Canadian scandal alert! Former Cineplex employee Tanner Zipchen was paid in Scene points

[likeanunmadebed]

Backstory for our non-Canadians: Tanner Zipchen was the host of Cineplex's pre-movie show. Ie, the ads/previews/trivia portion one sees before a movie begins. When he was hired in 2015, Cineplex paid him 52,000 Scene points (frequent movie-watcher points) a year, equating to 1,000 a points a week to be "cashed in" for a free movie. Now the tea has

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[kerkoviches]

i have 7500 scene points cus i have the scene visa/debit lmao i hardly ever use them because i have nobody to see movies with anymore

i still can't believe this story is real

[readmethesigns]

i thought this was a beaverton heading or something when you first sent me this

[jeuxdemaux]

oohhh I was actually wondering why I didn't see him anymore on the big screens. My friends and I were so used to Tanner introducing stuff. That said, that's really shitty and they need to pay him properly!

[likeanunmadebed]

I haven't been to the movies lately, but it's one big WTF that this dude was hosting and getting no money til 2018(ish?)

[ahkna]

I never have any Scene points, I use them for the free movie as soon as possible.

That sucks. It seems like it should be illegal to pay someone in their own, fake company currency.

My mom did modelling for a local mall once and got paid $50 in mall money. There were huge posters of her in bus shelters and in mall and on fliers.

[tine_marie]

.....did she model for the Dirty Duff??

[ahkna]

it was the pickering town centre

[andisprohi]

That happened to my mom in art school. Her class had a ~contest~ to design an ad for a mall restaurant. Restaurant owner said "Thanks, this is great. Will start using it ASAP! 'kay, bye." She pushed for compensation from him and only got coupons for a year of free fast food.

[quiddative]

1. That's bullshit he didn't have a salary for 3 years

2. I have 1,270 scene points; I always spend them whenever I have enough for a free movie

[partyafterparty]

Fuck Cineplex. Landmark > Cineplex

[vibeology_e]

I'm sure Landmark is also a sketchy company because they all are, but the movie going experience is so much better than Cineplex.

[likeanunmadebed]

Imagine Cinemas is pretty good - all the seats are cushy leather recliners! Cheap food prices too. I think they replaced all the Rainbow Cinemas.

[yami_no_hoshi]

Yeah I saw Star Wars (for the second time) at an imagine cinema and it was so comfy! The screen was small but it still looked good