Dear Unknown Co-worker:
I sincerely appreciate the spirit of thoroughness that led you to vigorously wrap these XLR connections with e-tape. I can only assume it was the same spirit (gründlichgiest, if you will) that led you to wrap e-tape around the twist-lock motor cable, despite the fact that, as the name suggests, they LOCK into position.
The spirit of thoroughness is good.
But let me tell you about the spirit of load-out….
Perhaps it is a more cynical ethos than that to which you are accustomed. But make no mistake, it is a spirit of efficiency! The idea is to take all the gear and other associated show ephemera and put it into the cases, trunks, boxes, totes and what-have-you, then, as quickly as possible, load it all those onto their assigned vessel of transport so that we can leave, and eventually go home and not be at work any more. Accomplishing this objective is made considerably more difficult when I (or others… but in this case it was me) have to undo needless and excessive taping in the middle of a frenzied push to get out the door. Not only did it injure the cause of expeditious departure, it caused me to briefly (but earnestly!) wish you severe proctological distress.
In the future, please measure the unlikely circumstance of an XLR cable becoming disconnected during a show, against the certainty that the show will have to be struck when it is over, before over-zealously taping cable together.
Sincerely,
Sound-Dick.
