I Hate..

...managers who send all concessionist but two home one hour before close on a busy Sat night.
...managers who take an hour to check the closing duties of box office employees when it only takes twenty minutes.
...managers who try to get off early just about every day they work and bitch because they do not get enough hours.
...customers who wait until they get to the front of the concession line and then begin thinking about what they want.
...customers who "know I got the money here somewhere."
...customers who wait till they get to the front of the box line and want to know "what you got starting right now?"
...customers who come out of the auditorium with a winter coat on and ask if you can turn the heat down.
...anyone who thinks it is wrong for all morons to be taken out in the middle of a field and shot.

I could go on but it has been a long day and I want sleep.

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...customers who wait until they get to the front of the concession line and then begin thinking about what they want.

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...people who come in 45 minutes after the scheduled showtime and say "Has it started yet?" or "Have we missed much?"

...people who think the aisles are soundproof

...people who don't believe the "sold out" sign and ask "You have room for TWO MORE don't you?"

...people who call in and ask if it's OK if their little kid can come to the R-rated movie because the parents are out of town (or other such nonsense)

...cell phones

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...people who come in 45 minutes after the scheduled showtime and say "Has it started yet?" or "Have we missed much?"

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Also annoying...
*seats that have their armrests so low that it forces you to sit with your knees pressed together
*insufficient legroom between rows of seats
*super narrow seats
*ceiling lights left on during the show, even if only a glow (side wall lights ONLY people!)
*managers who seem to think that 75 degrees is plenty cool for an auditorium (this is most commonly found in theaters with all 3 examples of hated seats above...we aren't sardines!)
*corporate people who seem to think that anything under 120 degrees is plenty cool for the booth (aka: corporate penny pinchers with a death wish)
*theaters that purchase super cheap equipment, perform no maintenance themselves, do not pay anyone to service the equipment, then yell so loud that they raise the dead when they lose a show.
*theaters that do not keep at LEAST one spare new xenon bulb of each size in the building, and then complain when they lose a couple day's worth of shows due to an early bulb failure.
*booths without at least some kind of sound absorption (carpet and ceiling tiles preferred, but at LEAST one or the other please)
*booths with stairs between projectors
*managers who like to move prints on a daily basis for no valid reason (such as during the weekdays between auditoriums that only have a 20 seat difference...this usually happens most frequently in theaters with stairs for some reason)

I could go on, but I'm getting annoyed at thinking about this. I may edit more annoyances into this later.

Taking her out in a field and shooting her would be much too lenient a punishment.

And Mike B., "People who think the aisles are soundproof" -- that's got to be the best yet. I am going to add that to our Theatre Courtesy sign.... that along with all the other house rules about no cells, no beepers, no recording devices, no rustling of candy wrappers....and the new addition: Please be aware that the aisles are not soundproof!

Frank

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