How we all holding up today? We are down a bit in attendance and I’m not too mad about that. Got a huge surprise in that we got our delivery of candy, seed,oil ect in this morning. It was a huge stress relief to fill the shelves with stock. Yesterday I wanted to walk, today was a bit more fun.

I assure our corporate office will have an earful on our weekly Monday meeting between myself and fellow GMs.

I’m just now waking up from the horror that was last night. While we were extremely down bad, it’s my theaters last weekend ever (we’re closing) so I’m glad we got to go out big. I wish it could’ve been like next year just so that I could spend the holidays with my coworkers and get that holiday pay. But this will be my last ever double and never again. No one was able to go on break but some coworkers made sure to order food for the staff. I’m going to miss working at a theater so much. It’s been a lot of fun and not sometimes. From always something going on with one of our machines, the popper, the dirty auditoriums, cinema day, marvel movies, the discounts, and the cool regulars! But I always enjoyed coming on here every once ina while to check up on my fellow movie theater employees. Good luck to the rest of you guys for the remainder of the year and so forth. The torch is being passed on and let the voice of theater employees live on lmao

I’m pretty sure I’m the fastest floor (theater cleaner) or at least my manager trust me more than anyone on busy days, (especially with me ordering them around and them not questioning it if they themselves try helping me:p). I can usually do a theater of 70 ppl by myself no problem. And with 100 ppl it’s tough but I can still manage. Right when I clock in tho my coworker who has been here for like 2 years longer than me (never tried for a promotion either) has to keep calling a manager or 2 to help him with a theater of 40 ppl. Idk if I’m just trippin or not, but I swear ppl can handle themselves better than that. Ps time for 100 was 15 mins and for a 200 theater was 1hr, ig you can call those my records😭

Anyone getting killed by this movie? It’s so busy and the guests are coming HOURS EARLY, hanging outside the auditoriums, it’s also an older crowd so they don’t understand how the theater works so they walk in without tickets or walk past you after buying tickets

💀 this movie is also busy on weekdays and any time of day, thankfully it seems to be slowing down now thanks to it being a subtitled movie so they don’t last as long compared to a movie with wide appeal.

I’ve been working at a movie theater as a bartender for about a year and a half and all in all I love it, but last night lord help us all. I’m missing the days of the SAGAFTRA strike when no good movies were being released 😭. We ran out of no joke almost every glass and liquor we had, not to mention our kitchen was barren after. How did it go on y’all’s end cause if I was anywhere similar to mine I’m so incredibly sorry 💔

OH MY GOD THIS KILLS ME EVERY TIME Today we had the worst rush I’ve seen since NO WAY HOME (we had about 5,000+ guests today) AND I SWEAAARRRR every person who I helped in concessions was saying the same thing “what do you do with that popcorn on the floor?” Tbh it does pile up BUT this one lady suggested we give it to homeless people ??? i understand wanting to give back but we’ve been walking all over it for 6+ hours i’m gonna sweep it up and throw it out????

Does anyone else want to scream after they hear this or is my theatre just insanely dirty??

That’s it. That’s all. We are a 16 auditorium theater. All staff agrees this is worse than Deadpool & Wolverine. We had 650 people come through just at 9 am today.
We have been soft closing since Wednesday and sold out of everything already twice in three days. I hope you guys are OK.

my amc is located inside a mall, right next to a food court… SO, i just got my ass kicked as usher!! so much food and spills everywhere. rushes of 200 people every hour 😅 the worst shift i have ever worked in my life it was terrible 0/10 would NOT recommend.

I am an usher, and me and my coworkers were cleaning all day. There was a woman in a Wicked showing who offered to buy pizza for all the employees! I told her "well if you want to you can and I would not proyest", and my two coworkers were like "yes please!". I thought she was joking! BUT like 20 minutes later a man from Dominoes Pizza arrives with TWO pies! I was very surprised! I then ate pizza with my coworker at the bar!

My god the kindness of strangers is AWESOME!

Anyone else hate when this happens? You're usher, and you're trying to clean the theater but people are already coming in and it hasn't even been a minute and you have to ask them to wait outside until you're finished cleaning.

Also hate it when they come in as the CREDITS are still rolling.

We have marquees posted outside telling people to please wait and we update them when we're done. Yet it seems like no one pays attention to that.

Is patience even a thing nowadays?

We reached over 5000 guests today (idk if that’s a lot in general but it is for us), we are out of Candy entirely, out of most drinks, out of all out food except hotdogs. Thankfully I enjoy the chaos, but WOW

TLDR: Floor manager is mad I refuse OT on a busy day after I complain to our GM how he cut me 3 times prior.

I decided to refuse OT during a crazy Moana rush and my floor manager is mad at me 🤣🤣. The reason why he's mad at me is because I complained to our GM that he had cut me three times in a row for no reason.

Friday: I was 10-5. He cut me midway through since it wasn't that busy.(Makes sense)

Sunday: I was 2:15-10:30. He cut me midway through once again since they overscheduled. Keep in mind there was a 1:45 and 3:00 mid as well. Why cut me and not the 1:45 or openers first? (Now I'm frustrated)

Monday: I was 3-11. He cut me 3 hours in even though it was relatively busy. There was a 1:45 mid and two closers. Why cut me and not the 1:45 once again? (Now I'm mad and he tells me to complain to our GM)

So, here he comes Friday on Moans's release. Were packed and there's 4 people on floor being overstressed. He already starts pissing everyone off with his snarky attitude and blaming us for the floor being dirty even though we have no time to clean it. He forces us to clean 3 bins that were full instead of going to our next theater which is already behind, then pushes us to clean #7 even though #15 was next on the schedule. We don't say anything since he can never be wrong apparently and we comply. He then realizes we skipped #15 and tries to blame us even though he's in the wrong.

Eventually we finish the theater and both me and the other opener are off. Instead of kindly asking me to stay longer he tells me in a stern tone to go check the next theater. I tell him I'm off at 5 and he tells me he knows and that I need to stay longer.

At this point I'm sick of him so I talk back and tell him I'm tried and I want to go home. He then brings up the fact I complained about getting cut and now I'm complaining about staying longer to try and make me feel bad. At this point I'm not having it and tell him that I'm tired.(I had stayed for 12 hours the previous day.)

Then with a shitty ass grin he tells me to go clock out and then proceeds to shit talk me after I leave.

I'll go first:

I was filling mobile orders so we had a sign up: PICK UP MOBILE ORDERS HERE and it was stationed at an area that has times for movies and advertisements of promo items.

Now this line is starting to get long. Longer than the amount of mobile orders showing up on the screen. Another lady complains about something else but that's some entitlement crap.

So I yell out: THIS IS FOR MOBILE ORDERS ONLY. IF YOU'RE NOT PICKING UP A MOBILE ORDER YOU'LL HAVE TO GO INTO ANOTHER LINE.

This lady replies: "But the sign doesn't say "mobile orders ONLY""

Ma'am. I do not have a register.

So a little backstory my theater did 17,000 people last week the 4 other regals in my area barely topped 4,000. All of our negative reviews are about our seats being all torn up but our DM won’t give us hours to put the covers on or hours for us to have more workers scheduled because we always need help on floor and get behind on theaters. The other regals have IMAX and have been renovated multiple times in the past year or 2 We have gotten literally nothing.

Regal sucks I hate it here

How’s everyone’s stock levels? Our main candy/seed/oil vendor didn’t clarify they wouldn’t deliver today. Needless to say, we don’t have much right now.

I am a manager at a theater and I ensure I always extend any and all gratitude I can to my team of 200 here. I know not everyone is lucky enough to have a management team that cares for their wellbeing.

Thank you all for everything you do. Every concern you take. Every guest you assist. Every mess you clean. Every popcorn served. You all deserve to be with your families every holiday season but work in a field that doesn’t allow it. You are all doing your best and that’s the best you can do!

You are all loved. You are all amazing. Thank you thank you thank you.

Edit: For those commenting in my staffing numbers. We’re a Restaurant/Theater hybrid so we have OPs team, Front of House (Servers/Bartending), and Heart of House (Line Cook/Kitchen Prep/Kitchen Support). I have 80 servers alone with 30 of them running around during our busiest times. It’s very high paced.

EVERYONE AND THERE FAMILIES IS FR COMING TO THE MOVIES TODAY…tell me why our first 3 showings of wicked at completely sold out and ik so many families are gonna come in and complain about there not being any seats for the family of 8😔

atleast we survived thanksgiving🗣️

EDIT: we did it yall 8 hour day and so many messes ive picked up i survived 🗣️

Whether it be a broken sound system or someone forgot to turn the house lights off, it's always "Satan is trying to stop me from watching this movie!" or try and pin it on some Hollywood conspiracy that the world is out to get them.

No Karen, sometimes mistakes happen.

I work at one and I’m curious how other locations operate lol

The theater I work at is doing extensive remodeling. So when they started to take down old decorations, I asked to take a reel and they said PLEASE.

So this happened many years ago but I was an usher for a big theatre chain and it was a relatively slow day so just me and one other guy were on clean up duty. We go in to get a theatre ready and while I get near the top I see something under a seat and I couldn’t believe my eyes. Called the other guy over and sure enough someone left a gun under a seat. We called the manager who collected it and called the local police about it. They sent two officers to retrieve the gun and it turns out that the gun belonged to one of the two cops who came to watch a movie while on duty and then left his firearm behind. I’m pretty sure that cop was severely reprimanded for that.

Okay, I am part of a small privately owned theatre. I am aware I’m about to sound like a big dummy, but I keep seeing ya’ll talk about throwing old bulbs off the roof, etc. NEVER heard of this. What does it do? I’ve been told the oils from your hands can make them explode on you (not a good thing, obvs..) but tell me more about willingly tossing them (safely, if possible).. Where do you do it? Why? Is it “safe”? I’m truly ignorant but this sounds fun as hell. Help!😂