Comments on: Working at a Movie Theater

By: PiterJankovich

PiterJankovich — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:27:36 +0000

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By: Josh Solomon

Josh Solomon — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:19:25 +0000

Brad, nice column. I can’t tell you how much of that rings true for me and my craptacular existence at the Loews Raceway (now AMC) in NY, especially the customers butchering the names of movies (Dr. Suess’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas became The Crunch according to one father just emerging from his space age bomb shelter).

I’d love to hear more stories about your time at the movie theater. Here’s a quick one I have:

We sold out a matinee showing of Space Cowboys, and when all the senior citizens left the theater we went in to clean. Not one kernel was on the floor. No cups, paper bags, or candy boxes. A couple of Werther’s wrappers, but that’s it. We also had a matinee showing of Big Momma’s House which sold under ten tickets. When we went in to clean and popcorn was strewn around the auditorium like someone lit fireworks in the popcorn bag. Our feet were sticking to the spilt soda that oozed throughout. At least we didn’t get a complaint about the A/C being on during the summer from the Big Momma’s House attendees.

By: Erik Call

Erik Call — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:19:34 +0000

Write a screenplay about it. “CLERKS” style. I’d pay to see that.

Interesting side note… I once had a movie theater job for five minutes. This was the fastest hire-and-fire I’ve experienced.

The employer hired me on the spot. Few minutes later, she saw my tattoo and said, “You’re fired.”