post-It notes gone wild

Posted by $ winterwind 10 years, 3 months ago to Movies
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We were at the Westminster [Colorado] Promenade theaters last night, and I gave some retired military folks who approached us a few of my [dwindling] stash of post-it notes. We got a great photo of her straining to put it high enough on the wall.
As we were waiting for our friend, one of the security people came over and took it off the wall. I looked at him, and he said "We really can't have.....sorry, memory fades. You can have it back, though." We chatted for a moment, me attempting NOT to annoy a security guard, and he and his partner said "Last week it was terrible - they were everywhere, all over the bathrooms, just all over the place." I explained why people were putting them up, and he repeated the "We really cant have....".
I'm predisposed to not like and not sympathize with security guards, although these 2 seemed to be a step above the usual.
I do have a tiny thread of feeling for them - since the guy that made the rule wasn't the same guy that was carrying out the orders - and a bit of curiosity about re-papering the ladies' room.
just wanted to let you know that your effort did not go unnoticed, but did mostly go unconsidered.


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  • Posted by $ rockymountainpirate 10 years, 3 months ago
    The security guards had a lack of curiosity about what the postits represented. Very sad. They remind me of the guards at SSI. To quote Kathywiso. ... "to dumb to live."
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    • Posted by $ allosaur 10 years, 3 months ago
      Fully retired now, last year at this date I was a semi-retired corrections officer.with a pension. Job? Security guard to help make ends meet. Security guards are a mixed bunch in the brains department.
      I should know. I've worked for 3 different companies with both armed and unarmed posts. One even hired me twice. Became a qualified shooter for all three.
      The GI Bill helped me go to college. Graduated with a BS journalism degree. That turned out to be BS with that almost as quickly turning into a more spiffy sounding communications degree to compete against.
      I still found work for 7 straight years with no gaps. I woke up during the summer of 1980 about needing a career change with a retirement plan when I learned a construction company would pay me $6 an hour just to paint walls, which I did for a little while. Better than $4-something an hour as a tired of this gig reporter.
      I was making $100 an hour at the end of my prison guard career. That was with a mixed bunch too Saw some leave in handcuffs. Oh, some others actually came to save my life one time.
      As for those movie theater security guards? Their number one priority is their jobs. Been there, done that. Give them a break. Plenty more are the folks who will look down their noses at them for a variety of reasons.
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      • Posted by $ rockymountainpirate 10 years, 3 months ago
        I'm not looking down my nose at them, and I didn't intend it to sound that way. The job wasn't what my comment was about. It was the lack of curiosity as to what all those postits represented. They were standing in front of a very smart person who could have made it clear very quickly. They chose to not ask a question. That's what I have an issue with.
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        • Posted by $ allosaur 10 years, 3 months ago
          How do you know they did not ask "Who the freak is this John Galt dude?" from the get-go?
          I can visualize another guard replying, "What we need to care about getting all this sh!t off the wall before the boss drops the hammer on our butts."
          Me? Knowing all about John Galt? If my client or boss (depends who the guard directly works for) told me to pull those postits down, I would pull them down if I needed to keep the job. The postits would still be trashed anyway.
          Me again. I would bag the postits I pulled down and post them somewhere else, spreading them around libraries, restaurants, so forth. Why be a martyr when there is another way?
          Everyone who comes to see AS3 will already know who John Galt is.
          Sorry if you came instead to see Revenge of the Green Dragons. Maybe you will see a replanted postit at your next stop.
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        • Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 3 months ago
          I don't know if the people who are trying to be seen as an authority figure generally ask questions that will cause a conversation. They just want the activity that is causing a pain in their asses to stop. They don't seek an explanation or care about the why or the mission behind it. Plus, it says right on the post it's when the movie opens in theaters so free advertising may have crossed their minds. :)
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 10 years, 3 months ago
    ""Last week it was terrible - they were everywhere, all over the bathrooms, just all over the place.""
    It probably made them wonder what it's all about, which is HUGE. I am very glad to hear this.

    Just raising the question of liberty is worth way more than sermonizing about politics. I love the post-it notes.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 3 months ago
    Security guards may well be low information types. They are paid a step or two above minimum and are often a retirement or second job. If removing post-it notes is part of their job, then they are merely doing what they are paid to do. Those who stick them everywhere are the interlopers and have no justification to denigrate the rent-a-cops. I posted my share and made up my own, although I am limited in my ability to distribute. However, I cannot be pissed off at people doing what they are paid to do.
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  • Posted by $ puzzlelady 10 years, 3 months ago
    Yes, posting advertising on private property is equivalent to trespassing and littering, and on public property it's called defacing. The enforcers of order doing their jobs are not obligated to enter into private philosophical conversations, no matter how noble a cause the posters are pursuing. No one's life should be at stake for this, unlike in the movie.

    Yes, Post-Its are tiny compared to large notices, but size does not alter the principle. There are many public billboards that offer free display space. Almost every grocery store has them.

    Post-Its in every imaginable visible space constitute a nuisance and will generate negative residual feelings. Also, yellow is a subliminally unpopular color. Blue or green would have been better, but that's moot.

    While I applaud the sentiment behind the Post-It sticker stunt, I think we would have been better off just handing cards to people and wearing them like name tags, though I wonder whether handing out notes to the general public requires a solicitor's license. That said, I did stick some around gas stations. I had to put them inside dispensers because the adhesive was too weak to withstand wind on outside surfaces. Wrinkled and trampled-on notes don't send a positive message.

    Far better to invite all your friends to a movie night, and then have them invite all their other friends. We all want to see AS3 more than once, right?
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  • Posted by plusaf 10 years, 3 months ago
    The guy delivering our Chinese food dinner last night noticed my Galt/Taggart '12 t-shirt... He was a bit fuzzy on who "Galt" was, but remembered when I jogged his memory.

    He admitted that, while Atlas didn't impress him all that much, he REALLY related to The Fountainhead, as he'd been in the architecture business in a prior career.

    I suggested that he try to see Atlas 3 if it's still around here...
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