So I've been promoted, of sorts, at my movie theatre job.Instead of slinging popcorn and serving sodas I'm taking loads of money and printing tickets at the box office.
I love it. Much more of an adult role if you ask me. Although you're cooped up in an area that has so many windows you feel like you're in a fishbowl and, god forbid, you don't like who you're working with. There's not much room to hide or do anything else. And let me tell ya, I'm suRROUNDED by know-it-alls. I can't get a word out sometimes without them correcting me. Hello...I'm HOW old?
Along with the bevy of employee hijinks come other issues that I've had to deal with in this new position. I can sum it up in two words:
CUSTOMER STUPIDITY
Examples:
A woman came to my window Saturday night and asked for a refund because she didn't like the movie she just saw. This after sitting through the whole thing.
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZTTTTTTTT! No chance lady. We don't make the movies, we just show them.
People getting pissed because I have to proof for R-rated movies. Consider it a complement that I think you look young, okay?
Bitching about the prices. I don't make 'em folks. I couldn't give you a discount if I wanted to.
People who come to the theatre and get pissed because a movie is open caption. I explain to them; there's sound and words across the bottom for the hearing impaired. Then they ask me "Why is it like that?" Someone here at my dayjob told me to tell them "I did it just because I knew you were coming and wanted to get you all in an uproar"
Okay, maybe people who aren't from Rochester don't know that one of the best colleges for deaf students is about a mile away from the theatre. Yet people still ask this??? Deal folks. Either you want to see it that way, or you don't. Don't get aggravated at me because it's that way, I have no control over it.
So theirs my complaints about customers so far. I'm sure there's more to come.
Spider-Man 3 is opening this weekend so I can only IMAGINE what I'm going to have to deal with. At least I don't have to work the 3am show. That's right...3am. Our theatre is showing Spidey for 24 hours. Midnight on Thursday until 10:15pm Friday night. Isn't that insane?
Although I'd love to see the kind of "people" who show up for that 3am show!
I bet they come dressed in their Spider Man underoos!
