Right now I’m the stage manager at Vista Heights for their musical “The Wiz.” I’m in charge of attendance and checking in with the parents when their kid doesn’t come. Today I sent the same exact message to everyone, just switched names. All the parents were kind and understanding except one. This one father felt the need to send me a long, angry text telling me I was rude for saying that too many absences would result in a child not being able to participate and how the schedule was a wreck and how I’m not considerate of parents having to alter their schedule. Dealing with anxiety and whatnot, it got me really worked up and I could feel my whole body start shaking and I had to leave the auditorium to calm down.
Essentially I just want to remind everyone how important it is to be kind. Even when you’re frustrated. There is never a good excuse to demean and insult someone. Especially a person who is just trying to do their job. (Which might as well be a volunteer position considering I’m only getting paid about $500 for months of working six plus hours a week.) My apologies that that was a little ranty, but you never know what other people are going through so just set kind as your default please.
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