USH to the Booth
[ rakaur on Tue Dec 27 at 12:03 PM // category: eastgate, work ]
So I always used to get pissed when I was thrown into CCA every single Friday night and other people would get to do “easy shit” like USH and USH Booth. I’m going to shut up about that now.
I was USH Booth Friday night, which was dead, so it was way better than being stuck in CCA. I was also USH Booth last night, which was 350 over predictions. It was bad. I think it’s mostly because the film schedule is so wacky though. There was absolutely no break between the evening set and the late set. As soon as I started the last evening set movie the first one got out. It was frustrating. I think the only reason I was really pissed about it was because I had to janitor, and it was messy.
Booth isn’t as easy as I figured. By “booth” I mean “projection booth.” It’s fairly easy when everything works, but it’s time consuming. It takes me around three minutes to thread the film through the projector, and then another two minutes double checking everything and getting the payout platter all pretty and non-wrapped, and there’s six movies, usually all starting within ten minutes of each other. So while I’m supposed to be helping the other ushers clean theatres, I’m stuck upstairs treading, because by time I’m done threading and starting the 7:00, it’s time to start threading the 7:10. I try to get them all threaded ASAP, but of course you can’t do it until the movie is out, which is when I’m supposed to be cleaning. If there’s nothing to clean I’ll go up and thread as many as possible, but that’s usually two or three. I was lucky to get down to help CCA for five or ten minutes here and there.
When things don’t work, well, that’s another story. I had two of them mess up on me last night, both minor (non-wraps). When I started one of them the film decided to just leap off the bottom part of the projector, so it stopped itself. I had to go and violently spin the rewind platter backwards to get enough slack to rethread it in a few places, and then it was okay. Another one was my own stupid ass fault. I started the projector without turning the platter on payout, which means it just wraps instantly and gets stuck there. It sucked. It wasn’t hard to fix, but it sucked.
I was tired. It’s still better than being stuck in CCA, but I’ll never say it’s easy.
-- rakaur // 2005.12.27 @ 12:03 PM
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