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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
44 Comments
Klear@piefed.world · 155 pts · 1d
Fuck off with the censored crap. Use this:
ccunning@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 1d
Why the f**k did you leave the name censored?
Klear@piefed.world · 88 pts · 1d
Apologies:
applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 30 pts · 1d
yet you self censored? put your fucking money where your fucking mouth is. fuck.
hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 pts · 1d
You are allowed to say fucj on the internet.
egrets@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 1d
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.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
i think y'all got that cold that majes you pronounce Js as Js. i blame rfj jr and his fucjing brainworm
M137@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 1d
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.
ccunning@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
I dunno - I thought it was pretty f**king funny.
Makhno@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1d
Because the posting user is a bot they refuse to ban. u/sanitation should be booted
DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 62 pts · 1d
That was probably an additional 5 cents worth of popcorn that was being sold for $10 too.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 1d
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@slrpnk.net · 15 pts · 1d
Doubt it. Corn is so cheap the difference is probably not even a full coin.
saltesc@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 1d
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@piefed.social · 34 pts · 1d
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@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1d
Husband was a manager at a movie theater, he told me this is exactly why concessions are so expensive.
spookedintownsville@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
Same model applies to concert venues. Most of the ticket money goes to the artist
BillyClark@piefed.social · 1 pts · 1d
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?
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
OK but what if I hate corporations and want them to burn?
BillyClark@piefed.social · 2 pts · 1d
I imagine you'd only go to local movie theaters that show indie movies, then?
cRazi_man@europe.pub · 25 pts · 1d
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.
isles@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
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.
Nednarb44@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 1d
Hopefully posted from an account without his real name
RT69@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 1d
All my heroes are human
Nednarb44@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1d
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.
minorkeys@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 1d
Robin McHood
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1d
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.
Makhno@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1d
Fuck you, clanker. Someone shut this spam bot down for the love of fucking god
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 1d
Why do you think they're a bot?
Despair@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1d
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@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 1d
Interesting, thanks for the context. Sounds like they are a person and not a bot though.
sanitation@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 1d
I'm 100 percent a person. People complaining are likely reddit agents trying to reduce content on lemmy
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 1d
Doubtful lol
People on Lemmy are just kind weird that's all.
teslekova@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 18h
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.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 8 pts · 1d
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@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
so, i've had some good conversations with them in the past. but i don't like the automation either.
sanitation@lemmy.today · -3 pts · 1d
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@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 1d
I'm not a bot
sanitation@lemmy.today · -1 pts · 1d
Screw you, I'm not a bot
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 22h
teslekova@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 18h
Beep blorp I am hu-mon just kidding I am tist
nexguy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
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?
SharkBait@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1d
Yo, where does this guy work at? I wanna make sure he's telling the truth.
With my stomach.
danksubmission@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
And John Henry made 16 transactions of value that day, and the machine only fucked up 9.
quandang@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1d
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