On Stupid Boys and Interminable Rehearsals
Friday, 3 February 2006 23:39![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
melayneseahawkHave decided I definitely need to tell Brad to shove it up his ass, but politely.
Dunno which is worse: him misquoting a song from a musical at me that has a name in it that sounds similar to mine, or getting all "I was at the fitting so your renderings are wrong" at me about his costume, even though he's the fecking actor and I'm the one in charge of costumes, so he needs to stfu and do what I say. So I told him to suck it up and wear the damn costume in the most polite way possible, so he couldn't argue, but then he has the nerve to keep on hitting on me afterwards.
So, how do I politely but firmly tell him where to shove it? In theory, it would be best to pull him over and have a talk, but I really don't want to do it that way. I want to find a good way to shut him down that doesn't require corner-type convos. But, short of having Steve show up and kiss me senseless at the end of a rehearsal (bad idea all around), I can't see how. I still have to work for him for a month and a half, so it has to be polite and non-confrontational. I will not create drama, I just won't.
I also don't want to introduce a fictional boyfriend. I've been in that situation before, and I can never think of a way to mention it, off the top of my head. And more importantly, I don't really want to be unavailable in general, just not available to him. I haven't really thought about whether I'm actually interested in anyone else in the cast -- I try not to most of the time -- but they represent some of the heavies in the theatre department, and there's gossip and all that. And conveniently breaking up with fictional boyfriend in a month doesn't solve much, either.
I'll come up with something, I suppose, but help would be nice.
And rehearsals are going well, though I think I can quote along to most of II.iii. at this point. Oh, well.
Dunno which is worse: him misquoting a song from a musical at me that has a name in it that sounds similar to mine, or getting all "I was at the fitting so your renderings are wrong" at me about his costume, even though he's the fecking actor and I'm the one in charge of costumes, so he needs to stfu and do what I say. So I told him to suck it up and wear the damn costume in the most polite way possible, so he couldn't argue, but then he has the nerve to keep on hitting on me afterwards.
So, how do I politely but firmly tell him where to shove it? In theory, it would be best to pull him over and have a talk, but I really don't want to do it that way. I want to find a good way to shut him down that doesn't require corner-type convos. But, short of having Steve show up and kiss me senseless at the end of a rehearsal (bad idea all around), I can't see how. I still have to work for him for a month and a half, so it has to be polite and non-confrontational. I will not create drama, I just won't.
I also don't want to introduce a fictional boyfriend. I've been in that situation before, and I can never think of a way to mention it, off the top of my head. And more importantly, I don't really want to be unavailable in general, just not available to him. I haven't really thought about whether I'm actually interested in anyone else in the cast -- I try not to most of the time -- but they represent some of the heavies in the theatre department, and there's gossip and all that. And conveniently breaking up with fictional boyfriend in a month doesn't solve much, either.
I'll come up with something, I suppose, but help would be nice.
And rehearsals are going well, though I think I can quote along to most of II.iii. at this point. Oh, well.
