Interesting hypothetical but Trump hasn't thrown a punch (at a man at least) in his whole life and is unlikely to start now . It's all he can do to stay standing.
“I get so angry. I’m up here seething. I’m seething. I’m working my ass off with this stupid mic. I’m blowing out my left arm, now I’m going to blow out my right arm, and I’m blowing out my damn throat too, because these stupid people.”
Old angry fat man is to old and weak to hold onto a microphone. Sad!
Unless you’re designing the speakers’ circuitry, testing mic element response curves, designing the mic housing, etc, you’re not an engineer. You’re just a technician. This is like saying IT Help Desk is staffed by software engineers. They may have one or two actual engineers available, but you’re definitely not going to be talking to them for the daily “I don’t know the difference between rebooting and turning my monitor off and back on again” issues. IT Help Desk has techs who deal with the actual operation.
The only boots-on-the-ground position that might qualify for an actual engineering title would be the system designer, who did the math (or at least plugged all the numbers into their program) to determine where/how to set up the line arrays for adequate and even coverage throughout the room. At least they dip their toes into acousticians’ territory, so they may qualify as an engineer if you stretch the definition a little bit.
Source: Am an audio tech; Not an engineer.
I also have issues with the fact that staging refers to lighting electricians as… Well… Electricians. In other industries, an electrician will have a journeyman’s license at least. They’ll have several years of experience under their belt, and will have done a full apprenticeship under a master electrician. But in staging, an electrician is just someone who plugs lights in.
I'm trying to imagine being one of those backstage people. How do you not feel sudden and intense fear when this guy says that to a huge crowd of morons? Do I already have to be one of those morons in order to agree to do setup for this guy's rally?
And what about whoever's doing setup for the next show? I would probably stop showing up for work...
There was a mic problem at another rally. I suspect that the union folks have been looking at Project 2025 and have figured out where they really stand.
Yes, please, add assault to his list of crimes! Preferably on camera, in front of plenty of witnesses, and unprovoked so he has zero chance of talking his way out of it!
For starters, he probably didn't pay them. My friend is an audio engineer and they literally started packing up equipment twice before . It's a miracle he hasn't had them seize the equipment whilst he's on stage
Secondly, there is no incentive for any decent audio engineers to work for him. He threatened to sue them personally last time it dropped out
Finally, he could have his own crew. But I'm guessing he doesn't because nobody would want to work for him, since he has a temper tantrum when anything happens
It's funny how Harris's equipment always works.. That's what happens when you treat people with respect
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