What happened to the Christmas holiday this past year? My last post was Dec 3rd. On Dec 9th I was offered the job of General Manager at Theatres of Georgetown, under the new ownership. WOW, what a day! I walk into the theatre for the first time in over 2 years, I was home. My mind was racing, I was going to an interview with someone I had never seen or talked to except to say yes I can be there at that time. As I entered the theatre, an alarm was going off. I knew exactly what it was and when Mr. Roaden(Scott) ask me if I knew, I walked him over and pushed the button and stopped the alarm. Took a min or two to explain what the problem was and Scott said, Ok there is a point in your favor.... I smiled and felt a little more at ease. After talking with Scott for less than 5 minutes, he ask, "What would it take to get you here?" We agreed on an amount, the date I could start and the race was off......
That night I turned in my resignation at my current position as Assistant Manager at Regal and started working out my 2 week notice. For 2 weeks, if I was not at Regal, I was at Theatres of Georgetown, trying to help get ready to open on Dec. 18th, YES I said less than 2 weeks we planned to open. There was so much work to do. The booth equipment was in terrible shape and the theatre itself needed so much cleaning and repair and I don't even like to think about the concession area and how not clean it was, it makes me cry.
After 2 weeks of cleaning and fixing and hiring the open date was here. It was 30 mins before we were to open, no money in the register, not all the stock in, and they had just finished putting on a new popcorn kettle. We had not had time to train the staff, luckily 1/2 the staff was my old staff, so they help with on the job training the others. The system we were using was an excel program, my husband wrote for us to use. (He spend over a week on that program, no pay, not promise of pay, just because he loves me and wanted to help me. If your spouse will do something like that for you, hang on to them, that is a love worth more than all the money on the face of this earth.)
Anyway, with all the challenges we had that night to get things going, we opened only 5 mins late and the people were so understanding and waited as I put the money in the registers and others were still stocking in items. It was a wonderful night, we had not done a big grand opening, as not everything was truly ready, but we had a good crowd and it was enough for the staff and registers we had. Shortly after that during the holiday we were slammed! It was so much work, but so much fun. I was finally home, where I belonged- manager of Theatres of Georgetown! That was my Christmas gift.
