Thursday, August 18, 2005
Who's Mike Jones?
Sorry, I finally heard his song on the radio and the mere fact that he repeats his name throughout the entire song and it's still catchy is a huge victory for people with monosyllabic first and last names everywhere.
We went to a concessions stand vendor training seminar last night. The CGSO is going to be working for the evil A*r*a*m*a*r*k corporation and selling their wares. Yes, we could get our contract cancelled over that statement so I'll fix it. There, that's better. But we sell all the overpriced goodies to the poor suckers who didn't eat before the concert and/or basketball games. But we do get 10% of the total sales of our stand. So basically They hire these non-profit groups to peddle their wares, give them a small cut, and then write that cut off on their taxes. Sounds like one hell of a scam to me. But there is a new director in charge of the vending this year and he's made some good changes. Previously we could have a hot dog and a pretzel. Now we can have any thing the store sells, within reason. But we can't take any of the food home, like the hamburgers or hot dogs, which we did when we worked two years ago. The reason is typical lawsuit bullshit, but that is that state of affairs today.
But we also get free admission to these events. Ciara is coming here on Sept. 16th and Drew Carey will be here on Sept. 18th. So I am definitely interested in going to see Mr. Carey. There's also a Widespread Panic show upcoming.
I don't really understand the allure of going to see a jam band in an arena. A significant portion of the people who go to these shows go for the illegal treats. And you can't smoke inside the arena. And presumably, you can't smoke your illicit plants outside either because of the police presence. But imagine the munchie sales.
Apparently the big money in concessions is in football games, not surprisingly. They do between 30 and 15 thousand dollars worth of sales. And 6-7 home games. That's a nice 10-20 thousand dollar fundraiser for your organization and you only worked 6 days. Not bad at all.
Okay, off to work. And J saw my note to her at the bottom of the post yesterday. So I scored some major good fiance points. Hope you had fun at the beach today!
We went to a concessions stand vendor training seminar last night. The CGSO is going to be working for the evil A*r*a*m*a*r*k corporation and selling their wares. Yes, we could get our contract cancelled over that statement so I'll fix it. There, that's better. But we sell all the overpriced goodies to the poor suckers who didn't eat before the concert and/or basketball games. But we do get 10% of the total sales of our stand. So basically They hire these non-profit groups to peddle their wares, give them a small cut, and then write that cut off on their taxes. Sounds like one hell of a scam to me. But there is a new director in charge of the vending this year and he's made some good changes. Previously we could have a hot dog and a pretzel. Now we can have any thing the store sells, within reason. But we can't take any of the food home, like the hamburgers or hot dogs, which we did when we worked two years ago. The reason is typical lawsuit bullshit, but that is that state of affairs today.
But we also get free admission to these events. Ciara is coming here on Sept. 16th and Drew Carey will be here on Sept. 18th. So I am definitely interested in going to see Mr. Carey. There's also a Widespread Panic show upcoming.
I don't really understand the allure of going to see a jam band in an arena. A significant portion of the people who go to these shows go for the illegal treats. And you can't smoke inside the arena. And presumably, you can't smoke your illicit plants outside either because of the police presence. But imagine the munchie sales.
Apparently the big money in concessions is in football games, not surprisingly. They do between 30 and 15 thousand dollars worth of sales. And 6-7 home games. That's a nice 10-20 thousand dollar fundraiser for your organization and you only worked 6 days. Not bad at all.
Okay, off to work. And J saw my note to her at the bottom of the post yesterday. So I scored some major good fiance points. Hope you had fun at the beach today!
# posted by Seth @ 7:40 AM 
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