If you're going to the movies...

[GameMaster]

Don't ask for butter on popcorn. Butter is a privilege, not a right. It's up to me, whether you get butter or not. If I feel generous, I will say, "Would you like butter on that?"

And should I be so kind, do NOT ask for me to layer the butter. Again, it is up to me if and how butter will be applied to your popcorn. And to be quite frank, it just makes you seem like a ****ing pig when ask for the butter to be layered. And if you're overweight and asking for the above, you're just embarrassing yourself. Sorry, but it's true.

Do NOT ask for the 'fresh stuff' or the freshest popcorn. It's all fresh you ****ing, idiot pigs. You think it sits in there overnight and is reused the next day? No, I will not get you the 'fresh stuff' you ****ing moron. And just for asking that, I think I'll go out of my way to get you popcorn from the bottom of the bin. You know, the popcorn that's all broken into bits and is gathered with all the kernels. Munch on that, lieutenant *******!

And do NOT complain to me about the prices of food and/or drink items. If you can afford to shell out the money for your ticket, then you damn well have enough to blow on food. And if not, then you shouldn't be getting food. And guess what, last time I checked, there's no law that says you HAVE to shovel food into your ****ing face while you watch a movie (see: Null). How's that for a startling revelation? So quit bitching about the prices and just go home and watch reruns of Roseanne, you ****ing cheapskate.

[Professor S]

I love the non-existant work ethic the youth of today have. Have fun collecting welfare while Miguel takes you job because he's not an arrogant, self-agrandizing non-skilled laborer.

Hey Mexico, send us all the illegals you want. At least they have sense enough to appreciate the fact that someone is willing to employ them and will actually do their JOB. And yes, GM, it IS your job to give the customer butter on their popcorn, and if they ask you to layer it, you should ask them how many layers they would like, smile, and do whatever the **** they say.

Once again, its not my fault your job sucks. Out.

[DeathsHand]

Originally Posted by Professor S

I love the non-existant work ethic the youth of today have. Have fun collecting welfare while Miguel takes you job because he's not an arrogant, self-agrandizing non-skilled laborer.

Hey Mexico, send us all the illegals you want. At least they have sense enough to appreciate the fact that someone is willing to employ them and will actually do their JOB. And yes, GM, it IS your job to give the customer butter on their popcorn, and if they ask you to layer it, you should ask them how many layers they would like, smile, and do whatever the **** they say.

Once again, its not my fault your job sucks. Out.

And my posts, coming from the viewpoint of a fellow customer, get ignored... Giving off a general feel that you want everyone to bugger off and let you do things your way and let others deal with the results...

Calling other people lazy while you talk about not doing things that take only a few seconds and little to no effort to do (causing inconvenience not necessarily for the employees, but for the other folks enjoying the movie), even when you're asked nicely to do them (in the case of theater trash)...
All while ranting about Mexicans, the economy, how people should be grateful for your trash (and potentially the privilege to simply bask in the glory of your presence), and how things were back in your day...
*strokes beard*

[Perfect Stu]

This thread is a train wreck.


1) People who work in a theatre that complain when people ask for butter or fresh popcorn is an absolute joke. That's what people do...suck it up and serve them, that's what you're getting paid to do. The customer is always right, bitches.

2) I see absolutely nothing wrong with leaving an empty bag of popcorn or an empty drink cup behind after you leave the theatre. Again, there are people employed to take care of that. However, I'm the kinda person who will make the (little) effort it takes to throw out my own garbage, because it makes someone else's life a tiny bit easier. On top of that, the idea of going out of your way to make a bigger mess is ****ing ridiculous. Just remember, if you're stuck in your car after an accident and gasoline is spilling everywhere, other people would have to go out of their way to help you. They COULD just stand there, look at you and say "oh well, you can wait for the police/ambulance to get here...it's their job to help people in your situation". They COULD...but they would be ****ing *******s and deserve all the bad things life could throw at them. Extreme example? Sure. A clear, understandable parallel drawn? You betcha.

[KillerGremlin]

I worked at Jewel-Osco for a year and a half before upgrading to a decent job (intern at an engineering firm making 10 dollars an hour to sit on my ass and play solitaire and never deal with customers) and Jewel owned my ass. The customer was always right. Even if the customer clearly was not right, the customer was right. And on the rare occasion, 1 in maybe 1000 customers, the manager would have to come out and tell the customer that they were wrong. I remember one day when I was bagging: this lady who has consistently given our store problems decided that she was going to throw a gallon of milk at one of our cashiers. The cashier freaked out, naturally, and snapped on the customer and walked away. Our manager came over and APOLOGIZED to the customer in an effort to get her the f*ck out of the store. The bottom line is the customer needs to be happy, no matter how horrible, how irritating, or how stupid they are.

We all know that people are stupid, duh.

But I also knew that there were people spending an upwards of 300 dollars on groceries, and that’s business. When you drop 300 dollars on something, you deserve respect of the utmost variety. I won’t lie, I was a terrible employee. I disrespected customers, disobeyed rules, and got written up a lot. But Jewel was run by Nazis. They preached customer respect like no other. I can’t imagine the theater being any different.

Theaters are ridiculous. It’s like 8 dollars to see a movie out here. 10 dollars at AMC! And that’s not including popcorn and a drink. So, one could be spending an upward of 20 dollars for 2 hours of entertainment. If I’m spending 5 dollars or more for a bag of popcorn that costs, what, maybe 20 cents in real life, I want damn butter on it. And if I want damn butter in excess on it, I want damn butter in excess on it. If you want to complain, complain to the people who are making millions of dollars off of popcorn profit, not the customer who is asking you to make his 5 dollar popcorn taste like 5 dollar popcorn. Movie popcorn tastes good, I enjoy it, especially when you lather butter all over it. It doesn’t stop at the price though…then we have previews, previews for Coke, previews for jeans, previews for PS2 games…then we have Kerosates whoring themselves out…then we have to watch commercials about fandango…and then commercials about how we should be polite in theaters…and then we see real previews for movies, oh joy.

I have friends that have worked at the movies, they hated it. I hated working at jewel, hence the job upgrade. I understand that it’s hard work to work in a theater. But until the quality of Theaters improves in general, I don’t think it’s too much to ask for a little customer appreciation. If it’s bothering you that much start spitting in peoples drinks.


Edit: In principle, I have to side with Null and Prof S here. Although, I don't think either would urinate in a theater.....

[KillerGremlin]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[Teuthida]

I've stopped going to see movies in theaters altogether. Besides the ticket price they ruined the best part of the experience: the previews. Now I get to sit there and watch glorified commercials for blue jeans and soda for 10 minutes.

[Null]

Originally Posted by Teuthida

I've stopped going to see movies in theaters altogether. Besides the ticket price they ruined the best part of the experience: the previews. Now I get to sit there and watch glorified commercials for blue jeans and soda for 10 minutes.

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.

[KillerGremlin]

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]

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...

Originally Posted by KillerGremlin

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]

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

[KillerGremlin]

Originally Posted by Link1130

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.


* Link1130 shrugs and walks away

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.

Originally Posted by DeathsHand

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".

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.