here is mine

where i work now i am employed by an audio visual company to run the booth at a theater.

The problems:
i was originally offered 12 an hr. by the owner of the theater. The a\v\ company said "all that we are budgeted for is to pay you 10" so iwas stupid and agreed. well twa recently that the other 2 dollars an hour was being charged to the theater instead of me. so the owner had always thought that i was getting 12 when i was really getting ten. i was enraged and so was he. they siad that they would look into it. does anybody have any suggestions for me?

do projectionists ever get the respect they desrve? i guess not.

two it is a 7-plex where everything is manually run because the a\v people ripped out the existing automation and is trying to currently put it into an amx unit, but i seriously dont think they know how. although they say they do, it would have been done over a month ago when the theater opened.

the general manager thinks he can own me although i dont work for him.

it seems that it is our fault and we get yelled at if stuff on the a\v side is not correct or god forbid we have to start a movie at the same time when credits go up in another auditorium

"how come the lights are not up, turn them on NOW!!!" no we dont have starts at the same time.

Ethan,

If that's all he has to complain to you about, I think he should thank the good Lordy that you are there and stop bitching to you about trivialities.

Of course, I am assuming he means 'there' to be in the bin or on the table, not wrapped up inside a print.

If the owner offered you $12hr, and the AV company only offered $10hr, why did you stay with them? I guessing the AV company had some other advantage you thought loosing $2hr was worth.

on the issue of my payroll.

well, i was offered by the owner of the theater 12 an hr. the a\v company said that all they could pay me was 10 hr. there was a contract between the theater and the a\v company to pay me 12 an hr. i did not know this till recently. if they wanted to make a profit off of me maybe they should of charged a little bit more to the owner? Illegally they are scheming my 2 dollars. The owner was not aware of this till i told him how much my rate is right now. we were both enraged.

then again question i ask is this,
who in their right minds hires an a\v company to hire their projectionists for them?
especially if the a\v company has no idea what the power button on the lamphouse does.

they are now considering the thought of putting me on a salary? has that been heard of? A proj. on salary. I guess i would not mind as long as i am making a little above the average amount as to what i am supppose to be making. the only difference that there is suppose to be for me between working here and the theater is this. i am under the a\v\ payroll which the oewner pays for each hour that i work here it just a different check, and i have a\v benefits.

if you found out that your being ripped off from what are you are contracted by the theater to being payed how would you feel?

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I haven't called in sick for a couple of years, but it's nice to know that my income would be stable if I had to.

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And you can bet if you DO get hit by a bus, the company will do everything in its power to find a way AROUND paying you, that much you can bank on.

Employees ARE worked 70-80 hrs a week or more on salary, because when an outfit gets you in such an arrangement, they OWN you. Get those hours stipulated, in writing, BEFORE entering into an agreement.

Perfect example: my brother drives a truck. He makes nearly $100,000 a year, BUT (and here's the catch) he's gone most of the time, sleeps here and there whenever he can catch 20 minutes or so, and works enough hours that it comes out to little better than MINIMUM WAGE for the time he's investing. Further, he has no time to enjoy the money he makes, because he's gone all the time, driving the stinkin' truck!

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Better Projection Pays!

i am not trying to make a fuss or anything really i am not and i do apologize if it seems this way.

but there was a contract from the a\v company and the theater to pay me 12 an hr. not 10an hr. that is what makes it wrong if they wanted to make a profit then they should charge the theater 14 an hr instead of stealing what in the contract is stated to be given to me.

Laws vary from state to state, but usually as an hourly employee, you should get overtime pay for working over 8 hours in a day and over 40 hours in a week. Where I am, there are laws that protect an hourly employee more than a salaried employee.

So, there are goods and bads either way. But, I still don't see anything illegal. Although, if I understand things correctly, that AV company may have lied to you to get you to work cheaper. Which is a crappy thing, no doubt, but not illegal.

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I don't have the specifics in front of me, but there is criteria on what makes a certain employee "EXEMPT" or "NON-EXEMPT" from the labor laws. If your situation made you NON-EXEMPT in ANY of the areas... then you were still eligible for overtime and the whole enchilada.

I know that I am exempt because I supervise more than 10 other employees. I am also exempt because I can make decisions that affect the rest of the company. I believe another is that I spend more than 50% of my time SUPERVISING people; were I to be spending more than 50% of my time DOING what it is I was supervising, then I would be non-exempt.