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What is with Wehrenberg theatres, you guys?
Cosmic Sombrero
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The last three times I've been at a Wehrenberg theater, there's been a handicapped guy tearing tickets. I'm curious if any of you in the Midwest have worked there and can tell me if it's always been this way, and if so, why? Is there like some kind of career agency that places them there or what?
Alternatively we can talk about their practice of building massive entertainment centers that they can never support, or how AMC theaters are always much nicer despite not having an arcade. When did movie theaters get rid of their arcades? It's so great when they have them, like finding a dollar in your coach cushions.
Alternatively we can talk about their practice of building massive entertainment centers that they can never support, or how AMC theaters are always much nicer despite not having an arcade. When did movie theaters get rid of their arcades? It's so great when they have them, like finding a dollar in your coach cushions.
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you tore up your ticket in front of him and put it in his box
so sad so sad
It's pretty difficult when the one guy is shaking a lot and it makes things awkward for everyone. The manager was twenty feet away at all times and I wanted to go over and ask him why he put the guy there if he had to watch him all the time. It was frustrating.
What theater was this?
Maybe if you live in a shantytown.
Man use your noggin.
Shantytowns don't have any insides to air condition
Now I'm wondering if all movie theaters do this in some capacity. Is there a program to reintroduce the recently crippled back into the work environment or something?
Ugh goddamnit, thinking about the genuinely mentally retarded makes me depressed as hell
It's my own personal What Is The Saddest Thing
I'm betting war wounded.
This fucker has his own goddamned seat
with his name imprinted on the back in gold!
Joke's on him, though. The front rows sucks ass.
Not to say all doormen are this way. A lot of them are really hard workers who end up cleaning out several auditoriums, bathrooms, hallways, and generally getting all of the crap thrown at them that the rest of the staff doesn't want to do. Just patrons usually only see them at the "turn off your cellphone, it's the second auditorium to the left" phase.
It's also a position where trust can be an issue.
Most of the employee scams that are pulled at a movie theater involve the doorman in some way. I've managed Carmike, Regal and Cobb before and we've had doormen go into theaters, wash out old cups and then reselling them to new customers. Since you inventory by cups/bags, they pocket that "sale," and the customer gets an iffy bio-hazard. There's also cutting a deal with the box office guy for reselling untorn tickets, misuse of free passes, etc. This is why a lot of theaters don't like having box employees tearing tickets.
That might also be why the manager didn't step in to tear when the line got long. Some corporate policies forbid a manager from tearing tickets or working box. At any rate, these sorts of policies have some managers putting the "sweet grey-haired grannies" at the tear station.
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Angry because working at a movie theater sucks.
It's a relatively menial task that someone with his limited faculties can perform and feel proud of his job well done at the end of the day. Sure he might need a bit of extra supervision, but that is probably one of the few jobs someone like him can actually do and feel like an actual member of society.
I don't see what's so awkward about it.
It's awkward because it feels like if the manager feels like he has to supervise him, it seems like he doesn't trust him with the task.
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Chances are he probably does need a little bit of extra supervision.
that is fucking depressing
My mom used to see those dudes and say "We employ the handicapped, they're fun to watch."
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Yeah it must suck to do little work and get to watch movies for free
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i'm so damn funny.
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yeah, when i was like 12
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Makes sneakin' around tricky.
it seems to depend more on the individual theater as far as quality less than the chain running it
i love the amc olive 16, but that's in part due to all the good college memories there.
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Best place to catch a movie remains a Muvico theater or the Uptown.
Oh and TDOT mentioned the stupid whispering at the beginning of each screening. Yup, definitely guilty of that too.
Oh and no handicapped guy. We have a big tittie lady.
That one is supposed to be really nice, I've never gone though.
I don't know if it's actually the closest threater or not
but I pretty much just have to go down the highway a ways to get to it so the route is easy to remember