IamA Movie Theater Employee, I can't get to sleep so AMA I guess?

You ever catch anyone recording a movie? what did you do?

I bring my own food to the theatre, fuck you, I'll do what I want.

I've never seen anyone recording a movie. One time a guy took a call on his phone while I was doing a theater check, which was admittedly ballsy. I just told him to put it away cause I don't get paid enough to actually confront people.

And yeah I don't care if you bring your own food, just clean up after yourself, one lady brought chinese food and left it on her seat like a douchebag.

Chinese Food

Holy shit, those are some nice chairs. Leather with wooden arms and a nice floor? Wow. I'm used to plastic chairs with that cheap fabric backing and that cheap carpet at my local theaters.

The local Regal and AMC both renovated recently and put those seats in, we also have reserved seating. It's a much nicer experience but it's harder to sit with your friends.

Well.... I wouldn't bring chinese food, that's just a dick move. Leaving the chinese food containers is as you said- douchebag move.

Yeah you're cool, just bring your trash when you leave.

You ever catch anyone having sex in theater?

I haven't yet, I know people who have however.

what happens?

I call a manager, or a security guard if we have one and they deal with it.

My girl and I have sex about half the time we go to the movies. I'm surprised we haven't been caught yet.

That's sorta gross, a kids gonna sit there at somepoint.

Do you uh, give freebies to friends? If so, wanna be friends?

I can give you the snack discount but tickets have to go through a manager. Sorry buddy

Since I have you, what's your most memorable experience working there?

Every time I recognize someone from my school, I say hi and they don't recognize me. I know that's not very specific but it's what I'll remember the next time I see those people.

What's the strangest thing that's occurred at your theater?

Someone took a shit on the sidewalk

Hey, I also work at a movie theater! I have for two years!

How much do you hate it? I fucking hate it. I hate the customers. I hate how stupid they are. I don't think I'm a smart person but god fucking damn it, it's really getting to me how dumb the average person is. I don't want to believe I live in a world this dumb.

I mean it's my first job, the customers can be a little annoying sometimes but the people I work with can be pretty cool so it works out. Overall it's not that bad.

Can I bring my horn and play along with the movie music?

nah

What's the mark up on popcorn, how much do you make on each bucket large to small...

Any tips on best times to go, when is popcorn freshest.

Do you make food in advance like some places, what should be avoided?

1. I'm not sure what the mark up is exactly but it's pretty god damn big.

2. The popcorn will be the best when it's just came out of the popper. You should hear this happening if you're in the lobby or you can ask the staff to make a fresh batch if really want it.

Have you ever spliced a single frame of pornography into a family film?

I don't have keys to the upstairs projector room and we use digital so unfortunately no.

Can you get free tickets to any movie that you want or if there a limit per week or month?

It's 2 tickets a day, they don't stack though. So basically just me and a friend.

Are the movies shipped to guys? Do you guys watch them before hand?

I'm not sure what you mean by the first question but I can answer your second question. I can't watch any movies early, I can get 2 free tickets for any movie day of, which means I have to see all my movies in the morning to get a good seat (we have assigned seats).

How are films delivered to theaters?

Ok that makes sense, a hard drive type thing is shipped to the theater and the managers take the files on it and set it up on the computer the projectors run on. There's been times that a windows error box shows up because the projector program crashed while showing a movie.

Not by carrier pigeon.

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Aaaay, I used to work at a theatre. It was the best and worst job at the same time. I however, worked for a privately owned theatre (owner only had two theatres, both in small towns). What is your customer horror story? I think one of the worse I personally encountered was walking into the women's room for a restroom check and finding the sink/counter covered in blood. Ends up some kid got a bloody nose, and his mom didn't bother to clean anything up or tell any of the ushers because it's not like blood is a biohazard /s That or the bag full of shit one of the newbies found in the back parking lot while taking out the garbage.

Someone threw up in the sink and clogged it the other day, the aforementioned shit on the sidewalk. People are gross.

How much do you hate Marvel movies? Every time I see one (lets be honest, its every single one of them) I kinda feel bad when the ushers start creeping in but I KNOW there are going to be 2-5 end credit scenes.

It's bot too bad because most of the time the Usher schedule accounts for that and tells me the time of the end of the credits rather than the end of the movie. Wonder Woman was the worst because if I did get there early and people were still waiting through the credits, I knew that there weren't any post credit scenes and I just wanted to turn the lights on and start sweeping but I had to wait, every, single, time.

Would you care if I had a flask of whiskey and bottle of coke on me?

(Cargo pants or shorts FTW).

Just don't throw up or get super drunk and distracting. Than I don't care.

Do t you hate when people just leave their trash in the movie theater after the movie? I mean, just take it with you, you ANIMAL

You're one of the good ones

Do you work in the Plymouth Meeting area of PA?

Shhhhhhh, I definitely don't

How long have you worked there?

That's literally the first sentence of my post.