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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Tag: ego
Internal nonsense
Sometime around late ’13 to early ’14 I was tasked with looking into upgrading the menu boards above Winnetka’s concessions with digital panels. AMC had switched over to digital menu...
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At Pacific we had a tool for generating attendance and gross estimates. We had a tool for payroll forecasting and staff schedule planning. We had a tool for projecting concession sales. We had a tool ...
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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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You’ve met Flash, my exemplar for everything wrong with AMC Theaters. Today we’ll meet Cletus, a big part of the reason why Pacific Theaters and ArcLight Cinemas are no more. Again, names ...
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Completely unrelated to anything, I did some fiddling with the site’s CSS the other day to fix some issues I have with this theme’s formatting for posts. It’s entirely possible those...
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I had run successful booths at a handful of buildings, and I’d closed out a building, but I never opened a building with AMC. I’d helped with a few shifts at the Woodland Hills opening (cl...
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My closeouts and scheduling tools created a framework of numerical accuracy and consistency around the day-to-day manager decisions that had immediate financial effects, but getting my boss fired for ...
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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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