RobinHoodDaffy
01-24-2005, 02:30 PM
So, I am spending my monday morning the way I usually do, sleep in check my E-mail and then the Shoot. I figured I would lurk around the board as I am want to do as of late (just haven't had much to say, not a lack of love for you all)
THEN out of the blue comes a story on the Shoot that makes me choke on my coffee. (here comes the petty bitching, don't say you weren't warned) So I am reading the story about the Fellowship musical thinking that is odd, and there in the first damned line Mr. Teofilo mentions that evil place The El Portal Theater! Dammit, can't I just move on with my life without you people throwing the darkest period of my life at me!
As for backstory, I used to manage the box office at said shithole. I love the art of the Theater, so when they started to have trouble and could not pay the employees, I did not run for the hills, NO I worked with out pay for those evil [censored] for Six Months with out pay, wiping out my savings. I left and called it a wash. I thought no evil Karma as on the day I quit I was offered another job at another theater, groovy life goes on. Flash forward to tax time. Those dirty whores to keep the employees from attempting to get back pay though litigation reported to the IRS that all back pay had been given, and then they filed for bankrupt statis. I found this out about a year ago. As I did not claim said monitary gains on my taxes, I have hefty penalties on said amount. I will be paying off this underhandedness for quite a while now. And I can't get any help from my former masters, for they have sealed all the documents and, OOPS! We can't find them. So with the IRS the burden of proof is on me. end rant.
The only point there, is the same people still are in charge of that theater. They get to have a show that gets written up wonderfull pop culture sites like this one. (and hell, the show sounded fun) Whilst, I alas, have to keep my crappy bakers job, because of the pay, and had to sell my car, and......oh, to hell with it you get the point.
Thank you for letting me rant, now if all of you who still live in California would please wish that building hate and spite it would warm my heart, and when you send them hate mail....Tell them J.J. sent ya /forums/images/icons/grin.gif
THEN out of the blue comes a story on the Shoot that makes me choke on my coffee. (here comes the petty bitching, don't say you weren't warned) So I am reading the story about the Fellowship musical thinking that is odd, and there in the first damned line Mr. Teofilo mentions that evil place The El Portal Theater! Dammit, can't I just move on with my life without you people throwing the darkest period of my life at me!
As for backstory, I used to manage the box office at said shithole. I love the art of the Theater, so when they started to have trouble and could not pay the employees, I did not run for the hills, NO I worked with out pay for those evil [censored] for Six Months with out pay, wiping out my savings. I left and called it a wash. I thought no evil Karma as on the day I quit I was offered another job at another theater, groovy life goes on. Flash forward to tax time. Those dirty whores to keep the employees from attempting to get back pay though litigation reported to the IRS that all back pay had been given, and then they filed for bankrupt statis. I found this out about a year ago. As I did not claim said monitary gains on my taxes, I have hefty penalties on said amount. I will be paying off this underhandedness for quite a while now. And I can't get any help from my former masters, for they have sealed all the documents and, OOPS! We can't find them. So with the IRS the burden of proof is on me. end rant.
The only point there, is the same people still are in charge of that theater. They get to have a show that gets written up wonderfull pop culture sites like this one. (and hell, the show sounded fun) Whilst, I alas, have to keep my crappy bakers job, because of the pay, and had to sell my car, and......oh, to hell with it you get the point.
Thank you for letting me rant, now if all of you who still live in California would please wish that building hate and spite it would warm my heart, and when you send them hate mail....Tell them J.J. sent ya /forums/images/icons/grin.gif