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Hi Guys,
I want to apologize in advance if this get's pretty long, but I assure you it is well worth the read.
As some of you may know, I have been doing a one night haunted house every year for my school's Relay for Life in May, and in September/October, I am usually found volunteering somewhere in Connecticut, helping to act, manage, or design haunts!
Well 3 years ago I became involved with a haunted trail in my town, it was advertised to benefit the trolley museum. I lived less than 5 minutes away and instantly fellin love with it, I spent the entire year working on it with one guy in particular, and was the only volunteer solely committed to working on it year round. I helped build, manage, design, and was the on-site medic. At the end of the year, the head volunteer (or so I thought), asked me to not be a manager, so I took it with a grain of salt, and still helped year round and made a scene to act in, I was still the on-site medic, but the head volunteer was still giving me a hard time about even being there, when just a few months earlier he was patting me on the back thanking me for getting his truck out of the mud. Then, seeing all my hard work, I was nominated to be a person of the week in the local paper, http://www.theday.com/article/201010...own=East-Haven to which the so called head volunteer sent an email to the editor saying I wasn't even involved with the haunt and demanded a reprint. I fluffed it off as jealousy, since he was the head volunteer. Come to find out, he was secretly getting 10% off the ticket proceeds, and didn't want the museum finding out I was doing more work than him, and lied to all the museum people and made a big scene. So I quit, I couldn't believe someone would be that pathetic, someone three times my age mind you.
So this past October I was at CT's Largest Indoor Haunted Attraction, and thought it was an INCREDIBLE opportunity, just to be a part of it. The hours were reasonable, it was only about 30 minutes away, and everyone gave me so much respect and really appreciated me as a manager, I felt like I could be there for years. Sure there were a few mishaps, every haunt has them, but I took care of them and did my job professionally. And at the end of the season, I, along with everyone else who helped out, was under the impression that the money was donated to the American Cancer Society as they have been advertising the entire month that they were, as well as using that as a reason to get volunteer actors. Well, I was donating my time to DJ a Relay for Life Kickoff Event and was confronted by an American Cancer Society Rep who recognized me from press or whatever, and demanded to know why our owner has been blowing off all phone calls and emails she's been sending her for the past 2 months. Come to find out, not a single penny was donated, regardless of contracts, and now the lady is ignoring the ACS and lying to all the actors that a donation was made.
I want to apologize in advance if this get's pretty long, but I assure you it is well worth the read.
As some of you may know, I have been doing a one night haunted house every year for my school's Relay for Life in May, and in September/October, I am usually found volunteering somewhere in Connecticut, helping to act, manage, or design haunts!
Well 3 years ago I became involved with a haunted trail in my town, it was advertised to benefit the trolley museum. I lived less than 5 minutes away and instantly fellin love with it, I spent the entire year working on it with one guy in particular, and was the only volunteer solely committed to working on it year round. I helped build, manage, design, and was the on-site medic. At the end of the year, the head volunteer (or so I thought), asked me to not be a manager, so I took it with a grain of salt, and still helped year round and made a scene to act in, I was still the on-site medic, but the head volunteer was still giving me a hard time about even being there, when just a few months earlier he was patting me on the back thanking me for getting his truck out of the mud. Then, seeing all my hard work, I was nominated to be a person of the week in the local paper, http://www.theday.com/article/201010...own=East-Haven to which the so called head volunteer sent an email to the editor saying I wasn't even involved with the haunt and demanded a reprint. I fluffed it off as jealousy, since he was the head volunteer. Come to find out, he was secretly getting 10% off the ticket proceeds, and didn't want the museum finding out I was doing more work than him, and lied to all the museum people and made a big scene. So I quit, I couldn't believe someone would be that pathetic, someone three times my age mind you.
So this past October I was at CT's Largest Indoor Haunted Attraction, and thought it was an INCREDIBLE opportunity, just to be a part of it. The hours were reasonable, it was only about 30 minutes away, and everyone gave me so much respect and really appreciated me as a manager, I felt like I could be there for years. Sure there were a few mishaps, every haunt has them, but I took care of them and did my job professionally. And at the end of the season, I, along with everyone else who helped out, was under the impression that the money was donated to the American Cancer Society as they have been advertising the entire month that they were, as well as using that as a reason to get volunteer actors. Well, I was donating my time to DJ a Relay for Life Kickoff Event and was confronted by an American Cancer Society Rep who recognized me from press or whatever, and demanded to know why our owner has been blowing off all phone calls and emails she's been sending her for the past 2 months. Come to find out, not a single penny was donated, regardless of contracts, and now the lady is ignoring the ACS and lying to all the actors that a donation was made.
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