Again it's been a while since I posted on this blog and for that I am sorry. However strange and ridiculous things have been happening in the world of cinema...well my cinema anyway.
In the past month 8 General Managers have left the company. All in London. All willingly. There are now 8 vacancies open for any chump foolish enough to apply for them. My boss - who looks like Shrek but without the humour - solidified my decision to leave the cinema business entirely when he called me last Thursday in response to an email I'd sent him the week before. I had been thinking of going for a while now and to perhaps try one more glimmer at hope, I naively believed that maybe the company still wanted me. I mean why wouldn't they? I've exceeded all the targets set me and trained and developed nearly four managers over the past year and a half.
Clearly I was wrong.
He told me that I should think long and hard about applying for the new positions and that if I did apply my salary wouldn't be increased. In fact I might have to take a pay decrease. I thanked him for letting me know about the information and hung up the phone shortly thereafter. I wasn't surprised, but actually hearing that you're no longer of any value to a job you really used to enjoy doing stunned me into silence......for about ten minutes and then I went to get pissed in the pub.
I have bigger fish to fry to be honest, and even if it takes me a while to escape, I'm going to try and stay content in the knowledge that I will be escaping to something better and something that reflects the value I know I have.
It's been a tough year for everyone I know and my problems are tiny compared to some of my friends and family. So instead of moaning in this blog, I have decided to keep you updated with my escape progress as well as regular accounts of the comings and goings at the cinema and what films you should be watching. My love of film remains as strong as ever! I've been applying for new jobs for about four months now and in the current climate it might take me a while to sort myself out. But I will. And hopefully keep you entertained in the interim!
Sunday, 1 August 2010
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Favourite Films
- About Schmidt - "Jeanie might be a little past her prime, but I still think she could have done a lot better!"
- Frost/Nixon - "I'm saying if the President does it, that makes it legal!"
- Ghostbusters - "You don't generally see that kind of behaviour in a house hold appliance."
- Aliens - "Game over man!"
- Terminator 2 Judgement Day - "Why do you cry?"
- Star Trek 2 The Wrath of Khan - "Aren't you dead?"
- Run Lola Run - "I fucked up Lola!"
- Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix - "I must just have missed it, but by a happy coincidence I arrived at the ministry an hour early"
- Goldeneye - "How original!"
- The Fifth Element - "Anybody else want to negotiate?"
- The Royal Tenenbaums - "Eli just ran his car into our house."
- Kill Bill - "Blonde bitch!"
- Kung Fu Hustle - "Hey fatso. How about you?"
- The Incredibles - "We look like criminals Bob! Inept criminals!"
- Spiderman - "I hunch."
- Dirty Harry - "I see a guy chasing a woman screaming, I shoot the bastard. That's my policy."
- Gran Torino - "Get off my lawn!"
- The Bourne Identity - "How can I know all of that and not know who I am?"
- Dodgeball - "If you can dodge traffic you can dodge balls!"
- The Jungle Book - "Man village? They'll ruin him. They'll make a man out of him!"
- Role Models - "Kiss are great! All their songs are about fucking!"
- Up - "So long suckers!"
- All About Eve - "Eve, Eve, Eve!"
- The Usual Suspects - "Have you ever tried to shoot the devil in the back? What if you miss?"
- Star Trek - "Space, the final frontier..."
- American Beauty - "I think your parents haven't had sex in a long time!"
- Coraline - "It's Coraline, not Caroline!"
- Gladiator - "Strength and Honour"
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