evilhippo: hippo (41 [indescribable])
( Dec. 29th, 2005 11:52 pm)
Wow... what a night at work. We weren't busy, in a real techincal sense, but things happened. Things never happen! Well, not while I'm working. There was that drug bust over the summer that I, sadly, missed. But oooh dear. We were overstaffed for the first set, but that mattered not since it was a standard, semi-busy, mundane set. Then they sent all the minors home at 8 because we didn't need everyone, and they can only work until 11 or something. This left four of us at the concession, and we were all people that have been around for a while. (Which is awesome in its own way.) A good 45 minutes before the first movie of the set started, though, this giant group of probably 8-10-year-old boys came in and started yelling, running around, screwing with our game machines and whatnot. Our manager had to yell at them... then she went on break and told us some stories that I'd just love to retell and scare everyone with if I hadn't been sworn to secrecy. (They were... crap, I can't describe them without giving her away. I had to walk away at least twice, though, because of some of the things these stories involved, and some of them were a little too relatable. Maybe if you think hard enough about that, you can figure it out. Though why they were relatable has nothing to do with why I had to walk away, thankfully.) Then this small crowd of 20-somethings comes in, and one of the girls had a camera in her purse, which my manager had to tell her to put in her car. Apparently later (while we were also constantly checking theatre two to make sure the jerkface kids and their stupid father (who was more trouble than the kids he was watching, and only encouraged them to be idiotic) were behaving in the theatre. I heard something about "fire hazard" which I imagine means some of them were sitting in the aisles or something stupid... anyway)... later on these 20-somethings were apparently, in order to stick it to the man or whatever, attempting to record the movie with their cell phones. Brilliant, people! We let them off with a warning, I guess, because there's no way you could record an entire movie with a cell phone. But dude... how stupid are you?? Holy crap. So we're lucky we didn't end up kicking like, a good twenty people out, total. Amazing. Oh, and the two managers working were the ones that are usuall the most anal, but they were cool the whole night. Probably because we were all putting up with the same crap, and we're all experienced and responsible concessionists. (Okay, we're all experienced concessionists. I almost got a lecture for leaving a key in the register, but it was "like that when I got here", so I go off unpunished. Whew. But yeah, the first register I was on had a broken drawer that wouldn't automatically open when you wanted to ring someone up. That was fun.) Really, it's a very good thing I was in an oddly good mood tonight, energetic and everything, otherwise I would've died within the first few hours. What on earth is weird about today that caused so many people to go insane? I don't get it! But at least they kept me entertained.
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