The Bitch of Ushering — Page 4

"ive had like 481 jobs" - yes, and little wonder with the sort of retarded nonsense you've spouting above. AGAIN. Accept it dearie that some of us can cope with tough jobs and enjoy it overall. Some of us, even when the job gets rough going, are capable of handling those pressures with maturity without bitching about it to all and sundry, with the desperate grasping at shreds of pity from strangers online.

Lolly, I don't know how anyone can take you seriously. You say you are 'really nice', but then rail on folks here who disagree with you. Your rants are tiresome and will soon be ignored. And calling other posters dumb seems strange coming from someone who only uses the capital button to yell things, but can't seem to use it to write out a proper sentence.

"For a lot of people, ushering is a survival job."
Maybe they should get another one, the ARE 1000's of 'survival jobs out there. I suggest working in a warehouse, or something that doesn't have anything to do with the public.

"I don't claim I have Asperger's syndrome. I've been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome."

If you’ve been diagnosed with it, then you have it.

This thread wouldn’t have bothered me if you didn’t immediately categorize the folks that spoke with you. So, you thought the woman who lost her glove was a rich bitch, and then you walked away from her (for God knows how long) to get a flashlight. Maybe she thought you were blowing her off, so she talked to another usher. Do you dislike every person who lost something, or just the ones you think are bitches?

*Edit for one letter*

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Updated On: 11/26/06 at 01:32 PM

Okay...

I was hoping that I wouldnt have to explain that in most of my posts I am kidding.......?? And that I don't take message board posting as seriously as some of you here apparently do? And that much of what I say is exaggerated sarcasm?

But apparently I do!!!

I was never 'railing' on anyone. I just said you're saying I can't handle "stressful situations" because I complained about something but that's not true. Jobs for me are never stressful - I don't let anything get to me like that. But if I'm not having fun at a job or if it's not paying me enough, I'll find something better and leave. I have never left a job because I "couldn't deal with it". One job I had paid me $7.50 an hour and it wasn't enough money for my new apartment so I got a new one. Another job, my boss treated me like crap and was a horrible person, and I have too much self respect to stay in a job where someone is going to constantly belittle me.

Like I said, I'm not here to work in an office or do retail. Jobs like that are everywhere. I can leave one and find another one immediately, they are extremely disposable, so why stay in one I'm not having fun at or am being treated poorly at or not making enough money at, if I can find something else? I'm going to do what makes me happy.

I never tried to get anyone's pity and I never complained on here. I was letting you know that I have every right to complain just as you do. I have shared some stories, and you have yelled NO NOT ALLOWED NOOOOO COMPLAINING!!! This isn't Germany in the 40s, and as I've said 85 times, I like my job but sometimes things happen to make me "momentarily hate it", but I stay with it because I know it is just a handful of incidents out of a billion. If suddenly they told me I'd have to also clean the theater by picking up trash with my tongue for half the pay, yeah, I'd probably leave.

I am really nice YO! I'm one of the nicest people in the world!!! These aren't rants, and I don't think I have ever been bitching about anything. I'm just expressing myself in a really really cool way - on a message board!!!

TheatreDiva- For someone to "rail on" me for not using the CAPITAL button, its spelled CAPITAL with an A, not an O, you are not in the White House. Get off your high horse and play around in the mud with the rest of us who DO NOT CARE* about caps and correct spelling!! BOO YEAH.

*UPDATED to take out the part about the "monkey jizz" flying because I have been told it is "uncalled for".

Updated On: 11/28/06 at 01:45 PM

Yea! You found the capital button. Sorry my spell check decided it should be spelt that way, but if all you have is one letter, then I'm going to sleep just fine tonight.

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We need more people like Lolly!

(I worked retail for five years -- the only thing/person in this thread that I'm complaining about is Matt.)

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Lolly is at least entertaining AND informative. With a bonus roll of hilarity. We need more of that combination. And if people can't smell her sarcasm from 20 miles away, they need to get help.

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Updated On: 11/26/06 at 02:11 PM

The Company Theatre is a nonprofit organization. I don't get paid.

And when you said I claimed to have Asperger's syndrome, you sounded like I was trying to make an excuse.

Lolly, you're the best damn thing to happen to this thread.

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Updated On: 11/26/06 at 03:00 PM

I'd sooner become a skinhead than work for you.

And I'm not quitting because apart from those experiences, I love ushering.

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Updated On: 11/26/06 at 03:20 PM

Believe me, they are.

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Updated On: 11/26/06 at 03:27 PM

"I'd sooner become a skinhead than work for you."


Wow...did you actually type that? (it's incredibly mature) That's one of the stupidest statements I have ever read.

Here's a lesson that most people learn when they are young....

THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK
(or in this case, "type")

Sorry but it IS easy to get another job. I have done so many times when I have not enjoyed my job. Yes it takes determination and effort but heck, why stick at something and moan about it and have a miserable life when seeking new challenges which may or may not work out. But it is not a difficult thing to find other employment. it will not come to you, you have to go looking for it.

I don't think anyone has come on here saying "I'm miserable, I hate ushering." They're just complaining about certain aspects of the job. Eavesdrop on a group of doctors, actors, lawyers, pilots or anyone else and you'll hear them complaining about the clients they've had, the bad crew they've worked with, etc. You "suck it up" while you're working and bitch about it later, that's simply human nature. I challenge any one of you...you don't have a single "bad day at work" story?! I don't believe that at all. I doubt there's a single person in the world that's brimming with happiness 24/7 and looooveees every single aspect of their work all the time!

Also, it's very cavalier to say "oh, it's so easy to find another job." If that were true, there wouldn't be anyone in the world stuck in a job or career they disliked. Sometimes the job you have is the only one which will give you the hours, benefits or pay scale that you need. When I had my customer service-oriented job, I kept it because it gave me health insurance and travel perks. That was the selling point, and it was enough to keep me there. I could have taken something else, sure, but it wouldn't have given me the perks I needed.

Updated On: 11/26/06 at 03:53 PM

Some of the women at the Al Hirschfield, total biOTCHES..lol

-Amanda*

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