All I have to say is wow, how could a person treat another person like this especially being a VP of the company, Hell I would not go back either, screw that place…

February 26, 2010 12:15 AM PST

Obscenity-laden e-mail leads to Facebook boycott

Some e-mails are not suitable for the workplace, and then there are e-mails not suitable for sending from the workplace.

This must be the difficult lesson for Steven Payne, a vice president (at last word) of Evergreen Entertainment. Payne’s company operates a chain of movie theaters, including the St. Croix Falls Cinema 8, in St. Croix Falls, Wis. Recently, a patron of the movie theater wrote a letter to the company complaining about the experience she and her husband and another couple had during a showing of "Shutter Island."

Sarah Kohl-Leaf of Taylors Falls, Minn., complained in her letter that the theater offered no option to purchase tickets with a credit or debit card, meaning she and her husband had to use their cash for the tickets and then borrow money from the other couple to purchase refreshments. (The lobby ATM was reportedly out of cash.) Then, she said, the staff interrupted the movie to check the ticket stubs of the seated audience.

"I did not pay 18.00 to have a distracted experience," she wrote in a letter to the company and later posted to Facebook. "I would rather drive to White Bear Lake, where they obviously know how to run a theater than have this experience again."

She said she was shocked by the response she said she received from Payne:

Drive to White Bear Lake and also go f*** yourself. If you dont have money for entertainment, get a better job, and don’t pay for everything on your credit or check card. You can also shove your time and gas up your f****** ass. Also, find better things to do with your time. This email is an absolute joke. We don’t care to have you as a customer. Let me know if you need directions to white bear lake.

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