Rockstar teenage dreams meet a natural ability to manage, and turns you into a one of a kind stage manager. But what happens when your teenage idol hires you, and turns out to be a huge a**hole?
Once again, the horror doesn't come only from clients, but actually from your boss himself. No matter how tempting it is, having your company paying for all the fancy wine you drink with your clients is probably not worth more than your mental health.
A tale on choosing wisely. Whether it is your team members, clients, or the jokes you’ll tell to the press.
A pandemic story that doesn’t take long to turn into a micromanaging meets blaming marketing for everything chaos.
Anthony’s selection of his top-notch horror stories include a huge variety of plot twists, cross-state road trips, conflictive exes, and fishing metaphors. But more than anything else, a bunch of useful lessons learned from a lot of years in the industry.
When your horror client turns out to actually be your boss, who portrayed your client as a monster, to keep you from meeting them and realizing how great they actually were.
Watch out for out of the blue matches made in Heaven, if it looks way too good to be true, it probably isn’t. A lesson on how chains of command that look much more like a children’s phone game can and will blow up.
A tale on how frustrating it can get to have an awesome idea, just too many years ahead. And on how a really tough crowd can push you to the edge on the worst possible moment.
A story specially made for our superstitious audience: if your PM leaves right before the start, the elevators fail and/or the storage basement floods on the delivery day, you might as well get out of there before you have stalkers chasing you on the beach.
The best stories make you learn while you can't hold your laugh: Chris' tale has so many unexpected twists as important lessons on how to set boundaries with pushy clients, learning how to read them, and prioritizing your mental health.
