Animator James from Tunisia. The backside of working as an animator in Tunisia. How to choose a recruitment agency

Should you trust an animator from Tunisia and is it possible to build a serious relationship with him? Hello! I returned from Tunisia a week ago. At the hotel we started communicating with the animator. A week later they kissed. Then we spent the night with him. and then spent the night in his room. He began to forbid me to go play volleyball at a nearby hotel (the level of volleyball there was higher). He forbade talking and taking pictures with other men. To be honest, it was nice when he was so jealous. It's fun and easy to be with him. I was happy. He very actively said that he loved me, wanted children, that he wanted to marry me. We will live in Russia for half a year, and in Tunisia for half a year. That I must promise that I will not forget him and will definitely come to his house. For two weeks. Then he will come to me, and then we will get married. I told him that there was no need for words and smiled. He was very angry and shouted that I should believe him. I treated it like a holiday romance. We exchanged phone numbers. I thought it would all end there. he called immediately when I arrived. and now he calls or writes every day. I don't understand why he needs this. and of course, from such attention, from the desire to believe, I suffer. I can’t understand, I don’t believe him (although I really want to). I think girls always come to the animators for the second time. Maybe this is some kind of excitement so that they will come back to you? or just the opportunity for free sex? and all the words, just not to use it once, but so that they will come to you again? or is everything serious and worth believing))?

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Ekaterina 05/29/2013 03:05

Don't waste your time!! Just read your story again!! And remember it as a passing hobby!!

Telling fairy tales about children, weddings and fairy-tale life is deception in 97% of cases!! Because Most of the guys there are from poor families, they have a great desire to leave, no matter where!! In a month he will start asking you for gifts and money, mom will get sick or something else)) All this “noodles on the ears” has not changed for 20 years at the resorts!!!

Nura 05/31/2013 02:05

Let’s say you can trust him, but the average salary of an animator is 400 dinars, and it will be very difficult to build a family life with this money without investments on your part. So think about whether you need this...

Elena 06/08/2013 11:06

Can you write the name of the animator? Because last month I had the same thing))) Or the name of the hotel.

Yulia 06/10/2013 07:06

Girls, write in which hotels these animators work. Or maybe it's one and the same. I was at Tergi Club, his name was Dia or Dido, 23 years old, cute with piercings.

Vanessa 10/15/2013 12:10

It's their business to scam girls, women and even pensioners. Everyone tells the same fairy tales about love, weddings and all that. He has 3 goals: to scam you for a visa, for money or for sex. If you are interested, read it on the Internet, there is a lot of information! There are particularly sophisticated scammers, and there are simpler ones.

I won't go into details. But I can name the last names of such animators from hotels: Minhotel and Alkantara: Tito - cheats for sex, if possible for money (small expenses). Has a wife from France. Momo (real name: Mouheb Gabous) - scams for sex, if possible for money (small expenses), possibly for a visa. Sam/Samuel (fakir of the show, real name Salim Bou Absa), is a tough scam for money, sometimes for sex, followed by a scam for money and a visa.

He is married to an Englishwoman, has several permanent foreign women, with whom he maintains long-term relationships in order to pump money out of them. Sam (works in a miniclub with children, real name: Issam Badr) - scams for money and sex Raf (break dancer, real name Mokni Thafer) - scams for money, sex and visa. Dj Fa (DJ) - sex, money These are really proven options by girls from different races, as well as correspondence with other foreigners who had contact with them.

We are ready to meet with anyone who makes contact, it doesn’t matter fat, very fat, old, very old, with children, with a husband, it doesn’t matter. Especially the fakir and the DJ do not disdain any kind of relationship, because... the main goal is money. The songs are beautiful, the explanations and arguments are very convincing. The main thing is not to give or send them money under any circumstances. This is business for them! Don't forget about it! And you will be loved there just like all the other tourists who want to believe it.

He undertakes to tell the whole truth about the animators. Who are they - sad clowns or tireless lovers? Why do they need moderate drugs? When do they even sleep? Do they really enjoy dancing the Macarena with you, or do they imagine skinning you alive? Why can they do something that other hotel workers cannot, for example, seduce the mother and daughter of the same family on a bet, and then not get fired from work? Psychologist, artist, best friend and pain in the ass - that's all he is, a great and terrible animator.

As experience shows, almost the most important requests when choosing an ideal hotel for a vacation are the presence or absence of compatriots and animation. Potential vacationers are divided in advance into two camps - lovers and haters - and ask for any hotel, as long as it “is there” or “in no case is it there”, and then they begin to list other selection criteria - pebble or sandy beach, Red Sea or Mediterranean, and so on.

Over the years, the figure of the animator has acquired legends and myths. In the tale of summer vacation this is the most famous and many-sided character: he is a fool, and a treacherous Casanova, and the best friend of children, and an unrecognized genius, and a pain in the ass who insists on going to play beach volleyball with him or dance a group dance when you want to read alone a book on a sunbed near the sea. Rarely does anyone adhere to neutrality: animators are either very loved or fiercely hated. I belong rather to the second category and as a tourist I have never been to hotels with animation, but as a hotel worker, observing clients from the outside, I begin to think that some people need such a vacation with entertainers, like therapy or even like air.

Animation can be different. In more luxurious hotels, such fun is designed only for children: while parents laze on the beach, the kids build sand castles or draw the sun and a pine tree under the watchful supervision of a couple of nannies, then they have dinner with them, play with them and return them to mom and dad in the evening. Sometimes nannies are hotel workers, then they work with clients of various nationalities, and their task is to entertain children who can be mischievous and capricious in any language unknown to them. Sometimes these are guys hired by a specific tour operator, and then they work only with kids from a certain country. Once I worked side by side with such an animator from a Slovak company. His summer was wonderful - all the tourists came in couples, without children, and he slept all day until lunch, then lay on the beach, drank Sicilian wine in incredible quantities and blessed magical land Italy.

In simpler hotels, especially those that are located tens of kilometers from any city and entertainment, there is usually a whole team of animators - for children and adults: babysitters, fitness trainers, dancers, actors, singers, DJ, costume designer and others, on who has enough imagination and improvisation of hotel administrators. In my practice, one such company even had its own magician, who in the evenings showed tourists tricks like “Remember the card! Oh, where did she go? Hurray, the card was found in a German client’s Pina Colada.” True, he did not work for long; very soon he was fired for alcoholism and “sawing” a tourist in the broom closet at the reception desk.

The work of an animator is that from early morning until late evening they have to eat with tourists, swim with them, play ball, organize “fun starts”, dance competitions, joke, flirt, perform plays in the evenings, then dance at a disco , then help the bartenders clean up, and then trudge off to the night rehearsals for tomorrow's performance. And so all summer without days off, sixteen hours a day.

Many animators I know were on moderate drugs, and only a heartless person could condemn them for this.

The task of animators is to become for you what you miss so much in everyday life: a best friend, a nanny for children, a psychologist or a lover. An experienced barker can immediately determine whether you want to dance the “dance of the little ducklings”, or don’t want to, or want to, but don’t remember the movements, or want and remember all the movements, but are waiting to be pulled out by the hand, because you are afraid of looking like an idiot, and it seemed like you had nowhere to go. Many tourists come and immediately declare that they hate these stupid mass entertainments, flatly refuse to participate in them, and generally got here by accident, but then they see that the vast majority are having fun, and no one will judge them if they shout at karaoke “Nose-nose” and play mind games like “burst your body” balloon, tied to the butt of a Norwegian tourist” (yes, this is done not only at Russian weddings) - and relax, only asking not to tag them in photos on social networks.
Most people are actually lonely, and many simply lack a group of friends with whom they could do all sorts of fun nonsense, without being distracted by boring conversations about work, children, an annoying wife and politics. And so that no one in ten years will be able to tell your colleagues or a new girlfriend how you were once dressed drunk in Turkey in a hijab and forced to imitate a belly dance. There is no need to try to find an approach to someone, put up with someone’s difficult character, persuade them to play basketball or worry that your new friend will steal your girl away from you - the animator is always cheerful, easy-going, easy to communicate, and will not joke offensively, and if he retires with the young lady you like, he will try so that neither you nor anyone else in the hotel finds out about it.

The animator’s tasks include respecting your boundaries, being delicate and not pestering you when you don’t want to communicate, and also being ready to listen to you, entertain and console you when, on the contrary, you want to. But these are precisely the qualities that we so lack in any of our neighbors. And very often - precisely in the neighbor with whom we came to the resort, expecting to spend the entire vacation, for example, at the sea, playing beach ball games and dancing at discos, and not at all in front of the TV watching football matches. Or not in front of the pool with a book. One of my acquaintances, a director of horror films, came to the sea with his wife and materials for a new film, and left with a broken heart - during his vacation, his wife realized that she could no longer stand his creative searches and snobbery, she wanted simple human joys and uncomplicated entertainment, and left him for the animator.

Vacation is an excellent opportunity to try on some new social mask and another model of behavior that is scary to try on at home, among old acquaintances and colleagues: a shy young lady can finally pluck up the courage and play at being a lady vamp, a modest young man can try to become a shirt - a guy and the soul of the company. Even if the transformation performance ends unsuccessfully, you will most likely never meet witnesses to your fiasco. This is somewhat similar to a prolonged corporate party, only after a morning hangover you will not discover that you do not remember how you danced the lezginka on the table and then vomited into the restaurant curtain, but your boss remembers it very well.

Vacationers often come to hotels with animation in the masks of haters and pretend that they ended up here by accident, then they find an outlet in the animation and try their best to do during a two-week vacation everything that they do not have time to do in a year at home, without fear of consequences: dance at a disco , get completely drunk, tell a dirty joke into a microphone, or improve your sex life. An animator, by the way, is an ideal candidate for a summer affair: unlike other vacationers, he does not have the stress that has accumulated during the cold office season, he is always cheerful, active and should lift your spirits and give you compliments. Most animators are twenty-year-old students whose health and enthusiasm allow them to work fourteen to sixteen hours a day as entertainers, and then indulge in passionate passion with the next tourist before dawn.

In every hotel there is some young man who came to this job with the specific goal of seducing as many tourists as possible of any nationality, age and physique, and he does not wait for chance, but throws himself into all troubles - to the delight of single ladies. Sometimes it turns into a competition between colleagues or even a bet. One day, two of my colleagues argued that one of them could seduce both mother and daughter in one family. She didn’t hold a candle, but the hero himself swore that he had won. By the way, about romances: I know many love stories between employees that continued after the end of the season, but not a single story about an animator with a client that did not end immediately after the announcement of boarding for the return flight. In some hotels, bosses do not approve of relationships between colleagues and threaten them with dismissals, but mostly they still turn a blind eye to it.

Each animator has approximately several thousand friends on social networks - every week a good half of those leaving home add them as friends, then tag them in hundreds of photographs with the caption “The Most best vacation! We will meet soon, friends! Quite often I see clients who go every summer to the very hotel where a certain animator or a whole team works that year, perceiving them as their party. And for the workers themselves, very often such tourists are the only friends:

There is no sadder sight than an animator with ten years of experience.

Such people usually no longer have friends, a wife, or a home as such. Their main talents are a stock of simple, flat jokes for all occasions, the ability to come up with moves in a minute for a group dance to any new song on the radio and short-term memory to remember the names and preferences of eight hundred tourists, and a week later, after the day of departures and arrivals, to forget them and remember new ones.

In any genre of art, they raise the theme of the deep melancholy of the old clown, which is hidden behind ridiculous makeup, a round red nose and stupid laughter, and in world cinema it is sometimes customary to add an infernal flair, rivers of blood and some exquisite cruelty to this image. As for the animator’s character, he only inspires Facebook statuses, although, if you pay attention, their work is approximately the same. Many guys are young theater artists, musicians or dancers who are unable to earn a decent living in their city, and for the summer they go to work as buffoons in hotels, hoping to find something more decent and more serious in the fall. And, to be honest, you still won’t earn much in such a job - the salaries of workers in this position are indecently low, but they feed them for free and dress them in colorful T-shirts and T-shirts with the hotel logo for free. I know a couple of animators who “made it big” and became stars in the Italian versions of the show “Full House and Company,” but in other cases, people who have worked in such positions for more than a couple of years have an even sadder fate.

But it is very pleasant to be friends and collaborate with such colleagues: if the client is irreconcilably angry or inconsolable, you can always turn to the animator for help. In comparison with him, in the eyes of a tourist, we are soulless office plankton, we cannot afford an extra joke to defuse the situation, and in general, our only task is to “pump money and fool our brother,” and their task, the animators, is to entertain . In general, I love animators. For me, the main disadvantage of working in hotels with animation is the same musical repertoire, selected from the most fashionable hits from the radio, children's songs and other hell, which is on repeat throughout the entire four to five months of work. Every time I hear some “Bailando”, I get a cramp, because several summer seasons I listened to it fifty times a day in a row and, horror of horrors, I still remember all the movements of the group dance, although I never had to dance it once.

As a tourist, I myself have never gone to hotels with animation, and in general, I’m not like that, no, no. Never. Haters gona hate.

If you are going to go to Egypt to work as an animator and are pursuing goals such as earning a lot of money, having fun all day long, sunbathing and swimming in the sea, while communicating with guests, then I hasten to disappoint you! Animation is work. And any job has its pros and cons.

When I decided to go work in animation, I actively scoured the Internet for any information on this topic. But alas. Very little has been written about the so-called “everyday” and psychological moments in Egyptian animation. By the way, I found a lot more information about Turkish animation. But this is true, by the way...

I see a lot of similar posts like “I’m active, I know English, I can dance, I’m athletic, I’m a pretty girl, I dream of trying my hand at animation... blah blah...” My dear girls! This is not enough! Or rather, you may not be athletic at all and don’t know English, but you must be able to communicate with people (that’s one!), be psychologically strong (that’s two!) and have an easy approach to life (this is also very important).

I'll explain. You will be taught how to carry out activities in the first week at the hotel, how to dance and participate in shows, too, after a month of communicating with the British you will already have a conversational level of English, but how to survive in a team with Arabs, Italians, and others and get money Among employers, only your personal willpower and endurance will help you! And further. You must be a bit of a psychologist, observant and physically strong person. I think if you have these qualities, then you can safely conquer Egypt. Well, or Turkey. Although they say in Egypt animation is easier))

Briefly about the animator's schedule. We started at 10 am. We made a circle near the pool and invited people to stratching. While one of us was conducting this activity, the rest of the animators were gathering a team for volleyball. After volleyball there was a watergym, and then we went to the first break (from 12:30 to 15:00). During the first break there were rehearsals (not always, of course; in recent months we have not rehearsed anything at all). At 15:00 we went out again, held activities in table tennis, volleyball, and also belly dancing. Those animators who did not conduct anything had to sit with the guests and talk. About what - these are already your problems. Oh yes, if you are talking to one guest more than an hour, then you will face a fine or very strict bosses could deprive you of a day off. Well, or punish it somehow - it all depends on your chief animator. By the way, the most normal chefs are Italians. Well, also Russians. Arab chefs are terribly annoying, they love money and don’t like to work.

So after 17:00 we had a second break. Then, whoever was on the entrance, he stood in the restaurant and invited guests to the evening show, whoever didn’t stand, he slept off after the night discos. In the evening there was a minidisco at 21:00, and the show started at 21:30. Every day it was different - but in approximately all hotels they are the same: Miss Hotel, Mister Hotel, cabarets, playbacks, etc.

After 11 pm we took people to discos. The more disco tickets you sell, the more commission you will earn. So the number of your sales depends on your guest contacta. But guest contact largely depends on you. We had an Italian on our team, she was very nice, she was good at activities, she knew languages ​​perfectly, but her guest contact was lousy. And all because she didn’t know how to communicate with people competently! After all, the animator is required to do more than just dry remarks like “Hi, How are you” and “Where are you from?” You must be a charming conversationalist, talk to the guest ONLY about him and be polite. Because we had such incidents in our team when one of the guests ran to complain to the hotel manager because one of the animators called her a “fat ass.” The animator was forced to work seven days a week. So even when tourists are really annoying (there were some who actually offered to sleep, and not in the most beautiful form), you should never “send” anyone. Even when you really want to. Apologize and go to other guests.

Regarding the salary. The Arabs have a practice that they can “forget” about your salary and not give it to you for a couple of months. They will feed you breakfast and promise to give you everything next month. All this is bullshit. If you don’t extract money from your employers yourself, then no one will simply give it to you. Therefore, yell, call, go and complain to managers - the main thing is not to be silent! Although I sincerely hope that you will be given your salary on time))

To be honest, I had a lot of negative moments throughout my entire animation season. And if it weren’t for my innate optimism, I would probably have gone down the drain from hysterics. I will say one thing - it is difficult to work with Arabs. They have a different mentality, a different culture of communication. Be tougher - especially girls. And try to keep your distance from hotel staff. Because all Arabs are gossips and the slightest smile at someone or, God forbid, an “office” romance - the next day the whole hotel will be talking about it. I went through it, but I don’t give a damn and what was said behind my back was deeply indifferent to me. The main thing is that I did my job and was not distracted by all this tinsel. I wish the same for you))

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