Of course there were adversaries. Of course there were obstacles. In all of those theater years, of course there were folks who honestly thought their job was creating friction for others. But they we...
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Tag: AMC Theatres
I don’t even remember how I got roped into the writing of the weekly newsletters. I’m sure I volunteered, but I don’t recall the circumstances whatsoever. I know I was at the 6 in Bu...
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Way back in high school I was in a joint English/Chemistry humanities program thing. Woke liberal nonsense, in modern English. The final for both classes was a group report/presentation on a hypotheti...
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When I started in management, our offices were using a Linux-based version of Lotus for reporting. The sales servers were Linux, and so were the workstations. After about a year in we upgraded to a Wi...
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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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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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Yep, I said it. There’s another good booth story, but it introduces our second villain before you’ve even met the first. AMC had a handful of villains along the way. There was the microman...
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One more “good” story before the fun ones. My dad worked for a while as a deckhand on a riverboat. It wasn’t 1920, just the midwest. That was the cool job in his life. Mine was in th...
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