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Topic: Managers in the Booth!?!
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Dave Cutler
Master Film Handler
Posts: 277
From: Centennial, CO
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 06-26-2000 03:29 PM
I was curious to find out if anyone else had to put up with training managers in their booths? Actually training managers isn't my problem, it's when one of them is put up in my booth and I HAVEN'T trained them.  This recently happened to me (if you hadn't guessed) and now I have 11 scratched prints. That's 11 out of 24 screens that now look like crap!! I just can't get over 11 scratched prints.  I talked to the Managing Director and was told that since this manager had been to the AMC approved booth school that they would be able to run a booth. For those that haven't worked for AMC, the AMC booth school for managers isn't even about threading a running projectors mostly. It teaches them how to communicate with projectionists (oh wait that's a bad word at AMC, Booth Ushers) when there is something wrong. Now that's all fine and dandy (actually I like that alot), but they need proper training to run the booth and you can't learn that at a company wide training, every booth is different. You can learn the basics that way, but should learn your theatres specifics from it's Booth Manager. OK, well now that I have vented. Does anyone else have to deal with this? Let me know. Also this poses a question I have wondered about. Which theatre companies are the best to work for? i.e. Who treats projectionists the best? I work for AMC, but would love to get back with Dickinson Theatres (smaller midwest chain). I have also worked for United Artists in Coloado and Michigan, that was OK, but still we weren't considered projectionists, really. Sorry about the book long topic. ------------------
Dave Cutler
15/70 projectionist &
Booth Manager at a 24-plex
Kansas City, MO "Do or do not, there is no try."
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Randy Stankey
Film God
Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 06-26-2000 11:43 PM
All I can tell you is to sort of stand back and watch the fireworks. Yeah, a lot of film is going to get damaged but that's the only way, sometimes.If you're always stepping in and fixing his screw ups HE won't get credit for them and YOU won't get credit for fixing them. It'll just look like he doesn't make mistakes becasue you keep saving his ass. Next time he brainwraps a projector let him come and ask YOU for help. That'll humble his sorry ass. (He won't admit it but he'll know.) If you confront him, he'll just get defensive and try to make YOU the bad guy. When it comes down to it, people will (evenually) notice that when you run the booth EVERYTHING runs perfectly and NO film gets F***ed up on your watch.
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Don Sneed
Master Film Handler
Posts: 451
From: Texas City, TX, USA
Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 10-25-2001 02:14 AM
When I was with Projectionist Local Union 279 in Houston, the manager and theater owners would never walk into the booth, I had a owner talk to me from outside the booth door, I told him to come in but he refuse, said the union told him no owner or managers in the booth at anytime.....whoooaaa weeee those were the days, but after 6,8 screens theaters started to comeing around, things changed, manager/operator was a common thing.....but I remember the old timers (projectionist) did not like that, I said...Hey this is the 80's it's time we change before we are all out of the booth.....well we were, the union didn't what to give in !!
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Don Sneed
Master Film Handler
Posts: 451
From: Texas City, TX, USA
Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 10-25-2001 03:42 AM
Yea, Joe, I totally agree, If I owned the theatre & even sign a contract, that my equipment, I'm paying the notes, I'll go start the damn thing if I wanted too !! But back in the 60's, 70', & early 80's, that wasn't the case at some theatres, I had it happen twice at different theatres where I work the swing shifts, I always felt it's your theatre, you sign my check, You can eat some of those chickens I'm cooking in the lamphouse, if you want !!! But yes it did happen, at one time the Houston local was as strong as New York, & Chicago...
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