Re: Yet ANOTHER wretched hive of scum and villainy.
So far, so good, for me. I talked with the daughter of the park's VP (she's heading up marketing to large groups, as we have a lot of company parties, social groups, and even some pretty big family reunions that book the park, in a normal year). She let slip that we are almost certainly not opening on schedule...which it seems everybody already knows, even though the park president has refused to make any public statement to the contrary. I would be really worried, except for a few factors...I'm among those who are actually on salary...that means, open or not, I'll be expected to keep showing up until I either end up getting sick and self-quarantining or there's either a county-wide or state-wide order given to stay home. It also means, in that eventuality, that I'm likely to keep collecting a paycheck, as I'm as close to indispensable as anyone in our department (I'm the only one with any idea of what's in our costume storage from beyond four years ago, I'm the one with the best knowledge of what's in our props storage, and I'm literally the only person on the park who knows where all the lighting circuits in the theater run). I've also been with the company for close to twenty years, now, and they tend to be pretty loyal to long-term employees. So I'm not too fussed about my day job. And, thus far, the movie theater has done enough business to warrant staying open (we're averaging less than ten tickets per showing...but the building is bought and paid for, all the projection equipment is paid for...overhead is pretty low, for a movie theater, and crowds like that are slow enough that a manager can handle tickets and concessions on their own.) I'm also effectively on salary there, too, and nobody else there knows my job or wants to do my job, so as long as we're open, I'm employed there. So, aside from a flood of scared commentary and angry denunciations about not being able to find toilet paper on my FB newsfeed, life hasn't changed that much for me.