'She's a nightmare, a dragon': Theater diva wrongfully fires her all-star light technician, so he boobytraps her next big show to exact revenge

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Apr 1, 2025 5:00 PM EDT

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  • After your first shift working in any sort of entertainment production, it's pretty obvious that any theater show is occupied by its fair share of divas. Childish, brooding, and volatile stars of the show have captivated audiences with their drama and their gusto, but those same enchanting traits on stage don't necessarily translate into good coworker values. This passionate lighting technician had spent several seasons working at with a resort's traveling theater show but finally met his match when he was placed under a diva-extraordinaire-type manager.

    She rampaged, she tiraded, she complained, and she harassed every worker on the set, but the lighting tech wouldn't stand for it. Instead of rolling over like the rest of his team, he stood up to the manager, getting himself wrongfully fired. Lucky for him, he was the only employee within a hundred miles who knew how to operate the special effects of their season-ending show, so instead of training his replacement, he concocted the most diabolical and hilarious revenge. Keep reading for the entire story that'll follow this dragonesque diva for the rest of her life as she questions every spotlight, every cue call, and every lighting tech for the rest of her career. 

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  • "My event manager harasses all her teammates, I humiliated her when she was on stage"

    I work as a light technician in the theatre of a vacation resort (like the club med). For those who already worked in this kind of workplace, you know how the HR is always messed up.
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  • But I liked my job, i'm a passionnate light technician, with a lot of responsabilities in the theatre. I've even programed all my shows in the theatre to be automated. I can launch the
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  • whole show, light, sound and video on the big screen, all synchronised, with just one press on one button. It took me so much nights to set it up... But my manager (30F) she's a
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  • nightmare, a dragon. She's in charge of all the events and all the animation team. She was an ancient choreographer, and she loves to shine in detriment of our team.
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  • She terrorised every employees she worked with, even me. She screams, she yells at people, she harrass them, and she harrass me. But she never had problems because she knows what ass to lick between the other managers.
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  • I worked for 2 years with her, at the beginning she already scared me but I tried to trust her because she looked confident. Then I figured it out she was hopeless she harrassed newbie
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  • girl because she touched her BF's arm (her BF is the manager of the newbie). The newbie talked to me and we went to the HR, but as I said you cannot have justice in those kind of
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  • workplace. Later the dragon was aware of our visit and confronted me. We had a clash, I said I found this unfair she, in 2 years of loyal service, never declared any of my extra hours (+4h/day). I figured it
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  • out managers have a bonus if their team don't do much extra hours ( workplace mentality). She tried as usual to scream, to scared me but I stood strong. I said she cannot work
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  • without my help because I'm the only light technician here, and if you don't have light in your beach resort you're screewed. So guess what she did... She fired me!
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  • Yep she prefered to squeeze out an essential element of her team than assumate her selfish behavior. she engage a new << technician >> who got minus 10% of my knowledge, and she even
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  • asked me to teach him during my last week. Of course I did not, I ignored him for my last week. During that week I had the time to think about a revenge. I've
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  • mentionned previously about how I've managed the technical part of the shows all automated, press one button and everything roll out. I thought about just deleted all the program and let
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  • the new technician struggle for the rest of the season, but no. It's the dragon I wanted to humiliate when she will be at the top of her shininess. So before leaving the place and
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  • went back to my country, I've made a little adjustment to the the video of one of the show. See, all the videos are displayed on a large screen at the back of the stage, I've made all the montage myself. The show in
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  • question is about « Alladin >>. I let you imagine every dancers are on the stage for the last part, all bright and happy. Of course my manager is in the center, playing the princess Jasmin, so colorfull
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  • in her costum, the climax is intense, on the big screen there is a background of a stary night in the desert, and then BOOM... I replaced it with a video of a guy throwing up on the camera for about 10 secs.
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  • I wasn't here to see it, but I had echoes from my ex coworkers than when it happens, spectators screamed all together, covering the eyes of the childrens, and the dancers ran away.
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  • The dragon got a lot of trouble, and she cannot blame me because I wasn't part of the team anymore (and because this video wasn't technicaly the property of the company). So she had to assume the entire responsability for this incident.
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  • incarnate_devil Firing someone and then still having them around is so stupid. I remember when my work fired a guy midday. He had to wait for his ride home. They put him in front of a computer to keep him entertained.
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  • He logged in and deleted all the box sticker layouts. This company was small at the time and didn't have proper procedures in place for anything lol.
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  • avid-learner-bo right. The manager got served a heaping plate of her own brand of nasty behavior. I can only imagine the
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  • look on her face when she saw that projectile vomiting on the big screen behind her. Priceless. Karma's a real b and this time she decided to take out the trash
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