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Author	GoldenZWeegie
Comment	Was the final event for my graded unit at college, the one that made up the vast majority of my final mark. Contacted TOH and let them know my requirements e.g. a projector, a screen, a PA and some seats. They said it was fine and we agreed a date, time and price and I got on with arranging and advertising the event. The night arrives and I turn up to find that while the venue is open, the room is completely empty bar a PA set up at the back. I'm told by the barmaid that this guy is looking after the venue and he's currently working in Stereo and will be over soon. About half an hour before the event is due to start, he comes in nonchalantly and says they don't have a projector or a screen set up. In fact, he's not even sure where they are and he'll go and have a look. I'm shown where the chairs are and so set them up in the centre of the room where I'm anticipating the projector will eventually be placed. The start time of the event arrives and people who have their tickets have started taking their seats with no projector set up. This guy finally comes in with one and tells me they don't actually have a screen. Because of this, the entire set up of the room needs to be changed, so I have to ask everyone to leave the room and wait in the bar until the room is sorted. There's only one wall that's flat enough to be projected on, so I have to move all the seats to awkwardly face the corner, all the while having to pop now and again to apologise to guests for the delay and let them know we'll be starting soon. Eventually things are set up and I get the event started about half an hour to 45 minutes after the scheduled start time. Everything went fine after that point, but paying money for such poor hosting and spending most of the evening worrying I was going to fail my graded unit wasn't fun.
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Created	Fri 4th Nov 2022 8:53am
Status	normal ()

Was the final event for my graded unit at college, the one that made up the vast majority of my final mark. Contacted TOH and let them know my requirements e.g. a projector, a screen, a PA and some seats. They said it was fine and we agreed a date, time and price and I got on with arranging and advertising the event.

The night arrives and I turn up to find that while the venue is open, the room is completely empty bar a PA set up at the back. I'm told by the barmaid that this guy is looking after the venue and he's currently working in Stereo and will be over soon.

About half an hour before the event is due to start, he comes in nonchalantly and says they don't have a projector or a screen set up. In fact, he's not even sure where they are and he'll go and have a look. I'm shown where the chairs are and so set them up in the centre of the room where I'm anticipating the projector will eventually be placed.

The start time of the event arrives and people who have their tickets have started taking their seats with no projector set up. This guy finally comes in with one and tells me they don't actually have a screen. Because of this, the entire set up of the room needs to be changed, so I have to ask everyone to leave the room and wait in the bar until the room is sorted.

There's only one wall that's flat enough to be projected on, so I have to move all the seats to awkwardly face the corner, all the while having to pop now and again to apologise to guests for the delay and let them know we'll be starting soon.

Eventually things are set up and I get the event started about half an hour to 45 minutes after the scheduled start time. Everything went fine after that point, but paying money for such poor hosting and spending most of the evening worrying I was going to fail my graded unit wasn't fun.