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I have also had the pleasure of wonderful projectionists. You only get these IF and its a big IF the owners stay out of hiring people.

well said.

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Keith, down in these parts the staff doesn't get paid too much. Finding GOOD staff that CARES and is willing to work for peanuts is a rare find. This is why I think you are seeing the majority of the comments here are negative towards "staff". Most of them don't care and the money certainly is not there to make them care.

The quality control needs to be at a higher level. The management needs to take more responsibility and make sure that people get trained properly BY people that have been trained properly and have some experience. The people that just don't or won't get it should be put back out on the floor. Too often, I think people, myslef included sometimes, blame the "kids" for "film done wrong" when they were never really taught the right way of doing things.

The bad ones are usually jocks, football players. WHY YOU ASK???

Simple... if you have a kid who spends his life taking orders, and never actually THINKING for himself for one damn minute, then you get someone that absolutely will never get it, and will never do the job right unless you wait on them hand and foot like a coach.

Now the good ones I found out were the artsy fartsy ones. The ones that got into av in high school, drama class, art class, etc. Reason is that interest and follow through in these areas require a greater use of the rationalization parts of the brain. They tend to learn faster, reason better, and remember direction, rather than wait for the next play call.

That my onion, and I can cry if I want to.

The technical ones, as a few of us are, do make the best projectionist ever. But I don't like to hire them, because they tend to try to take my equipment apart when it works fine. You know, to see how it works.

Thats great for some of us, when we really need to know, so we can see what lame brained engineer caused us so much grief by thier horrible design. But thats in our spare time.

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If there is someone in your booth who is not up to speed that is your fault, not theirs.

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Oh really? I take exception to this statement. It implies that EVERYONE is equally trainable. What you are saying is that no matter WHO goes up for booth training and I train them, then it is my fault if they don't become decent projectionists. It doesn't matter if I am training a 13 year old kid, a 27 year old AV tech, or someone who has no interest in working whatsoever... it's my fault? I've had people that I've trained turn out absolutely wonderful. I've also had a few that did not turn out so well despite my best efforts. The ones who have true and genuine interest in the booth as well as a willingness to learn new things and techniques are the ones who truly work out. It really does depend on the individual. If what you say were true, then the first person chosen anytime there was an open person in the booth would automatically be the right person for the job, even if there was no thought process in the selection. You may want to reword your statement as it is incorrect.

I agree that a good head projectionist definitely helps out a lot. But sometimes even that is not enough with certain individuals. There are some who just don't belong in the booth.

1) the ability of the person being trained.

2) SALARY! How can a company expect to retain skilled employees if they are not willing to pay decent wages! This results in a chain effect....employees that do not care=bad presentation=possible decline in theater attendance?

3) I have seen all kinds of people in booths. There are those who really care but quit because of shitty wages, people who know the job and are compitent but will scam and be lazy at every given moment, people who had a hard time catching on and who tried to learn, and people who definately could not catch on and who did not even try!

Conversly, I walked out on several others. But I never walked out because of lousy wages.

But that was then....this is now.