I worked my ass off at a movie theatre for 6 months at minimal wage, and was so good that they begged me to stay (bribbing me with a promotion to QA and a raise) but it wasn't worth it. As for your comment on why can't people throw away their own trash, what we did at my movie theatre was that when a certain room had alot of people (usually about 150-250) we would yell with a police officer beside us for people to please pick up their trash to make our job easier. Suprisingly it worked quite well, you should try it.
I know what it's like to be swamped on the holidays. Once I had an 8 hour shift, doing floor alone on Thanksgiving. Why? Because they had ran over their limit for paying employees. Anotherwards I had 10-15 minutes to clean each theatre (usually 75-200 for the bigger ones) ALONE. I cleaned every single theatre quite well, there was no complaints, and I wasn't even late for any of the theatres. My manager asked who was on floor, and they said just Josh, and when I was leaving she gave me a hug (she never does this) and said I was her hero because I just cleaned after about 2,000 people alone she estimated.
Theatre job is fun because of the people you work with, and because alot of the time you can sit around without doing much on weekdays. Other than that, the customers are rude, it is bad pay, and the rushes are horrible. My advice to you is to quite that crap ass job (believe me, I know) and go to a golf course, you get paid more, and the job is alot easier. The customers are still assholes, but you won't have to deal with nearly as much of a rush as the 7:00 rushes at the movie theatres.
Good luck! :thumbsup: