Why the f**k did you leave the name censored?
applebusch 31 points a month ago
yet you self censored? put your fucking money where your fucking mouth is. fuck.
hildegarde 26 points a month ago
You are allowed to say fucj on the internet.
LifeInMultipleChoice 38 points a month ago
Yeah but a quickly fireable offense. At least how it was 15-20 years ago they inventory the containers. So if you gave someone the wrong size your inventory would be off when you cashed out, you'd be gone by day 3. Now if someone ordered a medium and came back half way through the movie and you refilled it for them, no one probably would have ever cared. Same with drinks.
Aka in their eyes the empty tub holding the popcorn is worth $10, they couldn't care how much popcorn you gave them. (The managers got paid absolute shit as well, so they just want the numbers to be close enough that they also aren't in trouble)
HerbGrower 15 points a month ago
Doubt it. Corn is so cheap the difference is probably not even a full coin.
saltesc 34 points a month ago
The price of cinema popcorn is a strange thing.
It's corn. It's literally just corn. Unless the butter came from the teet of St Mary herself, it's just corn. $2 should cover it including the inconvenience of shipping it, pouring it into a machine, and scooping it into a thin-walled cardboard cup.
BillyClark 34 points a month ago
I have heard that movie theaters make most of their money from their concession stands, and that the ticket sales largely go to the movie distributors.
So, their business model is marking up popcorn.
Blackfeathr 11 points a month ago
Husband was a manager at a movie theater, he told me this is exactly why concessions are so expensive.
spookedintownsville 6 points a month ago
Same model applies to concert venues. Most of the ticket money goes to the artist
BillyClark 1 point a month ago
Haven't I heard artists complain that the ticket sales monopolies like Ticket Master suck up a lot of the money from ticket sales? Was that bad info?
spookedintownsville 2 points a month ago
Not to defend Ticketmaster/Live Nation, as they still suck in other ways, but artists/artist management sets the ticket prices and receives the majority of it. Venues don't make nearly as much from ticket sales, including Live Nation themselves which own multiple large venues. Ticketmaster would rather take the blame for high ticket prices than the artist to direct anger in the direction that keeps making money.
lIlIlIlIlIlIl 2 points a month ago
OK but what if I hate corporations and want them to burn?
BillyClark 2 points a month ago
I imagine you'd only go to local movie theaters that show indie movies, then?
isles 3 points a month ago
I think strange in the opposite way, considering the countless people involved in producing the end product somewhere near you. And strange that cinema business model is merely to give people a nice place to eat the snacks.
UltraMagnus0001 12 points a month ago
Remember working at Walmart and Co workers felt like it was their store. When I was at the return desk, I would take everyone returns back as long as it was under 50 and I can scant it. Oh, no receipt, okay then here's a gift card. It was less stress for me and the supervisors appreciated me not calling them every 5 minutes.
LibertyLizard 2 points a month ago
Why do you think they're a bot?
Despair 12 points a month ago
They automated mirroring posts from Reddit as a way to add content here (don't provide links to original posts either or make it clear that the content is mirrored). They don't really vet what they post either. Something thing they reposted from reddit was a person asking for help picking out PC parts for a gift, a post which the original poster would never see, and people here would just be wasting their time replying to a bot post instead of helping the OP. They've also repost the same article to the same community a couple hours later.
Original Post of person asking for help picking PC parts
Automated post on lemmy
https://lemmy.world/post/51345527/25587759 A lot of the comments in this post point out that they are using AI to make posts and respond to comments.
LibertyLizard 3 points a month ago
Interesting, thanks for the context. Sounds like they are a person and not a bot though.
sanitation -5 points a month ago
I'm 100 percent a person. People complaining are likely reddit agents trying to reduce content on lemmy
Kolanaki 9 points a month ago
They have an AI generated avatar and profile banner.
They admit to using AI automation to post things from Reddit with basically no human input between.
They have recently been posting AI generated drama posts whining that nobody likes their AI bullshit. (they admit to generating their spiels with AI in those posts, too)
They might be a person, but since they use AI to generate even their comments, they might as well be a bot.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 2 points a month ago
so, i've had some good conversations with them in the past. but i don't like the automation either.
sanitation -4 points a month ago
Meh. Only if it's pointless regurgitation of the same issues on and on and on. I don't use ai for 99% of my comments
sanitation -1 points a month ago
I'm not a bot
sanitation -2 points a month ago
Screw you, I'm not a bot
danksubmission 4 points a month ago
And John Henry made 16 transactions of value that day, and the machine only fucked up 9.
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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
Our Philosophies:
- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
- Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
- Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
- We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.
Our Goals
- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
- Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
- Better and fewer working hours.
- Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
- Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.
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workreform
@lemmy.world
17823
1704
6815
A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
Our Philosophies:
- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
- Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
- Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
- We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.
Our Goals
- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
- Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
- Better and fewer working hours.
- Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
- Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.
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