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Adventures in Management: The one where he goes on vacation.
10 years ago
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I decided to write today, and here's what I wrote:
It's time for another exciting installment of Adventures in Management~! I'm sure you're all thrilled, all 3.5 of you reading this.
So it's been around a year, month, and day since I've become an assistant manager at the theater, and I've been through the craziest of shitstorms and the calmest of days.
I've had days so boring that I willingly took up the duty of counting inventory (and that's something I NEVER want to do ever again, and never really liked doing to begin with.) to days that were so busy that we have a sign up in the office dedicated to that day. (That sign says Attendance record: 5277, for those who are curious.)
I've dealt with the most chill customers ever, to the most high-strung bitch this state has to offer. And y'know... As much as I hate them all, they're what makes the job ok. Otherwise I'd be ramming my head against the wall with boredom each day I came in.
As far as particular instances... I'll tell a story of my own encounter in just a moment, but at the moment this thing stands out in my mind. This is told second-hand, as I did not encounter this neanderthal, but a coworker did, and told me about it to cheer me up a bit on a particularly stressful day. So here's the story:
Lady comes in, goes up to the kiosks where you can either purchase tickets or pick up your reserved tickets. Spends a minute or two fiddling with it before coming up to box office. She tells the coworker "I'm trying to pick up my tickets for Pitch Perfect, but it's only letting me buy tickets, or pick up tickets for a movie I didn't buy." Coworker asks: "What movie did it give you? I can get those tickets changed out. Maybe you'd accidentally bought the wrong ones?" Idiot responds: "It's for this movie called Will Call. I've never even heard of it. Is it any good?" Coworker is fighting back laughter at this point: "Will call isn't a movie, it's your reserved tickets."
Don't know what happened beyond this point aside from the dumb blonde (she was blonde, as confirmed by employee) getting her tickets, but WOW I'm amazed that people can be that slow.
As far as my own encounter, it was with a particularly sassy bitch who would constantly interrupt me and I ended up being "that manager" who just gave her a pass to make her shut the fuck up. What happened was that we'd sold an entire theater EXCEPT for one broken seat, which is clearly marked off in the auditorium with tape going around the entire thing. It's quite apparent that you should not be sitting in the seat. (Plus we have assigned seating, and the seat is blocked off in our system, so it shouldn't be sold anyways.) Well, dumb bitch decides to take this seat, has her mentally handicapped kid or whatever sitting in it. The problem with the chair is that the armrest literally falls off of it. Everything else is fine, but yeah, can't sell it cause of the armrest. Anyways, halfway through the movie, armrest falls over, and her bitchometer starts going full tilt. Long story short, it took half an hour before I just gave her a fucking pass even though it was her own fault for sitting in the chair that is clearly marked that it should not be sat in.
ANYWAYS! Journal title time! I'm going on vacaaaaaaaaation~! This has been the first year in about... five or so years which my family has gone on vacation, and I'm going with. We're taking an Alaskan cruise. Should be pretty cool. The only issue: I don't get to take my laptop. Sooooo room time will be boring, but otherwise I'll be spending all day (hopefully) doing fun stuff. Will be gone for like 9-10 days, and I'm dreading logging back on to this website to see how many submissions I'll have to sort through. In all honesty I might just hit the Nuke button once I get home.
And then! Once I'm home, there will be 8 weeks and 2 days until VACATION NUMBER TWO~! Yeah... Family decided that we're going to be doing TWO vacations this year. Number one is the already-mentioned cruise, number two is a bus to Yellowstone to see all that stuff. I'm iffy on this thing, and hope the smell of old/death is not overpowering on the bus.
AND THEN! Once I'm home, I'll have another two weeks before my own personal vacation to Rainfurrest~! 8D Whooooo~!
And I figure that's enough of an update for now. I have a shitload of art I need to post, and I might do that tomorrow, but we'll see. Peace for now folks. *waves*
So it's been around a year, month, and day since I've become an assistant manager at the theater, and I've been through the craziest of shitstorms and the calmest of days.
I've had days so boring that I willingly took up the duty of counting inventory (and that's something I NEVER want to do ever again, and never really liked doing to begin with.) to days that were so busy that we have a sign up in the office dedicated to that day. (That sign says Attendance record: 5277, for those who are curious.)
I've dealt with the most chill customers ever, to the most high-strung bitch this state has to offer. And y'know... As much as I hate them all, they're what makes the job ok. Otherwise I'd be ramming my head against the wall with boredom each day I came in.
As far as particular instances... I'll tell a story of my own encounter in just a moment, but at the moment this thing stands out in my mind. This is told second-hand, as I did not encounter this neanderthal, but a coworker did, and told me about it to cheer me up a bit on a particularly stressful day. So here's the story:
Lady comes in, goes up to the kiosks where you can either purchase tickets or pick up your reserved tickets. Spends a minute or two fiddling with it before coming up to box office. She tells the coworker "I'm trying to pick up my tickets for Pitch Perfect, but it's only letting me buy tickets, or pick up tickets for a movie I didn't buy." Coworker asks: "What movie did it give you? I can get those tickets changed out. Maybe you'd accidentally bought the wrong ones?" Idiot responds: "It's for this movie called Will Call. I've never even heard of it. Is it any good?" Coworker is fighting back laughter at this point: "Will call isn't a movie, it's your reserved tickets."
Don't know what happened beyond this point aside from the dumb blonde (she was blonde, as confirmed by employee) getting her tickets, but WOW I'm amazed that people can be that slow.
As far as my own encounter, it was with a particularly sassy bitch who would constantly interrupt me and I ended up being "that manager" who just gave her a pass to make her shut the fuck up. What happened was that we'd sold an entire theater EXCEPT for one broken seat, which is clearly marked off in the auditorium with tape going around the entire thing. It's quite apparent that you should not be sitting in the seat. (Plus we have assigned seating, and the seat is blocked off in our system, so it shouldn't be sold anyways.) Well, dumb bitch decides to take this seat, has her mentally handicapped kid or whatever sitting in it. The problem with the chair is that the armrest literally falls off of it. Everything else is fine, but yeah, can't sell it cause of the armrest. Anyways, halfway through the movie, armrest falls over, and her bitchometer starts going full tilt. Long story short, it took half an hour before I just gave her a fucking pass even though it was her own fault for sitting in the chair that is clearly marked that it should not be sat in.
ANYWAYS! Journal title time! I'm going on vacaaaaaaaaation~! This has been the first year in about... five or so years which my family has gone on vacation, and I'm going with. We're taking an Alaskan cruise. Should be pretty cool. The only issue: I don't get to take my laptop. Sooooo room time will be boring, but otherwise I'll be spending all day (hopefully) doing fun stuff. Will be gone for like 9-10 days, and I'm dreading logging back on to this website to see how many submissions I'll have to sort through. In all honesty I might just hit the Nuke button once I get home.
And then! Once I'm home, there will be 8 weeks and 2 days until VACATION NUMBER TWO~! Yeah... Family decided that we're going to be doing TWO vacations this year. Number one is the already-mentioned cruise, number two is a bus to Yellowstone to see all that stuff. I'm iffy on this thing, and hope the smell of old/death is not overpowering on the bus.
AND THEN! Once I'm home, I'll have another two weeks before my own personal vacation to Rainfurrest~! 8D Whooooo~!
And I figure that's enough of an update for now. I have a shitload of art I need to post, and I might do that tomorrow, but we'll see. Peace for now folks. *waves*
VTheRighteous
~vtherighteous
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