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| Posted By | Discussion Topic: Belated FU to the Fat Kid at the Candy Counter. | ||||
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| PrincessKill | posted on 09-06-2001 @ 12:48 AM |    | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Oct. 00  | Ok.. this happened a month ago, but since i have been posting again lately, i have to tell this ridiculous tale.. it's really friggin retarded. Went to the movies with my boyfriend one night this summer. All was well up until we went to the candy counter to get sodas for the movie. No popcorn, no candy.. just something to drink. Here's the catch, i drink a small soda at the movies because if i drink anything larger than that, i have to get up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the movie. So a decade goes by and we get to the front of the line. This rather chubby star trek fan is taking care of me. I order the small soda and get the speech we all know and love about 50 cents more for the large yadda yadda. "No thanks, i'll just take the small." with a smile on my face. Well, chubs got pissed. He starts explaining to me the size of a can of soda and how much is in the small and the large cup. still smiling "No thanks, just the small." I'm a waitress, i always treat any sort of food service people well because i know what they go through, but this kid really pissed me off. He grabbed to small soda cup to fill it, muttering things under his breath like "ok, but your getting ripped off".. Hey buddy, i'm fucking paying $2.50 for a small soda, if i was looking to save money i would have brought one in my purse like everyone else... At this point i started to laugh because i found the whole situation funny... this kid was getting pissed off about me not getting a large soda! Next the kid looks up and says: "I get commission.. ok?" What?! 50 cents commission?! I was almost tempted to just give him the 50 cents and keep the small soda! God, this story is so stupid, that's probably why it annoyed me so much... Over 50 cents this kid held up the whole line... dumbass [email protected] :-) "I Have No Sig Pic, and I'm too Computer Illiterate to Know How to Make One" | ||||
| Ants in My Pants Billy Prettiest Butterfly in the garden All Blow job poems ©Fez 2002-2003. I'm obsessed with Alkey's penis. | posted on 09-06-2001 @ 1:12 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Apr. 01 | You did the fat little bastard a favor, Princess. By lowering his commission, you saved his fat ass from buying another Twinkie that will eventually lead to his disgusting body exploding, leaving him in a pool of his own blubber. He should be thanking you. | ||||
| Jon Benet Norton G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. GTA3 Criminal Activity Specialist | posted on 09-06-2001 @ 1:26 AM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Dec. 00 | Apparently the little fat kid shouldn't go into sales as his profession of choice. I mean come on, how in the hell do you get commission working at a movie theater. Are theaters that desparate that they have to give commissions to kids who work the concession stands? Click here to check out my band "The saddest thing in life is wasted talent" -Machiavelli- I have 2 open slots for adoption, click on sig for email | ||||
| IrishAlkey Chucky Official OA.com Homo CUNT ROCKETTE Look who's laughing now, fuckers!!! Is It In Yet? JYD-4-LIFE [Sarcasm]Subzero316 fan since day one!!1!![/Sarcasm] "my mod powers are on temporary hiatus" This status is sponsored by: P®oJë©T M@¥hέm | posted on 09-06-2001 @ 2:37 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Aug. 01 | Commission at a movie theatre?!?!?! You have got to be kidding me. He's not selling Audis, he's pouring a soda and buttering popcorn, at a slow pace for that matter. You should've lept over the counter and pummelled him the Good n' Plentys! | ||||
| NY_Cracker | posted on 09-06-2001 @ 8:13 AM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jul. 01 | he must have meant "committed"... "What we got here is... failure to communicate... " | ||||
| spitfire421 | posted on 09-06-2001 @ 9:35 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00 | No, they actually do get commission, that's the ridiculous part. Freshman year of college I worked at a Loew's for like 2 hours (just enough to sit through the training and realizing what a worthless job!) They get something like 25 cents for an upgrade in size of popcorn. Why do you think they try to sell up all the time? I think they get like a buck for each combo you buy too. Withdrawn and introverted, Infectiously perverted Being laughed at and confused Keeps us pleasantly amused...enough to stay | ||||
| PrincessKill | posted on 09-08-2001 @ 1:20 AM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Oct. 00 | 25 cents? damn.. the more i think about it, the more i think i should have given him the 50 cents and told him to keep his commission. That would have been TWO TIMES his commission after all.. he would have been ecstatic! That kid made me feel like such a dumbass just because i wanted a small diet coke. [email protected] :-) "I Have No Sig Pic, and I'm too Computer Illiterate to Know How to Make One" | ||||
| ClusterF@#$ | posted on 09-08-2001 @ 10:26 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | Commission? AHAHAAAAAAA That is sooo lame. Who woulda thunk? no wonder those concession people are such pains in the asses. That pisses me off whenever you go anywhere to buy anything as a matter of fact. I hate how hast food places start off by greeting you with 'Hi would you like to try a hot shit sandwich?" Uhm.... why yes.. you read my fucking mind, as a matter of fact I would love a hot shit sandwich. Thank you for asking. No!!!! I WANT A GODDAMN WHOPPER W/CHEESE, AND A VANILLA MILKSHAKE YOU FUCKING TWAT!!! Stop making me waste my breath with extra conversation I don't need to be having. No more... no less. Stop playing the Dionne Warwick ESP shit, and just give me my burger and shake. And what's with the fucking store credit cards and deals at like Structure and Abercrombie and Fitch type places... No.. I don't want another fucking card, I can barely pay off the one I'm using to buy your overpriced clothes in the first place you stupid twat!!!! Not to mention the fact that you can't peruse the store without 8 bazillion employees asking you if you need help finding a size, or if you want something to go with the pair of pants you just picked out. Yes.. please, give me an extra large to match the size of your ass, and an extra small to match the size of your brain. STUPID FRIGGIN TWATS!
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The sky is blue | posted on 09-08-2001 @ 12:22 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Oct. 00 | Fat kid or k1d? I'm still saved.... I am starting my very own group to combat the evil of this board. IM me at fezoanda if you are interested. The only requirement is that you be me. | ||||
| ClusterF@#$ | posted on 09-08-2001 @ 5:20 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | Where's the O.P.O.F.K. sig when you need it?
Message to those concerned with my smoking habit.... mamma didn't raise no quitter. | ||||
| fbdlingfrg wow, my name looks odd without 5 lines of type below it in bold and purple and red G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Red Wings Captain Cecil JBA~Remove the Pick & Click NOW! | posted on 09-08-2001 @ 5:28 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | quote:cluster, can you refresh my memory on that one?i know P.O.F.C., but not O.P.O.F.K.  i may be a little catholic boy, but i'm still HLJC 4 LIFE! | ||||
| RottenVinny I have no fucking clue what happened to Sluggo667. VinnyWS6: chicks? they dont have the penis so why would i care about them VinnyWS6: froy is quite hansome VinnyWS6: I want froys cock! | posted on 09-08-2001 @ 8:56 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Jun. 01 | The stress people have to deal with today. Hey, have you ever been attacked in Rosevelt? You got hassled over soda pop! Please! -Vinny  | ||||
| ClusterF@#$ | posted on 09-09-2001 @ 1:22 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | let's brush up on our inductive reasoning skills, fbsdakfhgasdf shall we? OPOFK = One pissed off fat kid. No memory to refresh as I just got all zany and wacky and creative and made up a new one on the spot. How 'bout them apples. Sorry to confuse you. :)
Message to those concerned with my smoking habit.... mamma didn't raise no quitter. | ||||
| fbdlingfrg wow, my name looks odd without 5 lines of type below it in bold and purple and red G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Red Wings Captain Cecil JBA~Remove the Pick & Click NOW! | posted on 09-09-2001 @ 2:31 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | thanks cluster...but i still think Pissed Off Fat Chick is bettter i may be a little catholic boy, but i'm still HLJC 4 LIFE! | ||||
| leather-cheerio-face | posted on 09-10-2001 @ 12:33 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Jun. 01 | I'm a manager of a busy multiplex and I gotta stick up for the fat dork, he was just doing his job. I don't know what chain you're talking about, but they all work the same. There are several reason's why he was motivated to do this: 1. He'll get written up if a checker, or secret shopper, catches him not up selling. 2. He'll get a bonus if he attempts to upsell a checker. In my company it's $20 for him, and $50 for me. 3. He get's commision on each super combo, or whatever combo sold. In my company it's $.20, but sell 5 an hour, you just gave yourself a dollar raise. That's not too shabby when you're sixteen in high school. There are also several reason's why we, as management, force him to do this: 1. We get heavvvvvvvilly screwed by movie companies. Things that the average movie goer doesn't know are a) in general, movie companies get 80% of box office grosses for the 1st 2 weeks of a wide release, and the 70% the 3rd, 60% the 4th, etc. b) WE pay for advertising. Every year the distribution companies pay no more than 16% of ads, including TV, radio, newspapers, etc. Theater operators have NO recourse against this. All major film companies have stakes in exhibitors, the most notable of which is Sony, which owns Loews out-right. If we refuse to play product or concede to ridiculous demands, they won't fold. Consider Episode 1. When that came out Fox (or more specifically, Lucasfilm) demanded that all theaters run it in their biggest digitally equipt houses for the entire 8 week run of the film. The problem with that was, the film was so highly saturated, no one theater did a decent gross with it after the 1st week or 2, and our best houses were dead to us for more popular product. I really have no idea why the anti-trust last haven't done anything about shit like this. Think about that the next time you hear a movie company is spending $50 mill. on ads for a movie, then split it between the roughly 4000 theaters that are playing it. 2. If we don't sell super combos, we don't make money. I'm sure you've noticed that all the bags and cups we use now are company endorsed, like those nice pespi plastic go cup, or a calvin klien popcorn bag. We don't pay for those. Less overhead means more profit. Furthermore, ever since the combo idea was introduced, the percap (an average of what each person attending spent on concessions) of ALL theaters has increased, quite subtantually (sp?), which is good. I'd say 8 out of 10 customers are upsellable, so keeping you standing there for an extra couple of seconds is fine by me. 3. I GET COMMISSION!! It's around half of my yearly salary. I'm gonna make sure I get paid. It's motivation more that anything, but it also goes back to us getting screwed by the distributor. I'm not saying tons-o-fun was doing it the right way, but I hear alot of people bitching and moaning about it, so i thought I'd take the time out to reply. I just hope you think about that next time someone starts upselling you. Just stand there for 20 sec. and deal with it. You're not only saving this kids job, and maybe giving him some extra cash, but you're keeping the damned theater open. By the way, this is my 100th post. where's my damned parade?!?  | ||||
| Reign | posted on 09-10-2001 @ 12:41 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Oct. 00 | leather your point was what, a person in any public service job can insult thier customers over a $.20 commission. Shit I would have told fatso to keep his soda and he would have lose any commission that he may have made from me.  | ||||
| leather-cheerio-face | posted on 09-10-2001 @ 1:02 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Jun. 01 | wuh? | ||||
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