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Re: “Portland Center Stage, In Reeling Economy, Takes an Ax To Its Staff”
dear bridgeburner-
since you refuse to use your real name, i do not know whether you are a pcs employee or not, and therefore whether or not you were at the staff meeting yesterday afternoon.
if you were at that meeting, then you and i need to have words, and you can contact me at samk@pcs.org anytime.
if you were not at the staff meeting, then you have no business judging how the announcements were made. if you do not have experience running a theatre, or managing a nine million dollar budget, then you have no business lecturing us on how it ought to be.
calling me a suck-up to chris coleman is a pretty stupid thing to do, i think. have you ever witnessed an interaction between me and him? perhaps you were at the dress rehearsal for guys and dolls where i snapped at him for giving me a thoughtless bit of instruction? no, i guess not.
what am i supposed to do, call for chris' head because i don't agree with his hiring and firing policies? as if the opinion of the sound engineer mattered... the theatre has a board of directors and oversight is their responsibility, not mine. if i want to voice a dissension, i do it to my manager or to the board. i certainly don't do it anonymously on some lousy blog.
the last time i burned a bridge, it was face to face with jose gonzales in the office at teatro milagro. burning bridges anonymously is just arson.
you want to keep talking about this? grow a pair and sign your name.
sam kusnetz, production sound engineer
portland center stage
Re: “Portland Center Stage, In Reeling Economy, Takes an Ax To Its Staff”
i'm sorry, bridgeburner, but fuck you.
Re: “Portland Center Stage, In Reeling Economy, Takes an Ax To Its Staff”
hey stephen, whynot, and toyman-
would you maybe be a little gentler for, like, just a day or so? we over at PCS are more unhappy about this than you are.
stephen: mead and megan were not "unceremoniously dumped"... chris coleman, with a wavering voice and tears in his eyes, stood in front of the entire staff and told us this was the hardest thing he ever had to do in his professional life. it was about as ceremonious as a layoff can be.
toyman: you're right that PCS's adherence to the LORT agreement does little to directly benefit the non-union actors of portland, but the truth is that theatres are not in the business of being good for actors, they are in the business of being good for audience members. of *course* there's great non-union talent. and there are great theatres in which those actors work. looks like you're one of those actors... you do fine elsewhere by your own admission. so ease off, please.
sorry if i sound a little coarse. this was a rough day and i don't like being kicked while i'm down.
thanks
sam kusnetz
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