Linda Eisenstein: Plays, Music, & More

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

STRANGER THAN FICTION

I got a funny piece of mail a while ago: a Worker's Comp claim for somebody claiming to work for "Acme Temporary Services". I spent several telephone calls with the legal services company trying to explain that I was not an employer or the owner of a temp firm. I'm the playwright of a comic monologue about a fictitious temp company who mainly employs artists, misfits, and burnouts: ACME TEMPORARY SERVICES.

"Do you really think anybody would actually run a company with the motto 'Ack me if I care?'," I asked the customer service rep, who ended up in stitches. But even then, her supervisor had to call me back to grill me about my "employee", who apparently lives in San Diego. I'm guessing he must be an actor who read my monologue in a Heinemann anthology, or saw it somewhere.

Life is stranger than fiction...