Again as I said if I told someone that still would have meant either someone would have had to get more gas or have someone deliver it. I stand by what I said. Now if as you put it that makes another DJ more successful than me, so be it.
Cable organization
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It’s not my job is the absolute most lazy statement I hear, when I had multiple employees that saying would make me cringe. For me it was the first sign an employee wasn’t going to be around long. Lazy, disrespectful, lack of effort, always looking to place blame on someone else instead of jumping in anticipating and solving problems.
I hear what you all are saying and I understand. If we do the event next year I will check it out. Thankfully it happened just that one time with us doing the event.
Now let me ask this question. What happens if the client needs help with something and you can't fix the issue while you're performing at the event? What do you do then? Keep in mind you've went over the details for the event and something unexpected comes up that the client needs help with and you didn't cause the issue. Now what? Has anyone here ever have that happen?
I haven't had or can't remember a time when I had a client that had an issue at an event that they needed us to fix besides what we're there to do.
I forgot to mention that we have had things at an event that we needed to fix what we were doing. It hasn't happened a lot. Occasionally things have happened. Sometimes things just happen. It's not that you have done something wrong, it's just that things happen sometimes. Things that you can't predict will happen.
I'm going to have to agree with Mix. He was hired to play - not to supervise other people's jobs.
If I show up at a location that was supposed to have a generator, and there is none - I'm not going to behave any differently than had I showed up for a cruise event that has no boat. In either case - I'm simply waiting for my ship to come in. I've done my part - and I can wait for other people to do theirs.
We can't physically plug a 120V cord into a 208V outlet with any commercially available cord product. Even in theatrical lighting where two fixtures might be operating on split half-cycles the appliance side connectors will be deliberately incompatible with Edison, 3-pin or other full cycle circuits to prevent error. The electrical code is pretty well established and maintained. Unless an outlet appears physically damaged or of a make shift variety. there's not much point in persistent testing of installations.
I test outlets or wiring only when making new terminations, repairs, or specialty cables to know they are correct before they go into use. I may use an off-the- shelf tester in some event locations - but that is generally for he purpose of locating a live circuit. It's rare to find one that isn't grounded because the receptacle frame by design will ground the receptacle through any commercial conduit system even if the ground wire itself develops a fault. It's far more common to find an outlet with a broken cover plate, or burn marks caused by arcing when people unplug live heavy-load appliances like vacuum cleaners, etc. At worse, we find heavily worn "loose" outlets that need replacement from years of repeated high turn-over. That issue seems to be in decline - probably due to better inspections and maintenance standards.
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I have a nylon canvas bag with multiple pockets. I load it before each gig with the cables I think I'll need and several spares. I recently purchased one of those bags with multiple dividers. I haven't had a chance to set it up and use it yet.
