No.

Dear fellow friends and staff members,

 On a good day, I'm like this:

   

 But today, I was:

   

During my after school supervision, an elementary student says to me, "I don't know how you wrap those chords, Mr. Wong."

Me: "What are you talking about?"

Kid: "The ones in chapel. They're so long, they stretched across the whole room."

Brain...  processing - *ding*

Comprehension.

Me: "What are you talking about?!"

Kid: "We were putting them away."

Last week, I already gave a staff member a hard time for improperly putting away the sound equipment.  The crime was asking high school students to do the job.  

Now, if I would be upset about some high school kids putting away the equipment, imagine how much more so I would be if elementary students were given the task.  

I run into the sanctuary and:

Believe me, I was a mushroom cloud.  In the words of Jules Winnfield, I was superfly TNT.  Man, I was so furious, I could have drowned a litter of newborn kittens under boiling oil.

Here is what I saw:

A closer look at the rat nest:

And here's why I'm upset:

Here's what trying to untangle this forsaken mess looks like:

This is what happens to cables when they're mistreated like this:

Would you ask your kids to change your timing belt?  Would you ask your kids to install the plumbing for your new sink and toilet?!  Would you ask your kids to handle your investments and trust them to manage your financial security?!!?

This equipment is not cheap, and twists and kinks not only make them ugly and difficult to wrap, it can ruin them.  I have invested a lot of time to train my kids to be able to wrap these cables properly.    I have some kids who know how to do it.  If you need to take things down, please, please, PLEASE ask me, and I will assign one of them to assist you.  If I can't find someone to do it, I'll do it myself.  DO NOT put it away yourself, or worse, ask your students to do it.  

If you want to learn how to put these things away, let me know because I would be more than willing to show you.  

Because on the disaster scale of 1 to 10, this was a billion - and I've only shown you what I found outside of the box.

So after 50 minutes of cursing and swearing, this is what it looked like:

And the really painful part is, only about 1/5 to 1/4 of that time was spent actually wrapping up the cables...  Yes, if you do the math, that means that 75% - 80% of that time was spent:

UNTANGLING!!!!

So here are some consequences that I could think of if the sound equipment was left like this.  

1. FCBC would have a mess in the corner for their service, and that's embarrassing for both them and us
2. The worship team and I would have found this on the next Wednesday morning, and we would waste most of our practice time untangling cables
3. The cables themselves, if they were left in that state for a whole week, would be a write off
4. I get angry
5. My wife gets upset with me because I'm angry... and because Happy Wife = Happy Life, you have essentially:  
6. Ruined my life

Now if you've endured through my rant and feel the need to apologize, that's fine.  I understand that we're all overwhelmed, overworked, and you folks especially are up to your eyeballs with this musical.  And I forgive you.  But even still, if you confess and reveal who you are, I'll probably find the nearest blunt object to beat you with.

But seriously, just ask for help next time and I will be more than happy to assist, or to find someone for you who's capable of assisting.  

Thanks.