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: Pacific Theatres
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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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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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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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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