Post Summer Meltdown
The summer season is wrapping us at my Cinemark but it hasn't been finishing without major drama and infighting.
Our location has three managers who everyone seems to have a gripe with, one is infamous for stranding many of us without breaks for hours or straight up ignoring our breaks all together, the other never helps out and we hear her laughing with other managers in the office (also loves to give write ups for the most minor issue), and the last one gives us attitude and rarely helps. Even though i'm just an usher, it's also taken a toll on my friends in concession who would really use another body at registar to cut down the lines. This is also not compunded by the fact that when these three manage ushers, they either don't help at all or are even on their phones.
A lot of us have quit already but today's incident was the worst, we had just wrapped up a 1 1/2 hour rush of cleaning a bunch of theaters and by the time we were done, my two fellow ushers and I were exhausted (plus one of the ushers had a knee injury), so we all sat down for on the railings for not even 10 seconds when one of the three managers opened the window from the projector hall and stated, "I've seen enough, y'all are in trouble". This ended in all three of us accumulating write-ups which I really dont care about as an engineering student and Tuesday is my last day anyway, I dont plan to be back but I felt bad for my co-workers as they now feel like quitting due to manager's actions that last two weeks. My colleagues in concession have had it worse, many have multiple write ups and these three have said "we never just sit in the office and drink soda" (Kinda seems a little suspicous am I right?)
Honestly based on my co-workers messages in our co-worker instgram group chat, it seems like we're on the verge of starting a protest or strike because of how much everyone is getting written up for the smallest of things and how folks have generally felt abandoned by these managers, it feels like a meltdown.
At least the other 4 managers we have are nice and help us out a lot, if that wasn't the case, who knows what our location would be right now. D: