Glirk Dient
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Just so you know I am going to be researching all of this as much as I can but for now I would like input/ideas from any of you.
Recently management has become zealots at my work. Much like a nazi Germany over the persecution of jews, except instead of Jews it is AMC Crew in the concentration camps that is being forced to work long difficult hours with next to no benefit and constant fear of making the smallest mistake and being prosecuted for it. They have a complete lack of respect for their workers and simply see us as less than human. I work at a movie theater(I am a supervisor and a projectionist so after 2 years of emplyement I got a raise, promotion and a technical job and make a little above minimum wage still). Why do I stay? The job is supposed to be fun. The management is always boasting that the pay may not be the best but the job is fun. Well they have taken that away and replaced it with a fear of being fired for any minor mistake whether it is your fault or not and whether you were informed about what it was you were supposed to do or not.
I have gotten 4 write ups recently...3 of which in the past week and the other a bit before that. For what you ask? Well as a projectionist there is a lot to pay attention to, lots of minor details and you do stuff fast. Well it is inevitable that me being dyslexic I am going to make mistakes once in a while. I have made a few in the past...I am one of their better projectionists and seeing as how me making mistakes isn't something I do frequent you would assume they would shrug them off as none are that serious.
Here are the 4 reasons I have been written up.
Starting the wrong movie. They had a print move which they never informed me of and it wasn't on the platter for the projector...I checked the top print and it wasn't the one I needed so I assumed the bottom one was. Somewhat my fault as I should have checked it but they also should have informed me they wanted to move prints so I could have done that ahead of time. Even still, the movie was 15 mins late when I started the correct one and no tickets were refunded. No lost money and I am still written up.
Writeup #2 was because in the middle of the busy period my booth manager mentioned a movie needed to be torn down at the end of the night. It didn't ship out till next week and I ended up forgetting to tear it down so I offered to stay 10 mins late to tear it down. he said he didn't want me to stay and wrote me up because I forgot to do something. The person in the morning could have done it. This wasn't even a big deal as it doesn't get in the way and I could have done it on my next shift as there was no hurry.
Writeup #3 was because since I am dyslexic I looked at the wrong time for a movie and started the wrong one. This was my fault and the movie was 15 mins late. No tickets were refunded as there were 2 people in the theater. I still got written up
Writeup #4 was because the booth manager told me there were print moves that night. Ok I figured..as the night went on all the prints were there so I figured if there were any prints that needed to be switched during show starts he must have moved them already. Instead what he meant was there were print moves to be made that night for the next day. I was never given a schedule for the next day in order to figure out what print moves needed to be made so not only did they not tell me about them they also didn't give me what I needed to do them. They claimed it was in booth...amongst the hundreds of papers lying around and they expect me to find it int here? Hah...
These writeups explained a few things. I am not perfect and mistakes are unacceptable. Any motivation I had to work before or pride for the company was wrong. I am not good enough to never make a mistake. This also lets me know I am not a valued employee which also makes my work motivation less. Thereby decreasing my work productivity as I am no longer actively seeking to make things better. This also makes people fear for their jobs and is no longer fun. Having employee moral high is important in the theater industry. You want employees to seem like they are having fun so the experience is fun for the guests and they enjoy their experience more and will want to come back. Having employees who look pissed off and work like zombies isn't a very effective way of letting guests know this is the best theater around.
After those 4 very lame writeups they are also breaking the law. They are having minors work past midnight as well as longer than 8 hours. If a minor brings this up and requests to not work past what is legal management is not supposed to retailate against that employee. However a few of the supervisors who are minors have brought this up and they are now scheduling every 45 mins later to make sure people dont say their shift is over and leave before we are closed...whether or not they are minors.
We have a compactor which is heavy machinery...they have minors operate that when the county law is 18 years of age.
They also spy on us with the security cameras. I haven't verified this but have heard those security cameras are there for security...like people stealing money not watching employees.
With that...I am going to call up the state and have an inspector investigate and report they have minors working past what they should. I am also going to have as many employees call the AMC help line and report what management is doing as these writeups are un ethical. They are writing people up for any minor mistake and firing them as soon as they can(takes 4 write ups). I can see writing up the people who are clearly in the wrong but writing people up for mistakes that are commonly made is not fixing anything. The person did not do that intentionally and writing them up isn't going to stop them from making mistakes. It creates a fear of being fired as they are writing up so many people they are turning over employees faster than they can hire them. We lack people in any of the positions higher than what people start at simply because they are getting rid of people so fast and hiring new ones they haven't been able to find anyone to replace the supervisors/projectionists yet.
Do any of you have any other ideas? Talking to them is out of the question, it's like telling religious fanatics their god doesn't exist. No matter what you say they will always think they are right.
Recently management has become zealots at my work. Much like a nazi Germany over the persecution of jews, except instead of Jews it is AMC Crew in the concentration camps that is being forced to work long difficult hours with next to no benefit and constant fear of making the smallest mistake and being prosecuted for it. They have a complete lack of respect for their workers and simply see us as less than human. I work at a movie theater(I am a supervisor and a projectionist so after 2 years of emplyement I got a raise, promotion and a technical job and make a little above minimum wage still). Why do I stay? The job is supposed to be fun. The management is always boasting that the pay may not be the best but the job is fun. Well they have taken that away and replaced it with a fear of being fired for any minor mistake whether it is your fault or not and whether you were informed about what it was you were supposed to do or not.
I have gotten 4 write ups recently...3 of which in the past week and the other a bit before that. For what you ask? Well as a projectionist there is a lot to pay attention to, lots of minor details and you do stuff fast. Well it is inevitable that me being dyslexic I am going to make mistakes once in a while. I have made a few in the past...I am one of their better projectionists and seeing as how me making mistakes isn't something I do frequent you would assume they would shrug them off as none are that serious.
Here are the 4 reasons I have been written up.
Starting the wrong movie. They had a print move which they never informed me of and it wasn't on the platter for the projector...I checked the top print and it wasn't the one I needed so I assumed the bottom one was. Somewhat my fault as I should have checked it but they also should have informed me they wanted to move prints so I could have done that ahead of time. Even still, the movie was 15 mins late when I started the correct one and no tickets were refunded. No lost money and I am still written up.
Writeup #2 was because in the middle of the busy period my booth manager mentioned a movie needed to be torn down at the end of the night. It didn't ship out till next week and I ended up forgetting to tear it down so I offered to stay 10 mins late to tear it down. he said he didn't want me to stay and wrote me up because I forgot to do something. The person in the morning could have done it. This wasn't even a big deal as it doesn't get in the way and I could have done it on my next shift as there was no hurry.
Writeup #3 was because since I am dyslexic I looked at the wrong time for a movie and started the wrong one. This was my fault and the movie was 15 mins late. No tickets were refunded as there were 2 people in the theater. I still got written up
Writeup #4 was because the booth manager told me there were print moves that night. Ok I figured..as the night went on all the prints were there so I figured if there were any prints that needed to be switched during show starts he must have moved them already. Instead what he meant was there were print moves to be made that night for the next day. I was never given a schedule for the next day in order to figure out what print moves needed to be made so not only did they not tell me about them they also didn't give me what I needed to do them. They claimed it was in booth...amongst the hundreds of papers lying around and they expect me to find it int here? Hah...
These writeups explained a few things. I am not perfect and mistakes are unacceptable. Any motivation I had to work before or pride for the company was wrong. I am not good enough to never make a mistake. This also lets me know I am not a valued employee which also makes my work motivation less. Thereby decreasing my work productivity as I am no longer actively seeking to make things better. This also makes people fear for their jobs and is no longer fun. Having employee moral high is important in the theater industry. You want employees to seem like they are having fun so the experience is fun for the guests and they enjoy their experience more and will want to come back. Having employees who look pissed off and work like zombies isn't a very effective way of letting guests know this is the best theater around.
After those 4 very lame writeups they are also breaking the law. They are having minors work past midnight as well as longer than 8 hours. If a minor brings this up and requests to not work past what is legal management is not supposed to retailate against that employee. However a few of the supervisors who are minors have brought this up and they are now scheduling every 45 mins later to make sure people dont say their shift is over and leave before we are closed...whether or not they are minors.
We have a compactor which is heavy machinery...they have minors operate that when the county law is 18 years of age.
They also spy on us with the security cameras. I haven't verified this but have heard those security cameras are there for security...like people stealing money not watching employees.
With that...I am going to call up the state and have an inspector investigate and report they have minors working past what they should. I am also going to have as many employees call the AMC help line and report what management is doing as these writeups are un ethical. They are writing people up for any minor mistake and firing them as soon as they can(takes 4 write ups). I can see writing up the people who are clearly in the wrong but writing people up for mistakes that are commonly made is not fixing anything. The person did not do that intentionally and writing them up isn't going to stop them from making mistakes. It creates a fear of being fired as they are writing up so many people they are turning over employees faster than they can hire them. We lack people in any of the positions higher than what people start at simply because they are getting rid of people so fast and hiring new ones they haven't been able to find anyone to replace the supervisors/projectionists yet.
Do any of you have any other ideas? Talking to them is out of the question, it's like telling religious fanatics their god doesn't exist. No matter what you say they will always think they are right.
