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Story time: this is the tale of how I got a summer job at a movie theater out of boredom last summer with the intention of seeing as many free movies as possible...
...the Stars were out of the playoffs, my freelance schedule consisted of mostly night gigs (Rangers games for the most part) so I my days were rather wide open. So I started looking for odd jobs and ended up applying to a movie theater...
...went to the job interview and the main question they had was "Why are you even here right now?" I gave a canned answer about looking for more work and this worked well with my time. But really i only cared about free movies...
...at one point they asked me if I had any questions about the job and my only question was, "What's the policy on how many free movies an employee can see?" Then they offered me the job and I took it...
...I was 28 at the time, most of my co-workers where high schoolers or college students. None of them believed I was 28 or understood why I was wearing a wedding ring. A common game they would play when introducing me to other co-workers was "How old do you think Sean is?"....
...at one one point someone guessed 18. That was probably the lowest guess, but everyone assumed I was still a student of some type. I only worked a couple hours each week and would often read or write while working a cash register. or taking tickets...
...somehow this turned into a spot where managers and people thought I had more power. One person assumed I was a plant from corporate, seriously, and I would be asked how the theater should address certain matters when it came to dealing with customers...
...at one point there was a breakdown in the theater and I ended up telling an theater full of customers what went wrong and had to apologize on part of the company. I apparently handled it well and more people thought I was a manger or a plant...
...co-workers also quickly learned I was a half-way decent writer. So I would be asked for feedback on papers or projects they were working on in classes. One person got their highest ever grade because we storyboarded an idea while making waffle cones...
...and this whole time I really only cared about free movies. Company policy allowed me to see as many free movies as I wanted and I could bring my wife. So we essentially saw every movie that came out in the summer of 2017 for free and had free concessions half the time...
...in a typical week I would work two shifts, maybe one and see at least two or three movies, some of the more than once. Discovered Bollywood movies during this time, highly entertaining...
...basically I would come into the theater once a week, go to the calendar and tell them I couldn't work 5 or 6 days that week and they would give me the one day shift I wanted...
...but those 5 or 6 days off I would still likely end up going to see a movie. Often going in the evening where I would use my employee card and there would be some employees I never met who would ask, "You work here?" as I picked up free tickets...
...this was a movie-driven job completely. At one point we got a direct deposit check from the company and for a moment I thought my bank account was hacked, because I forgot they were paying me...
...eventually the summer started to come to a close and I had to quit since hockey season was coming around. I told them I was done working there, but they still put me on the schedule for the next 3 weeks. Basically I had to quit 3 times over email...
...in the end I worked there for 3 months and saw 35 movies with my wife for free and ended up banking a dozen future passes I was able to use after I had quit...
...that’s storytime with Sean. As proof, here is a photo I texted my wife during that time with a waffle cone on my head after I made too many waffle cones
