In order to make this easier to moderate and to facilitate a more cohesive community. This community is being merged with r/MovieTheaterEmployees.

Do u get to keep them and if someone has any cool ones I would be interested in then why not make some money 🙃

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpRaPK5qjgs&t=64s

7 Staff and 3 managers vs 2800 in 4 hours..... Like locusts on the wind, we ran out of stock in a single pass thanks to the stock shortage. Even against all the complaints the movie was so good people didn't care what state the theaters were in they were just glad we were open. Haven't seen crowd reactions like that since endgame. This ll be one of the nights that the vets sit around a break room table playing poker on nights off talking about for years to come. At least this time we didn't run out of cold water like endgame.....

My local cinema (Odeon, formerly AMC) has the staff in name badges with their name and their favourite film. Do you get to pick this film as your genuine one or is it restricted? I saw a woman there with "Name and Crash" listed as her favourite film. Either she meant Crash (2004) which I can't imagine being anyone's favourite film, or she meant Crash (1996) about people being sexually aroused by car crashes.

Was she just picking off an approved list? Do corporate do anything to stop people picking Doctor Strangelove (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb), Baise Moi, Burn Hollywood! Burn! or Debbie Does Dallas?

Just curious if anyone had any inside intel. Thanks for all the hard work you do.

Coworker.org (independent from and unaffiliated with AMC Theatres) has a survey for current, former and furloughed AMC Theaters to share their thoughts on what an AMC that is accountable to its employees would look like as the company undergoes changes. If you work at AMC, you can share your perspective here: https://act.coworker.org/survey/AMC-Future-Survey/

Hi Guys!

For my current University project (Lancaster University) I'm doing research on how COVID-19 has affected the cinema industry and its workers, I really wanted to research into this topic more as I've been working at Vue since around 2018 now, and seeing it how it currently is (well was when it was open :( ) really make's me miss what it once was!

Thank you so much in advance! Feel free to ask any questions :)all information is confidential and for my project for University - it would be a great help!

https://lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a3RLJ0XEiNblVrv

Thankyou so much in advance! Feel free to ask any questions :)

I know there's been some speculation that AMC and other movie theater chains could face bankruptcy in the future. In case it's useful, there's a new resource on Coworker.org with information on what workers should be aware of when their employers are facing bankruptcy or bought out by private equity firms.

You can check it out here: https://home.coworker.org/what-private-equity-and-bankruptcy-means-for-workers/

Hi there, as the title says, I'm writing a book with a cinema as a central location. Other than the screening rooms, what other rooms does a typical cinema have? Of course there's a concession stand and workroom, toilets, a janitor's closet. Anything else I'm missing?

Also about the layout of the projection room -- is that accessible from the downstairs, or what? Remarkably, it's rather difficult to find blueprints online. Do cinemas typically have basements? Lofts?

Any and all information would be greatly appreciated! Anything additional you can tell me would be wonderful, too.

Hey, any Cineworld workers here who've heard anything at all from their managers? Our managers have all been furloughed and we were meant to get an email from our regional manager last week but no one's heard anything...

Well guys, it happened. Rip. It's been fun. See y'all in 6-12 weeks, apparently.

Anyone else here that can relate with the pain I have changing the scents in the MX4D theater? Not only is it very time consuming (1 hour for 28 benches) and exhausting, but frustrating too, because Mediamation, the company behind MX4D switches around scents like they want.

I.E.: Movie #1 has scents "Engine Exhaust" and "Whiskey". Movie #2 only needs one scent changed, since "Engine Ex" stays the same, and everyone would think "let's leave that one in the same chamber". And Mediamation like, "Noooo, we gotta change it to the second chamber and fit the new scent into chamber Nr.1"

I work now since 2 months, needed to change the scents 7 times, and 4 times that occured. So a 30 min job takes double the time.

The worst part is, that you could now watch the movie alone, because as a projectionist you need to test the motion track. But who wants to stay another 2 hours for a movie after he worked for 10 hours and wants to go home at 2:30am?

I'm curious if any of you have noticed any changes as of late that you think are due to the Coronavirus?

Check out news coverage on CBS about how AMC Theatres employees are joining a campaign for holiday and overtime pay. Here's a link to the campaign, that anyone can join: https://www.coworker.org/petitions/amending-motion-picture-theater-overtime-exempt-rule-from-flsa

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/amc-theatre-workers-call-for-holiday-and-overtime-pay-from-cinema-chain/

"For many film fans, going to the movies is an annual holiday tradition. But for hourly employees at AMC Theatres, the nation's largest cinema chain, there's no extra pay for working Christmas Day or any other holiday. 

In fact, their hourly rates do not increase even when they work more than eight hours a day or exceed 40 hours a week. The reason: Movie-house workers are exempt from federal labor laws that mandate overtime pay for nearly all other hourly workers."

I thought it was short but good. Can’t wait for a longer one with joker. That INTRO!

So I work at a theatre in Southern Utah, aka the Florida of the western half of the US. So we get a constant flooding of seniors coming to see movies every day.

About 3 weeks ago, I was helping this older man pick tickets for his movie. If my memory serves correctly, he was the only guest in the entire lobby at the time. He needed help with a bunch of things and I was more than happy to help him. To be clear the transaction lasted like 10 minutes; he needed help with multiple things, and I helped him and he wasnt pissed at the end of it, rather satisfied because I did what he asked.

When he was about to leave, he was super thankful, and said (presumably unintentionally saying it wrongly), "Business doing pleasure with you," and me, who is usually raunchy as all hell outside of work, naturally replied with "It is a business doing pleasure with me."

My manager who was nearby just blankly stares at me, and I realize what I said. Fortunately, the old man didn't really understand, or maybe he did, but I wasn't talked to by management in any sense and he left the building right after anyways since his movie wasn't for a few hours. Regardless my manager laughed later anyways, thank god they know me outside of work. After that, I went to the backroom and started laughing for what felt like 10 minutes.

The rest of the day I could hardly contain myself because that just felt so weird of an exchange, but it was so funny to me. I honestly love working at the theatre because the guests we get are so varied since we cater to basically everyone in the town. If they wanna see a movie, they're coming to us, so we get to meet so many weird people. This was probably my favorite customer I've helped.

I work at the 3 letter devil. Our location is using our own janitors vs an outside company. Corporate and our GM want us to have all 14 theaters completely spotless at the end of every night plus our very large lobby and all of the restrooms. We currently have 4 janitors who are on the verge of quitting. Friday and Saturday we have 3 janitors working. And Sunday through Thursday we have 2. The most they'll hire are 6 janitors total.... They have been trying to hire more janitors but no one wants the job and if they do they don't last long. People are dropping like flies at our location. They keep demanding more and more from us without offering any real solutions. Like most theaters we consist of a lot of high schoolers and college aged kids so staying all hours of the night is just not feasible and when they first hired us they told us it'd only be a couple hours a night a couple nights a week. Even our managers and the one Supervisor we have left are just over staying til 2 am or later every night I'm sorry if this is all a jumbled mess. I have had many meetings with my GM and it seems we can never be on the same page. Her and corporate really have no idea what it takes to do what we do. They are cutting payroll and just not working with us. Are we (the janitors and crew) being unreasonable in thinking that there's no way for us to have the entire theater spotless at the end of every night?