The event business has many problems. One of them is that of what is truly interesting, there is little to tell. The indoor kitchen cannot be moved outside. You cannot complain, for example, about the stupidity of the Client; it is the same as admitting your own lack of professionalism, arrogance and poor upbringing. Even if the story is very funny, or, on the contrary, tragic. And you can’t tell us how at the last moment we prevented a huge fuck-up, because this can’t happen to professionals? It can't. And it didn’t happen to us (although it was oh so close). And there are a lot of cases that I want to talk about.
Here's an example.
We held an event at some terribly guarded site, where there was an exhibition of all sorts of antiquities. During preparation, it was possible to enter there only with an application with certified signatures, with a passport through a metal detector. In general, everything went well there, except for one nuance. During dismantling, we accidentally took with us an exhibit - very ancient and worth N hundreds of thousands of dollars (this is if it is sold on an antique market somewhere in Canada). And we really took it away by accident - it stood in a nondescript box next to the same boxes of ours, and the movers also loaded it. And the driver took him to the warehouse. I don’t know where the security was, but I learned about the loss from the radio news. Having figured something out in my mind, I went to look at our boxes, found an antiquity and called the site director. At night. In the dark among the boxes. Saved a man from a heart attack, which was scheduled for the next day, when the interrogation was supposed to take place. In the morning we handed the box back and accepted the exhibit with trembling hands in white gloves. In general, everything ended well.
The whole point of the story is pretty much lost if we don’t say what kind of thing we accidentally grabbed, who was going to interrogate, where it happened. But, sorry, I can’t tell you. Not allowed.
