Douchebag Ticket-Rippers

[jaw2929]

I can't think of the proper term to call these fuckers.. But the people that stand there and rip the ticket and are SUPPOSED to tell you which theatre you're movie is in (even though the fuckin ticket tells you anyhow) because the majority of the general public is too damn lazy to read their ticket, or it's because they're too ignorant and stupid to figure it out....

Now I understand that ya gotta buncha young high school and college kids workin at these theatres, and they get used to their jobs, and get sick of asshole customers and idiots, so they figure they can be a fuckin asshole right back, but not to customers that deserve it, no! To EVERYONE!

Someone might say "well they might've just been having a bad day" and I can understand that, but if that's so if you go to the same theatre like I do and you see the same jerkoff standing there ripping tickets every weekend, then EVERYDAY must be a bad day for the bastid, or they just hate their fucking job....

Problem is, in MY mind I don't give a fuckin shit how much you hate your shitty job, you don't shit and piss all over every single person that hands you their ticket... You just don't... Humour me, PRETEND your happy to see me, and happy to direct my ignorant ass to the appropriate theatre.... Whatever, but dont you just fuckin rip my ticket and look at me like I just got convicted for anally raping your great-great grandmother! Do your job, and do it with at least a half-assed "Hi, your in theatre number blah" or GET A NEW FUCKING JOB YOU GADDAM PRICK!!!!

[jeo4]

I recommend a complaint to the manager about said prick. Make him do his job or make sure he's unemployed. He's in a service job where he has to deal with the public all day. If he can't act like he gives a shit, then he's in the wrong line of work.

[jaw2929]

Agreed... I should, but usually just don't think to do it :p

[moose1132]

I always see the same ticket-ripper at the Regal and he's awesome. He reminds me a lot of the guy from Chappelle's Show that did the "Holla Holla Holla" thing. :D

[B1rd_Po0p]

One of the ticket rippers at my theatre has downs-syndrome. I think it's really cool that this girl is able to hold down a job. She's always really sweet, she doesn't tell us what theatre our movie is in; she just smiles and tears the tickets. I don't have an issue with that at all.

I do have an issue with the ones that are standing their jabbering with their buddies and completely ignoring the customers as they come through the line. No wonder so many kids sneak into R-rated films.

[Lord Nikon]

Originally posted by Trail_Blazer
...then EVERYDAY must be a bad day for the bastid, or they just hate their fucking job....


Bingo.

[Joshmo]

My ticket ripper is an older guy (40s) who's in a wheelchair...never had a problem with him. Really..the time spent with a ticket ripper is like 2 seconds...how can such a short amount of time cause someone waiting for their stub to get a wild hair up their ass over a ticket ripper?

[jaw2929]

I mean I'm not throwin fuckin furniture over it or anything.... Just at least LOOK at me, as I hand you my ticket, that would be nice... But I guess that requires too much fucking effort, eh? Specially when you're getting paid to do a customer service job, and of course that's the LAST thing you'd wanna be taking care of, is the customer... Of course not, my mistake.... :rolleyes: :p

[krazy drako]

I think you are just expecting to much out of somebody who gets barely paid above minimum wage. Try giving them a big goofy smile next time you see them. Example being :D . I'm sure there lives will forever be changed because of this shinning moment.

See the attacht picture for another good example. :p

[B1rd_Po0p]

Originally posted by Trail_Blazer
I mean I'm not throwin fuckin furniture over it or anything.... Just at least LOOK at me, as I hand you my ticket, that would be nice...

I'm right there with ya - but when is the last time you actually saw some bored pimply-faced teen truly jazzed about their minimum wage job?? All they can think about is getting out of there so they can go score some weed or play Xbox... Sadly; many adults are like that too... I mean, it's not MY fault that you have to work at Wal-Mart. At least pretend to be happy about me shopping there and helping to pay your salary...

[Country1969]

Our theater just has the man at the ticket booth that hands your ticket and tells you what #.

If you look up at the entrances to the hallways ,it tells you what movies are in which direction. I don't need anyone telling me where to go.

And for the places that have Ticket-rippers - do your job. If you don't like doing it then quit. Find another job. You should be so lucky to even be working. Go to McDonalds and see if you'll have fun. My wife worked there for a few days. She hated it. You have some young person that just got out of high school as your new boss telling you what to do. That's one job you would really hate. Stand there and smile and ask the customer, 'Would you like cheese on that?" over and over everyday for minimum wage. I rather rip tickets than do that.

So when the next time you go to the movies and the ticket-rippers give you a funny look, just say"Smile, you chose this job" and asked "What theater # is (blank) playing this evening?" ;)

[Saruman]

Originally posted by B1rd_Po0p
I'm right there with ya - but when is the last time you actually saw some bored pimply-faced teen truly jazzed about their minimum wage job?? All they can think about is getting out of there so they can go score some weed or play Xbox... Sadly; many adults are like that too... I mean, it's not MY fault that you have to work at Wal-Mart. At least pretend to be happy about me shopping there and helping to pay your salary...

I must be really lucky because at my local Wal-Mart almost every employee is really enthusiastic about their job. If you need help with something they break their back to help. When I bought Star Trek TNG season 7 the cashier chatted with me for about ten minutes about Trek.

I don't go to the theatre anymore due to anxiety problems so I have no clue how the ticket rippers act.

[movieguy1021]

This is how the ticket tearers tear tickets:

http://www.geocities.com/moviereviewimages/diaryofamadblackwoman.bmp

Is it really that hard to fold a ticket once along the perforations and then tear? God knows how many tickets I've torn, and it's not like it's hard.

[jaw2929]

Who cares how they tear it movieguy? I'm just talkin bout basic customer service courtesy.... Do you collect your movie ticket stubs or somethin? :confused:

[movieguy1021]

Originally posted by Trail_Blazer
Who cares how they tear it movieguy? I'm just talkin bout basic customer service courtesy.... Do you collect your movie ticket stubs or somethin? :confused:

Yes, actually I do.

I think the demeanor of the ticket-tearers is more or less ireelevent. It's the fact that these people care so little about their jobs that they don't have the goddamn common courtesy to tear along the perforations. Unless it's an old person (which it usually is on weekdays), there's no excuse for it.

[B1rd_Po0p]

Originally posted by Saruman
I must be really lucky because at my local Wal-Mart almost every employee is really enthusiastic about their job. If you need help with something they break their back to help.

Everyone is bitter at the Wal-Mart by my old house. Even the stupid greeter - who's supposed to be cheerful. He wouldn't even give me a stupid smiley face sticker - said they were for the kids!! That's discrimination!!!

[jaw2929]

Movieguy, how come you collect your movie stubs? I mean what do ya do with em? Just wondering.... :confused:

[kungfuchris]

I really could care less what the ticket ripper does, as long as they point me in the general direction of the movie.

[TheDeadWalk]

Originally posted by Trail_Blazer
Movieguy, how come you collect your movie stubs? I mean what do ya do with em? Just wondering.... :confused:

I know some people that collect them for fun or what not, it's about the same thing as a baseball card collection. It's like a neat little historical part of your life that you can collect and look back at.

Or you just suffer from Autism.

[B1rd_Po0p]

Originally posted by TheDeadWalk
I know some people that collect them for fun or what not, it's about the same thing as a baseball card collection. It's like a neat little historical part of your life that you can collect and look back at.

Or you just suffer from Autism.


... It's the former for me. I keep ticket stubs just from movies I really liked. I have my original ticket stub from E.T... It's just cool to see the date and stuff - I'm very sentimental...

[TeawithBlood]

Originally posted by kungfuchris
I really could care less what the ticket ripper does, as long as they point me in the general direction of the movie. Ditto who really cares if they're pissed unless they're acting pissed off at you. the only problem i had with a ticket ripper is when i went to seee x2. the ticket ripper didn't tell me which theatre to go to and i ended up in one that had already started. my friend was stuck all by herself with this really creepy friend of mine.

[movieguy1021]

Originally posted by Trail_Blazer
Movieguy, how come you collect your movie stubs? I mean what do ya do with em? Just wondering.... :confused:

I just mainly keep them for posterity and stuff like that.

[KTJ2004]

I love the guy who rips the movie tickets at my local theater. He's like 80 years old, but he always has a smile on and asks how your day is going. He is so awesome, I wish there could be people like that everywhere I go.

[kungfuchris]

Originally posted by KTJ2004
I love the guy who rips the movie tickets at my local theater. He's like 80 years old, but he always has a smile on and asks how your day is going. He is so awesome, I wish there could be people like that everywhere I go.

He is smiling because he shit his pants.

[Joey Blue]

To me it's no big deal. The two theaters that I go to I pretty much know where to go once I look at my ticket. Hell I don't even look at the ticket ripper. Most of the time i'm just bullshitting with my friends while i'm walking in or something.

If they are rude tho, thats a different story all together. But if they just have a smug look on there face it shouldn't be too much of a big deal.

[Gambers]

I'm a "ticket ripper", and let me tell you a few things...

-It's called a drop box. We put the stubs in there for record purposes (don't ask me why) When we are ripping tickets its called "being on drop."

-Most of us are ushers who pulled the short straw and have to stay there while the other ushers do coke off a hot stippers ass.

-We rip tickets WHILE AT THE SAME TIME
1) also watching out for those fuckers who are sneaking into movies
2) carding anbody who looks younger than 35 for R rated movies
3) fielding complaints from geysers who complain that the sound is too loud
4) and making sure that the first 3 doesn't slow down the ripping of tickets and making the customers lose their fucking patience.

[jaw2929]

That's too bad.... Because usually when I'm at the theatre, there aint hardly anyone there, and they still treated me like a pile o' shite... It's basic retail-based customer service... FOOL me, fuckin HUMOUR me, PRETEND you're at least LOOKING at me....It's basic courtesy, it goes with any job, and if ya don't like your fuckin job, you should find a new one... :eek:

[TheDeadWalk]

Originally posted by Trail_Blazer
That's too bad.... Because usually when I'm at the theatre, there aint hardly anyone there, and they still treated me like a pile o' shite... It's basic retail-based customer service... FOOL me, fuckin HUMOUR me, PRETEND you're at least LOOKING at me....It's basic courtesy, it goes with any job, and if ya don't like your fuckin job, you should find a new one... :eek:

Haha, I don't know... I think we've got enough unemployed.

[Patrick Bateman]

I've never had a problem with a ticket ripper. I suppose I'm lucky. At the theater my girlfriend and I go to, theres a short (well I say short. he's probably 5'7/5'8) indian guy, who I usually always see there.
He's pretty cool. Always nice. Always acknowledges you. And always lets you know what section of the theater your movie is playing on.
Some would say he's just doing his job, but I feel like employee's like him make the experience of going to the movies, all that more enjoyable.

To actually have to sit thru a movie pissed. Because of the attitude of the theater employee. Really sucks. I feel sorry for the unfortunate that this has happened to.

Oh, and I save my movie stubs too. :)

[Grim H.]

As a person who works as a ticket-tearer, I, surprisingly, agree. It's not too hard to at least smile at the customers, and even on a bad day, I'll at least try to be nice to customers.

And movieguy, I'm usually good about ripping on the perforation, but every once in awhile my hand slips, and people end up wih half a ticket...:(

And I'm even beginning to hate my job...


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[The Postmaster General]

Damn. Now I really wish I had a camera phone.

When I went to The Aviator, the ticket tearer had an arm sling on and a sign up that said "TEAR YOUR OWN TICKET"

At the time I didn't think much of it -- but pretend that you have your arm in a sling, and act like you are tearing tickets, then you'll see why I think he might have been a bit lazy about doing his job with an unrelated injury.

[Underground]

Originally posted by Trail_Blazer

Someone might say "well they might've just been having a bad day" and I can understand that, but if that's so if you go to the same theatre like I do and you see the same jerkoff standing there ripping tickets every weekend, then EVERYDAY must be a bad day for the bastid, or they just hate their fucking job....

it's a job you get minimum wage at and stink of popcorn

Originally posted by Trail_Blazer

I just got convicted for anally raping your great-great grandmother!
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you raped my grandmother... you basterd!

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Trail_Blazer

Do your job, and do it with at least a half-assed "Hi, your in theatre number blah" or GET A NEW FUCKING JOB YOU GADDAM PRICK!!!!

My manager told me something like this when i worked at a theater. Really if your looking for that type of reassurance from a stranger?

When i worked at theaters, the people i knew there just loved movies and loved working there inspite of the bad pay and hours cause they made it up on not having to pay to view so many films.

IMHO this is a theater not disneyland, give these kids a break.

I think i need to start my own rant...

[Underground]

Originally posted by Trail_Blazer
That's too bad.... Because usually when I'm at the theatre, there aint hardly anyone there, and they still treated me like a pile o' shite... It's basic retail-based customer service... FOOL me, fuckin HUMOUR me, PRETEND you're at least LOOKING at me....It's basic courtesy, it goes with any job, and if ya don't like your fuckin job, you should find a new one... :eek:

Maybe your not used to dorks and greeky people, but that's the way we act

[jaw2929]

Then you have ZERO business working in a customer-service based fuckin job environment....

[BloodyBoi]

Originally posted by Trail_Blazer
Then you have ZERO business working in a customer-service based fuckin job environment....

ITA with you, Trail_Blazer. I run into this so much, although very rarely in the theater. For me it's usually in the restaurants I go to, where I go in and the host/hostess looks you up and down, scowls, and then points to a section of the restaurant and hands you a menu as you pass. I hate that. At least LOOK like I mean something to you and your job. At least acknowledge me as a person.

Fortunately, the ticket-rippers at the theaters I go to are usually very courteous and very friendly. Like today when I went to see Beauty Shop with some friends, the ticket-ripper even remembered me later and asked how I liked the movie while I was exiting. (He had the nicest smile too; maybe I'll go back and flirt with him sometime. :D)

Oh, and I collect my movie stubs too, but I left my previous collection back home and had to start all over with Identity two Aprils ago.

[jaw2929]

I hear ya bloodyboi... I mean it's all part of the motherfuckin job... If you're too "geeky/nerdy" or too fuckin busy doing fuckall instead of your job, then do ME a favour, and get a new job! It's just the principle of customer service... I'm not sayin the customer is always right, or any of that nonsense, because I've WORKED retail... I know how it is... And even on my most shitty days, I actually acknowledged everyone who came into my store.... I don't think it's a whole helluva lot to ask for... :p

Also, so what do you do with these movie stubs? Do you put them in like photo albums, or what? :confused:

[B1rd_Po0p]

... Okay so last night I go to see Sin City and there's this huge line waiting to get into the theatre. The chick ripping the tickets isn't making eye contact with anyone or saying a word: she's just chomping on her gum and grabbing tickets. Suddenly the phrase "Douchebag Ticket Ripper" popped into my head and I started cracking up.... :D

[CyclicNightmare]

When I saw Sin City last night, the ticket ripper continuously CONTINUOUSLY kept calling the movie SPIN City. "The line for Spin City is over here." "Are you in line for Spin City?" "Does your ticket say Spin City?"

My question is how? How the fuck, when you work at the theatre, do you not know the proper name of the new movie showing? It's written everywhere. The marquee, the posters, EVERY SINGLE TICKET HE'S BEEN RIPPING ALL DAY...

When I got into the theatre, I was excited to see Heather Locklear. I wondered whether I'd get Charlie Sheen or Michael J. Fox.

[krazy drako]

You think The Fonz would be a good ticket ripper. Going off this picture I think he would.


http://www.indcjournal.com/archives/fonz.jpg

[jaw2929]

Originally posted by B1rd_Po0p
... Okay so last night I go to see Sin City and there's this huge line waiting to get into the theatre. The chick ripping the tickets isn't making eye contact with anyone or saying a word: she's just chomping on her gum and grabbing tickets. Suddenly the phrase "Douchebag Ticket Ripper" popped into my head and I started cracking up.... :D


LOL! That's great! :D

[Damone]

Originally posted by kungfuchris
I really could care less what the ticket ripper does, as long as they point me in the general direction of the movie.

Amen.

If they're pleasant to me then that means I have to be pleasant back and maybe I don't feel like being pleasant. Maybe I just wanna get to my seat. Just tear my ticket and let me through.

[BorderEevilIII]

My movie experience has been VERY PLEASANT so I don't think I have had any situations where the ticket tackers gave that YEAH WHATEVER look.... Unless you are NOT familar w/ the set up of where theater # whatever and the place has 14 screens then yeah it is helpful to know WHERE your movie is being screened at and if you have to take ANOTHER floor or take a map to get there... The only gripe that I have is theaters that don't number their individual screens... :mad:
Lots of theaters use those (I dunno how to describe this...)
The prompts w/ the RED TEXT and the 12 plex that is up 2 blocks from my house their set up is often screwy even though I have been there MANY TIMES....:confused: :( :mad:

Me and my roomate went to see Robots and were lookin for the auditorium that was screening our movie. The guy at the entrance told us to turn right and said screen (whatever).... We headed over and followed the numbers and briefly got lost because whoever stupidly designed the place the theaters loops back..... WTF?!?!?

[moviegroupie]

Yeah , well , i hate crown theatres managament in general. the manager is a chinese guy who has kicked me out of the theatre and been an ass during my wee years. then down at the box office , there's this douschebag guy with a goatee who rolls up his sleeves and presumably takes steroids. he gets really fiesty over anything , that guy is a pigfucker . most of the ticket rippers are lame , obnoxious, half asleep , or they tell u as they rip your ticket "oh i heard that movie sucks" just to burst your bubble. or you ask how the movie is and 99% of them say "i dont watch movies , i just read" when in reality they mean "i dont watch the movies , i just wank off in the comfy seats". then there's this cool ticket ripper who is retarded (literally) and praise to him , because he always says enjoy your show and he's really nice! oh and its like an artsy movie , because if you leave the theatre late on a weeknight , he'll be standing there talking politics with a man who is relatively homeless. a very interesting experience regardless, but with exception to this one guy , the ticket rippers suck. we oughta have ticket scanning things that go by themselves like if you take the subway or something , i'd like to see few humans as possible stopping me at the movies like i'm going to the white house . fuck crown theatres.

[chasingbanky]

From the perspective of the guy tearing your ticket.


"Fuck yourself."


I know that's how I felt when I worked at a shitty job. As long as the guy isn't doing anything to worsen my stay it really isn't a problem. I mean if he were insulting you or something, but to tell on a guy for not smiling? I'm totally against that cause. I just think there are somethings worth complaining about and then there's people who throw fits over shit they just need to chill out about. A ticket ripper is one of those things. If we as schmoes start complaining about this than we are no better than the bastards who call the FCC about Monday night football commercials. Though I'm down for killing the fandango commercials. They're so terrible I'm embarassed to watch them.

[jaw2929]

Nah, you're missing the point.... Why is it required at some fast food restaurants and other customer-service based jobs that "you should always smile at the customer, etc." but it's ok for those SAME fuckers ripping my ticket, to NOT only not smile , but NOT do their job by ignoring me completely? Am I making a HUGE deal outta this? Maybe I am, but is it TOO much to fuckin ask that I be treated like I'm actually THERE?

I'll say it again, if you're going to accept the responsibility of taking a customer-service based job, then DO IT and bitch about it after you get off work on some movie internet message boards, but while you're at work at least PRETEND that I EXIST as I hand you my ticket! ;)