Music: The Tea Party - Heaven Coming Down
Mood: Tired... really really tired...
Today I mostly hung with Cory. We went out and ate Chinese food with my mom and little sister Emily. Then we stopped by a used bookstore and I bought the book Heart Of Darkness By Joseph Conrad... cause that book friggin rules...
After Cory and I went to the beach then I had to go to work. My mom drove Cory home while I was at work. Yay the lovely Empire Theatres Studio 5...
I actually kinda like my job... well... not like but I can stand it. It's not so bad, just alot of heavy lifting, it's killing my back, and working around really hot things.
Anyways yeah I work on concession for now. I give people popcorn, pop, slushes and candy... I now hate popcorn and I stopped drinking pop years ago. I feel so fake at work... I have to ask for evey combo if they want their drinks up-sized, and I have to ask if they want Coke for their drink. I feel like a piece of advertisement for over priced large sugary pop and Coke. You gotta say "do you want coke to drink" first cause Coke sponsors the movie theatre. That is against everything I believe in, but I bite my tongue and ask them that same stupid question. You also have to say "Enjoy your Film" after you give the food away... well your suppose to but hardly anyone does. I only say it when I mean it. So every person that actually gets a "Enjoy your Film" out of me I'm actually not being fake, I hope they do. But it's jobs like that that make you start feeling like a robot on an assembly line.
- Get the order
- Punch it into the cash register
- Get the pop
- Press subtotal
- Get the popcorn and other things, give to the people
- Take the cash, give change
- Fill the pop up to the top give them the pop
- Next person....
It's the same, you get so into the swing of things it just files by.
Tonight I even got the pleasure of dealing with a angry customer.... well I didn't really deal.. but here is what happened... Concession closes half an hour after the last movie of the night starts, so we cash out and the manager takes all the cash and counts it and puts the bills in the safe and yada.. anyways we empty the popcorm machine, and turn off the pop machines and then take all the candy. Well some guy came out almost an hour after the last movie started and started to demand we give him food. We had to explain we were closed and we didn't have access to any cash registers anyways. He starts to tell us that it was totally ridiculous that we were closed and he couldn't believe it. He angerly stomped off and my co-worker and I looked at each other and shrugged and went back to cleaning. 5 seconds later he comes back and begins to lay it on really thick, he is almost screaming at us and telling us off with some key words. He was acting like a whiny baby if you ask me... he was all like "This is so stupid we pay to see a movie you could at least stay open. You stay open for people that see earlier shows" He then started to get really red and swear and he went on and on, and we just stared at him. He finally left after 2 minutes and I started to laugh. I mean fuck... I almost felt like saying "Look man, why don't you take the fucken board out of your ass and jump off of it into a shark infested lake." I also wanted to add "Why don't you just go enjoy your fucken over priced movie and realize that you just saved your money on over priced fattening crap"
But then I would have been fired... but I sooo wanted to say that...
Why do people have to be so cranky... maybe his movie wasn't very enjoyable.