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8 months ago
in Seven small steps down the path leading to presentation doom on Breaking Murphy's Law
8) "Here's a flash drive with my presentation on it. I am the next presenter. Can you load it real quick so I can see my slides?" as he puffed out his next presenter chest in pride.
"Sorry sir, not while the current presenter is on stage and going through his presentation."
"But, I don't know if it will play on your computer and I really want to see it."
"Sorry sir, can't be helped," I replied while thinking to myself, Our call time was 6am just so we could offer presenters 4 hours of rehearsal time. Where were you for the last 4 hours. You have been the presenter we have been waiting for to load up. I hope your presentation works right or you are going to make us look like incompetent idiots I just know it.
"Sorry sir, not while the current presenter is on stage and going through his presentation."
"But, I don't know if it will play on your computer and I really want to see it."
"Sorry sir, can't be helped," I replied while thinking to myself, Our call time was 6am just so we could offer presenters 4 hours of rehearsal time. Where were you for the last 4 hours. You have been the presenter we have been waiting for to load up. I hope your presentation works right or you are going to make us look like incompetent idiots I just know it.
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Lee Potts
"Call time? Call time is for sissies who let the AV guys tell them what to do. Beside, I was still making changes to my slides until 5 minutes ago." Thanks for stopping by and commenting Rick. I think you sketched out a character we've all been fortunate enough to work with before.
11 months ago
in Morning Sickness on Breaking Murphy's Law
I can remember one time similar to this. I was coordinating exhibits on a show in Vegas. On the last day of the exhibits I came down with something beginning about mid-day. We began striking at about 2:30 or so. By the time we got near the end I was bent over in pain and agony and, to put it quite grossly (sorry folks), I had to make several trips to the bathrooms.
At one point near the end I had to go behind a booth and just lay down and curl up in a fetal ball til it passed. I am pretty sure I was suffering from delirium brought on by a fever.
But, I had to be there. I was in charge. There was no one else to take my place. We came in the next day and it was a disaster. There was equipment sitting out not in the cases or even near the cases they were supposed to be in. It was crazy. That from all departments though, both Breakouts and General Session were in just as bad a shape as my gear.
Somehow, in all the craziness and sickness, all I "lost" was the bracket to an Anchor speaker. Not too bad if I do say so myself.
At one point near the end I had to go behind a booth and just lay down and curl up in a fetal ball til it passed. I am pretty sure I was suffering from delirium brought on by a fever.
But, I had to be there. I was in charge. There was no one else to take my place. We came in the next day and it was a disaster. There was equipment sitting out not in the cases or even near the cases they were supposed to be in. It was crazy. That from all departments though, both Breakouts and General Session were in just as bad a shape as my gear.
Somehow, in all the craziness and sickness, all I "lost" was the bracket to an Anchor speaker. Not too bad if I do say so myself.
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Lee Potts
Rick: A trade show floor during tear down isn't a very comfortable place to be when you're healthy. Must be really nasty when you're having the kind of problem you had.
The worse illness I ever had during a trade show was in San Francisco but it was only a really, really bad cold. I was there to make things easy for the sales guys, getting the booth set up, dealing with shipping, etc. But I was also expected to "man" the booth and chat with anyone who stopped by while the sales guys were already engage with other prospects. The show floor was opened in short blocks during during breaks in the conference activities. So basically I crawled back to my room and slept in my suit until it was time to go back. Luckily I was much better by ship out.
Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
The worse illness I ever had during a trade show was in San Francisco but it was only a really, really bad cold. I was there to make things easy for the sales guys, getting the booth set up, dealing with shipping, etc. But I was also expected to "man" the booth and chat with anyone who stopped by while the sales guys were already engage with other prospects. The show floor was opened in short blocks during during breaks in the conference activities. So basically I crawled back to my room and slept in my suit until it was time to go back. Luckily I was much better by ship out.
Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
