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To summarize: 1. Bad wages 2. Not enough time off 3. Rude customers The solution to #1 is obvious but expensive. The solution to #2 is to hire more peop

To summarize: 1. Bad wages 2. Not enough time off 3. Rude customers The solution to #1 is obvious but expensive. The solution to #2 is to hire more people, which is obviously difficult, but raising wages to solve #1 would probably help here too (I'm guessing they don't even want paid time off, just time off, so there's probably some additional expense involving more people but not strictly wages). #3 seems a bit trickier. Corporate home office can't do a lot about the public being jerks. The only thing I can think of is empowering staff to kick people out for bad behavior, but that realistically that means hiring security staff or calling the cops a lot. Of course I'm just speculating, I don't see any of this changing anytime soon. Clearly there are still plenty of customers at this theater, which is what the company cares about most. Until a staff shortage starts hurting profits nothing changes.

thewildginger 3y ago
Also benefits like healthcare which was mentioned. The squeeze of mandating private corporations as healthcare insurance providers and being so deeply involved in a matter so private means it is a field ripe for customer/client exploitation. The Lords of the land that are large business owners and corporations have had an economic shift, where the laborers have a tiny edge compared to the recent past in the form of less laborers and more wage competition, and they're not even organized in the US! The fact that this alone can disrupt the ecosystem of capital so drastically that a labor secretary became a bartender and the largest unionized workplaces have to give record concessions to the labor unions speaks to this systems glaring flaws.
- DonsDiscountGas 3y ago
  Providing healthcare would essentially be a big increase in pay, so chalk that up to #1. Although I would much rather we have universal healthcare through the government.
Tangurena2 3y ago
> 3. Rude customers Most people believe that the cure for this is to require every person in America to have to work a customer-facing retail position by the time they're 20. Oprah gave us the "talk to the manager" as some sort of hack to get what you want. Instead, those customers should be fired.

thewildginger 3y ago

Also benefits like healthcare which was mentioned. The squeeze of mandating private corporations as healthcare insurance providers and being so deeply involved in a matter so private means it is a field ripe for customer/client exploitation. The Lords of the land that are large business owners and corporations have had an economic shift, where the laborers have a tiny edge compared to the recent past in the form of less laborers and more wage competition, and they're not even organized in the US! The fact that this alone can disrupt the ecosystem of capital so drastically that a labor secretary became a bartender and the largest unionized workplaces have to give record concessions to the labor unions speaks to this systems glaring flaws.

DonsDiscountGas 3y ago
Providing healthcare would essentially be a big increase in pay, so chalk that up to #1. Although I would much rather we have universal healthcare through the government.

Tangurena2 3y ago

> 3. Rude customers Most people believe that the cure for this is to require every person in America to have to work a customer-facing retail position by the time they're 20. Oprah gave us the "talk to the manager" as some sort of hack to get what you want. Instead, those customers should be fired.