I was closing one night at the North 6, and two of the concession registers were short more that $10. The rule was shortages by more than that had to be written up, so I always looked for reasons to n...
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This is vanity talking but projectionists were the theater SEAL teams in film and early digital years. The three- to ten-people cluster of mechanically inclined, take-charge, responsible types who can...
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HR at Pacific was a completely different beast than with AMC. AMC had sought control of every aspect of scheduling and development, with authority that was very carefully and specifically delegated. P...
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The first big tool-building achievement was probably the weekly scheduling guide. The spreadsheet started off as a single grid that would tally up staff hours in different areas as they were assigned,...
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At one point some manager somewhere went on a rebellious bender. For maybe 6 weeks, he sent out a self-published AMC newsletter to all AMC fax numbers. It was titled “Oppression” and until...
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On my chosen subject of politics, Twitter is replete with the most intellectual idiots you can imagine. There are whole crowds of “moderate” Republicans walking (tweeting?) around just sho...
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He had it coming, too. I used to do hiring- interviews, orientations, everything related. As much as people make my skin crawl, those interactions I was totally cool with. Other managers tended to hir...
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I remember every little thing as if it happened only yesterday… I remember the compliments. I move forward by beating myself up, and I tend to not take the observations of others too seriously b...
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Ok, this is the last one. There was a stretch of time where Traveltown Griffith Park was a fun place to go, I have my dad to thank for discovering that place when I was a kid. I don’t remember g...
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Don’t even remember what we did for that year. I had to look back at my pictures to see that it was Chuck E Cheese birthday. Simply unconscionable....
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