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baka-monarch · 1 year ago

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My boss: you work as an usher and have to clean disgusting theaters multiple times a day and deal with people

Me: okay, will I get paid well?

Boss: no, you'll be paid below the livable wage and have the lowest paycheck out of all the positions you can have here

Me: will I ever get a raise?

Boss: no

Me: do I at least get both a 30 and a 15 minute breaks during my shifts since they're all over 8 hours?

Boss: no, you'll always have a 30 but if we're busy we'll need you to not take a fifteen

Boss: also on weekends you'll have to stay an hour longer than normal

Me: am I guaranteed to always get my fifteen on those days?

Boss: no

Me: is there any way to get paid more?

Boss: yes, training to work in a different position so you can work in 2 positions at once, but only managers can decide if you can get double trained

Me: okay.... At least I only work part time so hopefully I won't get too tired when summer comes

Boss: this summer we're having early very cheap movies so we need you to come in an hour early for every shift

Me: will I get paid any more for this at least?

Boss: no

And like- I feel ripped off-

#rambles #busy days with large crowds cause me to have a panick attack and cry by the end of my shift whenever that happens #and now they're having me come in early and consistently deal with a huge crowd #and i get paid barely anything #i get we're technically a 'locally owned' theater #but we're also the only theater within a mile radius #and we get the same amount of customers as the name brand theater i used to work at #like #literally concessions get's paid well over $25 bucks an hour #and they only have like 5 people trained in concessions and won't let anyone else in #there's like 20 ushers and we're all paid under $10 an hour and treated like shit daily #like 7 out of 9 shifts i get covered in trash juice from being the one to deal with the trash #I'm getting mistreated by customers #I'm having anxiety attacks #I'm cleaning 9 giant theaters multiple times a day #I'm moving boxes #I'm helping everyone else at their NON-USHER stations #because they schedule a lot of ushers #so when theaters aren't letting out to make sure there's not a giant group around the stand #they'll send us off to do other people's jobs but it won't be considered as us doing that job so we aren't paid for being “#'double trained' even though we all lnow how to part food and how to deal with cups and run the cash register and stuff #because of how often our coworkers walk away from their stations #us ushers are paid the least #but like #we're the most important ones there methinks (since we clean everything and help with everything else as well)#why are the people who microwave food paid more than the people who clean 9 theaters over 12 times a day????

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