u/Armascout

I’ll go first. This was about 4 years ago when I was working at a different movie theater than the one I work at now.

I arrive for an opening shift and was waiting out front since I didn’t have a car and was dropped off by my dad. Eventually the time for my shift to start comes and no one is there to let me in. So I try the door and to my surprise it works (I later learned a customer kicked the door the night before and broke the lock). Assuming the manager was already inside I let myself in.

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

The security alarms starts going off. I don’t know the code so I’m standing behind the counter trying to call one of the managers to get the code. No one responds and the work phone starts ringing from the security company who manages our building. Not knowing what to do I pick up the phone.

“East bay security. We have an alert regarding your location.”

“Hi, I work here and the door was unlocked and I accidentally set the alarm off. I don’t know the code could you possibly silence the alarm from your end?”

“Yeah we can do that.”

So that stopped the alarm and in retrospect it’s weird how easy it was like what if I was a burglar and lying.

The strangest thing about this though was that the general manager lived on the second floor in a converted apartment by the projection room and didn’t hear the alarm go off or come down to check on it. And he was there at the time since I saw him later.

Eventually one of the managers showed up and was shocked that I was already inside. She also wasn’t told about the broken door.

Now this was summer 2022 and Elvis had just come out. I was on cleaning duty most of the day and was supposed to have someone else helping me. Let’s call him Ben. Ben was a chill guy, my age (17), fun to talk with, but also casually mentioned he hated women and never acknowledged it or brought it up again so I have no idea if he was being serious or just making a weird joke.

Ben was supposed to open with me and a manager. He didn’t show up for 3 HOURS so I was on my own cleaning theaters and dealing with costumers between theaters.

Eventually Ben showed up and said something about his ex stole his car and crashed it or something. He didn’t seem too concerned though and I’m not sure if he was being serious or not.

A half hour after he got there I was cleaning a theater that was playing Elvis. An old lady showed up super early and I was talking to her as I swept when the fire alarm went off.

Like a dipshit I went out the normal way to see what was going on. There was no fire but the alarms were going off. People were exiting their theaters so I treated it like an emergency and went back into the theater and walked the old lady out (again going through the normal entrance and not the fire exit because I was stupid and didn’t think too)

So everyone ended up outside and we had to hand out sorry passes (note it was at least 85 degrees of New England summer heat and we were in direct sunlight with black uniforms. Here I finally saw our GM who clearly had just gotten out of bed since he was wearing a Star Wars shirt and sweatpants.

10 minutes after we got outside the fire department came and checked the building. No fires.

I later learned that Ben accidentally set off the fire alarm. We didn’t have seats behind the counter so we would sit on the cooler and the cooler was up against the fire alarm and Ben leaned on it accidentally setting it off. However instead of telling this my manager made up a story about a sketchy guy going into the bathroom and setting it off. I learned this initially and didn’t learn the truth until a few days later.

My shift ended around 3 and by that point we were basically back to normal.

So yeah that’s my most wild day at work. What’s y’all’s?

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