What’s better than watching a movie for free? being paid to watch a movie, Hoo-hah!!!

I can’t sleep. I’m too excited. You could say I got promoted today. I knew it was coming, and actually today I was planning on asking my boss about it. I work at the cinemas. I started at the snack bar, and I guess I did a superb job. One of the bosses was watching me. One day, less than 3 weeks after I was hired, he came and pulled me aside. He said that he is very impressed with what he sees and that he heard good things from other people as well, and he asked if I’d be interested in working at the booth, at the projector. He said he only puts there people he trusts because if you make a mistake there it can be very costly. I said I wouldn’t mind giving it a shot. Since then I thought about it more, and because it is more money, it will look good on my resume, and it’s another cool skill that will be nice to learn, I decided that I need to ask him about it. I was gonna ask him today, but before I was able to he told me, when he saw me walk in, that he wants me to work at the booth today, funny aye?!

I think there are more friendly employees there. Well at least ones that know more English and not only Spanish, so I can chat with them.

I feel a little awkward now when I walk by the snack bar  seen other employees that have been working there way more than me and weren’t offered this position (yes it’s only been one day there are more to come). I do feel I deserve it and earn it. But still if you would place the employees on a ladder, I will be above many of them after working there only a month (some are supervisors/assistant managers so they are probably high up there too).
I am now allowed to take what’s called the manager cups for the sodas, not those little two sips ones that the ones who work in the snack bar get. Yes they can fill it up as many times as they want, and probably the reason that the employees working at the projector get the manager cup (it’s a about a medium size cup that you get in every fast food) is because we have to be up there at the projector room most of the time. But still it’s like a different rank in the military. Like I got more power. It’s like me saying “Ha Ha I’ve been working only for 30 days and already I get more power.” I don’t like this feeling of awkwardness, and hope that it will go away in a few days. It is what it is.

Let’s also hope that I don’t screw up and get fired. One mistake can cost the theater $3000 (like scratching the film). Two of those, and I’m probably smoked. I won’t even be getting the small cup.

In my first month I didn’t really take advantage of my privilege of getting free movie tickets. There were just no movies I wanted to really watch, and now I have to watch movies – it’s part of the job. When a new movie comes you need to watch it and make sure you put it all together nicely (the film comes in a few parts, like 3-4). So I also went from getting free movies to being paid to watch movies. How cool is that. Yeah I’m the new guy and will probably be stuck watching the crappy ones, but still it’s pretty awesome.

~ by LiLi on September 5, 2008.