MILF At the secondary snack bar the dispenser for fruit punch was broken and it put out syrup instead of the punch. Anyway it gets boring at times working the snack bar so Dave and me decided to start taking shots of the stuff. That got us going and we were able to clean up in no time. This got old after a while so we decided to make a game of it. If we had two identical consecutive orders you take a shot, if someone has exact change you take a shot, if you help a MILF (mom I'd like to uh well you can guess the rest) take a shot, it went on and on but we had a great time.
Mike
Anyway, ways to slack off if you are an usher:
1. Ask management if you can check/replace the light bulbs. It's
actually
a pretty fun job, especially if there are a bunch of light bulbs. The
more
bulbs the more likely they're out. Anyway, it keeps you out of there
view
for hours so you can just go walk around. Take your time replacing
them,
you don't want them to break, of course. Also, you may pretend that
bulbs
need to rest for a few minutes after you unscrew them. Or perhaps the
socket does. During this time, walk around, chew gum, watch a bit of a
movie. The next best part is throwing the bulbs away. The best is if
you
have fluorescent tubes and a big dumpster: These are great for javelin
practice.
2. Check the theaters for talkers. Sometimes it is necessary to sit
down
in the chair and relax a bit to coax people into talking. Bring a
soda.
Again, you're just doing your job. Although actual reprimanding is
optional
depending on how much fortitude you have.
3. Throw out the trash. If you're lucky, the dumpster is very far
away.
Dawdling is critical here.
As far as scams, well, I only did it once, but here is what other
folks
did:
1. The most profitable, but perhaps difficult scam requires a
concerted
group effort. The ushers who clean the theaters should pick up all of
the
dropped stubs in the theater. They give these to the ushers that rip
the
tickets. Then, when a customer comes up with an unripped ticket for
that
theater the usher will palm the unripped one and give them one of the
stubs
from the floor. Try to make sure they are clean and stuff, by the by.
Finally, after the usher has collected a number of unripped tickets,
give
those to the box office folks. Box office people will then sell these
unripped tickets to the customers, and pocket the cash. At the end of
the
shift the various parties involved split the profits, which can be
astonishingly high. A couple of guys at my theater split $600 one
Saturday
(that's $50/hr). It is best to do this during crowded features when
there's
a lot of chaos and people won't examine their tickets very much.
2. An old classic is to go out and buy a bunch of the same concessions
that
you sell in the theater. Since these are obviously much cheaper than
the
ones sold through the counter, one may pocket the difference. Just be
sure
you have your quantities right (most especially if your theater keeps
inventory), and obviously, don't ring up your candy that you sell. It
helps
to memorize all the prices beforehand so that you can say "Large Coke
and
Goobers...$4.50". By the way, this works the absolute best if you're
one of
the folks who push around a candy-cart with drinks on it--no
register.
Finally, a tip to the concessions people: Flavor-Sol, the imitation
butter
salt contains MSG--a product to which your body adapts. It is very
tempting
to add Flavor-Sol to the popcorn because it tastes dull. However, you
will
eventually add so much (because you've built up a tolerance) that no
one
else will be able to eat it. Eventually the customers will complain.
That first scam sounds great, I know that we would have to sell tickets to people without ringing them up when someone would make a mistake and make too many tickets and the customers never minded one bit. Good tip on the Flavor-Sol too, I know some of my fellow workers would use it instead of salt for things.