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Christopher Seo
Jedi Master Film Handler
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Posts: 530
From: Los Angeles, CA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 12-29-1999 02:09 AM
Gordon,Wow! You are referring to the Kapolei Theaters, right? I've trained there in the past couple of months for employment with Consolidated. It's still as clean as ever, but there are two projectionists there now between whom the hours are pretty equally divided, I think. Most people seem to like mostly 6-hour shifts with one 12-hour shift to compensate for a day off, but I know some who don't mind working 7 days a week as long as each shift is short. My schedule will be changing over the next couple of months. I'm expecting to work about three days of grind ( 1/2 hr before start of first show to 15 minutes after start of last show, or about 11 am - 10:30 pm). I don't have a personal scheduling preference yet (although starvation can be a problem on longer shifts), but the grinds are desirable because they allow me entirely free days in which I can do projection elsewhere.
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Ari Nordström
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From: Göteborg, Sweden
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 01-07-2000 08:23 PM
I'm the head projectionist of a single-screen theatre, the Draken in Göteborg, Sweden. When the cinema was still a commercial theatre, running shows every day, I worked there six days a week, and always on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays (because of the afternoon and late-night shows). The casual(s) came in only on Tuesdays, and rarely got a chance to make any real money at all from the Draken theatre. Whatever money he made was from the multiplexes.I didn't have much of a social life outside the rather limited circle of other projectionists, but I guess many of you recognize that situation. I liked it that way, too. These days, we rarely show films more than twice, maybe three times a week, so I usually take all of it. To pay the rent and buy the kids some new toys every now and then, I do other things, but I really miss working at the Draken full time.
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Nicholas McRobert
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From: Belfast, N. Ireland
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-09-2000 07:13 PM
On the subject of actual hours spent in work, it's probably worth pointing out that in European Countries, recently introduced legislation requires that the MAXIMUM working week is 48 hours and that there is at LEAST 11 hours between shifts worked. There also has to be one 30 (or so....not sure of the exact figure) break in between shifts at least once every seven days (in other words, a day off). Vacation time is now a minimum of 3 weeks in the UK, no matter how long you have worked for the company. Employers here can come to special arrangements with their workers regarding lengthening shifts etc, but it is entirely up to the employee, who can decline to work outside of any of the above rules. It all seems a little complicated, but the lack of social/family life is bad enough at about 40 hours, never mind 75 or 100, so it is definitely beneficial. Would I be right in assuming that there are no such rules in the USA? You guys must be *knackered*!! Nicholas :/
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