Scientology Movie Theatre

Dear “Scientologists running a movie theatre”,

I understand we are in Los Angeles, and running these establishments make us seem like a part of this soul sucking industry. However, Let me remind you the people working for us are children who just want to see movies for free since they are now a luxury for the upper class.

When you want me to talk to a sixteen year old about our mission and philosophy, while using terms like the “four quadrants” and “personal excellence”, they look at me like I’m a tool. Which is appropriate because I feel like one. When I say out loud the term “theatre vision” to explain to some kid to sweep up some spilled popcorn in the lobby, I throw up in my mouth a little bit each time.

Listen, I took this job because I wanted the benefits for my friends and myself. We love peanut M & M’s, and getting them for five dollars instead of ten when I go see the latest installment in the Transformers series seems like a really big deal to me. Learning an entire new language to talk to teenagers who could really give a crap about what I have to say is not.

I should have known when you made me write “reflections” after each shift in my training period, this was so not going to work out. Especially when I was told I needed to use more of the terminology we surround ourselves in, instead of Jaws references (which I feel was a really great reflection by the way).

Good luck in your development of the next generation of pod people. Thank you from my friends for all the free movies they saw while I pretended to be the Alien spawn of Tom and Katie, unfortunately I am going to need to move on with my “personal excellence” to a more normal demeaning retail job, where at least I don’t need to communicate with people as if the spaceship is coming for us soon.

Sincerely,

Maggie