“No Outside Food” At Movie Theaters Is A Racist Policy.
It just is. There was an article in The Guardian about movie theater pricing that triggered some PTSD flashbacks. The sensationalism of the theater economy slowly collapsing is fun to watch and makes for a better show, but it’s always worth shining a light on how theater companies can...
My Superhero Name is Unpopular Opinionman*
Watching The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight, there’s a visceral thrill in seeing the moral centers of the Left going into a very me-like rage mode at the state of the world. The sense that the universe is catching up, that reality is catching on, that words can...
The Faces
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 were in the minority by far....
The Value Of An Informed Electorate
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 Burbank, and writing the newsletter for the entire three-building complex (the Media North 6, the...
Video Killed The Static Sticky Star
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 menus years before but we at Pacific were still working with magnets and statics. It was honestly kind of embarrassing....
This is my Eiffel Tower. This is my Rachmaninoff’s Third. My Pieta. It’s completely elegant. It’s bafflingly beautiful. And it’s capable of, well, math.
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 for reporting results and planning adjustments. The was no tool in existence for reforecasting...
References? Why yes. I’m glad you asked.
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 hypothetical environmental crisis. My group actually put in the work, we knew we were going to kill it,...
Control Freak
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 Windows system (Y2k!) and had to begin migrating everything to Word/Excel. Word was easy;...
What NOT To Do, Unless You Want A Successful Career. Apparently.
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 have been changed to protect the innocent ears of the special people involved. And as an aside,...
Let’s Talk About Bean Counting
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 code changes have borked some manual formatting done on posts up to this point, but I don’t really...