As a twenty year old college student, I get around from job to job, looking for better opportunities to pay for various odds and ends. When you get around as often as I have, you tend to form criticism about the way a company carries themselves. You start looking at the location of your job, the employment size, and the age range of your supervisors.
My job being at the AMC palace theater by far has to be one of the worse jobs worked so far. The palace theater, being placed near a ghetto neighborhood, brings in some questionable clientele. Half the guests with pants sagging half way down their legs, sentences that take five to ten minutes to complete, and colorful vocabulary when asked to follow basic policy enforced both by state and company. Now I worked at a nice uniform shop with bars on its windows, and store layout cluttered to the brim of uniforms, but the guests act respectively. Working at the AMC actually got to the point where you pretty much expect guests to curse you out for doing your job. The next annoyance is not so much the guests, but the employees as well.
Now every summer, and start of a school year, AMC tends to allow in a wave a new employees to the point where some have to go a week or two with out work. Not only do they like to over hire, but they also like to hire staff at the age of sixteen. When you been working with AMC for a while, it starts becoming a pain dealing with a staff full of children, who, sadly, never get properly trained. This causing trouble for those who have been with the company for a good couple of years to pick up the slack. A horrible instance is when the brilliant minds of the supervisors thought it would be productive to put new hires and one old hire on a high traffic day to get the new hires up to speed. Being from job to job, I completely understand a company having a high traffic of new hires to help cover some slack when needed, especially since I just got back from the Disney College program. The only problem is lack of training to the employees. Whether it was Walt Disney World or Johnson's Uniform shop, the one thing that was always certain was the employees have to be trained before they hit the floor. Finally what has to be as the top annoyance are the supervisors.
Unfortunately the supervisors are children. The age range of supervisors usually range anywhere from twenty-one to twenty-five. Some of the supervisors got their positions because they were either the only one who applied for the position or the oldest among the workers at the time, and because some of them were not able to work the grunt work, allowed the power to go to their head. This leaving workers who been on the floor who have been working hard and to their best since day one of employment dealing with lazy, disrespectful power crazed children who believe they don't have to lift a finger because they have slightly more responsibility.
My job being at the AMC palace theater by far has to be one of the worse jobs worked so far. The palace theater, being placed near a ghetto neighborhood, brings in some questionable clientele. Half the guests with pants sagging half way down their legs, sentences that take five to ten minutes to complete, and colorful vocabulary when asked to follow basic policy enforced both by state and company. Now I worked at a nice uniform shop with bars on its windows, and store layout cluttered to the brim of uniforms, but the guests act respectively. Working at the AMC actually got to the point where you pretty much expect guests to curse you out for doing your job. The next annoyance is not so much the guests, but the employees as well.
Now every summer, and start of a school year, AMC tends to allow in a wave a new employees to the point where some have to go a week or two with out work. Not only do they like to over hire, but they also like to hire staff at the age of sixteen. When you been working with AMC for a while, it starts becoming a pain dealing with a staff full of children, who, sadly, never get properly trained. This causing trouble for those who have been with the company for a good couple of years to pick up the slack. A horrible instance is when the brilliant minds of the supervisors thought it would be productive to put new hires and one old hire on a high traffic day to get the new hires up to speed. Being from job to job, I completely understand a company having a high traffic of new hires to help cover some slack when needed, especially since I just got back from the Disney College program. The only problem is lack of training to the employees. Whether it was Walt Disney World or Johnson's Uniform shop, the one thing that was always certain was the employees have to be trained before they hit the floor. Finally what has to be as the top annoyance are the supervisors.
Unfortunately the supervisors are children. The age range of supervisors usually range anywhere from twenty-one to twenty-five. Some of the supervisors got their positions because they were either the only one who applied for the position or the oldest among the workers at the time, and because some of them were not able to work the grunt work, allowed the power to go to their head. This leaving workers who been on the floor who have been working hard and to their best since day one of employment dealing with lazy, disrespectful power crazed children who believe they don't have to lift a finger because they have slightly more responsibility.
