All throughout my schooling career, I've not enjoyed Social Studies/History classes. I have little to no interest in the subject, and I find it hard to concentrate and pay attention and retain the information necessary to do well in those courses. My sister doesn't get it because she actually likes those sort of things (but I mean come on her favorite season is winter so what does that tell you about her lol). Anyway, this would typically confound my friends and classmates because even though I didn't like it and would complain about it often, that didn't mean I was bad in those classes.
I remember my 12th grade year I took regular Government rather than We The People/AP Government and a lot of my friends questioned my decision. Having multiple reasons, such as being in France for two months would make it hard to find American news articles as well as there were some people in that class I wasn't too fond of, the main reason was it was my senior year and I didn't want it to be spoiled by being in an honors class that not only did I not enjoy but didn't care about. So I took regular government, and it was seriously the easiest class in the world. But you better bet I complained about it. It was one of those classes where you're sitting in the back of the room reading and the teacher thinks they're being smart and calling on you to show how you weren't paying attention but then you bust out the right answer and the teacher hangs their mouth and you just sigh from being bored...
My favorite part about that class was when it was over and report cards came, my mom wanted to lecture me so badly about getting a C on the final. The thing was, I had such a high A from doing NOTHING in that class yet still succeeding, that the C legitimately changed nothing in my grade.
Anyway, the point of this anecdote is that I have found a similar situation in my adult life. At the movie theater, there are two main closing duties: Counting all the cash flow throughout the day and dealing with nightly paperwork, and counting our stock inventory and making sure it matches what the computer says we should have on hand. Most nights, each manager picks one of the tasks and that's what they focus on all night. If you're really good, both managers can get done relatively at the same time. However, more times than not, inventory takes longer than cash.
If I am given my choice and the other managers legitimately want me to chose, I will always choose cash. I've been doing it longer and the administrative side of me prefers working with those numbers and paperwork, and I have a pretty flawless system were everything gets done orderly and efficiently. However, there are some times where I get cornered into doing inventory, and each time I basically make it known how much I don't like doing it. I don't like feeling secluded and uninvolved and being behind the concession stand while all the other managers are in the lobby makes me feel just that.
Only here's the thing: I'm actually quite good at inventory. As in, I did it on Tuesday for the first time in over a month (and we do this nightly) and I finished BEFORE the cash manager did (which really only ever happens if someone completely messed up their cash, and that night that was not the case). However it was a Tuesday which is one of our slower days, so it might have been just a fluke. However, I also did it tonight, on a Saturday, which has the most likely of all the days for there to be gross errors in inventory. The previous night the manager who had done it spent over an hour REcounting EVERYTHING because he was so off and basically had to end the day with a loss of a great amount of product and money. I was preparing for a similar night (because typically things don't disappear and then reappear for counting) but as I entered my numbers into the computer and saw the results, everything was exactly as it should have been. Not only was my FIRST set of counts in the great range, but I was done before any of the other managers, including over an hour before cash was done.
BUT EVEN KNOWING THIS! Knowing that I have a system that works extremely well and can do it in a time efficient manner...I'll still complain about it and I'll still pick cash over inventory every time.
