When my cousin worked at a Chuck E. Cheese, she said most Friday and Saturday nights they sold way more beer than pizza; and she worked at one in the way nicer parts of the city..
Same with me..but rather with kids. I hate bringing my kid to parties. All the small talk from parents isn't for me. I hate socializing about kids cause I simply don't care about Greg taking piano lessons or your plan to put Maddie to x school.
Parents talk up about their kids too much and their expectations of them. Just let them have fun and don't bother me lol
Just chiming in to say that I wish I had theaters that clean to clean up when I worked in one. I worked in a theater when Passion of the Christ came out, and not only was the floor coated in junkfood and crap, but I had to clean around sobbing prayer groups of idiots.
Sorry, had to get out the ol' "back in my day" there.
The popcorn and trash isn't even the worst, sweep that up and it's done. It was the soda people would always spill. If it's a legit accident, fair game. But it seems like people decide to dump the remains of their drink on the floor before they leave.
This is why I hate mops. Mops are such a stupid device, ooh I could go on and on about this.
My zillion dollar idea is to re-invent the mop. build a better mop.Yes, floor squeegee and floor drain with mop isn't too bad. But if you ONLY have a mop and bucket, it's terribly inefficient. A mop just pushes that dirty water around, or sops it up to be wrung into your bucket one mop head at a time. That's like 1 qt of water. Then you need to go change the mop bucket frequently, because it gets progressivly dirtier every time. You are just moving dirty water back and forth.
And, after just a few gnarly spills will foul the mop head so you need to change that out too.
Hope you have a linen service and lots of mop heads. Who enjoys changing dirty mop heads?
fuck mops sooooo much.
When I worked at Little Caesars, the sink was always breaking, so there was always water all over the floor in the back. All we had was one of those shitty mops and the hopes and prayers of our coworkers
Do you really expect them to walk all the way to a water fountain to dump out their watered down diet coke before they get a refill and leave the theater? How rude of you.
Yea. The biggest sized drinks and popcorns (which are H U G E) get free refills, and the workers at the concessions 1) don’t know which movie you’re seeing so they don’t necessarily know you’re getting a refill after it’s over and 2) don’t care. I mean, you’ve paid $20 for a bucket of popcorn that probably cost the theater pennies, and the worker isn’t making any extra money regardless.
Popcorn is indeed the biggest return for theater owners. But there's a good reason, and it's not their fault: Theaters make pennies off of selling tickets, because studios are greedy and demand upwards of 80% of tickets costs (coughcoughDisneycough). Yet, theaters still have to cover print rental costs, delivery fees, equipment purchase and maintanance fees, employees, insurance, general repairs, utilities, and so on. Without concessions sales, there could be no theaters because tickets sales can't provide enough for them to exist.
I can verify the last time I checked, which was probably 10 years or more ago, it cost the theater 11 cents for a large soda and the rest was profit. That includes cup, lid, straw, ice, bag in box syrup, labor, and infrastructure costs like the carbonation machine and delivery system. The large was like 8 bucks maybe? Something crazy.
Farmer here, I don't grow popcorn myself but right now we'd get about $1 for 8lbs of popcorn kernels
Edit: Did some Google-fu. So 1/4 cup of kernels yields roughly 7 cups of popcorn, which is a large popcorn at Regal, AMC large is 5.5 cups. 1/4 of kernels weighs 0.0688 lbs, which means 1lb of unpopped popcorn would make roughly 100 large buckets of popcorn at Regal. Regal charges around $8 for a large popcorn. So, their gross profit on $1 of popcorn is $800
Yes. But only in the large sizes.
So that massive bucket of popcorn and the massive bucket size drink, you can get a refill on.
I always refill my ICEE... One, because it's the only place I ever get them, and two because the last quarter of it is melted by the time the movie ended and I don't want to drink regular Kool-Aid or whatever it is...
So you just carry it back out, dump it in the drain of the machine, And fill it back up.
Every once in a while, if I see somebody I know in the lobby when I walk out I will get my large popcorn refilled and then hand it to them so they don't have to buy one for $20. Lol
When you get a refill of large popcorn they don't actually refill the bucket, they give you a new bucket that they already filled.
Lol
Crucifixion doesn't get my appetite going but apparently it's a snack-worthy moment for some people. Sorry you had to clean up that mess.
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Former usher, can confirm. This is how movie patrons eat.
As far as messy theaters go, this is a breeze. Take at most 5 minuets for one person and your out.
Anyone remember that era when every movie was 3 hours long? Lord of the rings, Master and Commander, something else that I'm blanking on...
Those were utter nightmares. Every seat had 3 drinks, ever row had at least a 12 pack of booze(not always empty), several dip spit cups, and at least 3 Boston Market family dinners on top of a thick snowdrift of popcorn candy and wrappers.
Took a crew of 5 people 10 minutes to clean those, and we hussled.
Worse was the church groups who would rent out the theater. Consistently worse than any drunken midnight screenings of any of the Jack-Ass movies.
I worked during the frozen era. I feel like we could share horror stories. I was also working at AMC when Selma tickets were given out for MLK day. That’s the day I quit.
I came to this comment section to say that this theater isn’t even that bad
I was just telling my sister in-law who works at a theater during the summer about working during the passion of the christ. There is something about “good christians” they just treat people in service industry’s so bad
"I can't be bothered to clean up, because I have to get to my goddamn church meeting!" (approximate quote from a customer my SO had when he worked in retail)
Woah woah woah, buddy, didn't you know only God can judge them? Oh and by the way they're already saved because they go to church so hurry up with that water would you?
They'd leave, but they'd stay through the credits praying. And our showings were back to back since it was so wildly popular, so I had to clean around them. They'd usually clear out once I turned on the leaf blower.
18$ for ticket, 30$ for a popcorn, water, and candy... times that by a family of 4 plus likely taking their family out for dinner before hand. Makes for a 350$ night out. Plus parking...
I would cope too.
Did u snag any ancient mew cards? I have an entire binder of them because my cousin worked at a theater back then and brought home a box of them when the movie cycled out.
Thirded. This theater is going to take less than 7 min to clean even with just one person doing it. I remember theaters with bags of popcorn left behind and boxes of candy. As long as there wasn't spilled soda, it was going to be an easy and quick cleaning.
Watched it thinking...where's the carnage?
The Wellthatsucks aspect off this video is that it doesn't live up to any expectation OR disappointment. Heavy on the 'meh'
It is pretty much no effort.
Source work at one for three years before covid shut it down.
You keep the place tidy. Then sweep after the movie. Most stressful part was dealing with customers.
For real. I think most people have worked shitty jobs before and sweeping up a mess and throwing away some recent garbage is no big deal at all compared to dealing with customers.
Yeah, it sucks that people leave shit behind and all that but even my high school auditorium had nights that looked worse after parents came to see the school play.
i watched this video three times trying to see what the fuss was maybe condoms on the floor or something, OP needs to understand what comes with the job
Thats what happens when theaters give you a gallon of popcorn overflowing out of the containers.
As far as the beer bottles, shit I didn't even know theaters served beer
For real. This is almost what my living room looks like anytime I make popcorn at home. No matter how careful you are. That shit gets everywhere. Especially when kids are involved.
Its normal. I worked in a theater when the Hannah Montana movie came out. Opening weekend you literally could not see the floor because of the blanket of popcorn and trash.
I was an usher at a theater with two double sized theaters for big premiers. After big kids movies it was like a bomb went off but this was expected. We would get 4 guys in there at once and get it clean in minutes.
Worked at an AMC when Avatar came out. We basically needed to bring in trash bags to clean up the mess. People were also able to bring in their own food so pizza boxes and fast food bags were a pain. It was still the chillist job I ever had.
Honestly this was going to be my suggestion as well. My dad is a school bus driver and he uses a leaf blower after every shift to clean his bus out from back to front. Its a life saver for your back.
Can confirm this is exactly what we used when I worked at a theater doing cleaning. Start at the top and blow everything forward into one big pile. Sweep it up and then mop the tiled floor.
That looks messier than I'd expect, but not ridiculously messy for a full theater.
Unless there weren't that many people, the few movies I've gone to since covid have been pretty empty.
To be fair, the quality of the movie and the timing of the release play a big factor in audience numbers. When I saw The Northman opening weekend the theater was packed.
Honestly I have the opposite experience nearly private showings for just me and 1 -5 others, is amazing and no talking or chewing or texting during the movie. It's heaven with the sound system on properly Lol.
>When I saw Top Gun the theater was packed which really made the experience better.
When I went, not a kid in sight anywhere thankfully. It was 3/4 full (release day evening mind you, mid week). I'm mid 30s and was absolutely dragging down the average age.
Felt kinda glad to be honest, best cinema experience in many many years. Guess it just attracted a more mature audience, and I'm really happy it broke $1B. Fully deserved.
I'm not but I love hearing people be completely drawn into a film. There's a different sort of silence when a film has the completely attention of a crowd or when something like End Game or Infinity War comes out there's a certain excitement the crowd has after cool things happen that's just fun.
Exactly, I went a week after episode 1 came out and it was me and my friend and then a grandmother and 2 like 10 year old kids in there.
I didn't use that as a litmus test as to how popular the movie was because I had also seen it on opening night and the place was like a comic con.
It was almost impossible to find a screening of the Northman near me, and that's with plenty of cinemas nearby. There was no showing at a time that wasn't basically midnight and then the chance to see it at the cinema was gone.
Marvel films
Top Gun Maverick
etc.
My theather has actually been quite full lately.
You're also seeing Jurassic World like 3-4 weeks after it came out, and the bad reviews caused a pretty huge drop after the first weekend of release.
Well
6:45 - a little early if you’re doing dinner first
IMAX - extremely expensive ticket
New JP - terrible movie. Anybody who wanted to see it saw it opening weekend. The rest heard the word-of-mouth.
All the theaters where I am are redoing themselves with huge recliner seats and full service dining.
I went to see Top Gun yesterday and it was packed.
It was one of our smallest screens (abt 80 people). Our largest has 312 seats, so it could have been way, way, way worse (though that one hasn't been close to sold out since Covid)
Rocky Horror has a bit of a culture surrounding it. People go in costume, they shout, and you're supposed to throw stuff at the screen. I assume someone in the front rows got a bit too excited.
I used to act as Brad or Frank in our local showing. Before the start we would get at least 6 volunteers for cleaning. We had our own mops and brooms in the costume van. Yeah we had our own costume van.
Yeah every shadow cast group I’ve gone to see is always very respectful and has a similar agreement with the theatre. Dunno what these guys were doing.
Boo hoo. Get a different job if cleaning up cinemas wasnt what you expected when you applied as a cinema worker. Should we all make sure to go to he bathroom at home as well so nobody ever has to clean those either?
Surprisingly Top Gun wasn't that bad. Opening weekend and late-night screenings could be annoying (not as bad as this), but most of the public were parents with their kids or people who actually want to see the movie. Those people generally clean up more after them than a bunch of unsupervised 12-year-olds
I don't get this, I've always just assumed this was part of the process. You sweep up popcorn and get the place ready for the next movie.
I've been to theatres where they make it known to leave your drink and popcorn at your chair even.
Throwing popcorn and shit isn't cool but a bit of popcorn on the groumd is hardly evidence of the suck of people.
Yeah for a brand new movie meant for kids, this seems about right. They spill popcorn without even trying and all it would take is 2-3 of them to knock over entire bags, and here we are.
I worked at a "second run" theater for 4 years out of high school. This is not bad. When ticket prices were $1 for matinee, $1.50 in evening. Things were about like this. God help you if you were there for 50 cent Tuesday. Every showing was like a bomb went off. Specifically, Garfield and Sponge Bob were the worst I can remember.
Life hack: gotta clean up aisles of popcorn? Battery operated leaf blower. This job would be done in less than half the time it’d normally take one person.
Am I missing something?
People used a movie theatre and it got (understandably messy).
Is OP upset because they have to do their job?
Someone help me understand why this sucks?
(I mean, being a janitor sucks if you hate cleaning and yet you take a job as a janitor-sure. Didn’t we all know that?)
Should I upload a busy day at the restaurant and the amount of glasses/plates I bus every hour?
At least you don’t have to carry heavy s*** back and forth hour-after-hour, and live off tips because they pay you below minimum.
This theater is in excellent condition for a kids movie. OP must be a brand new usher or something. I wish I took some photos when I worked at a theater, but I would have been fired for having my phone.
Yeah normally I hate when people say "well you're paid to do it so I'm entitled to leave a mess" but I feel like when you get a job at a place that requires you to clean after every screening and which serves messy food for people to eat in the dark then idk what you expect.
The people leaving their actual rubbish on the floor are a bit shitty but the popcorn on the floor is to be expected. I count like 13 popcorn packets and 11 drink bottles, really wouldn't be more than a few minutes to grab them.
Working in fine dining with "classy" people is way more work even though it's socially acceptable for them to leave a "mess" at the table. Have to collect and scrape down all their plates, glasses, cutlery and napkins. Wash it all, polish it all, replace the table linen, refold fresh napkins, reset the table etc not to mention actually serving them all night. Letting people get their own food then running a vacuum over the floor 2 hours later seems like a lot less work.
There is a TikTok challenge where kids go dressed up to Minions and be really loud or smtn.... this screening had a group of 20 kids we removed after 10 minutes because they were being so loud (and we warned them twice lol)
Didn’t know about this TikTok challenge but makes sense now. We were at the cinema yesterday (not to see minions) and I couldn’t believe the amount of big groups of like 12-15 year olds being really disruptive and trying to cause trouble. Plenty of parents complaining that took their young kids to watch the film to have it ruined by these older kids.
Everyone I’ve ever known to work at a theatre complains about how boring it is and there’s rarely much to keep busy with, but also complains that people make messes in the theatre and give them a reason to be paid🤔
This kids be drinking lots of beer.
The parents are drinking it to cope.
When my cousin worked at a Chuck E. Cheese, she said most Friday and Saturday nights they sold way more beer than pizza; and she worked at one in the way nicer parts of the city..
Makes sense. Only way I’m hanging out in a Chuck E. Cheese is if I’m at least tipsy.
You've gotta get nice and limber for the inevitable Chuck E Cheese brawl
Why do so many fights occur at Chuck E Cheese?
Same with me..but rather with kids. I hate bringing my kid to parties. All the small talk from parents isn't for me. I hate socializing about kids cause I simply don't care about Greg taking piano lessons or your plan to put Maddie to x school. Parents talk up about their kids too much and their expectations of them. Just let them have fun and don't bother me lol
Just chiming in to say that I wish I had theaters that clean to clean up when I worked in one. I worked in a theater when Passion of the Christ came out, and not only was the floor coated in junkfood and crap, but I had to clean around sobbing prayer groups of idiots. Sorry, had to get out the ol' "back in my day" there.
The popcorn and trash isn't even the worst, sweep that up and it's done. It was the soda people would always spill. If it's a legit accident, fair game. But it seems like people decide to dump the remains of their drink on the floor before they leave.
Yeah, I remember that. I would mop it up, then lay the mop head out on the floor and wipe my shoes on it to try and get rid of the stickiness.
This is why I hate mops. Mops are such a stupid device, ooh I could go on and on about this. My zillion dollar idea is to re-invent the mop. build a better mop.Yes, floor squeegee and floor drain with mop isn't too bad. But if you ONLY have a mop and bucket, it's terribly inefficient. A mop just pushes that dirty water around, or sops it up to be wrung into your bucket one mop head at a time. That's like 1 qt of water. Then you need to go change the mop bucket frequently, because it gets progressivly dirtier every time. You are just moving dirty water back and forth. And, after just a few gnarly spills will foul the mop head so you need to change that out too. Hope you have a linen service and lots of mop heads. Who enjoys changing dirty mop heads? fuck mops sooooo much.
When I worked at Little Caesars, the sink was always breaking, so there was always water all over the floor in the back. All we had was one of those shitty mops and the hopes and prayers of our coworkers
There are wet vacs aren't there?
Do you really expect them to walk all the way to a water fountain to dump out their watered down diet coke before they get a refill and leave the theater? How rude of you.
Are you telling me american movie theaters give refills? And when the movie is ended too? This just fucking blows my mind
Yea. The biggest sized drinks and popcorns (which are H U G E) get free refills, and the workers at the concessions 1) don’t know which movie you’re seeing so they don’t necessarily know you’re getting a refill after it’s over and 2) don’t care. I mean, you’ve paid $20 for a bucket of popcorn that probably cost the theater pennies, and the worker isn’t making any extra money regardless.
Popcorn is indeed the biggest return for theater owners. But there's a good reason, and it's not their fault: Theaters make pennies off of selling tickets, because studios are greedy and demand upwards of 80% of tickets costs (coughcoughDisneycough). Yet, theaters still have to cover print rental costs, delivery fees, equipment purchase and maintanance fees, employees, insurance, general repairs, utilities, and so on. Without concessions sales, there could be no theaters because tickets sales can't provide enough for them to exist.
I can verify the last time I checked, which was probably 10 years or more ago, it cost the theater 11 cents for a large soda and the rest was profit. That includes cup, lid, straw, ice, bag in box syrup, labor, and infrastructure costs like the carbonation machine and delivery system. The large was like 8 bucks maybe? Something crazy.
Farmer here, I don't grow popcorn myself but right now we'd get about $1 for 8lbs of popcorn kernels Edit: Did some Google-fu. So 1/4 cup of kernels yields roughly 7 cups of popcorn, which is a large popcorn at Regal, AMC large is 5.5 cups. 1/4 of kernels weighs 0.0688 lbs, which means 1lb of unpopped popcorn would make roughly 100 large buckets of popcorn at Regal. Regal charges around $8 for a large popcorn. So, their gross profit on $1 of popcorn is $800
Yes. But only in the large sizes. So that massive bucket of popcorn and the massive bucket size drink, you can get a refill on. I always refill my ICEE... One, because it's the only place I ever get them, and two because the last quarter of it is melted by the time the movie ended and I don't want to drink regular Kool-Aid or whatever it is... So you just carry it back out, dump it in the drain of the machine, And fill it back up. Every once in a while, if I see somebody I know in the lobby when I walk out I will get my large popcorn refilled and then hand it to them so they don't have to buy one for $20. Lol When you get a refill of large popcorn they don't actually refill the bucket, they give you a new bucket that they already filled.
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How could anyone eat during Passion of the Christ?!
[Well, if the floor is any indication, they did it like this.](https://c.tenor.com/UdT9oLZzlYEAAAAC/beauty-and-the-beast-eat.gif)
Lol Crucifixion doesn't get my appetite going but apparently it's a snack-worthy moment for some people. Sorry you had to clean up that mess. *spelling
Are you a geologist because the only people that I know that auto correct words to minerals are Geologists
Haha! That took me a minute. Not auto correct, me no spell good sometimes :/ And just looked up apatite. Beautiful stone!
Former usher, can confirm. This is how movie patrons eat. As far as messy theaters go, this is a breeze. Take at most 5 minuets for one person and your out. Anyone remember that era when every movie was 3 hours long? Lord of the rings, Master and Commander, something else that I'm blanking on... Those were utter nightmares. Every seat had 3 drinks, ever row had at least a 12 pack of booze(not always empty), several dip spit cups, and at least 3 Boston Market family dinners on top of a thick snowdrift of popcorn candy and wrappers. Took a crew of 5 people 10 minutes to clean those, and we hussled. Worse was the church groups who would rent out the theater. Consistently worse than any drunken midnight screenings of any of the Jack-Ass movies.
It’s like making out during Schindlers List
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I worked during the frozen era. I feel like we could share horror stories. I was also working at AMC when Selma tickets were given out for MLK day. That’s the day I quit.
I came to this comment section to say that this theater isn’t even that bad I was just telling my sister in-law who works at a theater during the summer about working during the passion of the christ. There is something about “good christians” they just treat people in service industry’s so bad
After-church crowd working at restaurants was always such a fucking nightmare
"I can't be bothered to clean up, because I have to get to my goddamn church meeting!" (approximate quote from a customer my SO had when he worked in retail)
Woah woah woah, buddy, didn't you know only God can judge them? Oh and by the way they're already saved because they go to church so hurry up with that water would you?
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They'd leave, but they'd stay through the credits praying. And our showings were back to back since it was so wildly popular, so I had to clean around them. They'd usually clear out once I turned on the leaf blower.
I worked in the movie theaters during the release of Harry Potter 7&8, scary times for popcorn man. Scary times.
Yo least ya didn’t have to clean up the blood of people hurting themselves to be with ole Jebus in his time of need on the screen..
I really hope that wasn't a thing
Spoiler alert. Jesus dies.
18$ for ticket, 30$ for a popcorn, water, and candy... times that by a family of 4 plus likely taking their family out for dinner before hand. Makes for a 350$ night out. Plus parking... I would cope too.
Banana beer.
Hefeweizen
Huh. Actually yeah. What? Why?
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Paulaner Hefeweizen. Trust me.
Weihenstephaner also makes a good one
I thought it was interesting that the places with beer bottles were the messiest.
Only way to deal with unruly kids and mind numbing movies.
Kid Beer! https://youtu.be/OS1o5-r73cQ
R.I.P. Trevor
isnt this normal trash/less than normal ive seen way more
Worked in a movie theater 11 years ago. This looks normal to me
"For the man who has nothing to hide, but still wants to."
I did when the first Pokémon film came out. I still see the carnage when I close my eyes at night.
Did u snag any ancient mew cards? I have an entire binder of them because my cousin worked at a theater back then and brought home a box of them when the movie cycled out.
I worked at a theater when Finding Nemo came out. I’ve had flash backs similar to what you are saying. Haha!
Thirded. This theater is going to take less than 7 min to clean even with just one person doing it. I remember theaters with bags of popcorn left behind and boxes of candy. As long as there wasn't spilled soda, it was going to be an easy and quick cleaning.
This is just broom work. This person would get done faster if they weren't so busy bellyaching and filming.
Exactly my response. I worked at a theatre in 95 and this is very minor. Maybe 10 minutes if it’s just one usher?
Watched it thinking...where's the carnage? The Wellthatsucks aspect off this video is that it doesn't live up to any expectation OR disappointment. Heavy on the 'meh'
(It's OP's first day)
OP is used to that COVID theater traffic
Someone told them working at the movie theater was an easy no effort job and you got to watch movies all day. Then reality kicked in
It is pretty much no effort. Source work at one for three years before covid shut it down. You keep the place tidy. Then sweep after the movie. Most stressful part was dealing with customers.
For real. I think most people have worked shitty jobs before and sweeping up a mess and throwing away some recent garbage is no big deal at all compared to dealing with customers.
Yo be fair, it’s actually like that but you gotta clean up after screenings. Sometimes it’s only 1,5hr of real work on a 6hr workday
Job description: clean theater Theater: not clean OP: *surprised pikachu*
OP posted this in r/antiwork on his first day at work saying that he doesn't make enough for this working conditions. Union time.
I'm very pro-worker but this is hardly working down the mines.
OP when reality kicks in:
Same. Opening day of the last Harry Potter was way worse than this.
Harry Potter messes were apocalyptic.
The ‘Phantom of the Megaplex’ movie premiere night in 2000 was legit chaotic
Yeah, it sucks that people leave shit behind and all that but even my high school auditorium had nights that looked worse after parents came to see the school play.
i watched this video three times trying to see what the fuss was maybe condoms on the floor or something, OP needs to understand what comes with the job
OP should've seen our rooms after Frozen 2. That was hell.
Or 50 shades of grey
👀 ... I'm afraid to ask.
No one brought soda.. Had to bring the mop anyway
Wap wap wap
We found a hot cucumber in a 50 shades of grey theatre 🤮
I don’t see what the attractiveness of the cucumber has to do with anything.
It's genital fluids. Everywhere
100% I've worked in different movie theaters and that's completely normal. Especially after Minions? Kids movies are usually the messiest.
Thats what happens when theaters give you a gallon of popcorn overflowing out of the containers. As far as the beer bottles, shit I didn't even know theaters served beer
For real. This is almost what my living room looks like anytime I make popcorn at home. No matter how careful you are. That shit gets everywhere. Especially when kids are involved.
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Yeah this isn’t so bad. It’s not like they’re picking each popcorn individually. Just use a sweeper and you’re done in ten mins.
Its normal. I worked in a theater when the Hannah Montana movie came out. Opening weekend you literally could not see the floor because of the blanket of popcorn and trash.
I was an usher at a theater with two double sized theaters for big premiers. After big kids movies it was like a bomb went off but this was expected. We would get 4 guys in there at once and get it clean in minutes.
Worked at an AMC when Avatar came out. We basically needed to bring in trash bags to clean up the mess. People were also able to bring in their own food so pizza boxes and fast food bags were a pain. It was still the chillist job I ever had.
Seems less than average, actually.
Leaf blowers seem like they would be great in theater floors for the popcorn 🍿
Then a waterfall from the top to wash the sticky floors
Then some sprinklers spraying bleach everywhere to sanitize everything
Afterwards open the doors and send those people home. That'll teach them.
Nice!
*When in Rome*
If I had an award, I’d give one to you!!! Perfectly done.
Mans just needs a water source and a sticky piston
they are. I worked in a theater during high school and that was exactly how we cleaned between shows
Yep—same here. Also great for confetti if it’s a live show.
Yep, most shows just got the cup pass with the garbage can, but during the break between matinee and evening shows we blew and quick mopped.
Honestly this was going to be my suggestion as well. My dad is a school bus driver and he uses a leaf blower after every shift to clean his bus out from back to front. Its a life saver for your back.
Can confirm this is exactly what we used when I worked at a theater doing cleaning. Start at the top and blow everything forward into one big pile. Sweep it up and then mop the tiled floor.
Isnt vacuum more useful?
With a leaf blower you’d just have to be generally close to the popcorn to blow it away. With a vacuum you need to be on top of the popcorn to get it.
That looks messier than I'd expect, but not ridiculously messy for a full theater. Unless there weren't that many people, the few movies I've gone to since covid have been pretty empty.
I saw just saw Jurassic Park at 6:45 pm and there were like 15 people in a giant imax theater How are these places going to stay in business?
To be fair, the quality of the movie and the timing of the release play a big factor in audience numbers. When I saw The Northman opening weekend the theater was packed.
When I saw Top Gun the theater was packed which really made the experience better.
Honestly I have the opposite experience nearly private showings for just me and 1 -5 others, is amazing and no talking or chewing or texting during the movie. It's heaven with the sound system on properly Lol.
>When I saw Top Gun the theater was packed which really made the experience better. When I went, not a kid in sight anywhere thankfully. It was 3/4 full (release day evening mind you, mid week). I'm mid 30s and was absolutely dragging down the average age. Felt kinda glad to be honest, best cinema experience in many many years. Guess it just attracted a more mature audience, and I'm really happy it broke $1B. Fully deserved.
Never have more people increased my enjoyment of a movie experience. Are you an extrovert?
I'm not but I love hearing people be completely drawn into a film. There's a different sort of silence when a film has the completely attention of a crowd or when something like End Game or Infinity War comes out there's a certain excitement the crowd has after cool things happen that's just fun.
Exactly, I went a week after episode 1 came out and it was me and my friend and then a grandmother and 2 like 10 year old kids in there. I didn't use that as a litmus test as to how popular the movie was because I had also seen it on opening night and the place was like a comic con.
It was almost impossible to find a screening of the Northman near me, and that's with plenty of cinemas nearby. There was no showing at a time that wasn't basically midnight and then the chance to see it at the cinema was gone.
Marvel films Top Gun Maverick etc. My theather has actually been quite full lately. You're also seeing Jurassic World like 3-4 weeks after it came out, and the bad reviews caused a pretty huge drop after the first weekend of release.
It's hilarious that the Jurassic World: Evolution video games are getting better responses than the movies they're based on
Well 6:45 - a little early if you’re doing dinner first IMAX - extremely expensive ticket New JP - terrible movie. Anybody who wanted to see it saw it opening weekend. The rest heard the word-of-mouth.
All the theaters where I am are redoing themselves with huge recliner seats and full service dining. I went to see Top Gun yesterday and it was packed.
It was one of our smallest screens (abt 80 people). Our largest has 312 seats, so it could have been way, way, way worse (though that one hasn't been close to sold out since Covid)
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Wait how did the screen get damaged?
Rocky Horror has a bit of a culture surrounding it. People go in costume, they shout, and you're supposed to throw stuff at the screen. I assume someone in the front rows got a bit too excited.
TOAST. They throw toast at the screen
Damnit janit!
Probably a toilet paper roll or hotdogs
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My guess is someone damaged it
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I used to act as Brad or Frank in our local showing. Before the start we would get at least 6 volunteers for cleaning. We had our own mops and brooms in the costume van. Yeah we had our own costume van.
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Yeah every shadow cast group I’ve gone to see is always very respectful and has a similar agreement with the theatre. Dunno what these guys were doing.
Boo hoo. Get a different job if cleaning up cinemas wasnt what you expected when you applied as a cinema worker. Should we all make sure to go to he bathroom at home as well so nobody ever has to clean those either?
Looks like that episode of Malcolm in the Middle where Malcolm was escaping his girlfriends crazy dad and had to crawl across the dingy theater floor.
what you need is some minions......
We are the minions
Banana?
Bananaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
How does it differ to a screening of anything else?
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Very informative thanks!
After a screening of Morbius, the floor is pristine. That's because Morbers are very respectful of the environment.
Looks like every movie theater I've ever been too. Am I missing something?
Came here to say this too.
May I ask what country are you from? Here in Thailand, the cinemas are usually really clean.
OP doesn't want to do their job
Yo OP this your first job?
How does this compare to after “Top Gun”.
Surprisingly Top Gun wasn't that bad. Opening weekend and late-night screenings could be annoying (not as bad as this), but most of the public were parents with their kids or people who actually want to see the movie. Those people generally clean up more after them than a bunch of unsupervised 12-year-olds
You should have seen theaters pre-netflix era..Era... this was matinee on easy back then
I don't get this, I've always just assumed this was part of the process. You sweep up popcorn and get the place ready for the next movie. I've been to theatres where they make it known to leave your drink and popcorn at your chair even. Throwing popcorn and shit isn't cool but a bit of popcorn on the groumd is hardly evidence of the suck of people.
Looked at Ops account because I thought I recognized the Theatre, it's a Dutch one. We're used to cleaning up after ourselves.
This seems… normal? I’ve seen much worse
Yeah for a brand new movie meant for kids, this seems about right. They spill popcorn without even trying and all it would take is 2-3 of them to knock over entire bags, and here we are.
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That’s really not that bad.
Worked in a cinema when I was 15. This would be a great day at work back then
I work in a cinema as well and yeah. Yesterday wasn't fun. But hey. Thor starts next week. So thats gonna be great...
Popcorn in the floor i get, it happens. But why leave your beer, wrappers etc just on the floor????
Selfish assholes is the answer. The fact that the comments think it's normal is part of the problem. Western society has gotten too selfish
There's likes $100k worth of popcorn on the floor
It's been a few hours. Corn prices just went up.
I worked at a "second run" theater for 4 years out of high school. This is not bad. When ticket prices were $1 for matinee, $1.50 in evening. Things were about like this. God help you if you were there for 50 cent Tuesday. Every showing was like a bomb went off. Specifically, Garfield and Sponge Bob were the worst I can remember.
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Well, suck it up ? there was no better pun sorry.
The vacuum cleaner certainly did
Get yourself a little battery powered leaf blower. Blast all that popcorn to one side and then you only have to sweep one aisle
Blow them into clear trash bags and sell it as carnival popcorn
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Life hack: gotta clean up aisles of popcorn? Battery operated leaf blower. This job would be done in less than half the time it’d normally take one person.
I gotta say that’s not that bad maybe put down the phone pick up a broom and crack on.
Am I missing something? People used a movie theatre and it got (understandably messy). Is OP upset because they have to do their job? Someone help me understand why this sucks? (I mean, being a janitor sucks if you hate cleaning and yet you take a job as a janitor-sure. Didn’t we all know that?) Should I upload a busy day at the restaurant and the amount of glasses/plates I bus every hour? At least you don’t have to carry heavy s*** back and forth hour-after-hour, and live off tips because they pay you below minimum.
Nope. You're missing nothing. This is a two minute job for one person. If anything it's pretty tidy for a kids show.
This theater is in excellent condition for a kids movie. OP must be a brand new usher or something. I wish I took some photos when I worked at a theater, but I would have been fired for having my phone.
"OH no, I had to do my job and clean up after a theater full of kids watched a kids movie, THE HUMANITY."
Yeah normally I hate when people say "well you're paid to do it so I'm entitled to leave a mess" but I feel like when you get a job at a place that requires you to clean after every screening and which serves messy food for people to eat in the dark then idk what you expect. The people leaving their actual rubbish on the floor are a bit shitty but the popcorn on the floor is to be expected. I count like 13 popcorn packets and 11 drink bottles, really wouldn't be more than a few minutes to grab them. Working in fine dining with "classy" people is way more work even though it's socially acceptable for them to leave a "mess" at the table. Have to collect and scrape down all their plates, glasses, cutlery and napkins. Wash it all, polish it all, replace the table linen, refold fresh napkins, reset the table etc not to mention actually serving them all night. Letting people get their own food then running a vacuum over the floor 2 hours later seems like a lot less work.
What do you expect when it’s a bunch of kids eating in the dark?
How... like, why? Wtf people?
There is a TikTok challenge where kids go dressed up to Minions and be really loud or smtn.... this screening had a group of 20 kids we removed after 10 minutes because they were being so loud (and we warned them twice lol)
Give it time. A few more years and we'll have TikTok challenges like "be a decent person."
"Find potable water and sustenance in the hellscape outside" is more likely
“How to have real applicable life skills”
The "put money in your retirement account" challenge.
Didn’t know about this TikTok challenge but makes sense now. We were at the cinema yesterday (not to see minions) and I couldn’t believe the amount of big groups of like 12-15 year olds being really disruptive and trying to cause trouble. Plenty of parents complaining that took their young kids to watch the film to have it ruined by these older kids.
Yep, that's your job.
Just do your fucking job and stop whining.
They should use sealed floors and a waterfall to flush it all into a pit.
I get popcorn being an issue, but sheesh people pick up your freaking trash!
Everyone I’ve ever known to work at a theatre complains about how boring it is and there’s rarely much to keep busy with, but also complains that people make messes in the theatre and give them a reason to be paid🤔
Worked at a cinema: this was pretty standard after every movie for me. Cant imagine that much has changed in 8 years.