He labels "a joke" the tradition of professors' lecturing, and finds most university film schools a waste, producing "coffee fetchers".
Before most of the blue-shirted financiers descended, there came an army of helpers: the custodians and coffee fetchers, personal trainers and headsetted assistants who make the money street run smoothly.
The piece, created by an artist, Zefrey Throwell, involved 50 people impersonating the various occupations of Wall Street – traders and secretaries, janitors and coffee fetchers – and play-acting their roles briefly before stripping down along the length of the street.
I suspect that this problem is at least as severe at the peon level — bookers, interns, researchers, receptionists, coffee fetchers, mailroom guys, etc. — as it is for correspondents and producers.
"I prefer 'whistle-blower.' " New York lags behind Hollywood, where revenge of the coffee-fetchers is a time-honored tradition.
In the popular consciousness, it calls to mind eager coffee-fetchers, bright-eyed at the photocopier, while the "Monica-gate" scandal represents intern willingness gone too far.
The primary issue, in TDWP, is its narrator's resentment, as a lowly assistant, at having to pick up coats and being misused as a fetcher of endless snacks and coffees, "Starbucks only, tall latte, two raw sugars", for her impossibly scary boss.
Fetcher gasps in admiration.
"... and, as the French hens say - voila !" Fetcher rushes up.
