Pros
The job is brainless and you get free (sort of) left over food.
Cons
The job is brainless and so are most of your captains, co workers and up. The ones with half a brain screw you like one of Maddie Silks ladies of the night. Aside from that, the work is tirelessly repetitive. Even at the pay that they offer, you’d be hard pressed to make rent there working 5-6 days a week, let alone doubles. I’ve personally seen them reuse food from events as a “special” in the cafe. You have to (for some reason), apply to see your damn paycheck stub. Why? Who knows. What I do know is that breaks are rare, even though they charge you for them whether or not you get them (notice I did not say “take”). They also charge you a daily fee for your employee meal which you can pretty much only get if you come to work an hour early or work during the day. If you ask to be taken off the meal plan you are met with all kinds of pressure, threatened that you will not get any of the “family meal”( which is actually just left over food from the event, usually well picked over) and again, more pressure to not leave the meal plan. How we you can come in and purchase a meal for 60% off, which is actually better deal than the meal plan at anytime. Captains range from nice and knowledgeable, easy to work with, to outright dictators who enjoy making you do extra work for no reason, and actually joy out of things like waiting until you sit down after a 12 hour day to talk to you, and making you stand up to do it even though the other people they are talking to around you have been sitting for 10-15 minutes and just got there. About those breaks... A lunch break is defined as 30 minutes, off the clock uninterrupted. Some captains will wait until you are sitting down eating “family meal” and talking to you co workers about whatever only to remind you that you have been sitting down for 5 minutes already , that you only have 25 minutes of break left, and then proceed to go on a long diatribe about what tasks you have to accomplish after your break is over. During any busy event, good luck finding them. You are on your own, usually while training some temp worker for the 5th time who makes as much as you do, but doesn’t have to deal with the outright BS and can leave at any time. If you enjoy S & M, people who flaunt their minuscule authority to make themselves feel better about their life choices, getting screwed out of several hours a week on your paycheck for breaks that you don’t get, by all means, contact them. When these very expensive events are paid, many clients will leave a large gratuity for the staff, which somehow magically never makes it down to staffs pockets or paychecks. They only hire you as seasonal, so that they do not have to pay you benefits, even though you are working for a company that is contracted by the city and state. More profits in their back pockets.
