It's got to be better than working behind the snack counter. I've read some horror stories about simply sliding from one end to the other on the permanent butter-and-grease lining on the floor lest you fall and get yourself covered in shit.
My first job was the snack counter at a movie theater. Honestly, the floor wasn't that bad. But the hot dogs, my god. You probably already realize this, but you should never, EVER eat a hot dog from a movie theater.
They sat on this weird heating tray all day where they are constantly rotated, and if nobody bought them, that's okay. Because management would tell the workers to simply put them in plastic bags, and refrigerate them overnight so they could be used in the morning. This would continue until the hot dogs were either bought, or mangled beyond recognition. I always tried to throw them away when no one was looking...
They also told us to clean that heating tray thing (which was absolutely disgusting and covered in some sort of black sludge) with lemon lime soda.
It's got to be better than working behind the snack counter. I've read some horror stories about simply sliding from one end to the other on the permanent butter-and-grease lining on the floor lest you fall and get yourself covered in shit.
My first job was the snack counter at a movie theater. Honestly, the floor wasn't that bad. But the hot dogs, my god. You probably already realize this, but you should never, EVER eat a hot dog from a movie theater.
They sat on this weird heating tray all day where they are constantly rotated, and if nobody bought them, that's okay. Because management would tell the workers to simply put them in plastic bags, and refrigerate them overnight so they could be used in the morning. This would continue until the hot dogs were either bought, or mangled beyond recognition. I always tried to throw them away when no one was looking...
They also told us to clean that heating tray thing (which was absolutely disgusting and covered in some sort of black sludge) with lemon lime soda.
When I worked concession we threw those bitches out every night...or we could eat them but nobody did that.
One disgusting thing we did do is not throw the first batch of popcorn out.
I still wonder if anybody became sick from the kettle cleaner.
Oh and the mold in the carbonated water lines that feed into the soda dispensers. That was nasty.
A friend of mine who used to work in a cinema used to say the worst thing about working there was the combined smell of popcorn and coke remnants after a few hours of sitting in a plastic bag. Likened it to rotting hell
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If you want to talk about soul sucking, I've got work stories that involve cleaning up menstrual blood...
I'm not squicked out by menstrual blood. The issue is whether you as a person are fulfilled in your job. Stock options or minimum wage, antiseptic or messy, glamorous or modest, the only issue is your potential and whether it's being realized. And it's hard for me to imagine the potential of a human being topping out at tearing tickets in half.
My first 'job' when I was 11 or so years old I had to help my mom with her janitorial work, since it was a contract work and she gets paid a set amount no matter how long it took her.
Well, I was in charge of cleaning the bath rooms. And holy shit did women menstruate a lot.
My favorite part about "the future" right now is that Blu-ray has made all stores liquidate their DVD collections, resulting in a high availability of cheap, non-pirated movies. I wonder how many of these I'm going to just end up throwing in the trash someday...
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RankenphilePassersby were amazedby the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderatormod
But man, if we just legalize pot we won't need to, like, spend nearly as much on corrections, dude, thats how we'll fix the budget.
...God damn it.
The reason marijuana will never be legalized:
Aww dude, voting was yesterday? Dang, bro.
never underestimate the power of determined stoners
these are the sorts of folks that organize burningman
if it means that pot won't be criminalized, I can guarantee you'd see a line of bob marley shirts waiting to get into every polling place in the country
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I still find it funny when there's a huge line of people in line waiting to buy tickets, while 8 e-ticket terminals are right there with no one using them.
I dont get this. I mean, people, it take like 20 seconds to get your tickets using these machines. Why the fuck you're waiting in line?
Around here its a dollar extra per ticket to use the ticket terminals versus standing in line. I'll only go online if Im buying ahead of time for a big ticket movie.
If you want to talk about soul sucking, I've got work stories that involve cleaning up menstrual blood...
I'm not squicked out by menstrual blood. The issue is whether you as a person are fulfilled in your job. Stock options or minimum wage, antiseptic or messy, glamorous or modest, the only issue is your potential and whether it's being realized. And it's hard for me to imagine the potential of a human being topping out at tearing tickets in half.
Well, I was in charge of cleaning the bath rooms. And holy shit did women menstruate a lot.
Hell yes man they straight up menstruate all the time
I still find it funny when there's a huge line of people in line waiting to buy tickets, while 8 e-ticket terminals are right there with no one using them.
I dont get this. I mean, people, it take like 20 seconds to get your tickets using these machines. Why the fuck you're waiting in line?
Around here its a dollar extra per ticket to use the ticket terminals versus standing in line. I'll only go online if Im buying ahead of time for a big ticket movie.
That is some bullshit. If anything they should be charging less because they don't have to hire some under appreciative kid to do the job.
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edited December 2009
speaking of futuretech, I got to see the new 787 do its second flight ever today when I picked up Callius to bring him to the airport
that is a seriously huge fucking plane
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It's got to be better than working behind the snack counter. I've read some horror stories about simply sliding from one end to the other on the permanent butter-and-grease lining on the floor lest you fall and get yourself covered in shit.
My first job was the snack counter at a movie theater. Honestly, the floor wasn't that bad. But the hot dogs, my god. You probably already realize this, but you should never, EVER eat a hot dog from a movie theater.
They sat on this weird heating tray all day where they are constantly rotated, and if nobody bought them, that's okay. Because management would tell the workers to simply put them in plastic bags, and refrigerate them overnight so they could be used in the morning. This would continue until the hot dogs were either bought, or mangled beyond recognition. I always tried to throw them away when no one was looking...
They also told us to clean that heating tray thing (which was absolutely disgusting and covered in some sort of black sludge) with lemon lime soda.
it occurs to me that that black sludge may well have been semi-burnt residue from the lemon lime soda, mixed with the grease of the hot dogs.
I honestly just realized for the first time that these forums are completely ad-free.
There used to be ads a few years ago. I forget when they arrived and disappeared, though.
used to have google ads. people were clicking on them so frequently that google accused the site of running bots. instead of arguing, PA just said whatever and stopped running any ads at all
I got a droid [phone] the other day, the motorola one.
Turns out these things (android phones in general) are able to listen to you speak, transcribe what you just spoke into text, then translate that text into another language, and then synthesize that translation into voice. I can ask a question, and a second later have the phone ask it in Spanish, French, German, whatever.
That is fucking awesome.
C-3po just went obsolete to a tiny little cellphone
it occurs to me that that black sludge may well have been semi-burnt residue from the lemon lime soda, mixed with the grease of the hot dogs.
This is a good theory! That is very likely what happened! Either way, it resulted in a truly horrific material being produced that was smeared all over those dogs all goddamn day.
Quoth, aw man, you couldn't even get rid of the nasty dogs? I was lucky in that our managers didn't really care about inventory on them, only on the popcorn bags and such.
Whenever somebody asked for a hot dog, I would wince a bit, and suggest something else. God, seeing somebody chomp down on one of those puppies is stomach-churning
it occurs to me that that black sludge may well have been semi-burnt residue from the lemon lime soda, mixed with the grease of the hot dogs.
This is a good theory! That is very likely what happened! Either way, it resulted in a truly horrific material being produced that was smeared all over those dogs all goddamn day.
Quoth, aw man, you couldn't even get rid of the nasty dogs? I was lucky in that our managers didn't really care about inventory on them, only on the popcorn bags and such.
Whenever somebody asked for a hot dog, I would wince a bit, and suggest something else. God, seeing somebody chomp down on one of those puppies is stomach-churning
That is truly foul. When I worked at a movie theater, we only had soda and popcorn. And it was still disgusting. I can't imagine adding anything vaguely resembling meat into that mix.
Actually, that's not right. We had nachos with chili-cheese and that was completely gross and sometimes the bag would leak and there would be chili crust all over the dispenser and that was....ew. That is a job I do not miss.
that video from way back towards the beginning of the thread, with the comedian bitching about idiots taking our level of technology for granted, is pretty much spot-on.
HarrierThe Star Spangled ManRegistered Userregular
edited December 2009
So I'm apparently quite smart to just stick with candy and soda
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Quoththe RavenMiami, FL FOR REALRegistered Userregular
edited December 2009
to be fair, the cheese comes in sealed bags so there's not a lot that can be done to contaminate it
at least that's how it was at my theater
and again, usually the nacho turnover was high enough that they had to be packed fresh on a regular basis, which for us involved putting on gloves and stuffing handfuls of nachos into those little plastic containers
BusterKNegativity is Boring Cynicism is Cowardice Registered Userregular
edited December 2009
The nachos at the AMC's I go to are packaged Tostito's and packaged cheese.
Also the hot dogs are Oscar Meyer and at least look like they're turned over regularly
The Arclight though man,
They have gourmet shit
Smoked sausages with watermelon BBQ sauce
That stuff is delicious
Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
edited December 2009
I'm excited for the prospect of private corporations handling the routine resupply and transport missions to the ISS for NASA so that NASA can do the cool stuff.
I'm excited for the prospect of private corporations handling the routine resupply and transport missions to the ISS for NASA so that NASA can do the cool stuff.
Like how Oscar Meyer and Tostitos provide the food at the movie theater so they can focus on showing movies
Also speaking of movie theaters I went into a bathroom at one with automatic flush, automatic soap dispenser, automatic faucet, and automatic hand towel dispenser.
Also speaking of movie theaters I went into a bathroom at one with automatic flush, automatic soap dispenser, automatic faucet, and automatic hand towel dispenser.
I felt like I was in star trek, it was so cool
All the one's here are like that
And thank goodness I get so grossed out in filthy bathrooms
Also I only buy popcorn and that's because my wife likes it
It's not really a big deal to bring in our own candy and drinks
In the past though I've brought in; pretzels, submarine sandwiches, milkshakes, tacos and hamburgers
I'm excited for the prospect of private corporations handling the routine resupply and transport missions to the ISS for NASA so that NASA can do the cool stuff.
Like how Oscar Meyer and Tostitos provide the food at the movie theater so they can focus on showing movies
Also speaking of movie theaters I went into a bathroom at one with automatic flush, automatic soap dispenser, automatic faucet, and automatic hand towel dispenser.
I felt like I was in star trek, it was so cool
All the one's here are like that
And thank goodness I get so grossed out in filthy bathrooms
Also I only buy popcorn and that's because my wife likes it
It's not really a big deal to bring in our own candy and drinks
In the past though I've brought in; pretzels, submarine sandwiches, milkshakes, tacos and hamburgers
My friends and I had just ate at the outback steakhouse right next to a Lowe's Theater, and ordered a full helping of buffalo wings for the movies.
We walked in, sat down, and as soon as the styrafoam seal was broken, the movie theater smelled like a goddamned kitchen. EVERYONE could smell that shit.
But it was good.
And about technology in bathrooms, UNH has flushless urinals, i'm not talkin about motion sensor ones, they use lighter than piss liquid to push the piss down into the drain, reusing the liquid over and over with no problems.Also we have these hand dryers that dry your hands instantly.
As in there are two openings, you stick your hands down in deep, wait 3 seconds, and pull them out, dry as a packaged napkin.
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My first job was the snack counter at a movie theater. Honestly, the floor wasn't that bad. But the hot dogs, my god. You probably already realize this, but you should never, EVER eat a hot dog from a movie theater.
They sat on this weird heating tray all day where they are constantly rotated, and if nobody bought them, that's okay. Because management would tell the workers to simply put them in plastic bags, and refrigerate them overnight so they could be used in the morning. This would continue until the hot dogs were either bought, or mangled beyond recognition. I always tried to throw them away when no one was looking...
They also told us to clean that heating tray thing (which was absolutely disgusting and covered in some sort of black sludge) with lemon lime soda.
When I worked concession we threw those bitches out every night...or we could eat them but nobody did that.
One disgusting thing we did do is not throw the first batch of popcorn out.
I still wonder if anybody became sick from the kettle cleaner.
Oh and the mold in the carbonated water lines that feed into the soda dispensers. That was nasty.
I would get the most terrible headaches when I had to use it for cleaning those machines.
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My first 'job' when I was 11 or so years old I had to help my mom with her janitorial work, since it was a contract work and she gets paid a set amount no matter how long it took her.
Well, I was in charge of cleaning the bath rooms. And holy shit did women menstruate a lot.
never underestimate the power of determined stoners
these are the sorts of folks that organize burningman
if it means that pot won't be criminalized, I can guarantee you'd see a line of bob marley shirts waiting to get into every polling place in the country
Around here its a dollar extra per ticket to use the ticket terminals versus standing in line. I'll only go online if Im buying ahead of time for a big ticket movie.
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That is some bullshit. If anything they should be charging less because they don't have to hire some under appreciative kid to do the job.
that is a seriously huge fucking plane
it occurs to me that that black sludge may well have been semi-burnt residue from the lemon lime soda, mixed with the grease of the hot dogs.
used to have google ads. people were clicking on them so frequently that google accused the site of running bots. instead of arguing, PA just said whatever and stopped running any ads at all
I just got dollar signs in my eyes at the thought of people coming to the site I work for and mindlessly refreshing pages all day long.
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our managers would count the hot dogs and if any were missing you would get in trouble
inventory control baby
also we used to clean the grills with degreaser and i am sure that gave the meat a special flavor
in conclusion for the love of god don't eat those hot dogs
oh thank god I'm not the only one to think of this
This is a good theory! That is very likely what happened! Either way, it resulted in a truly horrific material being produced that was smeared all over those dogs all goddamn day.
Quoth, aw man, you couldn't even get rid of the nasty dogs? I was lucky in that our managers didn't really care about inventory on them, only on the popcorn bags and such.
Whenever somebody asked for a hot dog, I would wince a bit, and suggest something else. God, seeing somebody chomp down on one of those puppies is stomach-churning
That is truly foul. When I worked at a movie theater, we only had soda and popcorn. And it was still disgusting. I can't imagine adding anything vaguely resembling meat into that mix.
Actually, that's not right. We had nachos with chili-cheese and that was completely gross and sometimes the bag would leak and there would be chili crust all over the dispenser and that was....ew. That is a job I do not miss.
you act like you wouldn't eat a two day old burrito from the gas station that you found on your car floorboard
it was pretty much made every five minutes, contrary to people's bizarre belief that only the current batch is "fresh"
I get them every time.
With cheese.
On the side.
And sneak in like a liter-a-cola. (for two people)
The only thing older than the hot dogs is that "cheese" dip.
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at least that's how it was at my theater
and again, usually the nacho turnover was high enough that they had to be packed fresh on a regular basis, which for us involved putting on gloves and stuffing handfuls of nachos into those little plastic containers
Actually I'm pretty sure that there's not much that can be done to contaminate it because life is unable to sustain itself on the dip.
It never gets mold or bacteria in it because they can't survive that preservative wasteland..
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Also the hot dogs are Oscar Meyer and at least look like they're turned over regularly
The Arclight though man,
They have gourmet shit
Smoked sausages with watermelon BBQ sauce
That stuff is delicious
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totally different approach it would seem
Like how Oscar Meyer and Tostitos provide the food at the movie theater so they can focus on showing movies
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I felt like I was in star trek, it was so cool
Becuase that shit is expensive
All the one's here are like that
And thank goodness I get so grossed out in filthy bathrooms
Also I only buy popcorn and that's because my wife likes it
It's not really a big deal to bring in our own candy and drinks
In the past though I've brought in; pretzels, submarine sandwiches, milkshakes, tacos and hamburgers
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i don't understand :<
i just read about this in the new popular science
My friends and I had just ate at the outback steakhouse right next to a Lowe's Theater, and ordered a full helping of buffalo wings for the movies.
We walked in, sat down, and as soon as the styrafoam seal was broken, the movie theater smelled like a goddamned kitchen. EVERYONE could smell that shit.
But it was good.
And about technology in bathrooms, UNH has flushless urinals, i'm not talkin about motion sensor ones, they use lighter than piss liquid to push the piss down into the drain, reusing the liquid over and over with no problems.Also we have these hand dryers that dry your hands instantly.
As in there are two openings, you stick your hands down in deep, wait 3 seconds, and pull them out, dry as a packaged napkin.