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Originally Posted by askmrjesus
Stage hands run cable, push heavy shit, and load trucks. They will often "help" attach light bars to trusses, run follow spots, and help in the assembly of light rigs and stages/props. They have no idea how to set up, or run lighting and sound. That's what tour roadies do.
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That's why I'm saying that this article is a piece of shit. They're taking the salary of the Property Master and full time facility technicians, then describing the jobs of the stagehands they oversee, leading the reader to link the big money to the scut work. And among the random statistics with no particular relevance which are tossed in to fill out the article, it gives out the director's salary from 13 years ago, which, no surprise, is lower than what the technical heads are making today, as if that means anything.
I'm not quite foil-hat enough to say that there's a media conspiracy to badmouth unions, but I'm tired of seeing deliberately misleading articles like this (and as disclosure, I have never been a Union worker in any field).