I know what my first jobs gunna be :-Ptoo_money2007 wrote:
I've got one.
When I was a manager at the local movie theatre, some big movie came out and we were slammed. The concession stand had two sides and 16 registers and i was at the back helping an employee that got overwhelmed by the "I'll just go to the back where nobody is" crowd, when this 12 year old walked up. He ordered, if I remember correctly, a large popcorn, 2 medium drinks, and candy to top it all off. Funny thing is, his dad only gave him a $10 bill. Shit, a large popcorn almost costs $10 nowadays.
So, after I tell him the price (not knowing that he didn't have enough money at the time, and after getting all of his items) he presents the $10 and I tell him he needs more. He then tells me to cancel it and runs off, back to his movie.
By this time, the line I'm helping has like 13 people in it and the 6 registers in the front had 20 people in line, each. I'm helping the next customer when the kid comes back with his dad and proceed to come straight up to the counter. As I'm helping the customer, the guy says that he wants to purchase whatever his son ordered, not knowing that his son canceled the order. I tell him that I cannot get his order because his son canceled it and that he'd have to wait again in the line. He started his whole bullshit that they were there first and I should give them immediate service.
I calmly explained that I couldn't do it, because by letting them cut in line, it wouldn't be fair and I'd have to let everyone else cut in line. He throws out his cuss words over and over, but I wouldn't budge. He finally left in a rage and I laughed at him (internally).
Working at the movie theatres was the best. Here's another:
Spiderman 2 was about to come out. My theatre chain did the midnight showings, just like everyone else in the universe. Wednesday, 12:01 am comes around, 10+ people show up to watch it, but due to their small brains and not being able to understand time, they came a day early. I was doing inventory when someone started banging on the stock room door. I open it up to a mob of people yelling at me to show the movie. I tell them that the showing is at THURSDAY at 12:01 am. As in, we'd play it 2 minutes after 11:59 pm Wednesday night.
They wouldn't hear it. Apparently, Moviefone said we were playing the movie then, so we needed to. I told them we didn't even have the movie yet (but, we had 4 prints upstairs and I had seen it twice already) and they'd have to come back later to see it. They explained to me that it was my fault, and the fault of my company, that a 3rd party company that we have no control over misprinted their times and dates and that we'd have to honor it or give them passes. We didn't even use Moviefone, we used Fandango. So, Moviefone was getting their times through some other method and printing them.
I told them no passes were going to be given out and they screamed for my boss. The only other manager there at the time was another assistant. He called the GM and the GM told him to give them passes. The dumb fuck customers shut up then and left. I wish an ICBM hit their group as they walked out.
Or the time when Moviefone showed that we were playing Star Wars or LoTR, or something epic like that, at 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 am. I'm like, "What the fuck are you people talking about? We don't open until 11 am!!"
I could go on and on about stupid movie theatre customers................. really, I could.
Ever hear a girl state that your popcorn "butter topping" tastes like semen? Well, I have.
15 more years! 15 more years!