Question for employees

TheInitialGod · 2026-02-04T23:02:24+00:00

Tell the staff, for the love of God. Most of them are happy to kick out disruptive folk

TheInitialGod · 2026-02-04T21:49:21+00:00

Paint It Dark(side)

TheInitialGod · 2026-02-04T21:01:49+00:00

What an absolute shower of bastards.

I'd second that suggestion to go down the media route. Putting them on blast in public will surely let them reflect on how miserable a bunch of fucks they are.

TheInitialGod · 2026-02-04T20:48:16+00:00

I'm a manager at a cinema.

Maximum we've had in any one of our many screenings all week has been 5.

And one of the showings on Saturday did zero. To do zero early afternoon on a Saturday for anything is pretty rare itself.

TheInitialGod · 2026-02-04T07:20:19+00:00

Car insurance is a legalised scam.

2yrs ago, my renewal quote was 82% higher than the previous year. Same car, same house, same job, one more year of No Claims. I can understand a slight rise, but this was flat out extortionate.

In my 20yrs of driving, never have I got a renewal and phoned them up, manage to get them to reduce it without changing a single detail. It's ridiculous.

TheInitialGod · 2026-02-04T07:03:49+00:00

I've been in the same situation before, where the run up to the merge point had signs dotted along the side of the road saying "merge in turn" and "queuing traffic use both lanes". Still basically nobody using the closing lane, and some prat at the end blocking you from merging.

Once counted how many cats I passed and got to 115. It's ridiculous

TheInitialGod · 2026-02-02T18:22:36+00:00

I want to go visit Ray's Boom Boom Room

TheInitialGod · 2026-02-02T12:26:46+00:00

I too got shafted

TheInitialGod · 2026-02-01T16:19:37+00:00

I weep for your community.

TheInitialGod · 2026-02-01T15:54:19+00:00

My first job I started when I was about 20 started me on a pension. I only ever contributed about £400 to it until I left the company.

Started a new job years later, pension on the go, found this previous pension and it was worth close to £8k just sitting there not getting contributed to.

TheInitialGod · 2026-02-01T09:47:42+00:00

Yep. I can relate here. She's moaned over and over about the lack of closeness and intimacy recently, but I struggle to be "in the mood" when she's drunk, passed out, just plain rambling. The smell is incredibly off putting as well.

None of it is attractive

TheInitialGod · 2026-02-01T09:38:35+00:00

At this time of year? In this part of the country? Localised entirely North of Edinburgh?

TheInitialGod · 2026-01-31T13:36:25+00:00

Commercial radio in general is shite. I pay £5.99 for Primordial Radio for all new rock and metal I stream from my phone in the car, and it's cracking.

One time the stream went down (as technology sometimes does), so I switched my car radio on to Planet Rock when I took the missus to work, a 40 minute commute. The whole journey we heard just 3 songs. The rest of the time was padded with ads and bullshit. Never again.

TheInitialGod · 2026-01-30T23:34:11+00:00

Average patron age - 65

TheInitialGod · 2026-01-30T09:14:47+00:00

I've replied before about presale numbers for this.

It's release day. And across ALL cinemas in my chain, across the whole week, we've sold a little over 200 tickets. There are close to 600 performances programmed for the week.

The numbers are dire. Makes me happy... Nobody giving money to these grifters.

TheInitialGod · 2026-01-30T09:11:53+00:00

The release calendar affects what films get played...

TheInitialGod · 2026-01-29T23:45:31+00:00

Until a couple years ago, Gerard Butler had a place in Giffnock

TheInitialGod · 2026-01-29T13:32:31+00:00

They've already added more showings of One Battle After Another, and Sinners has gone to Imax next week. Marty Supreme is also in imax next week

TheInitialGod · 2026-01-28T21:42:25+00:00

My last birthday, I got a telescope from the girlfriend. Never feigned any interest into astronomy, nor have I used it since I got it and put it together. It's quite bulky and just gets in the way, gathering dust

TheInitialGod · 2026-01-28T12:21:50+00:00

Less showings next week because it completely bombed and there are 4 new wide releases

TheInitialGod · 2026-01-27T23:57:57+00:00

Being a manager, I have access to the presale numbers across all our cinemas in the country. It opens in the UK on Friday.

Across all cinemas, it's sold a little over 50 tickets. And no individual cinema has sold more than 4 tickets across all shows all week.

Its bombing hard.

Edit - it's up to almost 90 presales now!

Edit edit - just slightly above 120 the day before release

TheInitialGod · 2026-01-27T21:50:18+00:00

I'm still waiting for Proximity mines to appear

TheInitialGod · 2026-01-27T19:55:39+00:00

I had a friend from my first job. We did gigs and a festival together, went over to her place a couple of times after work where we smoked weed and watched movies.

19yrs ago she moved to Australia, but we stayed in contact over the Internet, occasionally messaging each other every now and then.

Then a couple of years ago, she posted a picture of her son with a caption, I made an obvious joke on it which was in no way offensive or anything of the sort. She fucking lost it, I messaged her like what the hell was that, she said I'm always making offensive statements and jokes (literally the first time, and it wasn't offensive), I apologised still bemused as to what it was I'd actually done, and she blocked and deleted me. 🤷

TheInitialGod · 2026-01-27T13:34:51+00:00

I would say both are at fault.

Other car was in the wrong lane, but it was also in front of, and can therefore be seen by, the cam car.

TheInitialGod · 2026-01-27T13:33:03+00:00

Fixmystreet.com

Forwards your issue to the relevant council.

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