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I currently work at a movie theater. I am an usher. My duties include cleaning, crowd control, and booting people out if they get reckless. Now I worked yesturday on Christmas from 2-9. Not a bad shift I thought. I figured it was Christmas and not a lot of people shouldn't be out going to the movies. There is where I was wrong. The place was swamped. My managers made me clock in a 1/2 hour early because we were back-tracked. Dreamgirls opened yesturday, not to mention Night at the Museum and We Are Marshall. Each one of the 2 theaters per movie housed about 350-400 people. We had about 8 ushers on duty, 1 was garbage, 1 crowd control, rest cleaning. I recieved head usher duty around 7 ish but that was later.
When Dreamgirls let out the big set of ushers waited for everyone to clear out. When we got in, it was devestation. The entire theater was caked in popcorn mess, everyone basically left everything they carried in laying on the ground, on a seat, or in the cup holders (and that includes napkin balls, my fave...). It took a crew our size to clean up that theater about 15 minutes and when we left it still looked messy. I was drenched in sweat moving quickly and sweeping the hell out of everything.
When we got to the next set of both Dreamgirls and Night at the Museum, we found there was a huge line waiting for the next show leading almost out the exit doors. So, the crowd control guy stopped people at the lobby and made them stay there until we let people in. It took us almost a 1/2 hour to clean both theaters, if not more. When we got out, the crowd in the lobby housed over 300 people. It looked like the entire city came to the theater.
People were rude. I had a slight break inbetween theaters so I swept the hallway. One woman came up to me and said "Your mini concession bar there has nothing left in it. I just want some jalapenos(halla-peen-yos)." I ased a manager if they could take care of it but they were busy. Then I asked someone behind concession to get some halla-peen-yos for the woman and she added "I want some halla-peen-yos tah-day!" I was so angry with her I just left her alone. I had a few other encounters much like that but concerning other things like bathroom tissue or whatever.
People complained on and on, but what they do not realize is that it is all their own faults. If they could just take the time and throw out the oversized drinks and popcorn buckets they had in the trash we wouldn't take so long in theaters and could have focused on other things.
So please, the next time you go into a theater, at least have the courtesy to throw out the big stuff (bags and drinks). The dustpans we have as ushers cannot carry a lot of that stuff. I appreciate you reading this and hopefully it changed your view on your etiquette.
When Dreamgirls let out the big set of ushers waited for everyone to clear out. When we got in, it was devestation. The entire theater was caked in popcorn mess, everyone basically left everything they carried in laying on the ground, on a seat, or in the cup holders (and that includes napkin balls, my fave...). It took a crew our size to clean up that theater about 15 minutes and when we left it still looked messy. I was drenched in sweat moving quickly and sweeping the hell out of everything.
When we got to the next set of both Dreamgirls and Night at the Museum, we found there was a huge line waiting for the next show leading almost out the exit doors. So, the crowd control guy stopped people at the lobby and made them stay there until we let people in. It took us almost a 1/2 hour to clean both theaters, if not more. When we got out, the crowd in the lobby housed over 300 people. It looked like the entire city came to the theater.
People were rude. I had a slight break inbetween theaters so I swept the hallway. One woman came up to me and said "Your mini concession bar there has nothing left in it. I just want some jalapenos(halla-peen-yos)." I ased a manager if they could take care of it but they were busy. Then I asked someone behind concession to get some halla-peen-yos for the woman and she added "I want some halla-peen-yos tah-day!" I was so angry with her I just left her alone. I had a few other encounters much like that but concerning other things like bathroom tissue or whatever.
People complained on and on, but what they do not realize is that it is all their own faults. If they could just take the time and throw out the oversized drinks and popcorn buckets they had in the trash we wouldn't take so long in theaters and could have focused on other things.
So please, the next time you go into a theater, at least have the courtesy to throw out the big stuff (bags and drinks). The dustpans we have as ushers cannot carry a lot of that stuff. I appreciate you reading this and hopefully it changed your view on your etiquette.
