@Arch Stanton wrote:
You need to safely allow 15 minutes between show times if they happen to be scheduled close to one another... amazed that nobody from the audience has ever asked me what I am doing, serious movie buffs included, and that is good because I don't want to create any competition.
Once management gets to know you well enough, you can stay and watch the movies or return on another night/ day.
But it takes a long time to gain that privilege.
You don't juggle? I usually get lucky that lots of my trailers that collide from different movies are in auditoriums right next to each other, so I bounce back and forth. If not, that's why I have webcams on the spare cellphones and set the phone in a front row seat...
Thankfully, the theater I have most of my morning checks in is in a commercial area, so not a whole lot of traffic on Friday mornings and people asking--usually they think I work there and assume I am there to answer their theater type questions. Sigh.
Oh, as for first checks mentioned above, while they are strongly preferred, you get what you can get sometimes. When I first started, I had a real day job (or was I in grad school by then and just staying up late to study?), so I got later showings. Saturday, I had a volunteer gig and came on to a theater just before noon ($10 bonus because my sidekick was in USVI for her daughter's wedding...nice). Not too shabby, because they had a 5:05pm showing that I had to get--three hours after the last of the midday bunch. Oh well, got an install and Friday's reports done in that time, since the site was down Friday night.
Oh, I don't watch too many movies, anyway, so I don't stay and watch. Now, Minions, Peanuts, Shaun the Sheep and Everest I may stay for when they are out. Then again, I rub shoulders with enough guest services types that I could probably take a movie in on their free movie privvies.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/22/2015 08:36AM by AlfredB1979.