Happy 1 Year Anniversary Cineplex!

Happy 1 Year Anniversary Cineplex!

Yep! It has been (well in a few weeks it will be) one year since I started working at Cineplex! And MAN has it been a rollercoaster, and I don't mean physical and mentally like Target was but emotionally.

I got the job a few weeks after being let go from Target (It still hurst cause that place was such a blessing for my brother and I but not going into detail about that, you can read that on my other blog post). It had always been my dream to work at a movie theatre while going to school (at the time it was High School, not college) so I summoned up the courage, went to the Mall location because the one near my house just didn't....well it just didn't. I asked for the Manager and basically poured my heart out how much I really wanted a job there.

Got the interview a few days after and so nervous! Did a group project and then the one on one which I think went better than the group project (Why do people even still have group projects like honestly it's so grade 2). A few days after I got the call and SCREAMED THE HOUSE DOWN! I was so excited and could not believe it! And for a few reasons,



1. I got the job I have always wanted, yea I heard nothing but bad things like terrible management, pay and shifts but not the reason why I wanted the job.

2. That I got another job! I tried so hard in high school and college to get one that I thought I was cursed. Honestly I thought Target was just lucky try because it was close to winter holidays so getting this job really made me realize that I can do this, I can get jobs. 



I couldn't wait to get started, but the first day didn't go to well, we were trained on the night of the Avengers: Age of Ultron! WHY THOUGH?! There more than enough people on floor and doing the checks was all over the place. Eventually we were also trained on Concession and since then that's where I stayed with like maybe 1 floor shift every month. I never wanted to deal with people and their food but apparently I was really good at it and got employee of the month the following month!

It wasn't easy though, being new and asking questions while other cast members were serving, the guests wondering why they have someone new doing this, being shoved around and told to do things people haven't done in months...I did a whole post on this so try and find it ;)

Eventually I decided not to take the crap anymore and not be like everyone else so I did my own thing and enjoyed it for a while. 

Just when I was getting use to that location, I got transfer to the location I am at now for school and there are no words to describe how much I HATE IT THERE. Maybe it's because I'm in school, maybe it's because I have to take a bus, maybe it's because for holidays I go home but whatever it is, it sucks.

At first the people (and some still now) were such and I hate to say it, douche bags. Its like I was in a foreign country. They assumed I knew what I was doing on FLOOR and gave me shifts that didn't work with my school schedule and when I did sent them ones that did, it didn't work for them so because of that I didn't get to go grocery shopping for the first semester of school, had to wait until I went home on holidays and bring back enough that would last me.

Regardless where you go, whether under the same store brand name, they do things differently, no Wal-mart is going to have the same set-up, no school that has the same course name is going to have the same classes THEREFORE if I come from a Famous Players and go to a Cineplex Entertainment type location are things going to be the same! They do things so differently that I do not serve on Concession because of how different it is, I'm only on floor which my other location in that mall describes as "wasted talent." If you time your tasks out properly you won't be there until 12 or later so at least I still catch the bus.

I hate it there and give BARE attitude sometimes when I'm ready and I don't know WHAT possessed them to give me a positive review when it came time for the employee review check. I got excellent on everything when it came to guest, the other cast members and my overall performance which makes me think that either they are CRAZY or I'm just really good at hiding my emotions.

I don't think I have ever cried so much about a job, or about anything really so much before. Since getting to this location I have cried almost every time before or after my shifts because nothing has ever worked out.

So I guess what I really want to say is that after school is done (because it does not make sense to get a new job now, go through job searching, interviews, training and the whole "new kid" thing all over again when the semester is almost done) I will take my last payment, kiss this theatre goodbye FOREVER and never look back and completely QUIT my job from the theatre altogether.

My religious background or as I like to put it, I am a born again Pentecostal Christian and it is a rule of our church not to go to movie theatres. I have never actually went to my Pastor to ask why (I believe it was because of what would usually happen in the theatres back in the olden days but it's the 21st century) so really it should be okay now right? WRONG.

I heard this response from a leader that I respect and knows his stuff, our Pastor is the man of God. He is the shepherd to lead God's sheep (which is us) to him. We get our word, weekly sermons, encouragement from God through him so if he is the man of God, why wouldn't we follow him? Don't twist it around and say"what if we says to jump off a building or divorce your wife" or something crazy along those lines, God also gave man wisdom.

In the end it's also about your conviction and ever since I have started working at the theatre, nothing good has happened or being going my way. Yes bills have been paid but that pretty much it, nothing left for savings or for even buying food, just bills and transportation to get there. Endless shifts and nights feeling more depressed than when I started and affecting my decisions and schoolwork. Because of them I have gotten my first write up, missed holidays with family, missed important events at school that determine my future (It may sounds like I'm "whining" but trust me I did my part to make sure none of these would happen but in the end they did) Now that I know I am capable of getting jobs there is no reason for me to stay here.

I understand that there is a possibility I'll feel the same way somewhere else but it wasn't like that when I was at Target and I was there longer and the work was more demanding. 

Anyway cause this post has gone on for long enough...and may kinda seem like more of a THANKS FOR NOTHING rant that a happy anniversary but...

THANKS CINEPLEX FOR MAKING ONE MY DREAMS A REALITY!