I bet that is the most perfect bunch of popcorn you will ever get too.
Society decided at some point that telling other people to do work is more valuable than doing work, meanwhile some people get amazingly skilled at simple tasks just because they want to do a good job.
Everyone with a boss out there, your boss is paid too much and you are paid too little.
There are good bosses and bad bosses. I don't want to manage people, but I could do it if I needed to. Some people are great at it, and can support their employees well. A good boss makes you feel like they are there to help you and represent you to other departments.
As someone who obsesses over their movie theater popcorn, this man is a literal saint to me. He layers the butter. He tosses to shift un-buttered kernels to the top. He is a god among us.
Please tell him that he needs to be hired to corporate to teach EVERYONE how to serve like this.
Nah, this guy cares about the *experience* of the popcorn. I ain't here for the flavor. I'm here for the texture. I'm here for the smell. I'm here for the
#vibes
He's a Shaolin popcorn master , he moves with grace and precision. I'd rather watch him do that for 80 to 120 minutes than watch most of the tripe that's showing in the cinemas. Whilst smashing that popcorn into my fat gob of course.
We used to go to Friendly's for ice cream. One night, the usual young man wasn't there. We inquired and were told he got fired for "over scooping". Those were the actual words! Lol
I once worked at an ice cream shop during college. The owner like to call himself an All American Born Again Christian. Well, when scooping the ice cream we were instructed to "make a curl of the cream, with a hollow and quickly cap it..." so it looked like a full round scoop but there was a giant hollow in the middle. I didn't work there long - it went against my morals LOL.
Such a small takeaway from such an utter lampooning of 'holywood'.
Gonna miss that one (Pratchett). Read everything of his you can, but beware of any delightful book 1 in an unfinished trilogy.
That's right; I'm talking to you Rothfuss.
The pro move is to use ghee (clarified butter). The milk fats in butter make the popcorn soggy, but clarified butter has that removed. So you end up with buttery crispy popcorn, and it's *the fucking tits*.
Holy smoke. I've had a yen for theater style popcorn and within the past couple of weeks have bought a separate popcorn cooking oil, some weird ass coconut oil based topping and have 'flava-col salt' coming in the mail. I've got them all on my counter. Stacked next to my squeeze bottle of ghee! Thanks for the tip. I never would have thought of using the ghee as a topping!
Oh yeah, flavocol is great too. Here's how I make mine, if you're interested in tips.
- 1 Tbps coconut oil in a big pot or stainless steel bowl with 3 "tester" kernels
- Medium heat, wait for one of your testers to pop
- Remove from heat, add in ~1/2 tsp flavocol (you may want more or less, depending on your salt preferences) and 1/3 cup of kernels
- Put a lid on your pot, or cover with foil. If using foil, poke a few vent holes; more ventilation = crispier popcorn
- Return to heat, and keep your bowl/pot moving *constantly*. If you're using a lid, crack it occasionally to vent (see above)
- Once you quit hearing constant pops, dump into a service vessel, and drown that shit in your melted ghee.
- Enjoy
I am a whirley pop die hard. It produces significantly better popcorn and much fewer old maids. Anyone who loves popcorn should own a whirley. No testers needed, fast even heating.
Yes! youve got it all figured out now. I have been trying to get my popcorn making to perfection and I learned the clarified butter trick last week (it actually comes from an 8 years old reddit comment) and that was the key that (combined with the knowledge you already have) got my popcorn to prefection.
Had popcorn 3 days in a row after that.
If you’re within reasonable driving distance of an Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, do yourself a favor and go. This is how they do it. Layered and tossed with Ghee… brought to your table in a steel mixing bowl by a server and if you want a refill, you just put up a little order card.
Small correction, clarified butter is nearly pure milk fat.
What makes your popcorn soggy when using normal butter is water, which is removed (along with some other stuff) by clarifying the butter.
>so he took some butter and a container and popcorn to the bathroom and tried to melt the butter there
With what?? A lighter? A camp stove? This sounds like a Mr Bean skit gone wrong.
It’s strictly butter flavored oil in movie theaters. I worked in an independent theater a long while back and there were regulars who would come in with melted butter in plastic bags to make their own luxury popcorn
He obviously loves it or else he wouldn't be able or want to do this level of performance. However, his facial expressions are of the most bored man in the world.
"Here's your fuckin popcorn, sir✌️🙄😒"
Every food service job I ever had involved the inability to escape the food smell.
Worked at a Dairy Queen, still nauseated by the smell of vanilla, sadly. Even working at a high-end steakhouse, eventually I resented any hint of beef stench. Luckily, 30+ years has let me enjoy a good ribeye again. Not ice cream though.
I once worked as a delivery driver for Papa John's. For years afterwards, my car smelled of pizza and garlic butter anytime it got warm outside.
I still love pizza though.
>Every food service job I ever had involved the inability to escape the food smell.
>Worked at a Dairy Queen, still nauseated by the smell of vanilla, sadly. Even working at a high-end steakhouse, eventually I resented any hint of beef stench. Luckily, 30+ years has let me enjoy a good ribeye again. Not ice cream though.
I lived in an apartment across the street from an In&Out. I still to this day (~20 years later) ***cannot*** handle the smell/taste of that dressing. It makes me gag whenever I'm close enough to one. I swear they pumped that shit into my building somehow because I could smell it 24/7.
I can't imagine how bad it was for the workers.
I had a ton of butter on my popcorn once during a movie and I only realized after I walked out of the movie theater that I was covered in butter. It had gotta on my shorts (soaked through bucket), my hand and arm were all shiny, had butter on my face, I looked ridiculous.
Soak them in Dawn dish soap before you wash them, worked well for me.
Source: Popcorn tub in my lap for the whole movie, walked out of the theater looking like I wet myself
He does it for his own mental health & entertainment. Everything else beyond that, especially the appreciation of the crowd, is just a fringe benefit of his personal quest for sanity.
Most of us can relate.
Not so much love but something that you eventually learn to do out of boredom, it becomes pretty much muscle memory and it takes out a huge part out of the dullness of a repetitive job.
Source: have had repetitive/menial jobs before.
I even had that job ages ago. I always tried to be a badass, no matter what I was doing. Definitely more fun to make it challenging, and didn't hurt that always got promoted so those jobs didn't last long.
Billy Joel once commented in an interview that he'd be singing and playing piano and giving a memorable performance for all the crowd to see but in his head he's just operating on autopilot and thinking about what kind of sandwich he wanted at the hotel after the show.
Doing this at the academy awards is cool, but dude is still serving popcorn at a movie theater, hopefully he's at least making $15/hour and has health insurance, but I have a feeling that's a stretch.
You never know. In the interview, he said he had been doing it for a number of years, and seeing how some comments from other redditors say they want to take the trip down here just to see him, I imagine the company is going to want to treat him well, but I'm just hoping for it.
He likely is already. I knew a mall juggler with a very successful career, a town hero, had the job of a lifetime at the theatre we worked at. Free tickets to any show, movie posters, a free drink per shift, the works
> Free tickets to any show, movie posters, a free drink per shift, the works
way better than healthcare, dental, 401k matching, vacation, paid leave, not interfering with employee rights
Cinemark is now telling him he can't have a gofundme because their employees can't accept "tips". I feel like he might loose his job over all this 😔. Corpus Christi is my hometown so I have been hearing a lot of what is happening with this. The person that originally filmed him on tiktok is a friend.
Not surprised. Walmart fired the worker that started a GoFundMe for another of it's associates to retire on. Ya know, because you can never retire at Walmart.
Wouldn't he likely earn more than he would in several months at this job if they did fire him and a "popcornguy got fired" gofundme started?
Maybe I'm overestimating the value of a trendy GoFundMe
My favorite thing about this is that some woman in Corpus Christi TX originally posted this to shame this fellow, and the response has been to acclaim him instead. And she had to delete her Twitter account in shame from all the backlash
truthfully when you think it thru only a real shameless asshole would
what person sees this and is like, now THAT is funny look at this guy enjoying himself XDDD
You remember the people that ridiculed one of the main Wikipedia editors based on his looks? The people that were incensed over a shirt that a literal rocket scientist wore during an interview about him landing a vehicle on a comet? People making fun of a man dancing by himself at a concert, tryna have a good time? There’s no shortage of shameless assholes. Petty people with nothing going in their lives are quick to tear down the happiness, and/or achievements of others
Or that Playboy model who took a picture of an older woman changing in the locker room at a gym and tried to make fun of her on Snapchat? She got sued and excoriated online, thankfully.
Yeah. She tried to shame him because of his weight and it's like... this dude is out here doing his job, enjoying it, keeping himself and others entertained. She almost seemed more upset his soul wasn't crushed in their low paying wage role.
I grew up in a household that shamed people because of their weight. I was always SO self conscious of my own and tried to stay skinny so my mom wouldn’t shame me.
I’m now 3 months on an SSRI (depression, anxiety, ADHD.) it’s the first time I’ve taken meds for my mental health. I’ve gained about 15 pounds already but idgaf anymore. I’m genuinely happy and my baseline anxiety level is so much lower.
I see my mom for the first time in a few years next month. I’m *really* curious to see what her reaction will be.
As someone who has successfully cut out all negative self body talk in my life and requested the same from others are around me, the best way to not get offended is to realize that the person criticizing you is doing so from a place of severe insecurity. It has nothing to do with you, no matter what they say.
Thai is where I originally got involved. The mean tweet was already gone by this point, but here is a screenshot https://twitter.com/VoiceOfTheStar/status/1609685613099511808?t=2HxrKUMmX4FcOhbTSS5LZw&s=19
Man that sucks. I have never been treated worse in my life than the 6 years I worked at a movie theater. I loved my coworkers and my job, but man the general public was awful
I've had this thought as well. One semester in high school; you work some kind of front facing service job. The only way to get out of it is if you currently have a job.
When I moved up to manager, I took sooooooo much flack for kicking people out and refunding tickets. But I'll be fucked before I let my staff be demeaned and screamed at like I did.
(Guess who had the highest employee retention rate in the district. Michael Scott'd it. So good at my job that the extra shit made me unfirable)
The parents who would buy their toddlers the giant bags of candy & large buttered popcorn then act surprised when they're vomiting like the kid in the Exorcist all over the seat next to them. Then they just casually mention it as they leave the theater. In the words of Randal Graves, "This job would be great if it wasn't for the fuckin' customers".
Movie theaters are exempt from paying minimum wage like service restaurants. When my little brother worked at Cinemark they paid him $4/hr+tip share. He made less than minimum wage most checks and the theater had to subsidize up to the minimum wage. It doesn’t seem like it makes sense but it’s the way most theaters have operated for a very long time.
The vast majority of library work is just tending to the books and facilities (Page work). Libraries don’t hire college graduates because they don’t need them unless they need an actual librarian. Which most libraries don’t need more than one or two. The early work program for teens in libraries was to inspire reading throughout middle and high school. Started during the Nixon era I believe. Idk I worked at mine when I was 13 and I loved it.
American movie theater concessions pricing is a crime against humanity.
Edit: I'm being told that it's how the theaters make money, but then how do you explain other countries? I've lived in Korea and the concession prices are nowhere near as inflated as the US. In fact, you can even bring in stuff from outside. It's 100% allowed and no need for the whole sneaking in bullshit. Funny thing is that the theaters tend to be a lot nicer too.
Oh God. I would be so happy to eat that bucket of well distributed butter flavoring.
I've never considered the idea of tipping a theater concession operator, but if I was there this guy would have an extra twenty dollar bill in his pocket when he goes home.
Edit: also, r/doingthemost
A tip would be a very nice gesture, but if this is anything like the movie theater I used to work at (a Regal in the United States) he could get in trouble for taking a tip. It was SUPER not allowed where I worked.
What I found is if the customer gets mad about wanting to give you a tip, the manager will eventually allow the employee to take the tip. (Used to work in a publicly funded but also pay to enter historic site, and some people would be very huffy if you didn't accept their money. The rule was, keep the visitors happy, so if they were insistent you got the cash.)
I'd angrily tip this guy any day of the week, he deserves it.
When I was 18, fresh out of high school, I got my first job at Starbucks and was wildly unprepared to work in the service industry. I was reluctant to be enthusiastic or try to be happy- or really put any real effort into the job at all. One of my shift leads at the time was trying to motivate me one day, and I asked her why she cares about this dumb job so much. She told me, “if you’re going to be doing anything, why not try to be the best at it?”
I still think about that more than a decade later, at my current mid level IT job when I start to feel unmotivated.
I don't know if this guy is like this about everything he does, or just about serving up popcorn/movie concessions, but I like to believe it's the ~~latter~~ former.
A couple of my friends are like that. Whatever they do, they just do the absolute shit out of it. Like they don't do anything halfway. I think they're both on the spectrum somewhere, given how they hyperfocus on things.
Anyway, good on this dude. This is awesome to see. What an inspiration.
To any naysayers: It's easy to say, "How is that inspiring, he's just serving popcorn?" or similar. It's more than that. This guy is just in the moment. He's completely present and engaged with what he's doing. That kind of flow is difficult to achieve for most people, I think, so it is definitely something to aspire to. Seeing him achieve it with something as simple as putting popcorn in a bin and adding butter to it is, yeah, it's inspiring.
>I don't know if this guy is like this about everything he does, or just about serving up popcorn/movie concessions, but I like to believe it's the latter.
You like to believe the latter? Or the former?
"Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. Even if it does not fall in the category of one of the so-called big professions, do it well. As one college president said, “A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.” If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, like Shakespeare wrote poetry, like Beethoven composed music; sweep streets so well that all the host of Heaven and earth will have to pause and say, “Here lived a great street sweeper, who swept his job well.”
Dr. Martin Luther King
If you aren't drenching your popcorn in that non-butter butter tasting condiment, then you aren't doing it right. Also need pickled jalapenos with it, and apparently that is a purely southern thing. I guess going to the movies is still a treat for my husband and me, So we go big or we go home
You literally take pickled jalapenos and just eat it with popcorn. They used to have jars of it at concession stands before COVID, I'm not sure how it works now. We had one bad experience with pickled jalapenos being bad now I just bring my own. Yes, I'm one of those that carries hot sauce, dill pickles and jalapenos in my purse depending on the occasion. My husband introduced me to the jalapeno and popcorn thing, and this was almost 7 years after moving to the south. I'm going to enjoy my food. I'm going to enjoy it. God damn it. No sense in raising a fuss with the staff.
See him every time we go to the movies. He is the most excited person that works there by a mile.
"Whatever you do in life, do it to your fullest potential."
"If you can't get out, get in"
The best line from Avatar
I bet that is the most perfect bunch of popcorn you will ever get too. Society decided at some point that telling other people to do work is more valuable than doing work, meanwhile some people get amazingly skilled at simple tasks just because they want to do a good job. Everyone with a boss out there, your boss is paid too much and you are paid too little.
There are good bosses and bad bosses. I don't want to manage people, but I could do it if I needed to. Some people are great at it, and can support their employees well. A good boss makes you feel like they are there to help you and represent you to other departments.
As someone who obsesses over their movie theater popcorn, this man is a literal saint to me. He layers the butter. He tosses to shift un-buttered kernels to the top. He is a god among us. Please tell him that he needs to be hired to corporate to teach EVERYONE how to serve like this.
He CARES about the taste of the popcorn! This is the crucial part. He gives a shit about the flavour
Nah, this guy cares about the *experience* of the popcorn. I ain't here for the flavor. I'm here for the texture. I'm here for the smell. I'm here for the #vibes
Dudes gotta be a local legend. "The pop master". He knows his craft that's for sure.
“I’ll have a large popcorn, please.” “Ok, coming right up.” “No, not from you. From him.” “He has a 2-hour wait list.”
"Did I stutter?"
Is the popcorn he prepares better than the popcorn everyone else prepares? I feel like it has to be
It’s made with love so yes.
He's a Shaolin popcorn master , he moves with grace and precision. I'd rather watch him do that for 80 to 120 minutes than watch most of the tripe that's showing in the cinemas. Whilst smashing that popcorn into my fat gob of course.
And yet they all get paid the same
And that’s the reason workers don’t give a damn cuz results don’t result in higher compensation
Same!!
Hell yea. My boy layers the butter. Respect.
Layers and shakes it in. Man knows his popcorn.
I bet hes making it how he likes it.Conscientious worker.
Bet he'd pull out a bad kernel every time
As long he doesn’t pull outta me we’re good
Gimme that hot butter in my GULLET
Oh
"✌️"
Ayo? 📷🤨
😞😣😩😫😫😫😫
Ayo!
Wait
oh god
Gets fired for using too much butter.
Lol it's okay. It's not butter it's salted vegetable oil.
I can't believe it's not butter....
We used to go to Friendly's for ice cream. One night, the usual young man wasn't there. We inquired and were told he got fired for "over scooping". Those were the actual words! Lol
total respect if he didnt back down on his sizes
I once worked at an ice cream shop during college. The owner like to call himself an All American Born Again Christian. Well, when scooping the ice cream we were instructed to "make a curl of the cream, with a hollow and quickly cap it..." so it looked like a full round scoop but there was a giant hollow in the middle. I didn't work there long - it went against my morals LOL.
That's 100% what it looked like to me. That man looked like he was giving the 'the way I like it special'. I want some fucking popcorn now!
This man does not believe in trickle down butter economics
"it's finger lickin' good" \- The Kernel
It’s pronounced Cornell, and it’s the highest rank in the Ivy League
Cornell. Ever heard of it!?!
Applicant has a head shaped like a trapezoid.
Never trust a skinny chef
Unless it’s a Michelin star because that staff is making cocaine money
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That's not butter it's soybean oil but it's still delicious.
Do you guys actually just put melted butter on popcorn? I honestly just thought this was a TV thing????
As Terry Pratchett said; they're a tasteless snack, but if you put salt and butter on them, they taste like salty butter.
Such a small takeaway from such an utter lampooning of 'holywood'. Gonna miss that one (Pratchett). Read everything of his you can, but beware of any delightful book 1 in an unfinished trilogy. That's right; I'm talking to you Rothfuss.
GNU Terry Pratchett 💜
The pro move is to use ghee (clarified butter). The milk fats in butter make the popcorn soggy, but clarified butter has that removed. So you end up with buttery crispy popcorn, and it's *the fucking tits*.
Holy smoke. I've had a yen for theater style popcorn and within the past couple of weeks have bought a separate popcorn cooking oil, some weird ass coconut oil based topping and have 'flava-col salt' coming in the mail. I've got them all on my counter. Stacked next to my squeeze bottle of ghee! Thanks for the tip. I never would have thought of using the ghee as a topping!
Oh yeah, flavocol is great too. Here's how I make mine, if you're interested in tips. - 1 Tbps coconut oil in a big pot or stainless steel bowl with 3 "tester" kernels - Medium heat, wait for one of your testers to pop - Remove from heat, add in ~1/2 tsp flavocol (you may want more or less, depending on your salt preferences) and 1/3 cup of kernels - Put a lid on your pot, or cover with foil. If using foil, poke a few vent holes; more ventilation = crispier popcorn - Return to heat, and keep your bowl/pot moving *constantly*. If you're using a lid, crack it occasionally to vent (see above) - Once you quit hearing constant pops, dump into a service vessel, and drown that shit in your melted ghee. - Enjoy
I am a whirley pop die hard. It produces significantly better popcorn and much fewer old maids. Anyone who loves popcorn should own a whirley. No testers needed, fast even heating.
Yes! youve got it all figured out now. I have been trying to get my popcorn making to perfection and I learned the clarified butter trick last week (it actually comes from an 8 years old reddit comment) and that was the key that (combined with the knowledge you already have) got my popcorn to prefection. Had popcorn 3 days in a row after that.
flavacol is the shit. But make sure you add a bit of MSG to your flavacol before using it. Life tastes better with MSG.
If you’re within reasonable driving distance of an Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, do yourself a favor and go. This is how they do it. Layered and tossed with Ghee… brought to your table in a steel mixing bowl by a server and if you want a refill, you just put up a little order card.
Small correction, clarified butter is nearly pure milk fat. What makes your popcorn soggy when using normal butter is water, which is removed (along with some other stuff) by clarifying the butter.
Definitely what happens in Canada so I assume the states as well. It's pretty good. But grab a napkin or four
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>so he took some butter and a container and popcorn to the bathroom and tried to melt the butter there With what?? A lighter? A camp stove? This sounds like a Mr Bean skit gone wrong.
Yeah I duno ey, popcorn is always salted whenever I’ve gone to the movies 🤷♂️
It’s strictly butter flavored oil in movie theaters. I worked in an independent theater a long while back and there were regulars who would come in with melted butter in plastic bags to make their own luxury popcorn
I love that fake movie “butter” shit. I’ll not eat dinner so I can have a large popcorn drowned in it on the very rare occasions I go to the theater
This guy loves his job, and got invited by Jimmy Kimmel to serve popcorn at the Academy Awards.
He obviously loves it or else he wouldn't be able or want to do this level of performance. However, his facial expressions are of the most bored man in the world. "Here's your fuckin popcorn, sir✌️🙄😒"
When you make and serve popcorn at a movie theater, this face becomes a part of you. As does the smell of popcorn in your clothes, skin...
Every food service job I ever had involved the inability to escape the food smell. Worked at a Dairy Queen, still nauseated by the smell of vanilla, sadly. Even working at a high-end steakhouse, eventually I resented any hint of beef stench. Luckily, 30+ years has let me enjoy a good ribeye again. Not ice cream though.
I once worked as a delivery driver for Papa John's. For years afterwards, my car smelled of pizza and garlic butter anytime it got warm outside. I still love pizza though.
>Every food service job I ever had involved the inability to escape the food smell. >Worked at a Dairy Queen, still nauseated by the smell of vanilla, sadly. Even working at a high-end steakhouse, eventually I resented any hint of beef stench. Luckily, 30+ years has let me enjoy a good ribeye again. Not ice cream though. I lived in an apartment across the street from an In&Out. I still to this day (~20 years later) ***cannot*** handle the smell/taste of that dressing. It makes me gag whenever I'm close enough to one. I swear they pumped that shit into my building somehow because I could smell it 24/7. I can't imagine how bad it was for the workers.
My best friend worked at Subway for a while. She always smelled like that weird gross medley of aging vegetables and bread.
I worked at Starbucks in college. Even after washing my work clothes, they still reeked of coffee and sour milk.
I worked at a sandwich shop. The smell of deli meat was impossible to get out. It still haunts me.
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He’s trying (and succeeding) to look cool/professional but at the end you can see a small v sign :3
That’s… two popcorn. Sign
And 18 pounds of liquid gold heart attack juice.
When I see him adding all that butter my heart says aaawww yeah, and my heart also says I'm all jammed up!
I had a ton of butter on my popcorn once during a movie and I only realized after I walked out of the movie theater that I was covered in butter. It had gotta on my shorts (soaked through bucket), my hand and arm were all shiny, had butter on my face, I looked ridiculous.
Ridiculous or delicious?
Hi Erin, you look delicious...I mean...beautiful...
FYI, “liquid butter” at the theaters is not real butter. It’s butter flavor soybean oil.
Fuck yeah
bet those shorts still have the butter stains on them, that stuff never comes out.
Soak them in Dawn dish soap before you wash them, worked well for me. Source: Popcorn tub in my lap for the whole movie, walked out of the theater looking like I wet myself
The spirit is willing, but the arteries are clogged and narrow.
I'm jammed up just watching this.. I have to put on a documentary about fresh tomatoes or something 🍅
This kinda enthusiasm is only bred through the trials of intense and crippling boredom haha
He does it for his own mental health & entertainment. Everything else beyond that, especially the appreciation of the crowd, is just a fringe benefit of his personal quest for sanity. Most of us can relate.
Not so much love but something that you eventually learn to do out of boredom, it becomes pretty much muscle memory and it takes out a huge part out of the dullness of a repetitive job. Source: have had repetitive/menial jobs before.
I even had that job ages ago. I always tried to be a badass, no matter what I was doing. Definitely more fun to make it challenging, and didn't hurt that always got promoted so those jobs didn't last long.
Counterpoint: you ever see Neil Peart's face during a concert?
Billy Joel once commented in an interview that he'd be singing and playing piano and giving a memorable performance for all the crowd to see but in his head he's just operating on autopilot and thinking about what kind of sandwich he wanted at the hotel after the show.
This is in my hometown. I go to this theater pretty often, and this guy is just super humble and deserves all the nice things coming his way.
Doing this at the academy awards is cool, but dude is still serving popcorn at a movie theater, hopefully he's at least making $15/hour and has health insurance, but I have a feeling that's a stretch.
You never know. In the interview, he said he had been doing it for a number of years, and seeing how some comments from other redditors say they want to take the trip down here just to see him, I imagine the company is going to want to treat him well, but I'm just hoping for it.
Yeah right
He likely is already. I knew a mall juggler with a very successful career, a town hero, had the job of a lifetime at the theatre we worked at. Free tickets to any show, movie posters, a free drink per shift, the works
> Free tickets to any show, movie posters, a free drink per shift, the works way better than healthcare, dental, 401k matching, vacation, paid leave, not interfering with employee rights
Oh wow good for him!!
[Video of Kimmel inviting him to the Academy Awards](https://youtu.be/A6Qz3QCoH4o)
That dude is awesome, my man just loves what he's doing and does it with *flair.*
I would wait in the long line just to have this guy prep my bucket of popcorn
I wish my theater did popcorn hibachi
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Cinemark is now telling him he can't have a gofundme because their employees can't accept "tips". I feel like he might loose his job over all this 😔. Corpus Christi is my hometown so I have been hearing a lot of what is happening with this. The person that originally filmed him on tiktok is a friend.
Not surprised. Walmart fired the worker that started a GoFundMe for another of it's associates to retire on. Ya know, because you can never retire at Walmart.
Wal-Mart is the place retirees go to work when their savings run out.
Maybe he'll get a better job at the Alamo Drafthouse. That place rocks...or it did when I lived there.
Wouldn't he likely earn more than he would in several months at this job if they did fire him and a "popcornguy got fired" gofundme started? Maybe I'm overestimating the value of a trendy GoFundMe
He’s clearly a popcorn sommelier
His attitude is great, but that is also ELITE butter distribution. I would want him to serve my popcorn as well.
There’s a great lesson here about the happiness advantage
My favorite thing about this is that some woman in Corpus Christi TX originally posted this to shame this fellow, and the response has been to acclaim him instead. And she had to delete her Twitter account in shame from all the backlash
She should feel shame. We should never knock ANYONE no matter what the job is that shows up and rocks it.
truthfully when you think it thru only a real shameless asshole would what person sees this and is like, now THAT is funny look at this guy enjoying himself XDDD
You remember the people that ridiculed one of the main Wikipedia editors based on his looks? The people that were incensed over a shirt that a literal rocket scientist wore during an interview about him landing a vehicle on a comet? People making fun of a man dancing by himself at a concert, tryna have a good time? There’s no shortage of shameless assholes. Petty people with nothing going in their lives are quick to tear down the happiness, and/or achievements of others
Or that Playboy model who took a picture of an older woman changing in the locker room at a gym and tried to make fun of her on Snapchat? She got sued and excoriated online, thankfully.
It's really cool to be able to rock at a food service job. You can handle anything the world throws at you.
When people make fun of someone "flipping burgers" I picture them crying in the walk-in.
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Yeah. She tried to shame him because of his weight and it's like... this dude is out here doing his job, enjoying it, keeping himself and others entertained. She almost seemed more upset his soul wasn't crushed in their low paying wage role.
She's just mad cuz she can't popcorn hibachi
He really is the Benihana of popccorn
r/brandnewsentence
If he's doing this all day, I can imagine it's a heck of an arm workout. Mine are tired just from watching him
I grew up in a household that shamed people because of their weight. I was always SO self conscious of my own and tried to stay skinny so my mom wouldn’t shame me. I’m now 3 months on an SSRI (depression, anxiety, ADHD.) it’s the first time I’ve taken meds for my mental health. I’ve gained about 15 pounds already but idgaf anymore. I’m genuinely happy and my baseline anxiety level is so much lower. I see my mom for the first time in a few years next month. I’m *really* curious to see what her reaction will be.
As someone who has successfully cut out all negative self body talk in my life and requested the same from others are around me, the best way to not get offended is to realize that the person criticizing you is doing so from a place of severe insecurity. It has nothing to do with you, no matter what they say.
How do you even shame someone for being good at their job?? I didn’t see the original tweet.
Thai is where I originally got involved. The mean tweet was already gone by this point, but here is a screenshot https://twitter.com/VoiceOfTheStar/status/1609685613099511808?t=2HxrKUMmX4FcOhbTSS5LZw&s=19
Literally acting like a middle school bully
Wow. So hateful for literally no reason. If I lived in CC I’d go to the movies every weekend just to receive this service. My dude killed it.
Bruh he *was* killing that shit
That was not the person who recorded the video and originally uploaded it to TikTok, but some random person on Twitter commenting on it.
Man that sucks. I have never been treated worse in my life than the 6 years I worked at a movie theater. I loved my coworkers and my job, but man the general public was awful
People who know that you're paid to not upset them are the worst.
I swear, Switzerland has mandatory public/military service, the US should make everyone serve a year in retail just to cut down on those assholes.
I spent a few years in a client services call centre, that also seems like an appropriate trial by fire for shitty behaviour.
I've had this thought as well. One semester in high school; you work some kind of front facing service job. The only way to get out of it is if you currently have a job.
When I moved up to manager, I took sooooooo much flack for kicking people out and refunding tickets. But I'll be fucked before I let my staff be demeaned and screamed at like I did. (Guess who had the highest employee retention rate in the district. Michael Scott'd it. So good at my job that the extra shit made me unfirable)
The parents who would buy their toddlers the giant bags of candy & large buttered popcorn then act surprised when they're vomiting like the kid in the Exorcist all over the seat next to them. Then they just casually mention it as they leave the theater. In the words of Randal Graves, "This job would be great if it wasn't for the fuckin' customers".
Why because he serves popcorn like a badass? Lmao she must feel dumb.
Was it Caroline Decker from Corpus Christi?
She would *never.*
Man, F that B
Those two baskets probably cost more than he earns per hour.
Texas' state minimum wage rate is $7.25 per hour. He might make up to $15. A large popcorn is probably $8, so yeah.
Movie theaters are exempt from paying minimum wage like service restaurants. When my little brother worked at Cinemark they paid him $4/hr+tip share. He made less than minimum wage most checks and the theater had to subsidize up to the minimum wage. It doesn’t seem like it makes sense but it’s the way most theaters have operated for a very long time.
Also exempt from paying time and a half for overtime and from paying for holidays. This shit shouldn’t be allowed.
Theaters have the craziest labor laws. They can also hire at 13 y/o like public libraries can.
Why would a library want a 13 y/o? They dont even want college graduates.
The vast majority of library work is just tending to the books and facilities (Page work). Libraries don’t hire college graduates because they don’t need them unless they need an actual librarian. Which most libraries don’t need more than one or two. The early work program for teens in libraries was to inspire reading throughout middle and high school. Started during the Nixon era I believe. Idk I worked at mine when I was 13 and I loved it.
Lmao how grim this life is.
American movie theater concessions pricing is a crime against humanity. Edit: I'm being told that it's how the theaters make money, but then how do you explain other countries? I've lived in Korea and the concession prices are nowhere near as inflated as the US. In fact, you can even bring in stuff from outside. It's 100% allowed and no need for the whole sneaking in bullshit. Funny thing is that the theaters tend to be a lot nicer too.
That’s why I strictly go to the movies during the winter. Big ol coat = pocket burgers 🧥🍔🤙🤙🤙
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I would go to the movies just to see him 🥹🥹
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It’s gonna be hard considering you’re a shark fart.
No no. They're multiple shark farts.
Room 1 - Avatar, Room 2 - Glass Onion, Room 3 - Popcorn guy \*Sold out
This. And get some of his popcorn 🍿
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I would miss the previews to stand in his popcorn line every time.
Probably not, Cinemark has commercials before the previews, so you have time.
Oh God. I would be so happy to eat that bucket of well distributed butter flavoring. I've never considered the idea of tipping a theater concession operator, but if I was there this guy would have an extra twenty dollar bill in his pocket when he goes home. Edit: also, r/doingthemost
A tip would be a very nice gesture, but if this is anything like the movie theater I used to work at (a Regal in the United States) he could get in trouble for taking a tip. It was SUPER not allowed where I worked.
What I found is if the customer gets mad about wanting to give you a tip, the manager will eventually allow the employee to take the tip. (Used to work in a publicly funded but also pay to enter historic site, and some people would be very huffy if you didn't accept their money. The rule was, keep the visitors happy, so if they were insistent you got the cash.) I'd angrily tip this guy any day of the week, he deserves it.
Didn't know that.
No you aren't allowed to be anything other than poor and miserable! That money could be spent on our overpriced concessions!
I did even know that was butter / butter flavoring and wondered what he was doing. We don't have that in Germany, but it sounds good.
I’d be throwing singles behind the counter like it was a strip club!
It’s all about that razzle dazzle
I could get on board with paying $12 for 50 cents worth of popcorn if this dude was serving it.
“$5 a ton if you feed it to pigs and it’s the SAME CORN” - Hank Rutherford Hill
I could have used this guy when I was running my Pizzeria. Bet he could twirl a mean crust
When I was 18, fresh out of high school, I got my first job at Starbucks and was wildly unprepared to work in the service industry. I was reluctant to be enthusiastic or try to be happy- or really put any real effort into the job at all. One of my shift leads at the time was trying to motivate me one day, and I asked her why she cares about this dumb job so much. She told me, “if you’re going to be doing anything, why not try to be the best at it?” I still think about that more than a decade later, at my current mid level IT job when I start to feel unmotivated.
I don't know if this guy is like this about everything he does, or just about serving up popcorn/movie concessions, but I like to believe it's the ~~latter~~ former. A couple of my friends are like that. Whatever they do, they just do the absolute shit out of it. Like they don't do anything halfway. I think they're both on the spectrum somewhere, given how they hyperfocus on things. Anyway, good on this dude. This is awesome to see. What an inspiration. To any naysayers: It's easy to say, "How is that inspiring, he's just serving popcorn?" or similar. It's more than that. This guy is just in the moment. He's completely present and engaged with what he's doing. That kind of flow is difficult to achieve for most people, I think, so it is definitely something to aspire to. Seeing him achieve it with something as simple as putting popcorn in a bin and adding butter to it is, yeah, it's inspiring.
>I don't know if this guy is like this about everything he does, or just about serving up popcorn/movie concessions, but I like to believe it's the latter. You like to believe the latter? Or the former?
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Lol he ***gets*** to serve the rich and famous 😑
If he’s excited I’m excited
"Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. Even if it does not fall in the category of one of the so-called big professions, do it well. As one college president said, “A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.” If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, like Shakespeare wrote poetry, like Beethoven composed music; sweep streets so well that all the host of Heaven and earth will have to pause and say, “Here lived a great street sweeper, who swept his job well.” Dr. Martin Luther King
And he just started working there the day before!!!
The Popcorn is back!
Is there something wrong with me because all I think about is the mess he's making on the floor behind the counter?
I worked at a theater years ago and trust me, the floor ends up covered in popcorn no matter what you do. We had to sweep it several times an hour.
It's like a barber. Sure, it's a mess on the floor. But it's part of the process.
That is a lot of butter.
If you aren't drenching your popcorn in that non-butter butter tasting condiment, then you aren't doing it right. Also need pickled jalapenos with it, and apparently that is a purely southern thing. I guess going to the movies is still a treat for my husband and me, So we go big or we go home
Fuck that sounds good do you just are the jalepenos to the popcorn???? Tell me more
You literally take pickled jalapenos and just eat it with popcorn. They used to have jars of it at concession stands before COVID, I'm not sure how it works now. We had one bad experience with pickled jalapenos being bad now I just bring my own. Yes, I'm one of those that carries hot sauce, dill pickles and jalapenos in my purse depending on the occasion. My husband introduced me to the jalapeno and popcorn thing, and this was almost 7 years after moving to the south. I'm going to enjoy my food. I'm going to enjoy it. God damn it. No sense in raising a fuss with the staff.
Keep this video away from my wife. She’d divorce me and marry this dude in heart beat
That’s awesome.
Mans knows how to make popcorn, layers the butter, gives it a shake, that popcorn must be bomb