If you're going to the movies...

Null · 10-24-2006, 09:23 AM

well thats just it, if it was that messy and you didnt have enough time, more ushers would be hired for the extra work. (honestly, not that bad of a thing for more people to have jobs)

and if it took no time and ushers were standing around less ushers would be needed to do the job. i doubt the theatre would keep more then needed employed.

its a balance issue.

Professor S · 10-24-2006, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Null

well thats just it, if it was that messy and you didnt have enough time, more ushers would be hired for the extra work. (honestly, not that bad of a thing for more people to have jobs)

and if it took no time and ushers were standing around less ushers would be needed to do the job. i doubt the theatre would keep more then needed employed.

its a balance issue.

Thank You. Link and GM can thank me for their employment whenever they feel like it. And honestly, now that I know how ingrateful ushers are for my gracious gift of leaving trash in the theater, I'm going to spit my gummi bears on the floor before I leave from now on.

Such arrogant and deluded people need to be taught a lesson... and that lesson is gummi-bear spittle. HAVE AT THEE.

And on a side note, you're theater is charging me $3.50 for those friggin' Gummi Bears... so yeah... pick my trash up. Its not being sloppy, its nonviolent protest. If you have a problem, talk to your money-grubbing concession whores. VIVA LA MOVIE REVOLUCION!!!!

Dylflon · 10-24-2006, 12:36 PM

Let's just face it guys.

Strangler and Null are messy jerks.

<3

Professor S · 10-24-2006, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Dylflon

Let's just face it guys.

Strangler and Null are messy jerks.

<3

You're welcome.

DeathsHand · 10-24-2006, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Professor S

Thank You. Link and GM can thank me for their employment whenever they feel like it. And honestly, now that I know how ingrateful ushers are for my gracious gift of leaving trash in the theater, I'm going to spit my gummi bears on the floor before I leave from now on.

Such arrogant and deluded people need to be taught a lesson... and that lesson is gummi-bear spittle. HAVE AT THEE.

And on a side note, you're theater is charging me $3.50 for those friggin' Gummi Bears... so yeah... pick my trash up. Its not being sloppy, its nonviolent protest. If you have a problem, talk to your money-grubbing concession whores. VIVA LA MOVIE REVOLUCION!!!!

I can't quite tell if you're trying to be some sort of over-the-top parody or not...

How about next time before you leave the theater you take a piss in the corner... They'd probably call in a special cleaning service to deal with that (in addition to the ushers you are keeping employed), thus employing even more people! Horah!

Null · 10-24-2006, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Dylflon

Let's just face it guys.

Strangler and Null are messy jerks.

<3

lol, well if you read, i said no food at all. i have never nor ever will eat anything in the theatre. and i dont buy any drinks at the theatre, so my pop bottles come home with me to get my deposite back.

i was just simply saying, when theres too much work for workers. more workers get hired. when theres less, less are needed.... its simply how the job system works.
i never said to leave a mess

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Originally Posted by DeathsHand

I can't quite tell if you're trying to be some sort of over-the-top parody or not...

How about next time before you leave the theater you take a piss in the corner... They'd probably call in a special cleaning service to deal with that (in addition to the ushers you are keeping employed), thus employing even more people! Horah!

actually, the special cleaning service people, it would just be another job they're called on, him pissing in the corner isnt going to get anymore of them employed.

and really it might end up getting someone who works in the theatre in trouble. certainly not anymore people employed for him pissing.

upon further thinking of it..... pissing in the corner really doesnt help anyone. thats a no no. Add it to the list. NO PISSING IN THE CORNERS!
thank you.

GameMaster · 10-24-2006, 05:29 PM

Let's just face it guys, it's people like Strangler who gave birth to the term 'going postal'. You people who get their jollies from screwing over employees time and time again don't realize that all the anger and frustration you cause is slowly building up inside the heads of young adults and teenagers who work these thankless jobs.

I used to do the same thing in high school. Everytime I went to Taco Bell with friends, I would eat 5 burritos and then spin around in circles for seven minutes. Then I would go straight to the bathroom and hurl all over the floor, not in the toilet, because it was so funny seeing an employee walk in there to find the mess that they would have to clean. Ole!

So the next time you spit gummy bears all over the floor and the following morning's headline reads, "Gummy bears send usher over the edge, 17 customers asses get capped", just remember this little thread.

DeathsHand · 10-24-2006, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Null

actually, the special cleaning service people, it would just be another job they're called on, him pissing in the corner isnt going to get anymore of them employed.

If he did it enough and got an underground movement of corner-pissers going it would! The various cleaning businesses would boom! In a good way!

Now if you'll excuse me, I just noticed something else.

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And on a side note, you're theater is charging me $3.50 for those friggin' Gummi Bears... so yeah... pick my trash up.

Complaining about the price of gummi bears while talking about how you're doing your part to employ more ushers by leaving your trash behind (despite the fact that there is a nice little announcement before the movie asking you to dispose of your trash in the proper containers, i.e. the ones that are on the way out of the theater) seems rather silly, since if everyone started leaving their trash behind in "neat piles" to an extent that they did have to hire (and pay for) more workers, is there not a fairly good chance that they'll just raise the price of those gummi bears (and the other various treats) to help cover the rising cost of running the theater?

If you neatly placed your trash on the floor during the movie's running time, the effort it takes is equal to the effort it takes to bend over from a sitting position... If you left the empty or half-empty bag of popcorn in your lap, and the drink in the holder next to you, the effort it takes to pick it up would be even less...
And chances are if you're a teenager or 20-something, neither scenario should even be defined as "effort"...
So since we have established that it takes no effort at all to carry your own trash out of the theater, is it really worth employing more ushers and boosting concession and ticket prices over? *strokes beard*

KillerGremlin · 10-25-2006, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by DeathsHand

I can't quite tell if you're trying to be some sort of over-the-top parody or not...

How about next time before you leave the theater you take a piss in the corner... They'd probably call in a special cleaning service to deal with that (in addition to the ushers you are keeping employed), thus employing even more people! Horah!

My friends have masturbated in the theater, and the amount of theater sex that has happened in the history of movie theaters is probably a decent sized number. I'm sure they've delt with worse than urine, which is sterile.

DeathsHand · 10-25-2006, 05:45 PM

When the price of gas shot up above $3.00 a gallon, did you leave the pump off the hook and drop the squeegee on the nearest section of ground that wasn't in the path of your car?

I mean they have an employee manning the station right? So many people pay with credit cards these days, what is he really doing all that time? I say make him get off his ass and work for his pay.

Perfect Stu · 10-25-2006, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by DeathsHand

When the price of gas shot up above $3.00 a gallon, did you leave the pump off the hook and drop the squeegee on the nearest section of ground that wasn't in the path of your car?

dont be ridiculous.

I leave the squeegee right in front of my back tire so I can snap the damn thing in half. If squeegees never needed to be replaced, the squeegee manufacturing businesses would be doomed. Are you going to sit there and say that you make sure that those squeegees will last for as long as possible and therefore endanger the health of squeegee manufacturer workers' families because they cant afford to feed them anymore? Shame on you.

...how do you sleep at night? HOW?!

The Germanator · 10-25-2006, 07:09 PM

I'm surprised people still buy **** at the movie theaters. Buy some gummi bears and a soda at the local Wal-Mart or Targert, sneak the damn things in, and then throw them away in the trash....Easy as that...You're spending less money, and not giving the movie theater the satisfaction of selling you a $4 soda because you just bought one for a buck and snuck it in.

Though, also, don't complain about high movie prices. Theaters barely make any money because the studios take most of it anyway to allow the bitches of the industry (the theaters) to show their precious movies. The only way they can survive and allow you to see Spiderman 3 is too ridiculously overcharge you. I still choose not to buy concessions at movies though, because it is absurd. The price of admission is enough at this point.

KillerGremlin · 10-25-2006, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by DeathsHand

When the price of gas shot up above $3.00 a gallon, did you leave the pump off the hook and drop the squeegee on the nearest section of ground that wasn't in the path of your car?

I mean they have an employee manning the station right? So many people pay with credit cards these days, what is he really doing all that time? I say make him get off his ass and work for his pay.

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.

DeathsHand · 10-25-2006, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by KillerGremlin

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

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...

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

And the keyword there is "irrational".

Ginkasa · 10-25-2006, 08:51 PM

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