Re: If you're going to the movies...
 

dont really care about that, its the same as sitting there while the other stuff displays on the screen and you talk with friends while its on. no one actually pays attention to the commercials.

what bugs me is that they changed it so that stuff starts at the time the movie is listed to start. so the movie actually starts 20min after its official 'showtime'
was better when they started playing that stuff 20min before the movie was starting.

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You just compared gas, something that is considered a necessity by most, to a form of entertainment.

Also, there were a few entertaining stories about people doing irrational things in response to the raised prices.

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So if you need something, you'll play nice, but if something's considered optional/entertainment, you support being a complete ******* instead of say, simply chosing not to give them your business? I do believe food is more of a necessity than gas, yet not everyone throws their trash away at fast food places either... Not everyone places items at the grocery store back where they got them from...

If you don't need to watch movies at the theater (and you don't), why complain about the price? You don't have to spend your money on them... And if you spend them anyways and still complain, then go back next week to spend some more money, then complain again, is that not somewhat similar to getting a crappy job and complaining, but not looking for a better job? Find something better (or maybe just cheaper) to spend your money on...

And the keyword there is "irrational".

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I would just like to know that I, the one who started the thread, was not complaining about putting butter on the popcorn or layering the butter or anything like that. While it is a little frustrating to have nearly every customer ask for fresh layered butter when I have a line going on forever, its is their right to ask for layered butter, etc.

I still do not believe, however, that they have a right to just leave their garbage laying in the aisles however they please. I still stand by my statement that an usher's job is to make a theatre pretty for the next showing so that audience doesn't have to sit in a popcorn spill, not to clean up the previous showing's garbage so that they don't have to.

Yes, an usher's job is to keep the theatre clean. But just because you know someone has to clean the restroom doesn't mean to crap on the floor and sitkc the toilet paper to the walls. That doesn't help the economy, not matter how much you delude yourself that you're doing a favor.

And I'm not complaining about someone accidentally kicking over their popcorn or a drink forgotten in the cupholder. I'm talking about nachoes where the cheese has been upended over the floor. I"m talking about entire aisles filled with popcorn. I'm talking about nasty, wet napkins stuck in the cupholder or spitcups left on the floor.

I always try to make the customer happy, so long as making the customer happy doesn't go against what the bosses tell me to do. So if a customer accidentally spills their entire tub of popcorn on the floor, I'll refill it for free and probably end up sweeping the popcorn up. If someone didn't like the taste of Redvines and want to switch it out with something else, I'll give them a different candy and take that hit to our inventory.

I know my job and I do it well. Pretty darn well. I just think sometimes I'd like a little appreciation from the people I help is all.


/me shrugs and walks away

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Don't think people don't respect and appreciate that. I like coming into a clean theater, I like getting butter on my popcorn, and I know that part time work sucks.


The theater would rather lose my business in place of me leaving my condiments on the floor?

I'm not going to lie, I do play nice when I need something. I think most people do.

I'll call you out on your food/gas comment. I'll start by suggesting you walk to the store and walk 300 dollars of groceries back. I'm going to ask that you exclude buying alcohol and meat. Or, you can walk to McDonalds. That actually might sway in your favor, since McDonalds will eventually make you fat, however the closest McDonalds from my house is about 2 miles away, and I'd rather drive.

I don't need to watch movies at the theater. I live in a day of age where I can go online and download it, sometimes the night before the movie comes out. I won't delve into this argument since there is no winner, but the battle between the industry, the prices, and the piraters is crazy. Same goes to music.

But just so you know, I DO NOT buy music. And if I do, it's usually from the band's site, or music from obscure band that doesn't get money, and coincidently doesn't charge 17 dollars for their CD.

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Yes.

Yes it is...





MWAAAA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!!!!

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I wonder who helped derail it.


HHHHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

(joking sarcasm it's all good emote goes here)

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****ing right. This is the best thread I have seen at GameTavern in ages.

First of all, Link and GM should just change their titles to janitors, not ushers or floor managers. If you seriously think people are going to change, you've got another thing coming. People pay high prices to see movies in the theatre and to eat and drink in the theatre. It is not the customers fault that you have a ****ty ass job. If you want a better job, go get some education and find a better one. Or if this is your part time job that is putting you through your educational training, just quit and find another, easier, less stressful job. And if you are looking for a less stressful job than working at a damn movie theatre, you're going to be kind of shocked that there aren't too many out there.

If you think that people are being idiots when they leave too much food on the floor, then screw them, do a half ass job at cleaning up. Keep on doing a crappy job at cleaning up, until enough customers complain, then you will get fired and have nothing to complain about. That sounds like a plan.

And if you want a "thank you" from your patrons, maybe you are just not trying hard enough Link. At all the jobs I have ever worked at, I usually busted my ass off, and had a smile on my face doing it. Loading up 20 foot stick of 4 inch pipe onto trucks in the pooring rain, you bet your ass I have a smile on my face. Why? Because it sure is a hell of a lot better than cleaning up after people like Null and Prof. S, haha.

And I am not sure how it is at your movie theatres, but usually the people that work at the ones I go to are punk kids who are working for the first time in their life. They don't know what hard work is. They might seem to think that mopping the floor is hard, until they get a real job where their actions actually mean something to the company they work for.

And, if it is so bad, rally your troop and go on strike. If you think you are in such a bad position, do something to change it!

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Well, geez. You'd think my original post was an angst filled sobfest about the horrors of working at a movie theatre if you'd just read the thread following it. It was no such thing. All it was was a list of things that I would make my day a bit better if more customers thought of those things.

I don't spend the day hating where I'm at and wishing I were anywhere else but working at some hellhole movie theatre. I actually like my job. I like movies and I like the movie theatre environment. That's why I started working at one and why I don't plan on quitting. But every job has something frustrating or annoying that comes with it. I bet while you're laughing it up at theatre workers because you get to load pipes onto trucks in the rain, you'll thinking at least a little "boy it sure is cold; golly I wish I didn't have to do this in the rain" or something like that. The way customers act sometimes makes me think on occasion "boy, I wish customers weren't such slobs or rude jerks."

And, yes, I do occasionally get thank yous, although I must admit I don't anything so prestigious or noteworthy as loading pipes onto trucks in the rain. I just don't think people recognize exactly how much of a pain it is to have to bend down every step down the aisle in order to pick up a piece of their trash enough.

And, just FYI, while the starting positions are, yes, almost minimum wage jobs that are typically filled by 16-17 year olds who barely last a month before walking out, you can advance up the ladder, and the ladder goes pretty far. While managing a theatre or group of theatres isn't exactly my dream goal, I wouldn't say its a bad way to fail at life, if you take my meaning.

So, you do your part for the economy by peeing in the corner, Mr. S. And you have fun loading those pipes onto trucks in the rain, Mr. iss. I'm going to go clean a theatre.


*BTW, I'm usually in concession, so I don't really deal with the trash much, anyway*


/me shrugs and walks away

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Do NOT ask me where the restroom is. Simply having a restroom at the movie theatre is an act of generosity on our behalf. If you cannot provide the respect and gratefulness I deserve by locating the restroom yourself, then you deserve to **** in your pants. And if I were in charge, I would deny use of the restroom to any customer who had the nerve to ask me where the restroom was.

Do NOT complain to me if a restroom is out of paper towels or toilet paper. Again, these materials are a privilege, not a right. The fact that we spend money providing these materials is an outrage in and of itself. But for customers to summon the nerve to complain when these materials are not provided by us, is reason enough alone for me to have the restrooms torn down and turned into condom dispensers. Bring your own ****ing paper towels and toilet paper you son of a bitches!

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Keep dreaming while you mop-up the piss dribbed seats in the men's room.

Re: If you're going to the movies...
 

I'm guessing your current job doesn't require that you READ. lol :p ;)

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If I walked into your theatre and said to you "Tell me how to get to the washroom" you would do exactly that, and if I told you to give me some fresh paper towel, you would do that too.

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Oh it requires me to read, it just doesn't require me to put the information together to make a response that makes any sense. :)

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I dunno... because you sure haven't read the thread very well, as i said a few times, i don't eat at all in the theater :p

so cleaning up nothing is really rather easy. lol :)