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Übercool, page 1May 15th, 2006 by Sean Seamus :: Comment » |
The thing about being a catering waiter/bartender is you never quite know what you’re getting yourself into until you arrive on site. Working the “übercool” party was deceptive in that case. Upon arriving, lighting and staging crews were fussing around attending to last minute details regarding the party production. On the catering end, the job, for the waiters, involved merely passing hors d’oeuvres for three-plus hours. We had no idea who the company was or what the fuss was about, but it sounded simple enough from our end.
The night unfolded in its own surprising and somewhat surreal way. With the above strip, the first of two pages, I tried to show how the level of weirdness slowly took hold of the event. The company was called Übercool that does “trend analysis” (http://www.ubercool.com). Their slogan, “bringing trends to life”, took on a new meaning in this party.
If you live for your art, then you probably have the infamous "day job". If so, you'll like "Diary of a Catering Waiter". It's my take on the catering industry, though anyone familiar with any service industry work, would appreciate the levels of weirdness that can happen among the martinis and gourmet food, tuxedoes and weddings, flowers and Napa wine. Always a surprising time to be had at any event. Stay tuned to find out about the hijinks involved with catering waiters, event planners, wedding crashers and all the lowly people waiting for the slice of catered food when the party ends. (Who Links Here?)