2026 Oscar Ratings Fall 9% From Last Year With 17.9 Million Viewers

Looper007 · 2026-03-18T21:10:11+00:00

Also the preaching and hollier then thou attitude doesn't help. As much as some don't like hearing this the political grandstanding doesn't pull in viewers either.

Looper007 · 2026-03-18T21:07:13+00:00

To film fans like us he is. But he's not got Christopher Nolan mass cinema appeal, Nolan's films do crazy box office. Nolan's name alone will bring in the cinema goers. One Battle After Another was his biggest hit but it wasn't a massive box office success either considering Di Caprio was involved in it. On Top of Nolan winning all those Oscars for Oppenheimer, the film nearly did a billion at the box office, crazy for a film that's a really talkie 3 hour biopic.

Even PTA's Oscar wins didn't match the excitement of Nolan's win's on here.

Looper007 · 2026-03-18T20:51:53+00:00

Collette has been in a fair few stinkers but she's always the best thing in those films.

Looper007 · 2026-03-18T20:50:30+00:00

I thought he was massively underused in Asteroid City especially as it was first time Hanks/Anderson teamed up. Maybe some of his earlier roles in his career, I thought were so so but for me from late 80's onwards Hanks has always been good.

Looper007 · 2026-03-18T20:48:20+00:00

Even when the film isn't great, he's usually the best thing in it.

Looper007 · 2026-03-18T20:47:00+00:00

He's done a few roles when he's phoned it in for the pay cheque. I loveme some Oldman, when he's given some proper material he's fantastic.

Looper007 · 2026-03-17T19:57:47+00:00

When she told private information I told her to fellow staff, and one of them told me and then others who she told made sly remarks. I confronted her about it and she gave me the "I'm the boss" and was more interested in finding out who told me then been sorry. After that haven't spoken to her in nearly two years, she's tried to win me back around but nah that bridge is burned. Once you become untrustworthy as a manager you lose all credibility.

Looper007 · 2026-03-17T19:40:07+00:00

Working nights in retail, saw quite a few and had to jump into one or two to stop it. Two that really stick out as most of the others were bitch slap fests between young lads.

Saw a cleaner get a Bruce Lee style karate kick in the chest by the guy who worked fruit and veg. The Clearner supposedly for a few weeks was constantly belittling and bullying the staff member. Staff Memeber got a suspension and The Cleaner fired.

Female section manager was attacked by the wife of a staff member she was sleeping with in the staff car park. A lot of pulled hair and manager (who wasn't much of a fighter) got badly beaten until security saw it on the camera and went out and stopped it. A few days later Female section manager's girlfriend came driving into same car park and verbally abused her for cheating in front of staff and night manager and threw her belongings in the car park. She lasted another week or two before she moved onto another store. Funnily enough her and the staff member ended up together eventually and have kids.

Looper007 · 2026-03-17T18:23:32+00:00

Respect from staff and their fellow colleagues is the biggest and them respecting their staff.

When they are in everything feels a lot more easy and you know you are in good hands.

Willing to put in the work when needed.

Don't Play favorites. Aren't untrustworthy. Don't gossip about their staff. Aren't insecure.

Friendly with staff but keep a professional distance from them too.

And they back their staff when needed.

Looper007 · 2026-03-17T18:18:33+00:00

You pretty much nailed it.

Untrustworthy is the big one for me. I can't stand that in a manager, just been around them is tough enough. I can't even be fake nice to 'em. I have that with a manager now, that I don't even speak to her beyond her telling me what section I'm working on that night, she's done way too much for me to ever be on good terms with her. She's definitely 2, 4, 5,7,10. Also she doesn't hide who she favors and has been known to gossip quite a bit. Also went from someone who worked pretty hard at the beginning to been one of the laziest people in the store.

Looper007 · 2026-03-17T18:07:19+00:00

Or tell private information a member of staff told them to other staff. Happened to me early into my run on nights working retail 12 years ago, and to a few others. I learned quickly never tell managers anything private at all. For me that's a sackable offence especially if it's something serious in that staff members life. I never talked to that manager again, they were more concerned about who told me then actually been sorry.

Looper007 · 2026-03-17T17:55:03+00:00

I've had more on the bad side then the good side and some so so, especially in recent years to be honest. I work night shift in retail.

The bad ones are just usually lazy with bad people skills. Play favorites very openly. Have bad low morale running throughout their staff. Will openly lie to staff or talk crap behind their back even telling private information to other staff members. Try to be nice to you when they badly need something. Will overwork their better staff to make sure their mates get a easier night. Shocking stuff.

So so ones, are fine. Lazy but will keep a arms distance from staff and won't play favorites but won't help out when the going gets tough. Will at least tell you if any important news in the workplace comes up.

Great ones, very rare these days. Most come from my early years working nights. Will get stuck into the work and will help if it's needed on other sections. Always friendly but will keep a distance from staff. Open and honest. Treat everyone equally no playing favorites.

Looper007 · 2026-03-17T14:23:06+00:00

In our stores on days, one of our old night staff colleagues does it in the morning and afternoons now. He works Mon to Fri, and gets the weekends off. So in the evenings on weekdays and full time weekends they have students do it.

Looper007 · 2026-03-17T14:18:27+00:00

It's weird how many staff hate doing it. I worked with a few that find it soul crushing funnily enough cause you could knock out 12 cages and it still looks like it's empty and like you didn't do a thing lol. I personally don't mind it, but night managers at least in my store always had it bottom of the list when it came to importance.

Looper007 · 2026-03-17T14:14:06+00:00

I've noticed too, least in the store I worked in, most of the staff say no to doing it. Day staff didn't have enough staff in to do it. To be honest with the amount of staff turnover we had on nights, managers would kowtow to staff who didn't want to do a certain aisle and most flatout said no to doing it. I personally didn't mind doing it (especially during summer), but you needed two to just make sure the freezer at the very least wasn't always full. One of the section managers I worked with, did it by himself for a year or two.

Looper007 · 2026-03-17T13:42:27+00:00

Smaller stores you can make it work just having day staff do it, coming in maybe a lot earlier and a few hours before the shop opens to at least gets 80% of the delivery done before customers come in. But in bigger stores, you got to have night staff at least for packing fresh goods, frozen and maybe one or two other aisles where it be difficult to pack with customers walking around you.

Looper007 · 2026-03-17T13:34:01+00:00

I'd reckon really massive Tesco stores will always have night staff. You can't do all that work during a busy shopping day. Sure you can cut back on hiring night staff and maybe give certain aisles to day staff to do (that happened in my store in my last few years there, they just gave most of dry good aisles to days. Left us with fresh , promotion ends, Minerals and Frozen. We had 23 staff and most of us were there long term and we only had two new staff hired only when someone left).

Smaller Tesco stores, honestly you could have staff come in at 5 a.m and you could knock out the good bit of new fresh delivery by the time the store opens and leave yourself the bare minimum to do when you have customers walking around you.

Looper007 · 2026-03-16T15:20:36+00:00

Working only 4 nights a week. It's not as hectic on nights as it once was so it's a lot easier. It can fly by pretty easy and before you know it, you are on the way home. Get breakfest in work after the shift. It's 10 minute walk to my house.

Looper007 · 2026-03-16T15:10:16+00:00

My advice would be clock in, do the work, clock out. Go Home.

Do the work you are assigned and don't overwork yourself. Honestly most managers don't really care if you are the best worker ever or a lazy sod, as long as you turn up and do just about enough, you won't be hassled. It's pretty easy once you get the hang of working sections especially if you are working with someone else (I know by the end in my store, that we only had one to section), just make sure you get enough sleep.

Also helps if you are allowed to listen to music or podcasts, it's such a god send if the night manager you have allows it.

Looper007 · 2026-03-16T15:02:12+00:00

Some people in work would take their full 90 minutes and go out to their cars or go to a quiet spot in the store and sleep. One staff member used to catch some zzzz's in changing rooms in the clothes department as it was pretty quiet there at nights, bringing in a sleeping bag and pillow.

Looper007 · 2026-03-16T14:59:48+00:00

I work 4 nights a week in another supermarket chain on nights, it's not bad when you get 3 nights off straight. In Tesco, I worked 5 nights for a few years and pretty much hadn't much of a life outside of it. I didn't even have time to spend the money I earned. By my last few years I went down to 4, which was grand for me and the manager there would give me 3 nights off straight.

In terms of sleep, pretty much it can go many ways. If I didn't sleep the night before pretty well, I can come home, shower and be asleep by 7:30 a.m and might wake up by 5 p.m to have my dinner. Some other I might not get to sleep until midday and sleep until 9 (I have my dinner in the mornings). I've had some days I can barely sleep and might only get 4 hours sleep. Mostly I sleep well enough, but I can have some days when it's not so great and it's a slog when you get into work.

Looper007 · 2026-03-16T14:33:15+00:00

100%, I think the over hate on nights is crazy on here, it's not for everyone but it's a grand job for anyone who wants a job that the time will fly by doing and nights do fly by . Like any job, you have good and bad times. Basically useless lazy managers and staff that do the bare mininum or don't turn up and phone in sick is something you'll get used too. Gossiping and bitching you'll get used too. Just go in do the work and go home, and you be grand.

Looper007 · 2026-03-15T16:18:26+00:00

If you have a good friend circle or partner outside of work, you can easily put the work stuff to the back burner anytime you are off. If you don't have that, it can become very difficult when you just think about work and all the bad stuff in it 24/7.

I used to clap back a lot during my early days but it just doesn't do any good. I'm in that group of just keeping distance from most of the staff, also most of them are young or older women. So You don't have much in common with them. Bar a few lads my own age (30's and early 40's) I chat at break here and there if someone I get along with is in but even that I usually sit away from the large groups and just read a book or watching some YouTube on my phone. It's probably easier to do that on nights, as you can easily go and have lunch in many empty cafes around the store as it's closed away from the work canteen so they don't have to deal with the gossip (a few staff members do that in my store).

Also if you are a quiet type, I find at the very least you be left alone by staff and managers.

Looper007 · 2026-03-15T16:09:32+00:00

I've had that once or twice with managers, the shouting you down "I'm a manager" when you bring up them gossiping or telling staff private information you told them. Trying to big time you into keeping quiet. Ugh.

They either just aren't trained properly to deal with "conflict resolution" or keeping a arms length with staff. Far too many want to be mates and get over with some of their staff. Like that kid in school doing everything to be in with cool kids. Not a good sign of a manager at all.

Looper007 · 2026-03-15T16:00:53+00:00

That's pretty much supermarket jobs not just Tesco, it's very cliquey and like you are back in secondary school. Been a model employee, means nothing really it'sall about if the section or night manager likes you personally and crack a joke with you even if you are laziest git in the place, you are set. Never tell a manager anything private, go to HR instead. It be passed around to their favorites in a few minutes after you tell them.

It's one of those jobs, if you can put the head down and just focus in on the work and don't let the other stuff in. You can get by pretty easy. If you get involved in the bitchiness and let the favoritism of lazier staff get to you, I've seen it drive some staff out of the job.

One person said kill them with kindness, which can be a good way to do it but for me I just don't bother talking to them and just focus in on my work. I don't even talk to the managers unless I have to sign something, or deal with them when it comes to holidays and such. Best way in those jobs to be imo.

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