my last shift at the cinema ever! woooo! *dances around*

no more shifts! no more serving idiots! no more uniform! wooooo!

now to start packing for the move. which is going to be hard. i suck at packing. also, it turns out that 4 of the 6 rooms at the house aren't ready to be moved into, they need painting which is happening this weekend. our contract at the flat runs out this weekend. we've got a couple of days with nowhere to live and nowhere to move our stuff to. FUN.

hopefully it'll all work out, it means moving everything into the 2 rooms that are ready and then crashing somewhere, but we'll see. i'll try and keep you posted. i won't have internet at the new place for a while, but i don't post often so i guess you won't even notice. (OH, BURRRN).

but yes! freedom! woooo!

population: me.

i have hayfever. and it's not fun. i keep sneezing and blowing my nose and ugh. my eyes, nose and throat are sore.

but! it's sunny and warm and i should try and enjoy that, right? especially as i have the day off.

I to throw her from a train, they'd call me the criminal."

blah blah blah.

you don't really want to hear me complain about working a lot (after all, it's my choice i guess) so i will update this when i have something more interesting to talk about. in the meantime, hi!

something wrong somewhere, work is expecting me to start my shift on the box office at the same time that the first film, harry potter, starts. this means that there isn't any time before the film starts to get the box office ready, and people won't be able to buy tickets. it seems a little strange to me. either the film times are wrong, or they're going to ask me to come in early. i think it's probably the latter.

i'm the only experienced permanent box office staff left now, which is a real pain. we have a whole lot of new starters, and i don't have a chance to train them all and keep the queue moving and sort everything else out at the same time. sigh. i guess i can't really do anything about it though, everyone else has left. there are other workers who come down from different departments, but it's becoming the norm that new starters are given opening shifts or closing shifts without really knowing what to do. joy.

so, i have finished all my exams at last! hurrah! i'm so glad that's over. i can enjoy having free time now! maybe i'll get things done, who can say?

here goes my last exam.

argh.

out that a lot of people wanted to see harry potter, actually.

today was probably the busiest day i've worked at the cinema, and i worked 11 hours straight. when i got there to open the box office, there were already about 30 people there waiting to buy tickets. none of the tills had been put out, the computers and printers were all off, the barriers weren't out, the tv screens showing trailers were switched off and the film times weren't showing on the screens.

i had to go around trying to get as much stuff ready as i possibly could, which wasn't everything, and then start serving customers. of course, i only served a couple before they decided to take the system offline. leaving me stood there unable to serve for about 5 minutes. which is a very long time when you're waiting there with nothing else to do.

this happened about 6 or 7 times during the day.

it usually happens once every couple of weeks.

it was ridiculous, i ended up being signed onto about 3 different tills because of people moving around and people without any clue what they were doing. but that isn't really anyone's fault i guess. it's hard when the systems can't cope. i think we did pretty well as a cinema, great spend per head and a huge attendance, so rock on. i hope this place gets more customers, it's a good cinema, it deserves them.

however, i did get through it, i got paid an extra hour (at holiday rate) for doing well, so for that one shift alone i'm getting a full 24 hours pay. that's over half my usual paycheck (we get paid every 2 weeks).

i'm working again today, and i have an exam on thursday. so i guess today is revision half-day, and tomorrow is stresspanicarghcrap day. then the exam is breakdown day.

yay!