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.
A local theater donates a large trash bag of popcorn to an elementary school near me. Probably $800 worth of popcorn if it were sold. The trash bag of popcorn costs them...maybe $15?
I really don't understand what you were trying to do by self censoring a comment about this. It doesn't work as a joke at all, it just looks real fucking dumb.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sure? I just want to make sure he isn't immediately fired for admitting to doing such acts. He'd be able to do more good without being fired and needing to get new jobs all the time.
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.
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.
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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.
A local theater donates a large trash bag of popcorn to an elementary school near me. Probably $800 worth of popcorn if it were sold. The trash bag of popcorn costs them...maybe $15?
In the case of McDonald, I don't think that will affect the corporation at all. You're just hurting the store owner who is the franchisee
Fuck off with the censored crap. Use this:
Why the f**k did you leave the name censored?
I really don't understand what you were trying to do by self censoring a comment about this. It doesn't work as a joke at all, it just looks real fucking dumb.
I dunno - I thought it was pretty f**king funny.
Apologies:
yet you self censored? put your fucking money where your fucking mouth is. fuck.
You are allowed to say fucj on the internet.
Last time I said fucj on the internet, they sent a J-9 unit to my apartment blocj, jnocjed on my door, broje it down, and threatened to locj me up.
i think y'all got that cold that majes you pronounce Js as Js. i blame rfj jr and his fucjing brainworm
Because the posting user is a bot they refuse to ban. u/sanitation should be booted
That was probably an additional 5 cents worth of popcorn that was being sold for $10 too.
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)
Doubt it. Corn is so cheap the difference is probably not even a full coin.
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.
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.
Same model applies to concert venues. Most of the ticket money goes to the artist
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?
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.
Husband was a manager at a movie theater, he told me this is exactly why concessions are so expensive.
OK but what if I hate corporations and want them to burn?
I imagine you'd only go to local movie theaters that show indie movies, then?
The point is not to get goods to you in the most cost efficient way possible. The point is to seperate you from as much of your money as possible.
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.
Hopefully posted from an account without his real name
All my heroes are human
Sure? I just want to make sure he isn't immediately fired for admitting to doing such acts. He'd be able to do more good without being fired and needing to get new jobs all the time.
Robin McHood
Fuck you, clanker. Someone shut this spam bot down for the love of fucking god
Screw you, I'm not a bot
Beep blorp I am hu-mon just kidding I am tist
Why do you think they're a bot?
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.
so, i've had some good conversations with them in the past. but i don't like the automation either.
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
I'm not a bot
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.
Interesting, thanks for the context. Sounds like they are a person and not a bot though.
I'm 100 percent a person. People complaining are likely reddit agents trying to reduce content on lemmy
Doubtful lol
People on Lemmy are just kind weird that's all.
Nah, they are anti-ai purists. And I'm not sure they're wrong. Using online AI just feels icky, it cannot be separated from the moral implications.
I like your posts, btw, they're good content.
And John Henry made 16 transactions of value that day, and the machine only fucked up 9.
Yo, where does this guy work at? I wanna make sure he's telling the truth.
With my stomach.