Waiting to get the date for orientation and drug screening, they told me when they called to offer me the job that I'm required to wear black, non-slip shoes. My last jobs required steel toed boots, so I gotta change it up lol. Anyone have any brand recommendations, ideally with an emphasis on comfort?
I've collected movie posters for more than 35 years. Most have come from video stores. Of course that source ran out. I've gotten the occasional movie poster from some movie theaters but usually they either say they can't give them to customers or to check back another time or check with a manager (at another time). For the movie theater employees/managers in this group, are there any particular theater chains that are more likely to let customers have movie posters from time to time or is there anything I can do or say when asking about them to better my chances of getting any? Also, some theaters have said the posters are "property of the distributors" so they technically can't just give them away. Maybe someone here can confirm if that is true or not also.
Hoping to see if anyone has any extra Camp Miasma, Pillion, and I Want your Sex posters up for grabs? The theater I work at unfortunately never gets these smaller films 🥲. Would really appreciate possibly getting my hands on any of these, figured i’d ask :)
I didn’t get it at my theater so I went to the AMC25 in NYC. The seats looked pretty packed both nights on the ticket screens but maybe only 3/4 of that showed up. I know it common to have people who didn’t show up and people who just buy tickets to support the movie. But to have sold mostly the best seats and a good number of people didn’t show up was crazy. I compared it to the other ticketing options it has n some seats were wrong. Like my seat was shown as purchased on amc and fandango but when I checked the other 3rd party apps it was available. About the same amount of seats sold though
I am an employee at a regal and I have an employee who is 80 years old. She’ll be celebrating her 40 years with regal on thanksgiving. Wondering who else has an employee with such seniority?
How's Paw Patrol doing for you guys? I hate cleaning up after this movie. Parents don't know how to control their little rug rats.
What are some of the little things people do that bother you when you're at work?
For me it's when people leave the recliners up or stand in the middle of the walkway blocking other people while waiting for post-credits.
Hi! I landed an interview tomorrow at my local theater. I wanted to make sure I was well prepared. I'm 18 and have availability all the time, all year (including holidays). I prepared a button up shirt and black slacks with dress shoes to match. This is a theater I really enjoy going to and I did my research on their policies too. However, my previous experience is extremely limited (volunteer work and a 2 day shift at a taco stand) and I have zero references too. I would like to note that I listed both of these during my application and was still called for the interview. Any more advice is greatly appreciated!
Bro it’s not that deep let me call them customers
Lobby, an auditorium, doesn’t matter.
Go.
I legit JUST got hired, then I saw all the disney films that are coming out... what have i done to myself😭😭😭😭
Maybe I'll just take late night shifts
Last night at my local Marcus theater, a woman in line in front of me at the concession stand (we’ll call her “Karen”) complained to the manager that the hot dog her husband had purchased earlier was not good enough. Karen made sure to mention that she had worked at a movie theater for 15 years, so she knows what a movie theater hot dog should taste like.
Karen didn’t have a receipt but asked to exchange the subpar hot dog for another. The manager obliged and gave her another one. Karen proceeded to open the new hot dog in front of the manager “just to make sure,” and pretended to be DISGUSTED by it.
(Sidebar: As a very picky eater growing up, I ate a hot dog for lunch nearly every day in second grade and have eaten many more throughout my life, so believe me when I say the hot dog looked perfectly fine.)
“Can you give me one that isn’t wrinkly and burnt on the ends?” Karen asked. Before the manager could even respond, she changed course and asked for her money back.
The manager processed the refund and handled that insane interaction so much more gracefully than I would have. Imagine missing 10 minutes of your movie to fuss about your husband’s wrinkly hot dog 🤣
The summer season is wrapping us at my Cinemark but it hasn't been finishing without major drama and infighting.
Our location has three managers who everyone seems to have a gripe with, one is infamous for stranding many of us without breaks for hours or straight up ignoring our breaks all together, the other never helps out and we hear her laughing with other managers in the office (also loves to give write ups for the most minor issue), and the last one gives us attitude and rarely helps. Even though i'm just an usher, it's also taken a toll on my friends in concession who would really use another body at registar to cut down the lines. This is also not compunded by the fact that when these three manage ushers, they either don't help at all or are even on their phones.
A lot of us have quit already but today's incident was the worst, we had just wrapped up a 1 1/2 hour rush of cleaning a bunch of theaters and by the time we were done, my two fellow ushers and I were exhausted (plus one of the ushers had a knee injury), so we all sat down for on the railings for not even 10 seconds when one of the three managers opened the window from the projector hall and stated, "I've seen enough, y'all are in trouble". This ended in all three of us accumulating write-ups which I really dont care about as an engineering student and Tuesday is my last day anyway, I dont plan to be back but I felt bad for my co-workers as they now feel like quitting due to manager's actions that last two weeks. My colleagues in concession have had it worse, many have multiple write ups and these three have said "we never just sit in the office and drink soda" (Kinda seems a little suspicous am I right?)
Honestly based on my co-workers messages in our co-worker instgram group chat, it seems like we're on the verge of starting a protest or strike because of how much everyone is getting written up for the smallest of things and how folks have generally felt abandoned by these managers, it feels like a meltdown.
At least the other 4 managers we have are nice and help us out a lot, if that wasn't the case, who knows what our location would be right now. D:
Not the worst I’ve found but Paw Patrol has been terrible so far. So many people leaving all of their concessions right where they sit. I can’t imagine being a parent and not making sure my kids throw their trash out. I think a lot of customers legitimately believe these just get magicked out of existence when they leave.
Reposting from yesterday bc my post was removed by r/pics mods. Some folks here asked to see the poster.
So I work at Cinemark and today I received my first write up/ warning which I deserve I don’t deny that since I be on my phone once it slows down in the night. But when they read me the incident report it seemed off. They said I was confronted by 3 separate managers to get off my phone that day of the “incident”, which did NOT happen at all so I don’t know why that was written down. I get if they just put that I was on my phone but idk why it was written down that I was confronted 3 times by 3 separate managers. I’m gonna talk to my gm tmr about this but could a manager get in trouble for lying on a write up?
They dropped this morning and I have mine. There’s a pass restriction until Jan 4 2027. Get ‘em while they’re hot!!
Got an email from management that the only way to call out sick is to either have enough sick time to cover whole shift (I’m a newer employee so no accrued sick time at all) or get someone to cover/swap with you. Before this we could provide a doctor’s note which was helpful for me as a chronically ill and disabled person. They just took away the option to provide a doctor’s note so the absence goes excused and I’m genuinely so frustrated with this since I rarely can get someone to cover when I am sick, doctors note has always been my last option but the one to save me on days where I can barely walk.
So tired of this bs.
Edit: I don’t call out a ton, usually find coverage and use doctor’s note as a last resort (example being when I was contagiously sick and throwing up while I was scheduled for concessions and no one could cover my shift). I appreciate y’all saying to reach out about accommodations, I’ll be looking into it. It just sucks to know the next time I am sick and can’t find coverage I will have to go in anyway.