One Week of Adventure, Pirate Adventure

I started on Tuesday at the Pirate Dinner Adventure, and have already completed a week of training with them. I guess it is training, but more along the lines of memorization - which is less than exciting. I am memorizing it fast though, at least I think I am.

Being trained as an audio technician, I am performing duties such as powering up the outside and house sound systems, wireless mic pack preparation, sound check, running preshow (lights, sound effects, winch operation and audio), and running the show audio. After the show, I de-battery the mic packs, fish things out of the "moat" and turn off all the equipment that is supposed to be off.

Have I learned much from this job yet? Yes! but now what I had expected. Its mostly about the way things operate in a semi-professional theater. Most interesting to me is the fact that the mentality of the production as a whole is, "If it works, it's good enough."

I don't know if any of you reading this have ever encountered business mentality of this manner. Instead of accepting methods that increase efficiency and effectiveness, they stay with the ways that they have been doing things because it "works." This inability to adapt to new ways has been driving me crazy.
I see blatant simple ways for the technical aspect of of the show to be made easier to run, but when I make suggestions, i get the same response, "this is the way we've always done it."

It is at this point that I want to slap the people that have been there for a while and say "wake up, change is GOOD!"

We'll see if I can't get some changes started. In the meantime, has any had an experience at work, or otherwise that is similar to what I have experienced? People not wanting to try something new because it is different than its been in the past?