The TV Production Manager

When the inexperienced PC issues sub-floats to completely different productions and doesn't record what they've done anywhere and you spend 3 weeks unpicking it all

Doing your delivery paperwork on Silvermouse

when a runner tells you they didn't go to university to be stuck with scanning and cataloguing release forms

When you have to design an evacuation plan for an entertainment show because its shooting in a bonkers location.

when the comm ed commissions a series and tells you they hate everything in the broadcast pilot

when the client 'suggests' a HoD for your production that nobody has ever heard of

when the client wants the production designer to pitch for a £3k set dressing gig  

Sitting in a production meeting and someone suggests clock wipes as a style point for the edit

When the new runner shows me the must have app that converts multiple camera images to pdf and we're on location without a scanner. Or power. Or snacks.

When I’m suffering the effects of last night’s team building drinks and the Prod Exec suggests drinks tonight

Interviewing a freelance producer via Skype.

MRW the new PC creates a multi tabbed, pivot table, edit schedule in Excel

MRW I see what's in the cost manager for schedule 32

When you’re the only person left in the office and have to inspect and return all the hired kit.

When you’re casting for savvy pensioners and the AP opens their pitch... 

When the client helpfully suggests using casting platforms that your editorial team have already been rinsing for the last 3 months...

When a producer uses the term 'identify actionables' in a job description