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Topic: Open for Christmas?
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Jason Black
Phenomenal Film Handler
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From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 12-13-2000 09:23 PM
How many of you indies out there (or chains for that fact) are open for Christmas? If you are open, do you run a full schedule or a shortened schedule? How do you manage to get employees to actually *show* up for work? Do you pay holiday pay or overtime?
Some states do not require o/t pay, nor holiday pay for the record, and I work for a chain who will not pay ANYTHING extra to the hourlies for working holidays, which I think it total shiite, but I'm only a lowly inept manager (for 12 years mind you) who has no voice nor ablility to make any changes...What about the rest of you? And the real wonderful thing.. we just rec'd a memo from the home office reminding us that we do NOT shorten schedules and that we ARE open 365 days a year, but that wanted "our employees to enjoy the holidays" and that proper schdeuling NOW would insure that. Yeah, whatever! any of you managers out there know you can't force a 16/18 year old to come to work on a normal day, much less a holiday, ESPECIALLY when they have no real incintive (yeah, that minimum wage thing isn't a real boost for them) to show up.... IMO, Holidays are more a headache to me, personally, than anything. But I still stay in the business... imagine that...  ------------------
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Jerry Chase
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From: Margate, FL, USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 12-14-2000 09:26 AM
Paul, Christmas day can pack-em in. Some families can only take so much of the relatives that come a-visiting, and have to get out of the house. Folks that don't celebrate the holiday want something to do as well. Christmas eve usually sucks attendence-wise. Until I moved into a DM slot, I worked every Christmas. Even though one of the companies I worked for wouldn't pay time and a half for employees, while I was managing the workers always managed to find they had magically done an hour or two of extra unscheduled work that week. If you get any celebrations out of the way in the morning, Christmas can actually be an OK day to work, rather than overstuffing yourself and bemoaning the fate of your stomach. You just have to get out of the herd instinct that because everyone else is doing an all day Christmas, you have to as well. Then you have to convince your girlfriend or wife,... which is a_teeny_ bit more difficult. (Hint - hide the cast iron frying pan and put cotton in your ears before breaking the news.)
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William Hooper
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From: Mobile, AL USA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 12-15-2000 12:21 AM
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How many of you indies out there (or chains for that fact) are open for Christmas?
Theaters open for Christmas go ALL the way back. Although generally, more businesses in the US were open for Christmas for instance in the 1920's. I don't know any other way to describe this, but the Christmas season over the years in the US has undergone a sort of Mardi Gras -ization. quote:
we just rec'd a memo from the home office reminding us that we do NOT shorten schedules and that we ARE open 365 days a year, but that wanted "our employees to enjoy the holidays" and that proper schdeuling NOW would insure that
If they say "enjoy the holidays, you get no holiday", they know that they're being jerks, & they're being jerks because they enjoy it. You probably knew that already though...
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John Wilson
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From: Sydney, Australia.
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 12-15-2000 02:32 AM
Ours wants to open Christmas day and are offering 'at least double time and a half' to work it. They've put a note behind the concession stand asking those interested should put down their names. So far, there are no projectionist's names but about ten floor/management staff on the list. That should be interesting... I absolutely refuse to work either the night of Christmas Eve (so I can do the Daddy thing which I love) nor on Christmas Day because...well...it's Christmas. Surely cinemas can go dark one day a year and not go broke. Life's for living, isn't it?
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Paul Konen
Jedi Master Film Handler
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From: Frisco, TX. (North of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 12-15-2000 09:27 AM
Cinemark24th - drop last round
25th - drop first round 25 is paid 1.5x Paul.
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Jason Black
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From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 12-15-2000 03:01 PM
William, You must know corporate mindset pretty well. I take it as adding injury to insult each time they send out a memo saying "we want our employee to enjoy the holidays with their families, yada yada..." If they truly menat it, they would pay them for it. I could care less about getting any more money for the day, but the hourlies should make 1.5 AT LEAST. Oh well, we can all wish.. ------------------
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