of me is going nuts imagining that I'm going to show up, and there will be no wrenches to assemble the 400'+ of truss... Lots of people would just take it on faith that the gear will come in... Lots of people would simply say it isn't their responsibility to check on those details... Lots of people would sleep just fine and never think about something as mundane as tape...
I'm not lots of people...
That's why we don't tend to have many issues on site... However that doesn't help me sleep at night...
Posted by Backstage at November 2, 2005 06:02 PM | TrackBack