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Ugh, today.
Yesterday was the awesome of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and that was definitely of the good. Today was... not as awesome.
The kickoff to the morning was rushing around to get dressed and ready for work. I could have sworn I set my alarm clock last night, yet I drifted awake in the early hours to see what time it was... and saw 6:30am blinking back at me. Given that this is generally the time I'm finishing getting my was paint put on and grabbing some hot tea for Yami to drink on the road, it was a bit panic-inducing. I wound up grabbing the dry shampoo, giving myself artfully messy bedhead as the 'do is still too short to pull into any kind of ponytail and I do not have an official Movie Tavern hat to wear on Hair Ain't Workin' days, and throwing on my uniform in order to get us out the door at the usual time.
And somehow, we still managed to get to Roswell with time to spare for a Panera Bread run.
I didn't actually mention it in yesterday's post, but work was not too awesome in some ways but kick-ass in others. Our third server for the day - being our third server until around 2:30 in the afternoon - never bothered to show up after calling in to say she was going to be late, so me and Huey wound up splitting 11 theaters between the pair of us... and everyone was wandering to my end of the building. So yeah, heavy tips from people, mixed with some grumps who were pissy to not get individualized every-second attention, a kitchen staffer who thinks that two people should be able to take orders from 20+ guests while at the exact same second delivering food for another 10+ bitching at both of us with Judgement Face, and no runners on duty made for what was obviously a Kattan too tired to realize she didn't set her alarm clock.
This morning, however, was better. Rather than two servers they scheduled five of us to open for four breakfast films: Mr. Peabody and Sherman which I worked all day today, Muppets Most Wanted, Noah, and Captain America. Huey was running a bit late, so Greg took over Muppets for him - which worked out because he was supposed to have Noah and nobody showed for it, while Eric and Avery were in Cap. And seriously, five bodies in the building when the 10 o'clock hour shows start seating is the best goddamned thing in the world! I actually had time to spend with my few tables today, and I enjoy my tasks better when I can be in the theater and not worry too much about my other three theaters where I know lights are on. I mentioned working Peabody for three showings, but I also worked a 10:30 showing of Cap with Eric and then a 2:00 showing of Non-Stop alone.
The tips weren't as high today, but I chalk that up mainly to (1) not working the entire west side of the theater by myself and (2) not having quite as many tables. Yesterday I wound up ending the day with seventeen total tables for the day; today I walked out having worked twelve overall. But apparently I'm making the big bucks for the company, as I pulled in nearly $450 in sales for those tables.
Anyways, I'm probably gonna wander off to bed here in a little while and check my alarm for the fourth time to make sure it's actually on. I have one more opening shift this week then a Sunday afternoon, a Monday morning, and a Tuesday afternoon followed by two days off. So I'm gonna cut this off here and say my goodnights.
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Yesterday was the awesome of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and that was definitely of the good. Today was... not as awesome.
The kickoff to the morning was rushing around to get dressed and ready for work. I could have sworn I set my alarm clock last night, yet I drifted awake in the early hours to see what time it was... and saw 6:30am blinking back at me. Given that this is generally the time I'm finishing getting my was paint put on and grabbing some hot tea for Yami to drink on the road, it was a bit panic-inducing. I wound up grabbing the dry shampoo, giving myself artfully messy bedhead as the 'do is still too short to pull into any kind of ponytail and I do not have an official Movie Tavern hat to wear on Hair Ain't Workin' days, and throwing on my uniform in order to get us out the door at the usual time.
And somehow, we still managed to get to Roswell with time to spare for a Panera Bread run.
I didn't actually mention it in yesterday's post, but work was not too awesome in some ways but kick-ass in others. Our third server for the day - being our third server until around 2:30 in the afternoon - never bothered to show up after calling in to say she was going to be late, so me and Huey wound up splitting 11 theaters between the pair of us... and everyone was wandering to my end of the building. So yeah, heavy tips from people, mixed with some grumps who were pissy to not get individualized every-second attention, a kitchen staffer who thinks that two people should be able to take orders from 20+ guests while at the exact same second delivering food for another 10+ bitching at both of us with Judgement Face, and no runners on duty made for what was obviously a Kattan too tired to realize she didn't set her alarm clock.
This morning, however, was better. Rather than two servers they scheduled five of us to open for four breakfast films: Mr. Peabody and Sherman which I worked all day today, Muppets Most Wanted, Noah, and Captain America. Huey was running a bit late, so Greg took over Muppets for him - which worked out because he was supposed to have Noah and nobody showed for it, while Eric and Avery were in Cap. And seriously, five bodies in the building when the 10 o'clock hour shows start seating is the best goddamned thing in the world! I actually had time to spend with my few tables today, and I enjoy my tasks better when I can be in the theater and not worry too much about my other three theaters where I know lights are on. I mentioned working Peabody for three showings, but I also worked a 10:30 showing of Cap with Eric and then a 2:00 showing of Non-Stop alone.
The tips weren't as high today, but I chalk that up mainly to (1) not working the entire west side of the theater by myself and (2) not having quite as many tables. Yesterday I wound up ending the day with seventeen total tables for the day; today I walked out having worked twelve overall. But apparently I'm making the big bucks for the company, as I pulled in nearly $450 in sales for those tables.
Anyways, I'm probably gonna wander off to bed here in a little while and check my alarm for the fourth time to make sure it's actually on. I have one more opening shift this week then a Sunday afternoon, a Monday morning, and a Tuesday afternoon followed by two days off. So I'm gonna cut this off here and say my goodnights.
Crossposted from DreamWidth. Click here to see other replies to this post.