Eight is Enough!

I made it through another day of Telesales with my sanity still in tact! Even though the manager is somewhat of a micro-managing maniac, I found his BS easy to ignore. You know why? Because I don't care what this guy does or says. I can do my job without him nitpicking every little move I make. His huffing and puffing won't blow me down! And besides, it's only my second day - give me a break! I'll catch on!

If I know one thing, I know that life is too short to work for pain in the ass people like him - BUT if you have little options, and you absolutely have to: then you must do your best to obey their orders and do your job to the best of your ability without giving into their crap.

I felt like this guy wanted me to withhold information to people or lie to them in some cases. I guess "bending the truth" would be a more accurate description of what he had asked of me - but I'm not going to try to hamstring people just to sell them a set of tickets! I want to get people to buy tickets by being up front with them!

Perhaps that's why I didn't sell a damn thing in the four and-a-half hours I was there tonight. I got some good leads though, so hopefully Monday I'll make a sale.

When I left tonight, my new co-workers were gathered together outside the theater. "Don't worry," they told me, "He's like this with everyone."

[Sigh] Lucky me.

Later this evening performing TMUM was just what I needed to shake off the Telesales blues. We had a big cast of eight tonight, but we had a full house as well & we went BIG! For the first time in a while, I felt like we were a team! I think we had a great combination of players and everything just felt right! It was just an all-around fun show.

No Casting Director in attendance tonight unfortunately, but I've still got more shows in store and songs to sing.