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First off, greetings! I just found this lovely site a couple of weeks back and decided that since I love reading all your stories so much, I'd submit my own for your viewing pleasure.
Since graduating from high school, and being a movie freak, I got a job at a movie theatre around the corner from my house/apt in 2001. I worked with the same company for the next four years eventually getting myself to projection manager (my dream job), before the company got my theatre shut down by not paying the rent. Here are a few pictures of my most favoritest place in the world I worked at: http://www.film-tech.com/warehouse/p...macarthur.html
Anywho, I here are a few stories from my days (that I can remember):
Me: Hard working mofo
SC: obvious
GM: gross manager
Jacked up sex stuff
#1. I'm working projection one night and go to start Lemony Snickets. I look through the porthole to guage the crowd and, knowing that it's a kids movie, I see lots of kids running around. I hit the platter and thread up the movie lickady-split. Then, I notice an asian girl's head is in her counterparts lap (which it wasn't when I scanned the crowd). I back up a bit so I'm out of view and watch what is going on, as you really couldn't tell if she was going to town on him or not. About 30 seconds later, she raises her head, only for him to force it back down into his lap, only to see her trying to get it back up (I guess she realized it was a kids movie and bj's aren't cool there). I radio my manager to get up to #10 as fast as he can. So, what does he do? Runs through the auditorium. The guy backs off and I have no real proof of anything to get them to be tossed out. Arg!
#2. I'm starting up Stealing Harvard at this smaller crap theatre I was running in Lewisville, Tx. At the time, and til the day it was sold, we did about 50-100 patrons per day. So, this guy and his girl are in the auditorium alone, listing to boring movie tunes and watching lame slides. In order to spice things up, she whips out his schlong and goes to work. He sits there, arms spread, enjoying every minute of it. I watched, intently, while the minutes flew by. I had another movie starting, so I started their show and watched to see what was going to happen. The girl lifts her head, looks around, and goes back to pleasure town. I let them be, as nobody else was going to come to the crappy show and they looked like they were having a good time.
#3. We had a guy arrested because he was caught masterbating during one of our movies during our "Free Kids Summer Movies!!" events we threw each year. A parent saw him working his magic and notified us. Cops came out and arrested his butt. Turns out he was a sexual predator or something.
Gross boss
Right before my theatre was shut down, we got a new GM (gross manager), who was full of fake stories and lies. She regularly stated one thing to myself and the other projectionists, only to tell the other managers she was making it all up to seem knowledgable. Anyways, this woman was like 6'2", 270lbs. Very large. Very ugly. Very gross. Needless to say, we weren't happy about what I found out about her.
I was in her office getting something off her desk she needed for some irrate customer she was dealing with downstairs. I saw her IE browswer up and the evil side of me checked her history. www.masterssluts.com was everywhere (and I don't think the site exists anymore, you sickos!). Curious about it, I wrote down the address and pocketed it for later research. The day finished and she left while we closed up. Remembering the address was in my pocket, I went to the site and found an a-bomb.
Our new manager was some kind of freaky submissive freak person, er, lady... thing. Her and her "Master" Keith, created the website. Thankfully, it was just started up, so there weren't any pictures, except some that she had our other manager take of her in her office and next to one of my innocent projectors!!
Contained within the webpage was a link to 1. A seemingly endless novel about how she loves being dominated by her Master, and 2. A ignorant diatribe about the managers and how she lothed them. A few things fell into place after finding this.
1. We now realized what the moaning sounds were coming out of her office (that, and we found her battery powered buddy in one of her desk drawers) and the resulting stench that polluted the manager's office and entire upper "lobby" (it wasn't really a lobby, but a walkway between our two booths).
2. We realized who the big fat monstrous man that went into her office was. It was her Master, Keith. Sweet guy! /sarcasim
3. She was sick.
4. And, after we closed down, we realized she was a theif. While cleaning up after the theatre was shut down, $5000 in cash was found in her desk drawer, which was amazingly exactly what was short in the safe. She knew of the impending close of our beloved theatre and was going to make a break for the border with $5k. Nothing ever happened to her, as far as I know, becuase she had a legitimate reason for the money.
Enter the sucky customers!
Me spend money... derr
Me: "Can I help you ma'am?"
SC: "The ticket girl won't sell us tickets!!!"
Me: "Me, excuse me?"
SC: "She's just standing there laughing at us and won't sell us tickets. Get in there and tell that blonde bimbo to do her job!"
I went and investigated. Turns out her station locked up and had to be restarted. I ignored the complaint as another manager took over who was woking in the box office, but still, what nerve did that lady have to mouth off like that? Meh.
1 out of 5 starts of craziness.
Filthy restrooms!!
SC comes up in a rant with her husband:
SC: "You need to get someone in there and clean up that restroom. I've never seen such a pigsty in my life!"
Me: "Ok, let me get a female worker (as there were patrons inside still)."
I get a worker and she goes in and looks around. There wasn't anything on the ground and nothing was out of place. The lady caused enough of a commotion in the lobby, the other 3 managers with me that day came over and asked me what was going on. Our worker comes out and says she doesn't see anything. One of the managers at the time, MM, goes in and checks himself. MM comes out of the restroom and states:
MM: "There's nothing wrong with that restroom. I don't know what that lady is talking about." (in a high tone; not knowing the lady was right behind him)
SC: "YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME?!?!?! I'LL SHOW YOU!!!"
SC and MM go in and she shows him her complaint.
They come out and she goes on her way. MM explains to me that there was sticker residue on the inside of one of the stalls (which we believe was an old handicapped sticker that was torn off).
4 out of 5 stars for craziness.
Phew... if you guys want more stories, let me know. I have tons! My wrists hurt, so I'm going to take a break.
Since graduating from high school, and being a movie freak, I got a job at a movie theatre around the corner from my house/apt in 2001. I worked with the same company for the next four years eventually getting myself to projection manager (my dream job), before the company got my theatre shut down by not paying the rent. Here are a few pictures of my most favoritest place in the world I worked at: http://www.film-tech.com/warehouse/p...macarthur.html
Anywho, I here are a few stories from my days (that I can remember):
Me: Hard working mofo
SC: obvious
GM: gross manager
Jacked up sex stuff
#1. I'm working projection one night and go to start Lemony Snickets. I look through the porthole to guage the crowd and, knowing that it's a kids movie, I see lots of kids running around. I hit the platter and thread up the movie lickady-split. Then, I notice an asian girl's head is in her counterparts lap (which it wasn't when I scanned the crowd). I back up a bit so I'm out of view and watch what is going on, as you really couldn't tell if she was going to town on him or not. About 30 seconds later, she raises her head, only for him to force it back down into his lap, only to see her trying to get it back up (I guess she realized it was a kids movie and bj's aren't cool there). I radio my manager to get up to #10 as fast as he can. So, what does he do? Runs through the auditorium. The guy backs off and I have no real proof of anything to get them to be tossed out. Arg!
#2. I'm starting up Stealing Harvard at this smaller crap theatre I was running in Lewisville, Tx. At the time, and til the day it was sold, we did about 50-100 patrons per day. So, this guy and his girl are in the auditorium alone, listing to boring movie tunes and watching lame slides. In order to spice things up, she whips out his schlong and goes to work. He sits there, arms spread, enjoying every minute of it. I watched, intently, while the minutes flew by. I had another movie starting, so I started their show and watched to see what was going to happen. The girl lifts her head, looks around, and goes back to pleasure town. I let them be, as nobody else was going to come to the crappy show and they looked like they were having a good time.
#3. We had a guy arrested because he was caught masterbating during one of our movies during our "Free Kids Summer Movies!!" events we threw each year. A parent saw him working his magic and notified us. Cops came out and arrested his butt. Turns out he was a sexual predator or something.
Gross boss
Right before my theatre was shut down, we got a new GM (gross manager), who was full of fake stories and lies. She regularly stated one thing to myself and the other projectionists, only to tell the other managers she was making it all up to seem knowledgable. Anyways, this woman was like 6'2", 270lbs. Very large. Very ugly. Very gross. Needless to say, we weren't happy about what I found out about her.
I was in her office getting something off her desk she needed for some irrate customer she was dealing with downstairs. I saw her IE browswer up and the evil side of me checked her history. www.masterssluts.com was everywhere (and I don't think the site exists anymore, you sickos!). Curious about it, I wrote down the address and pocketed it for later research. The day finished and she left while we closed up. Remembering the address was in my pocket, I went to the site and found an a-bomb.
Our new manager was some kind of freaky submissive freak person, er, lady... thing. Her and her "Master" Keith, created the website. Thankfully, it was just started up, so there weren't any pictures, except some that she had our other manager take of her in her office and next to one of my innocent projectors!!
Contained within the webpage was a link to 1. A seemingly endless novel about how she loves being dominated by her Master, and 2. A ignorant diatribe about the managers and how she lothed them. A few things fell into place after finding this.
1. We now realized what the moaning sounds were coming out of her office (that, and we found her battery powered buddy in one of her desk drawers) and the resulting stench that polluted the manager's office and entire upper "lobby" (it wasn't really a lobby, but a walkway between our two booths).
2. We realized who the big fat monstrous man that went into her office was. It was her Master, Keith. Sweet guy! /sarcasim
3. She was sick.
4. And, after we closed down, we realized she was a theif. While cleaning up after the theatre was shut down, $5000 in cash was found in her desk drawer, which was amazingly exactly what was short in the safe. She knew of the impending close of our beloved theatre and was going to make a break for the border with $5k. Nothing ever happened to her, as far as I know, becuase she had a legitimate reason for the money.
Enter the sucky customers!
Me spend money... derr
Me: "Can I help you ma'am?"
SC: "The ticket girl won't sell us tickets!!!"
Me: "Me, excuse me?"
SC: "She's just standing there laughing at us and won't sell us tickets. Get in there and tell that blonde bimbo to do her job!"
I went and investigated. Turns out her station locked up and had to be restarted. I ignored the complaint as another manager took over who was woking in the box office, but still, what nerve did that lady have to mouth off like that? Meh.
1 out of 5 starts of craziness.
Filthy restrooms!!
SC comes up in a rant with her husband:
SC: "You need to get someone in there and clean up that restroom. I've never seen such a pigsty in my life!"
Me: "Ok, let me get a female worker (as there were patrons inside still)."
I get a worker and she goes in and looks around. There wasn't anything on the ground and nothing was out of place. The lady caused enough of a commotion in the lobby, the other 3 managers with me that day came over and asked me what was going on. Our worker comes out and says she doesn't see anything. One of the managers at the time, MM, goes in and checks himself. MM comes out of the restroom and states:
MM: "There's nothing wrong with that restroom. I don't know what that lady is talking about." (in a high tone; not knowing the lady was right behind him)
SC: "YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME?!?!?! I'LL SHOW YOU!!!"
SC and MM go in and she shows him her complaint.
They come out and she goes on her way. MM explains to me that there was sticker residue on the inside of one of the stalls (which we believe was an old handicapped sticker that was torn off).
4 out of 5 stars for craziness.
Phew... if you guys want more stories, let me know. I have tons! My wrists hurt, so I'm going to take a break.
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