"Think of it as job security."

[Misty]

B- You can clean that up.

YG- That's his job.

B- His job is to clean up spills. You're making a mess.

As someone who is forced to clean up after thoughtless slobs, I salute your brother for calling out the little jerk. The customers at my frozen yogurt shop are always taking it upon themselves to throw tables and chairs together, yet they never feel the need to put things back the way they were. They also leave one hell of a mess, sometimes not even bothering to throw their trash in the garbage can on their way out. Would they be this messy at home? Of course not, but their attitude is "not my house, not my problem."

The worst part? They don't do these things to deliberately piss off the employees, like that stupid kid in the OP post did; they are just so self-absorbed that it never occurs to them to offer even the smallest courtesy to some poor minimum-wage slob. At least the stupid kid knew he was being a jerk.

And don't expect things to get any better anytime soon. My mom works in a middle school, and she says that lots of kids leave their empty water bottles just lying in the hallways because "it's the janitor's job to pick them up." So much for "the children are our future."

[SourRobot]

This was quite entertaining, and that guy deserved everything that was coming to him. Your brother gets a standing ovation from me!

[Jester]

Any girl with two brain cells to rub together will dump this chump.

I think you give the girlfriend too much credit. After all, any girl with two brain cells to rub together wouldn't have been with the chump in the first place.

We've made them mop before!

Not quite the same, but I've been made to clean up at a bar I frequent.

If you're a regular, as I am, and you do something stupid like drop a glass bottle on the concrete floor and break it, as I have, the bartender will look at you, say simply "You know where the broom is, pal," and go back to work. And as regulars, we obey--we go, grab the broom and dust pan, for we do know where they are, and we sweep up our broken glass. Why? We're regulars...we're supposed to be smarter than the tourists.

[AccountingDrone]

I think you give the girlfriend too much credit. After all, any girl with two brain cells to rub together wouldn't have been with the chump in the first place.

Eh, I went on a fair number of single first dates that were arranged for me. There were a number of reasons I would refuse a second date ranging from the guy was a total prat to attempted date rape. That is generally why I refused after a while to get picked up and driven - I insisted that I would drive myself and meet wherever we were supposed to be going. [the wonders of growing up in the sexual revolution/disco era ... you were pretty much assumed to be available if you were not in a steady relationship, or looking to get laid if you went on a date.]

[Kristev]

Assuming the worst about everyone has always worked out rather well for me.

[XCashier]

I think you give the girlfriend too much credit. After all, any girl with two brain cells to rub together wouldn't have been with the chump in the first place.

True, if she knew he was a chump in the first place. If this was a first date, she might not have known it, and only seen his true colors when he started throwing the popcorn.

[Jester]

Fair enough. I amend my earlier statement to:

If she had two brain cells to rub together, she wouldn't be out with this guy at all...unless, of course, it was a first date and she was previously unaware of his boorishness. If that was not the case, she clearly has all the intellectual prowess of a couch cushion.

[AccountingDrone]

Fair enough. I amend my earlier statement to:

If she had two brain cells to rub together, she wouldn't be out with this guy at all...unless, of course, it was a first date and she was previously unaware of his boorishness. If that was not the case, she clearly has all the intellectual prowess of a couch cushion.

Why for you hating on couch cushions?

Just wait, with the lack of really decent jobs, that idiot kid will probably end up in retail, or a theater and getting customers as sucky as he was. Think of it as the CS curse

[Jester]

I have absolutely nothing against couch cushions, and frankly, have enjoyed their company immensely over the years. But let's face it, they aren't great conversationalists, their philosophy is nonexistent, and have you ever tried talking sports to them? They are comfy, and awesome, and sometimes even necessary....but they are mentally zeroed out.

[dalek]

I am the brother Antares was talking about.

I have lost zero sleep over throwing this clown out. I had no problem with my staff keeping the theater clean, but when people are obviously such jerks, there is no way I am not sticking up for my staff. If the theater was messy, this guy would have been the first to complain about it. The "girlfriend" looked very embarrased about not only how the guy was acting, but that he got busted. She didn't look happy at all. I'm sure there was a conversation after they left. And for the record, when I kicked him out, I told her she could stay but that he wasn't - she had a choice. She left with him, but that may have only been because he was her ride home.

The reason I stuck up for my staff was that it was the right thing to do. Also, when I hired them, I told them that "You aren't paid enough to take crap from people. I don't care how long the line is or what is going on. If a customer is giving you crap, walk away and get a manager - that is what we are paid for. However, if you lip back, you lose automatically." I never had a problem with my employees giving lip back to the customers. Now, If I didn't stick up for my employees after telling them that, then there would have been no respect and nothing would have been accomplished without wondering if it was done right.

Standing up for your emploees generates a lot of loyalty and good will. I will tell you, the other employees that were off duty heard about this real quick, and I didn't tell one of them. This employee, and the others that witnessed it did. Also, I don't care what your profession is, there is no reason for customers to treat employees like that.

I loved my job as a theater manager, and sometimes I regret leaving.

[wolfie]

B- I'm the manager and if you want to watch a movie tonight, you'll clean that up.

YG is apparently stunned to be called on his actions takes the sweeper and cleans up his mess.

B- What movie were you seeing?

YG- *movie*

B- Come with me.

YG- Looks smugly at the employee.

B Leads them to the ticket counter.- Refund him for his movie.

YG- You said we could see the movie if I picked up the popcorn.

B- I said you weren't going to see it unless you did. You're still not seeing it. You don't cause problems for my employees. They have enough to do without people making extra work for them.

While I applaud him for calling him out on his actions and making him clean up the mess he deliberately made, I totally don't agree with negating his promise after the SC reluctantly cleans it up.

The only promise I saw was that YG WOULDN'T be seeing the movie if he DIDN'T clean up the mess - and it's one of the fallacies of logic to assume that "if X then Y" implies "if not-X then not-Y" (or in this case, that "if not-X then not-Y" implies "if X then Y"). What would have made it more awesome would be to refund HIS ticket but not his girlfriend's (which, presumably, he had paid for) - so that he'd either be out the price of one ticket, or the date would be over due to HER watching the movie while HE got a little "action" with "rosie palm and her five sisters".

Or maybe, just maybe, the next time he wants to see a movie with his girlfriend he'll act like a human being and not a feces-flinging howler monkey.

Please don't insult the howler monkeys by comparing YG to them.