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the facilities? I thought we
lived in a democracy; this
is pure tyranny. If a nurse
doesn’t want to attempt to
try and prevent the spread
of disease and, in doing so,
preserve their own health,
then let them.

In all seriousness,
they do have some valid
concerns. “One, for
example, is the requirement
to wear a badge or a sticker

that says, ‘I care, I’ve

been immunized.’ I find

it offensive,” said Debra
McPherson, President of
the BCNU. Promoting

a potentially life-saving
shot on your chest while
attending to the sick?
Preposterous. “There is the
issue of [the vaccination]
not being ‘all-virus’
specific—so you may miss
the virus, the one that’s

most lethal that year,” was
another point brought up
by McPherson. While true—
recent surveys have pegged
the effectiveness of the flu
shot from 59 per cent up to
73 per cent—it is still the
best defence available.
“lNurses] need to be
able to draw their own
conclusions from the
research and literature
and make their own

Movie night done right

Theatre etiquette for
the popcorn enthusiast

By Natalie Serafini,
Opinions Editor

s college students, I
think we've all had
to work crappy

jobs at some point. We have
few marketable skills that
can get us jobs outside of
the service industry, so
most of you reading this
have probably worked
in some sort of burger-
flipping, strained-smiling,
on-your-feet-all-day job.
And of course, an inherent
part of the service industry
is serving people. Having
worked at a movie theatre,
I witnessed plenty of
annoying customer habits
that could easily be changed
so everyone, including
the employees, can have a
better overall experience.
Sneaking food in isn’t
actually a big deal. So few
people do it that it doesn’t
really make a difference,
and I even did it while I
was working at the theatre.
But if you sneak food
in, whether it’s carrots,
pistachios, chocolate bars,
or cake, don’t leave a huge
mess for the employees to
clean up. The majority of
the theatre’s earnings—

and so, the money with
which they pay their
employees—comes from
concession. If you don’t
buy food, or if you sneak

it in, that’s one thing. You
may not be contributing

to maintenance of services
provided to you, but you’re
not abusing them. Leaving
a massive mess for theatre
employees is another
matter entirely. Not only
are you not helping to pay
the employees’ salaries,
but you’re forcing them to
clean up after you. Imagine
for a moment if you will:
you’re stumbling through
a mountain of popcorn
boxes and bags, with bits
of popcorn crunching and
crackling under your feet.
You feel little bits of kernels
getting stuck in the rivets
of your shoes, and you
have to peel your feet from
the pools of sticky soda.

As you grasp out, trying
not to inhale the stench

of nachos and popcorn,
you come upon a pile of
pistachios. The pistachios,
or rather pistachio shells,
sit insolently on the ground
in front of you. The theatre
doesn’t sell pistachios.

It sells a wide variety of
overpriced foods, but none
of them include pistachios.
And although you don’t get
paid from pistachio monies,

you have to clean up nasty
ass pistachio shells. Not
cool.

On a similar note,
don’t leave behind used
condoms or diapers. Some
of my former co-workers
have in fact stumbled upon
disgusting objects of this
nature. Although it’s the
theatre employees’ jobs to
clean up after you, no one
wants to touch that, so don’t
leave it behind.

This is a pretty obvious
one, but don’t complain
about things the employees
can’t control. Ticket prices
aren't even decided by the
managers, and the food
prices aren't either. You may
be frustrated by how much
money you’re shelling out,
but the employee you’re
complaining to doesn’t
control that, so don’t bother.

If you get a Print Skip
Scan ticket, print your ticket
at home. It’s in the title,
and it’s on every page in
the process of purchasing
your tickets online. If you
don’t print them off, you
have to wait in line at the
box office, email your
confirmation information
to the managers, and wait
for the managers to print off
your tickets and bring them
out to you. Sounds like a
long, tedious hassle, doesn’t
it? By not printing off your

choice on that,” continued
McPherson. Her comment
seems to imply that nurses
are not already educated on
flu shots. It’s distressing to
hear that those distributing
vaccinations may only have
as much, or possibly less,
knowledge about what
they are injecting into their
patient. These are health
care professionals; there is
an expectation of higher

tickets, you completely

defeat the purpose of
skipping the line up. In fact,
you wait longer than if you
had simply bought your
tickets at the box office and
had a human interaction.
Either buy your tickets in
person, or buy them online
and follow the instructions
correctly.

Working at a theatre is
a thankless job, where you
have to wear a stupid hat

understanding.

The nurses should have
no issues with either option.
Their job, first and foremost,
is to provide care to the sick.
By not taking a flu shot or
wearing a mask, nurses are,
simply put, failing to take
all possible measures to
fulfill their duties.

 

and smell like grease all the
time. By doing just some

of these things, you make
the jobs of these underpaid,
overworked employees

a whole lot better. Not to
mention that, if they don’t
have to clean up disgusting
objects, or call the managers
to get your tickets, the
theatre employees will
probably be more pleasant
too.

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