Is consideration really that difficult?
I’ve spent so much time cleaning up garbage and careless messes because people are so frigging lazy that they can’t even carry their garbage to a garbage can that THEY HAVE TO PASS TO LEAVE THE THEATRE! It’s not that challenging. Why do you insist on making a bunch of kids clean up a mess that you
could have easily avoided.
I love my job, I love my co-workers and I love the customers that treat us with respect and even the slightest bit of appreciation, but the rest of you that think just because we work low-paying job that we don’t count anymore can go to hell.
And you’re probably just going to watch a shitty movie anyways.
—Theatre staff
This article appears in Mar 19-25, 2009.
Hey I work at a theatre too! Your answer is yes, it really is that difficult for people to be considerate. Keep in mind that if they did clean up after theirselves, we probably wouldn’t have jobs.
I respect the job that you have to do. Working in the service industry has to be one of the worst jobs ever.
However, by me throwing my popcorn on the floor you stay employed.
If there were no criminals, there would be no cops.
If people did not piss on toilet seats, there would be no need for janitors.
See the logic?
This is basically the same logic behind “it’s ok that we’re paying those workers 2 cents an hour, if it wasn’t for us they’d have no jobs at all.” Don’t kid yourself that you’re “helping people stay employed” by being a slob. It’s basically just because you’re lazy. Personally I always put my theatre garbage where it belongs, in the garbage can. That’s what it’s there for. I mean what is the logic, that people who don’t piss on toilet seats and don’t throw their popcorn on the floor want janitors and theatre workers to be out of a job? The fact that some people have no other choice but to work shitty minimum wage jobs means you’re cool with throwing your trash all over the floor like a slob? Fuck.
Why would you add that part at the end? you made a good point and then said “And you’re probably just going to watch a shitty movie anyways.” It makes you sound childish, and hurts your earlier points. Its like doing well for most of a performance and then half assing the ending.
Your job is to clean the popcorn, the garbage and other crap these slobs leave behind. I do it to, but I clean the side of a highway once a year, for free. I don’t even get paid. such it up and get a new job. use this as a learning experiance. tell your friends not to litter.
I thought it was in the S.O.P’s to leave your shit behind while at the theater? I’ve never brought it to the garbage can, not once.
Sometimes I even spill some pop on the seats in front of me so no one sits there.
whats the big whoop?
Theatre staff
I leave my wrappers on the floor and my cup in the holder
enjoy
‘Oh I see, it was dark and you just ‘tripped’ therefore spilling popcorn everywhere. I understand now.’
And behind the whole janitor and police logic aspect, police officers do more than tie up looters, and janitors don’t just clean up piss, they ALSO sanitize washrooms so people don’t get hepititus or AIDS or some deadly disease. Pay a little respect for the menial jobs, please.
Heh, friend of mine commented on the same thing last night when we were leaving the movie we went to see last night. People are pigs, that’s all.
Meh, I clean my mess. You get paid nothing because half the time you morons at the theatre are walking around twiddling your fingers. You’ve got it easy, consider yourself lucky you don’t have a real job, so suck it up and clean the floor.
It wasn’t me, I always sneak ,chips & a drink in under my winter jacket.
But if you find any ripple chip bags (200g or larger) & a bottle of pop that smells suspiciously like rum if you remove the lid…that was me, but usually I take it back out with me anyway…(to hide the evidence)
RichieCanuck must be the same type of person who sticks gum on every hidden, yet easily contactable surface imagineable. Or the type who floods toilets in public washrooms with entire rolls of paper towel. Or, who pisses on bus seats – basically obnoxious, neanderthalic, pastimes that cause great stress for those who have to deal with the consequences; consequesnces, I might add, that the bastard perpetrators don’t even get the satisfaction of witnessing because they’re long fucking gone.
Off topic but…
You cannot get AIDS from piss. Please stop putting HIV/AIDS out there as an easily transfered disease. You’ve got to work at getting it. It’s not the common cold.
Blood. Semen. Vajayjay juice. Period.
Spit. No. Piss. No. Poop. No. Hugs. No. Kisses. No (unless they have open sores). Shared food, cutlery, glasses. No.
The respect part I agree with Dino.
More to your point Three… Urine is sterile.
Yes, but (thought I’d never go here) menstrual blood? And what if someone had an open sore on their ass? I’ve heard horrifying stories of contracting AIDS from public restrooms, did not just pull that out of my ear. Best bet is those handy dandy toilet covers.
This is myth and hysteria.
May I suggest http://www.thebody.com or http://acns.ns.ca? Or simply use Google; search: hiv/aids.
The HIV virus is extremely fragile and can only live outside the human host a short time (think seconds).
Oh dear lord, wasn’t this clarified to everyone in grade six health class? HIV exists for mere minutes in an exposed environment (i.e. a toilet seat), and even then the odds of a sore on your ass coming into contact with HIV infected blood such that you aquired the virus and subsequently AIDS would be so small as to be non-existant. Who sits on bloody toilet seats anyway?
If I’m paying 7 bucks for pop and popcorn…
along with 10-15 for the fucking movie itself then I’d better have a clean theatre seat to sit and watch in. Trust me, I drop all my crap in the garbage on the way out but am thinking of not doing it anymore because of this.