Saturday, August 22, 2009

The Water Vendor Strikes Back!!!!

So as a night job while I pursue acting, I am selling water at Broadway shows.  I've only worked at one theater so far, and tonight an ugly incident occurred.  As I was walking down an aisle with my crate of water (yes like they do at a baseball game)  an usher told me I could not go down his aisle.  I told him it was my job to go down the aisle and sell water.  He said not now, (because he felt his aisle was too busy...there were about 4 people in the whole aisle, that is about as little crowded as that aisle is going to get), I again told him it is my job to walk down every aisle of the theater.  He then said I can't and I have to talk to my management.  I followed up by saying that he should probably talk to his management too, and he said he already has (because he constantly complains we are getting in the way.)  Then he literally pushed me by my crate out of his aisle.  This is in front of tons of high paying patrons of the theater.  I actually turned around and apologized for the scene to all of them.  This is the second time he laid hands on a water vendor.  A few weeks earlier he grabbed a water vendors arm and made her cry.  She did not report him.  I have.  And I have written out a complaint as well that I am contemplating on sending to management.  He messed with the wrong water vendor.  I actually stand up and fight for my own rights and the rights of others!
The stupid thing is, why would he think that I would want to walk down a congested aisle.  That is going to slow me down and hurt my own water sales (and I am mostly paid off of commission, so every water sold counts!)  Such an idiot!  
Well I feel a little better now that I got that one off my chest!

1 comment:

Meg McLynn said...

I never knew such drama existed between the ushers and the water-vendors. It's gonna make for a great play someday, Scotty.