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Author Topic: Being a Projectionist is not what it used to be. Jim Ziegler Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 753 From: West Hollywood, CA Registered: Jul 99 posted 02-04-2002 05:37 AM                     Cinemark is just the opposite. I get in trouble if I let a bulb run more than 125% of its warrenty life..  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 02-04-2002 10:09 AM                        When the local Cinemark manager gave me a booth tour, he specifically mentioned that they replace the lamps based on hours.  |  IP: Logged Darren Solomon Film Handler Posts: 28 From: unknown Registered: Jan 2002 posted 02-10-2002 11:36 PM                        Hello folks, whats new in my current situation, well, I haven't quit this theatre, its been quite for about a month, Xenon bulbs are still 8-9 months old, a bunch of new Xenon Bulbs came in last week and have nit yet been put into place, and I now have another Booth meeting on Monday. This Booth meeting has been braught up becuase this one projectionist called me up tonight about a day he needs off, and is not getting his way and told me some things to me that tell me he's making me look bad, saying I'm a screwup, and will keep running to the one Manager that listens to his petty complaint! He needed off on Sunday, and he said I was the only person that could cover for him in the booth on that day, when I need of Feb. 14th, and I alread did him the faver last Sunday and got my girlfriend to work for him on Superbowl Sunday. And I told him he owes me and then some words flew by in the conversation and he went overboard and started bad mouthing me. I was willing to comunicate calmly to solve or reason with him, but instead, he pushed the other way, stabbs me in the back, makes me look bad, and will discuss this at tomorrows Meeting. Now thats two meetings for Monday! The first one is a supervisor certification meeting and after that I will discuss this with him with the house manager. Its time to defend myself and bring my girlfriend in, as she is a target as well. This one projectionist is out to see myslef and my girlfriend look back and get fired. This thing keeps coming back and I know it will not go away. If I had the power, I would have fired him by now. As I see it, they way this projectionists keeps going, I will not enjoy working with him and not be giving or help him get what he wants at all! This projectionists knows if I quit, he will become the head projectionists and its gone to his head.  |  IP: Logged Keith Peticolas Expert Film Handler Posts: 108 From: Eagle River, Alaska, USA Registered: Aug 2001 posted 02-11-2002 12:19 AM                     Darren, this is only going to get worse. You are going to give yourself an ulcer. Leave now and find a new gig. Whatever bad feelings you have about leaving will magically disappear after you leave. Trust me, I have been through pretty much the same thing. kp  |  IP: Logged Darren Solomon Film Handler Posts: 28 From: unknown Registered: Jan 2002 posted 02-11-2002 01:05 AM                        Yeah, I see what you mean and the direction it is going, but my financial needs are different and I need this jobs income right now. I would like to have a 2nd job or get hired somewhere else, before I quit. I'm not going down without a fight. I know I'll eventually come to the point where something gives..But I'm trying to hold on. They push, then I push. I'm hoping to resolve it peacefully. But if I was the manager, I would have fired this person. Thanks for your help. I will be letting you know what the outcome will be.  |  IP: Logged Tim Turner Film Handler Posts: 87 From: Chula Vista, CA, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 02-11-2002 07:12 PM                     Darren, you may not havethe ability to fire him, but as head-projectionists, you should have the right to remove him permantly from the booth. I know at my theatre if the head projectionist felt that a certian projections is causing trouble and wanted him no longer working in the booth, the GM would grant him the power to do so.  |  IP: Logged Darren Solomon Film Handler Posts: 28 From: unknown Registered: Jan 2002 posted 02-11-2002 11:34 PM                        I know I may not be able to fire the person, but I had the meeting tonight and found out some more things and I personally don't think it will get better. First off, the company is taking steps to make sure Projectionists are now Supervisors and have new duties that include floor supervisors jobs. These are: Inventory control and counts, opening and closing consessions, coffe bar, and some odd and end stuff I don't remember. They told us that the company doesn't want the projectionists to start being a Union. We were never a union to begin with, and we know how the company doesn't like Unions anyway. I still think its to keep us labled as supervisor/usher/booth to keep us at a low wage. We will be used more on the floor, and we also have to train (On their free time) the current floor staff supervisors in the booth on how to thread, the basics, breakdown and buildup moves, trailer replacments and ad replacements. Now back to the real meeting that I had with the problem projectionist not repsecting me, underminding my authority, he said he thinks he could do a better job than me as the Head Projectionist. Well, it got a bit heated discusions with this persona dn me and the house manager, but the manager seperated us, and I spoke to the manager only. While he remained neutral, and I then said I want this person out of the booth and fired. The manager said he could get a new booth team up there and want to resolve the issue another way. Well, he's gonna talk to this problem projections, and do what he has to do, and I will do the same even if I have to goto the GM manager or someone else higher in the company or, wait a bit longer to see where this all leads and find the straw that breaks the camels back. Whats it gonna be, I keep getting into this for a 2nd time, what, wait for the 3rd, and say this is it, its me or him? And the soap opera continues....  |  IP: Logged Paul Harnden Expert Film Handler Posts: 107 From: Chandler, AZ, USA Registered: Oct 2001 posted 02-12-2002 12:43 AM                     Ok Darren, same thing happened to me. The company I worked for wanted their projectionists more on the floor, so that's what we did. We'd thread up the machines, start them, and head downstairs to do our "duties". If something happened, we had to take the extra time to get upstairs and fix it. If anyone got mad at us, "Hey we're just doing what corporate told us!" Well the customers got mad, so then we had them fill out countless complaints and send them into corporate. Needless to say it stopped after a while and things got back to normal. As for the problem projectionist, just see where it leads. If he really pisses you off either kick him out, or if he doesn't listen, seek a higher manager to kick him out. If he needs a reason say you're gonna seriously sock him, but you want to act professionally, and that he should get rid of him.  |  IP: Logged Zach Zagar Film Handler Posts: 45 From: Jefferson City, MO Registered: Mar 2000 posted 02-12-2002 08:43 PM                        Whether or not you handle it properly, your authority can be compromised by dating someone working for you... that just inspires gossip. Its not what you actually do, its what people think you that affects you sometime. Apperance is everything when you're a manager, unfortunately. Pedestals aren't fun, but its part of the supervising gig.  |  IP: Logged Mike Spaeth Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1129 From: Marietta, GA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 02-13-2002 06:52 PM                        Yeah - dating an employee is a TERRIBLE idea. NEVER get your honey and your money from the same place.  |  IP: Logged Darren Solomon Film Handler Posts: 28 From: unknown Registered: Jan 2002 posted 02-13-2002 10:07 PM                        I did state that it was the managers decision to allow my girlfriend to be full time in the Booth. Currently, we are both floor supervisors that only work together on two nights, and when we work together, its professional and all work and we get the job done without problems. I do agree that boyfriend and girlfriend should not work in the same department. I really can't ad anything else to this, we work it out in our location, and as a matter of fact, there's another couple of supervisors that are dating and do work together verry nicely. So we are not the only ones. But what sets us apart is my girlfriend lives with me for over a year now.  |  IP: Logged

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