:) Good to hear that the other coast does it better. To be fair, the main reason I left theatre is because I am a somewhat extreme morning person. I just couldn't do the hours. The fact that I was at my crankiest during peak work hours meant I was completely unwilling to put up with the stupid sexist crap and I was more bothered than I would have been at a civilized hour of the day.
Amusingly, it wasn't being able to lift things where I got the most shit. It was one boss asking me nearly daily "Have you been trained on this" after I had been working there for three years. (He would ask me if I knew how to use a hand drill when I was one of two people in the place who had been trained on *all* of the equipment.) This would have been less annoying if he didn't assume that every guy who walked through the door was fine with a bandsaw. It was another boss who would continually ask if I was PMSing when I told him that what he wanted me to do was unreasonable. (Sorry dude I can't do 25 hours of work in two days. I really can't.)
But despite all that it was the hours that really drove me out. :) I liked the job overall.
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Amusingly, it wasn't being able to lift things where I got the most shit. It was one boss asking me nearly daily "Have you been trained on this" after I had been working there for three years. (He would ask me if I knew how to use a hand drill when I was one of two people in the place who had been trained on *all* of the equipment.) This would have been less annoying if he didn't assume that every guy who walked through the door was fine with a bandsaw. It was another boss who would continually ask if I was PMSing when I told him that what he wanted me to do was unreasonable. (Sorry dude I can't do 25 hours of work in two days. I really can't.)
But despite all that it was the hours that really drove me out. :) I liked the job overall.