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Topic: Dealing with co-workers that hate you
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Richard C. Wolfe
Master Film Handler
Posts: 250
From: Northampton, PA, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 08-16-2004 01:55 AM
Andrew:
Having read your many posts, it certainly is apparent that you love this business and would like to make a career in it if possible. Usually when someone likes what he/she does, and especially when you want to advance in that field, you will work harder then those who do it just for a paycheck. Sometimes in doing that you will alienate yourself from those who don't really give a crap about their job. They look at you as an ass kisser and suckup to your superiors. If you truly want to advance in this business, don't allow those people to stand in your way. Just do the very best job you are capable of doing. You only have to impress your boss, not your co-workers. If you do indeed do an excellent job, you will leave them behind shortly anyway. You may even become their boss. I doubt that they would stick around.
I experienced the same thing once when I was young. I was working as an usher at a large downtown movie palace. I loved my job and that theatre. The manager of another movie palace up the street would often stop in to see the manager of the theatre where I worked, and obviously noticed my performance. He approached me and convinced me to come and work at his theatre.
The only reason I switched theatres was because I saw it as an opportunity to possibly advance to a higher position. I performed my duties at the new theatre the same as at the old one. I knew what to do, and I did it. No one had to tell me what to do as I had already been trained at the first theatre. One day during a matinee one of the other ushers (about 6 inches taller then me)cornered me in the rear of the auditorium, and told me that I was making the rest of the staff look bad, and that I should back off or hit the road. I know that I was trembling on the inside, but I didn't let him see that on the outside. I told him that it wasn't me that was making them look bad, but rather they... themselves, and that they could easily solve that problem by doing what was expected of them. About a week or so later when he saw that I wasn't about to change... he quit. I never had a problem with the rest of the staff after that. The manager later told me that after "Gary" left, that the rest of the staff really seemed to shape up.
Within five years of that incident, I owned the first theatre, and the manager there who had given me my first job in a theatre worked for me. By that time, the manager of the 2nd theatre, who hired me away from the first, was managing one of my theatres in another town. About ten years later I aquired the 2nd theatre as well.
Well Andrew, as you can see, you never know what the future will hold, but you can have a lot do do with the outcome of your future. As far as your co-workers... be friendly to them, be helpful, but don't belittle them or boss them around if they aren't doing their job. Remember, if they don't do their job well, all they are doing is making you look even better if you're doing yours well, and that will be noticed... by those that count.
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Bruce McGee
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1776
From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular.
Registered: Aug 1999
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posted 08-16-2004 07:54 AM
We fired a kid last week. We all thought that we were all getting along really well. The kid had picked up the way we work really fast, and was doing a good job. Suddenly he started laying out of work and when he was there, he was a turd. After the firing, we found that he was telling customers, whoever would listen, that we were all a bunch of bastards, jerks, etc. This started the first day he was not being trained. Wow.
PS: this is NOT a theatre-related job.
What an asshole. He's 24, and has a long way to go before retirement, and he is not cute enough to be kept by someone.
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Dave Williams
Wet nipple scene
Posts: 1836
From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 08-16-2004 05:05 PM
You see there is your problem. You are THE ONLY ONE who upsells. Most people hate upselling, most people hate bieng upsold. It's your job and you do it well, so people don't hold it against you, but when you do your job well, and others are there just for the job, and especially since you are the new guy, you are going to get ragged upon by coworkers. Just part of the game. Just play your cards right and do your job well. If the theater has any value at all the management will see it.
As for upselling, the title of my first book is called "DON'T TELL ME WHAT I WANT! 10 reasons that suggestive selling doesn't work and other business myths debunked"
It isn't finished yet, but plan to have the first copy to my editors for review by next february. Did you know that it takes like FOREVER to write a book? DAMN.
Ok I am off subject. Keep up the hard work, you will make it if you do that.
Ciao
Dave
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