RE: OT - He's just fine, right?

["Tom Harris" <tom(at)mercuryfilmworks.com>]

Love it….30 years in this business, with a lot of that time with my back to a group of egos , I’ve heard it all…Your Theo has come and gone many times….

Tom

 

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From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Dsderanged(at)aol.com
Sent: July 31, 2005 5:48 PM
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Subject: Re: OT - He's just fine, right?

 

I can certanily relate to this thread.  I have hemorrhoids older than some of the punk brats I work with.  A common scenario as follows:

 

1.  Young Theodore the Intern delivers a much needed tape that the Agency Producer forgot.  Gets to watch his first edit session for about 5 minutes before he has to go back to the agency and pick up the AE's dry cleaning and wash their cars.

 

2.  A week later, he actually gets to sit in on an entire session and after about 10 minutes is adding stupid suggestions which are promplty ignored.  Gets to eat lunch, orders basic fare and offers to pay for his sandwich.  Is told that lunch comes with the edit.

 

3.  Two weeks later, the Agency Producer calls in sick and young Theodore who now is an employee, gets to actually supervise adding a phone number tag to an existing spot.  We spend about 4 hours trying about 50 different type faces for a phone number then another hour "art directing" the slate.  Milks the session long enough for lunch, orders the most expensive item on the menu AND a Pizza.  He eats the menu item, doesn't eat the pizza, but takes it home for dinner.

 

4. A month later, "Theo" as he insists to be called will be supervising an all day session.

Shows up dressed in all black.  Complains about the lunch menu selections and insists

we order from a place not in the menu book.  Complains that our wi-fi is slow and spends the session on his cell phone pausing only occassionally to bark out some insane order so

whoever he is talking to knows he is in an edit and in total control.

 

5.  A couple of month's go by and we don't see Theo.  Find out that somehow, none of the

edit shops in town are good enough anymore so he has to leave the market for post.

 

Oddly, he has learned more about the business than those of us who have been doing it

forever and strangely, our experience ceased as his continued to grow.

 

Sound familiar????

 

Rick at naked eye