As some others have stated, working a Movie Theatre can be a bit zany too.
- I was doing rounds as an usher, just checking on theatres and such. As I walk in to the hallway I notice like a big mass in the floor. I get a better angle, and see two people lying on the floor, dry humping. So...you'd assume when two teenagers are attempting to have sex in the middle of a theatre entrance they'd frighten away the moment someone walked up on them? Nope, they kept going after they saw me walk up, so I started to walkaway, but then spun around and walked right up and just looked down at them just a few feet away. Immediatly when I was that close, the guy & girl were both like WTF are we doing lol.
They got up and skidaddled RIGHT...back into the theatre and sat down to watch the film lol.
Happens pretty often, another time I was cleaning theatres in a group and I was walking into an empty theatre to clean, and looked clear, so had them flick on all the lights and at the very top some like middle school girl with her head down a few inches from the another kids pants while he had his hands in his pants, we had a good laugh while they stood outside waiting for his mom to pick him up. +1 for the Absitence crew.
On another occasion, where Customers seem to have no regards for employees OR other customers, (I was told this story, but a few other employees) they were working a Busy Friday night with a decent sized release, theatre fit around 300+ and nearly jam packed, they got some custom complaints about lewd conduct in the theatre (manager delegate this shit down), they walk in to find a guy "jackhammering the girl into the seat" she's exposed, everything can be just about seen, and they were in clear site of just about everyone (handicapped section that's infront of regular seats, I'm not sure WHY everyone just didnt walk out of the movie, but then again no one else was in their row, so I guess they could live with it...
Okay, enough with the sex stories.
This past summer, I was working Concessions and some stupid teenager
pulled the firealarm during Sunday Afternoon, for some weird reason all of our managers were conviently gone, and even our shift leaders were who the hell knows where, so employees are panicking since our awesome training has yet to kick in
. and ....suddenly dozens and dozens of customers come up asking to get refunds. yes... at this point all we can hear is the fire alarm and the evacuation stuff, and for all we know there really could be a fire, and so as were turning everything off and literally guiding hundreds of customers out of the theatre we've got angry adults accosting us for refunds as the alarm is spewing. Great fun!
Made even better when people who tossed their food when the alarm kicked in, came back for refunds and our managers told us it would be silly to give them refunds (even with an empty product like drink or popcorn in hands). Not sure about you, but seems like a valid reason for a refund if your being hussled out of the theatres.
Best part is there were a few theatres were NO ONE EXITED for nearly ten minutes as the alarams sounded, because they werent sure if the "(booming voice) Please exit your theatre immediatly, via the exits. This is an emergency)" voice was part of the movie. A valid execuse, except some of the theatres were showing Madagascar...only reason I can think of is, no one was willing to be the first person to stand up and leave lol.
- Some kid came to see a movie and was wearing a backpack (packed bigtime), we cant allow people with backpacks in because of Videocameras and such, so the kid calls his mom whose outside waiting to verify that he can get in. She comes in and proceeds to bitch me out for a bit about how we're stupid not to let an innocent kid with a backpack into our theatre, more so because he has soccer practice later and his stuff is in the bag so when she picks him up they can go straight to the game.
Well why the
don't you just leave it in the car? It doesnt even make sense for the kid to carry it.
Finally conceeded and let the kid "lose" his backpack into lost and found. They come back later to retrieve it, and when the manager finds out about it I get in trouble since the kid "Could have had a Bomb". Yes, thats right, a bomb.
I had some great stories with a bit more zeal, but can't recall them off the top of my head. I've never been really accosted by any customers since I'm a BIG guy 6 '5" and the build to match, but I've still had the cocky customer situations.
Top 3 Bitching Topics:
- Movie Prices
- Food Prices
- Underage Kids trying to sneak into R-Movies.
Oh and one more stupid customer(s) thing, if your a punk and you and your punk friends want to do something destructive DONT go to a movie theatre, where cops are regularly on duty, and enter a movie and break seat after seat (pulling them apart, not sure how the heck), and then when a manager chases you around DONT run right smack dab into a cop. Cops dont like punks, and they dont like it when you run into them.
And to finish up, if you want to be a cool person and steal a big movie cutout, don't think I wont use it as an excuse to tackle your stupid ass. We actually do have to return some of that shit, and I'm not getting bitched at because you stole a life size picture of Tom Cruise, which will never see the light of day. If you ask for it, we'll sometimes gladly give it to you once it rotates out. But you take it and your
ed.
SIDE TRACK
While working for Funwerks of Raleigh (Used to be like a putt-putt on steroids type of thing), I was operating some go-karts and had the hellish position of kid-track operator that night. A women came up with a kid in a wheelchair and pleaded with me to have her kid drive the track, under threat of calling management down. Now at most places I've worked I've had semi-competent managers, well in this particular place the owner had final say-so, and he was a jackass of the highest regard do anything for money (place went bankrupt, he was bleeding it dry), SO... she puts the kid in the gokart since she said his condition wouldnt affect him riding it, but I didnt want to lay a hand on the kid and get more involved thenI had to.
I buckle him in, and then as expected, the kid doesnt go anywhere because he has two bum legs. So he's sitting there and his mom is shouting at him to go, and he says he cant and starts to like"freeze up" and shake, and this continues for about ten minutes since his Mom is mad that she bought go-kart tickets that "dont work", and her Kid is frozen in place in the go-kart. I'm getting exteremely irratated now since, I cant even comprehend how a kid with non-functioning legs is expected to drive a go-kart SO... I push the kids legs back put my legs in drive a lap around the track pull in, and congratulate the kid on finishing the lap (Not sarcastically, because honestly it's not the kids fault that his moms a stupid bitch) and let him know it's fine now, and his mom is going to remove him from the go-kart so they can go do something else...................kid remains there.................You'd assume mom would come over and help remove him.....nope.....she's encouraging him to exit the go-kart, but not actually helping him. until finally she gets irratated with him and comes over, forcefully removes him, and puts him in the wheelchair.
Moment he's back in the chair, they are suddenly both extremely nice and appreciate for my help, so I sympathize with the situation and let her know that their are other things in the park that they can do as mother & son that don't involved the use of legs (Also wanted to confirm she wasnt a clueless caretaker or somethign), but they decline and leave the park.
One week later their back....rinse and repeat
Bearable though since, majority of my time at the job consisted of go-karting, sleeping, and dippin & dot eating.
:lol: 
You are one excellent human being sir!
