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I still think you guys would stop delaying the inevitable and officially become the 51st state of America. You'd get your freedom of speech and guns back that way.
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I worked at an IPIC movie theater (one of those alcohol/food done in theaters) in 2023 during the release of the last Magic Mike movie. Much like the 50 shades movie, middle aged women were cat calling all of our male servers, who weren’t complaining due to the minimum $20 tips per guest they received. But around 9pm or so, we had one of our last showings start. Things are going well, the servers are joking about all the ladies hitting on them. Then all of a sudden, a man in a trench coat with a briefcase just walks through the front door, past guest services, and heads down the hall to the farthest cinema. I had to go and check it out while fearing for my life, one of the many perks of being a supervisor. When I entered the cinema, the man was full on naked, dancing on top of a row of middle aged women as they shoved $1s and $10s in his mouth. I was beyond shocked, got my manager and they shut down the cinema and told everyone to leave. Not sure if I’d have preferred raw dong over being shot, but either way I’m here. God bless America
I worked in a cinema for years, we used to make 'mines'. Most popcorn took 1 batch of salt and 1 batch of syrup, but we found we could crank that up to about 10+, the popcorn came out practically glowing. One popcorn felt like biting into a lemon. We'd make a batch of these super salty and syrup'y popcorn and mix them in with the rest of the batches. Every now and then you'd hear someone react to eating a mine and we had to desperately hold back laughter knowing what it was.
these are so tame, i managed a few cinemas for a few years pre-covid im talking regular piss in bags, adult customers getting in fights and hitting 15 year old kids, regular verbal abuse because the shopping centre removed the parking ticket validator one time a cockatoo chewed thru the wall from outside and got into the cinema behind the screen, super annoying another time a junkie broke into the projectionist room, almost OD on heroin and shit all over the floor, TWICE!! middle aged women sexually assaulting myself and my staff more times than i can count cinemas are like a magnet for crazy shit to occur edit: i forgot the customer that got completely undressed and left his movie, no one said anything about a naked guest but we found his clothes after the movie was done and no sign of the customer
Worked at a Regal cinema. We had cans of gum/sticky remover that froze whatever substance you sprayed it on so you could chip it out of the upholstered seats. We soon started packing the cans like they were guns and freezing each other's necks while we tried to sneak up on each other like Solid Snake. Went through 3 cases of the stuff in a week and management got kind of pissed about it but didn't do anything, until one of the dumbass cleaners sprayed a manager on the back of the neck while he was working concessions during a rush. Shrek was coming out and the string of curses that flowed forth was astounding. The parents got rather upset over the manager sounding like a Tarantino film in front of their crotch goblins. Cleaner was fired on the spot; manager profusely apologized and offered some free combos. All of the cans of freeze spray were removed immediately. Still the best job I have ever had.
Im literally watching this on my break at work (cinema) I have so many stories to tell, but I'll start with my 2 best. 1.) an employee once found a quarter ounce bag of weed that some stoner had left. The employee made the mistake of handing it in to the manager, who promptly emptied it into the bin. Most of the people on shift were pissed that that perfectly good weed had gone to waste. 2.) when cleaning a cinema we see many things, worst I've ever found is a used nappy that a parent had left on our leather seats. Not wanting to touch the thing I grab the manager who picks it up, he then begins to shout, it's fuckin warm, it's fuckin warm. I have never been so disgusted before
As a Stoner (Medical now was Recreational) I felt their Pain, and wouldn’t have been surprised of their was someone who was a fiend for it, that they actually searched through the Bin and grabbed any that was still good XD The second one, people are just disgusting!
there are like 12 bins in the cinema itself, i don't get how people leave their shit (literally) on their seats. you walk past so many bruh were you raised in a fking barn
The naked movie star frames clipping guy sounds insanely cool AND NOW THEY WANT TO TAKE THAT AWAY FROM US SO THEY CAN MAKE “SPIDER MAN” ON THE COMPUTER
if by 'and now' you mean probably decades ago at this point. It's been a Long time since the movies were delivered to theaters on actual film rather than on discs or as digital files at this point, and that's entirely seperate from how the movie was created.
Ive got a few from over the years at a certain Brisbane Cinema. Rapid fire round. A guy who wouldnt leave when a fire broke out in the candybar because despite a free ticket he "refused to leave antman without seeing the ending". A young lad who found a very yellow bottle of jack daniels in the cinema and spilt it all over himself and the floor. A goon sack stuff in the S-Bend of the toilet. A patch of carpet that had to be cut out because someone vomitted on it on the midnight session on christmas eve and it sat there for 2 days uncleaned. 1 set of cinema staff egging the staff on the night shift when they were doing the evening bin run. Lastly, an empty carton (proper carton full size) of VB's, cans and all, left in the cinema on a new years day showing of The Good Dinosaur.
Never worked at a cinema, but when I was 13-14 I convinced my dad to take about a dozen of my mates to Borat because it was an MA film and we needed an adult. Spend the first half of the movie terrified he's going to be angry at me for making him take us. I look back at him (he was in the row behind us) during the scene where Borat and his manager are chasing each other naked through a hotel. Dad was pissing himself laughing. He enjoyed the movie more than I did!
i think it's time you do a BUNNINGS WORKERS CONFESS THEIR SINS vid! surely it's a rich ribbon of comedy gold waiting to be dug up, chemically separated from the useless minerals in and around it, and turned into a nugget of entertainment for our benefit to fill in a little bit more time in our lives until we eventually die?!
I worked at classic cinemas for like 18 months (smaller company mostly in Northern Illinois) and I have a few stories. Theres an elevator that takes disabled people up to the top of the I-max theater where some of the disabled and wheelchair seating are. The small mechanical room that houses the elevator's inner-workings caught fire mid-showing and the whole building was evacuated. The whole theater was forced to close and the fire department originally said it would take a month to reopen. Miraculously, the theater managed to make the necessary building repairs in two days. I didnt want to be out of work for a whole month, but a week off wouldnt have been so bad. One time a bird flew through the front door and he was chilling in the rafters of our I-max equivalent for like 36 hours before the fire department got the poor guy out. We had a group of 4 come in once (A couple in their 50-60s and presumably their 2 mid-thirties kids) who got their tickets for some marvel movie and went to their theater. One would think that would be all, but they come back super pissed because apparently they had gotten the wrong tickets. They 1000% did not. I was standing next to my coworker who rang them up as they ordered (I was new), and they were given the right tickets. My coworker tried to reason with them but they just got more angry and demanded a refund along with free tickets to the "correct" movie. My manager gets called, he fully believes us so he denys them their request. This does not please them at all. One of the dudes in his 30s procedes to call my manager the N-word (he's not white or black and Im not sure what his ethnicity is, bro grew up in chicago though). Luckily they all decide to leave with a threat of a police call after that. Also one time, we had a mom come in super pissed because her 15 year old daughter had left her house with some 24 year old piece of shit without the parents knowledge. She managed to track them to our theater with Life360. I was working the front at the time, but I guess the dude left through a side door the moment he saw the mom come into the theater. then the mom and daughter just left.
If you do part 2 of Cinema Workers Confessions, here's a story. One rainy day, a lady and her kid come to see Mission Impossible: Fallout after an hour into the film. We were confused but didn't ask because he looked pissed off, as if she was ready to fight. She bought a large cola and went into the theater, only to interrupt the film as she screamed out someone's name. A guy quickly walks to her and is greeted with a large drink thrown at him with a slap to his face. While this happens, she is still holding onto her kid. We rushed to stop the fight and separate the two. As the guy asks us to call the police, she quickly bolts with her kid from the cinema. When the police arrived and questioned him, we discovered that he was her husband. Apparently, they hired a babysitter for their kid, but he got out of work early. Instead of going home to take care of his kid, the husband decided to go watch a movie. The wife then found out and decided to confront him. Two months later, my manager saw the same guy walk down the highway with luggage in tow. It seemed things didn't end well for him.
Yeah, incomplete info / context that not even OP has, but I was kinda expecting an extra lover in the story. If it was just him, then yeah it's certainly something I can see someone reasonable getting _a bit_ angry, but not "large soda to the face" level angry, or "divorce without custody" level angry.
@@Fay7666 Taking the kid along as an asset to confront the dad is blatent manipilation of the kid and a common abuse tactic among psycho mothers. I did my homework since after having witnessed several such situations first hand and I knew it wasn't right when it happened. Many of my friends growing up and since also reported experienced similar dynamics so I doubt it is merely anectdotal but more-so likely, an underreported and fairly common reality. It doesn't feel good to be pitted between the only two people who have dominion over you as a child like an expendable pawn in a narcissist's chess game against their own daddy issues.
Worked in the ghetto theater at the local mall in my teens, it sat opposite from an arcade with a DDR machine out front. One day before opening for the afternoon showings, one of the DDR sweatlords collapsed after a hours long session and his friend came running over asking us if we could get him a cup of water. All three of us at the counter refused and told him we'd be open in 10 minutes. So he had to drag his barely conscious friend across the mall to the food court. To this day I genuinely have no idea why all 3 of us at the concession were so cruel. We risked nothing just handing him a little paper cup with tap water in it.
Maybe at the time it was just a “we’re not open yet, leave me alone” Teen kind of mentality, rather than actually being intentionally cruel? Just seems like a very Teen thing to me, “we’re not open yet” XD
You feared your manager and obeyed their rules is why. Not having first aid training is also why you didn't give them water and call for emergency services, because if that guy collapsed after doing that, he needed water, cool air, and possibly a trip to the emergency room if his core temperature didn't come down quickly enough. So yeah, you were young and didn't know any better. Hope they guy didn't end up dead.
@@KING_PHILLIP If you've never been in the middle of 11 football players getting their water, then you know nothing of sweat and stink. The pads, they weren't cleaned until the season ended bad in my day, so by the end of the season, the funk, yeah, that DDR sweat beast might have rolls of skin, but so does half the team and everyone's pads. You know nothing of sweat smell.
I was a bartender at a cinema for 2 years in the US, actually really enjoyed that job overall. There was a lot of your standard bar stuff, people falling asleep in theaters, etc. My theater was in the middle of a downtown area so lots of homeless people would wander in, nothing too crazy usually jappened though. One guy did OD in our lobby and had to be narcan'd and carried out by EMTs. I also had to fight some off for my tip jar a couple times cause they would try and steal it. Best one though was during a big rush (dont remember the movie, during top gun maverick i think), this absolutely RIPPED shirtless dude who was very high on something, walks into the middle of the lobby, starts screaming like hes about to go super saiyan, does a spin kick, then sprints out the front door off into the night like some kind of homeless version of Goku.
I worked at a theater in Seattle for a couple years in the 1990s. It was pretty uneventful but we did employ two guys who wore helmets. One got fired the third time he tried to bring a bottle of wine into work in a plastic shopping bag, but Ed worked there for years and was one of the best employees.
on my third ever shift, some guy had like a cardiac event in the theatre just after the movie had ended. Spiderman Homecoming just came out (so this is somewhere in 2017) and I was ripping tickets at the front counter. the line was huge for all the theatres so I was in a rush to get everyone to their seats. this guy comes up and as I tell him where to go he drops this sob story about how he needs to charge his phone so he can call somebody to pick him up after the movies over and if it would be alright if he ducked back out to get his charger and if I would set it up somewhere for him. I said yes (didn't know at the time that I wasn't allowed to do that.) and because we were packed I didn't bother checking his bag as he came back in. I'm convinced he did this on purpose because as I soon found out he had smuggled a bottle of whiskey into the theatre, downed about a third of it, and then went horizontal because it fucked with his meds. worst part of it was that this happened just as the theatre had emptied out and we were all trying to clean it for the next screening, so while site management and the Emergency Response Team were leaning over him, asking him what the last thing he remembered was, and generally trying to figure out how fucked he was, I waddle up and say "HEy Do YOu KnOW WHEre THe Bin BAgs ARe?"
In the Fight Club book they describe how when the film is making its way across the US the projectionists in each cinema will take one nude frame out of it as a souvenir, so by the time it gets to New York from California it's a few seconds shorter than when it left. Guess he was on to something.
I was working as an Usher cleaning the theaters as they let out and as I arrive at one theater I notice a group of kids come out and I'm hit with the smell of weed. I don't particularly care as they're leaving and it's legal, but as I'm waiting for everyone to clear out of the theater to clean it I notice that the group had split off down the hall. Two of the kids had walked over to one of the side exits and had just blatantly let one of their friends in. Then I turn back to the rest of the group and I don't know what happened but for some reason one of them has got a taser and is jabbing it at one his friends. Security was promptly called and they were kicked out.
I was working in Gold Class and a middle aged man was the only person in the theatre of a midweek screen of Divergent. He was getting plastered all by himself on Long Island ice teas until we had to cut him off.
Worked at a cinema in high school. Slow night. Manager comes in a tells us a story of a private, company viewing of fifty shades he once worked. There were some other details but I think my brain repressed them because I was 17 and this was a grown man.
I've worked at a small independent cinema for about two years now, its in Warrawong (if you know, you know). Really slow business, most shifts its just me and the boss, a 60 something boomer who's owned the place about twenty years or so. He has some stories. Because its Warrawong most days at least 2 people come into the bathrooms then leave (we watch them on the cameras) about 20 minutes later, we go in after them, lo and behold needles and other supplies left behind. Sometimes they steal random stuff on their way out too, hand sanitiser, flyer stands, the usual. One time maybe five years ago, some lady was crawling under the seats during a show, like literally crawling underneath people to look in their bags and steal money, someone saw her and told the boss, so he went and confronted her, where she then attempted to lunge at him with a used needle. Somehow my boomer boss knew karate or something and ducked, pushing her over and getting the needle off her, he then picked her up and threw her outside, this man is 5"4, doesn't go outside and doesn't exercise. I have no idea. Have a few more stories might share if there's a part 3 or something
I love those people. Most entertaining thing you will ever hear is a lengthy conspiracy theory from a true believer who's done hours and hours of research.
sounds like my HS sport teacher. i am convinced that there was no conspiracy theory in which he did not believe. i really liked to talk with him (tho many times had to hold back laughter) because then i did not had to do sport.
Worked for the cinemas in Cairns when I just finished High School. It was about 5 minutes before my shift ended as I was doing the final cinemas checks. As I was walking to the podium to sign off paperwork, I saw this crackhead sprinting away out of cinema 5 holding his pants and screaming. As I went to investigate why, I came round the corner and was welcomed with diarrhoea everywhere, it was not only on the floor but up the WALLS and trailed all the way out of the shopping centre. Like a brown Jackson Pollock. When I told my manger, she simply said "Clean it, we have 3 more movies playing after this." As I died inside and went to get the cleaning equipment, a group of eshays attempted to sneak in didn’t see the trail of diarrhoea and slipped over, making a brown "snow angel", it wasn’t very hard to find them as I just followed the smell into the other cinema. I then worked for the company for another 5 years.
I went to armageddon expo in Auckland when I was 15 and I was in line for battlefield 3 or whatever it was that had a play test, but you had to be 16 to play it iirc, the plan was to just not pull out our IDs and just confidence tell them our fake age. We wait in line for 45 mins get to the front of the line, I tell the guy I'm 17 and don't have ID on me, tell him a fake DOB when he asks, guy didn't really care, my mate pulls out his ID and shows that he's not old enough and the guy kicks us both out of line, I was so fucking close to being able to play it and my mate ruined it
STORY TIME: Once had a line of about 100 people waiting to watch Avengers Endgame on the second or third night after release. Then some young kid runs up to the front of the line and screams out [spoiler alert] "IRON MAN DIES", convinced that kid was lucky to make it out alive haha.
Dad was an assistant manager for a local joint. He had to fire no less than 6 people for jigging work to shag. At 3 in the afternoon. In the parking lot OUT FRONT.
On the last night of Christmas holidays at the cinema in gold class, We're doing close and lo and behold there was a pool of piss in the recliner leg rests that flowed out when we attempted to deep clean the recliners. The worst part was that it was multiple day old piss that had been stagnant waiting for an unsuspecting victim.. meaning countless men women and children were lining up to get comfy in a piss chair and paying absorbent prices for said chair. only luxury really
This happened pretty recently. I was working at Hoyts Chatswood the first night of school holidays. I walk into cinema 3 because a customer had told me there were some teenagers talking in the back row and I had to tell them to shut up. In a fairly large cinema with only about 8 people total, the two teens had wedged themselves into the back corner making it so I could barely see them from the entrance at the bottom of the stairs. As I approach them they remained blissfully unaware of my presence still talking to eachother pretty loudly. It was then I saw that the pair had just passed it to third base, the guys hand down her pants with the girl using him as a living Atari Joystick while both were in full school uniform. I called security who kicked them out but one of the two left their phones on the seat. About an hour later a guy comes in to collect "his daughters phone", looking as furious and defeated as a tradie being audited. Apparently the pair were on their first "date" and thought that a showing of Deadpool vs Wolverine was a good enough time for some post graduation voyeurism. And yes, the boy did go to Knox Grammar.
Worked in cinemas for 8 years and the one that always comes back to me was finding the rind of a fully eaten half-watermellon and an empty can of condensed milk under a seat... What happened there???
I got a crazy one that I think about every now and then. Worked in a cinema a couple years ago and the corn kernels that we used for the popcorn came in 20kg Hessian bags. Long story short, at some point during transit the moths began laying eggs in the bags. They would eventually hatch in storage and you'd find couple when you opened a new bag sometimes. Management told us to just pick them out and use the kernels. The hot oil probably would've killed any bacteria, but it still doesn't quite sit right. There's no way we got every moth.
Please do cafe workers/starbucks workers confess their sins, I myself have a menagerie of stories including having to chase off a repeat offender tweaker eating a jar of orange marmalade with a spoon at our dumpster.
Maybe a Tales from Call Center employees? share their craziest calls, situations in the center, etc. hell i have a story that happened 14 years ago that i still remember. it wasnt even catastrophic or anything, it was just so embarrassing ive never forgotten it.
I worked concessions at a movie theater in high school. We usually closed super late, so most of the theaters were empty by then. One day I noticed two of my coworkers hadn't shown up in a while, so I started asking around, wondering if they quit or something. It turns out they would wait at the end of our shift until all of us left and go find an empty theater to smash in. And I guess our managers only found out because the girl bragged to everyone at work about it. And not only that, she gave all the details about how they would do it in the bathrooms, behind the dumpster, in the break room, etc. after everyone left. So they fired her, but since they couldn't prove that they actually did it, they couldn't fire the guy, but he quit anyway out of shame. The wildest part to me is that none of us ever had to know about it, but she thought she was soooo cool for getting backshots behind a filthy movie theater dumpster that she just couldn't refrain from telling all of her coworkers about it.
Would like to see stories from Hotel workers. The amount of people that check their brains out when they check in. Women are the worst hotel guests. Leaving used sanitary items on the bedroom floor or the weird guests that like to answer the door naked. After over 20years nothing surprises me much anymore of what people do.
Worked at a movie theater for way too long. Around spring time and early summer we'd sometimes get a couple of Canada geese walking through the box office on quieter days. Those rare visits were the highlight of my life at the time. Way friendlier than our usual patrons.
Here is one for if you do a 2nd one. I worked for a cinema for 8 years but my god the things you see, from the 50 shades and cucumber incidents to kids coming and stealing Tom Cruse from a standee for Year 12 Scav Hunt. The one that sticks with me is the time that I wasn't working and watching a movie. Casually watching Grown ups 2 in a mostly full cinema but in the corner of my eye I could see something and I turned and looked and it was this young couple doing the deed in the cinema while its packed, sitting there wondering, how has noone noticed that, So I messaged to one of the team members on the floor and was like hey, you might want to come break up the guys having sex in here but by the time they had a break to come have a look, they had already finished hahahahhaha We went from analog to digital within that period and had an area that was literally known for where people would fuck and even when we announced it, we made it known that we knew that in the news paper hahhahah
I worked at Hoyts for a year during high school The hiring process was a large scale group interview in a cinema itself. They asked us all a series of questions and I was hired because I was able to string a sentence together, and name 3 movies from the last 10 years?? I had just got my license so I used to work closing shifts for extra money. Every Tuesday an old seedy guy would come in for the last few screenings, with a plastic bag full of rags (likely hiding alcohol) and he would sneak into multiple movies throughout the night. We felt bad and never stopped him, he tried so hard. The break room had an original Xbox that played season 1 of Friends on loop for the entire year I was there I never got taught to make any coffee other than a flat white, any time someone asked for any coffee (even black) I made a flat white and never heard anything from it. When I did temperature and screening checks, I used to walk up and down the aisle and fart next to people. What are they going to do, get up and stop watching the movie? I used to direct people to the vending machine or woolies nearby because the snacks and drinks at Hoyts were too expensive. Most of the time, the cinemas looked like a bomb went off after the movie. The bins would fill up and people would see this, drop any rubbish they were holding, and walk out. (In front of me) Here’s the list of all the strange things I found while cleaning the cinemas: Finger nail clippings (clipped) Toe nail clipping (BITTEN) A popcorn bucket full of vomit A seat and floor full of vomit (company policy, we used kitty litter to soak it up and would send the next lot of customers in) A child’s poo in the bean bag seat (we were the last Hoyts in WA to have the beanbag cinema) Used and unused condoms A wallet with multiple hundreds An unattended child (everyone had left and lights shut off) An unattended homeless man sleeping(as this cinema had been unused that day) Thanks for reading, it was a fun time
American movie theater employee here, once had ants crawling all over someone in a theater. The funny part is that the managers didn’t care at all and didn’t try to resolve the issue because they were all mobilizing to stop someone in a different theater from recording a movie. Those ants were still there when the ushers came in 3 hours later.
I work at a cinema and some kid around 16-17 came in and asked if he could wait in the lobby I told him yes and thought that it would end there. He then tells me that he went to the cinema to find his girl friend who was in a movie and didn't tell him he was going to it. I assume that he was calling her as he would try to call her about every 30 seconds. A few minutes later I see a girl and her friend leaving but go straight into the bathroom when they see him, He then goes sits in his truck and drives up and down the parking lot rows looking for her car. No one saw her leave the cinema so I assumed she left out the fire exit in the theatre.
Yes finally! That was good, but you guys left out some really funny ones from poll from last year. Anyway, here's mine. I worked at a cinema for 8 years and have way too many horror stories. But my worst experience involved one of our regulars, who was disabled. He always stunk of piss and was a big perv with the young candy bar girls. Anyway, one day, I was called down to the candy bar by one of the girls on the counter who, in a panic, told me the guy had taken a shit in the middle of the candy bar. Sure enough, there was a giant cow pat-sized turd right in the middle of the floor. The gentleman had rolled his wheelchair all around the area, leaving a smelly trail to the box office. I had to clean up his first pile of shit while also directing patrons around the shit while the two managers hid behind the counter. The gentleman, meanwhile, was leaving me a second surprise outside the box office where a nice fresh, Great Dane-sized shit was awaiting my attention. I told him to clear off, and he rolled away, shouting and leaving a trail behind him all the way to the exit. Had to bleach all the mop buckets multiple times.
I once worked at an AMC for a year. The worst thing I had to deal with was when Knifes out was in theaters. I was in charge of tickets and cleaning up the theater (since we were short staffed). Everything was going smoothly until this woman who was built like the blob walked in with a 16 year old kid. She asked in the heaviest western accent (pun intended) “is my kid allowed to see the movie” I did not know what she said since her accent was so heavy (BTW, this entire thing was in America, so it was the first time I ever heard the accent). I played it cool and got lucky by assuming what she said. After giving them their ticket, I went about my job. Things got worse after the movie. When I was cleaning her spot, I saw of all things, a Spent condom and a hole in the seat where the mother was (the daughter’s seat was the opposite end of the theater. I was so close to throwing up on the spot. I sighed, thought about my terrible decisions, and to my dismay, it was warm and wet. I then screamed “EEEUGH, What the Fuck!?”. One of my friends that also worked there speed walked in, where I was standing, made the most disgusted face ever, and said “Jesus Christ, I was going to tell you that you are overreacting, but What the fuck?”. I quit the next day.
I worked at a relatively gnarly Hoyts when I was finishing high school. The bosses were assholes to us and the managers were all like 20 year olds who thought they were hot shit. One manager I had was particularly power hungry and full of himself. One night at the beginning of a candy bar shift we discovered that someone had repacked a bag of postmix into a normal cardboard box and it was leaking. For those that don't know, postmix is meant to be in triple thickness reinforced cardboard boxes and the only part of the bag of coke syrup inside that should be exposed is the little port where you connect the hose to it. If you let it get exposed to light it expands and can start leaking or explode. So this manager decides the best course of action is to pick up the leaky box that's been duct taped together and carry it a few meters to the sink to pour it out. I, being the 16-17 year old pleb, am tasked with grabbing a mop and mopping up the drips. He picks it up, takes like two steps and it drips a bit so he stops and tells me to mop it up, I do that and he starts walking again. It starts pouring out a bit more and gets on his shoe. All I remember is saying "hey you got some on your shoe" and the next thing I know the box explodes out the bottom, sticky coke postmix goes everywhere and he slips repeatedly like he's in a cartoon. He falls forwards on top of the box and it bursts all over the floor. These things were like 10-15 litres or something. I'm standing there completely unscathed trying not to laugh. His pants and arms are absolutely soaked and sticky so he screams "FUCK!", then gets up and leaves, saying nothing to me. I don't know what to do so I go into the big boss' office and they ignore me until I tell them to look at the security camera, whereupon they see a sea of coke postmix. We ended up watching the whole thing on repeat a few times in the office, everyone laughing their asses off. It happened exactly in the center of one of the CCTV cameras, like you couldn't have planned it better. I got to recount this legendary moment to my fellow employees for the next few weeks, after having to mop up coke syrup for the rest of my shift (and by mop up, I mean push down the single drain and keep pouring boiled kettles of water down it to get it to dissolve). Good times.
I worked at a CMX Cinema in Florida and had a girl walk in with her boyfriend who had a pistol holstered out in full view. No one in concession thought anything of it. The area that the theatre was in was also on high alert because some was sniping people with a BB gun.
6:02 this is almost exactly the old Italian movie called "Cinema Paradiso" a guy clipping together hundreds of semi nudes from movies over his career at the theatre. Amazing movie btw, insane music.
I work in a Qld cinema, got a couple of stories. A co-worker was working candy-bar shift and looked out front of our work. In the undercover area next to the road, a man had stripped naked and was showering with a firehose. On another occasion, while I was working a teenager had somehow brought an electric scooter into the cinema (Indiana Jones 5 was playing) and was riding it DOWN the steps of each layer of aisles. I kicked him out and scored a full six pack of Bundys that he had left under the seat.
When my mum was young, so about 40 years ago, her boss was stealing shitloads of money from the cinema. She found out and offered to help him get away with it and steal more. She ended up stealing half the money he stole and used it to pay for her wedding and honeymoon
Used to work at a theatre in rural Western Australia. Had the police come in right before we opened and arrested a co worker for filming and distributing child pron. we just watched him get escorted out then continued on our shift like nothing happened
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When are we going to get friendlyjordies producers confess their sins?
I still think you guys would stop delaying the inevitable and officially become the 51st state of America. You'd get your freedom of speech and guns back that way.
Friendlyjordies you are the most beautiful man in the whole world and I really need your help can you come to Sydenham Vic Melbourne it's next to Watergardens it's a gas station called Liberty and there's a bridge right next to it and I'm always going to that gas station so could you come to that gas station please
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@@alch3myau4:59 7:08 3
I worked at an IPIC movie theater (one of those alcohol/food done in theaters) in 2023 during the release of the last Magic Mike movie. Much like the 50 shades movie, middle aged women were cat calling all of our male servers, who weren’t complaining due to the minimum $20 tips per guest they received.
But around 9pm or so, we had one of our last showings start. Things are going well, the servers are joking about all the ladies hitting on them. Then all of a sudden, a man in a trench coat with a briefcase just walks through the front door, past guest services, and heads down the hall to the farthest cinema.
I had to go and check it out while fearing for my life, one of the many perks of being a supervisor. When I entered the cinema, the man was full on naked, dancing on top of a row of middle aged women as they shoved $1s and $10s in his mouth. I was beyond shocked, got my manager and they shut down the cinema and told everyone to leave.
Not sure if I’d have preferred raw dong over being shot, but either way I’m here. God bless America
I will never understand tipping culture
Trenchcoat man was a CIA spy. Wake up SHEEPLE. Time vampires from space control CINEMA ILLEGAL STRIP PARTIES.
Knows how to hussle...
Man was filling the market.
I'm sure the ladies would've preferred some raw dong. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
The friendlyjordies title situation is insane
The click bait is getting out of hand
The comments section drama just got worse...
The crazy situation is cinema
@@melbournepimp6929The cinema is crazy situation
yess
FriendlyJordies: My Life turned out amazingly!
Also FriendlyJordies: My house was burned down by organised crime
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I worked in a cinema for years, we used to make 'mines'.
Most popcorn took 1 batch of salt and 1 batch of syrup, but we found we could crank that up to about 10+, the popcorn came out practically glowing. One popcorn felt like biting into a lemon.
We'd make a batch of these super salty and syrup'y popcorn and mix them in with the rest of the batches.
Every now and then you'd hear someone react to eating a mine and we had to desperately hold back laughter knowing what it was.
You are Satan
these are so tame, i managed a few cinemas for a few years pre-covid
im talking regular piss in bags, adult customers getting in fights and hitting 15 year old kids, regular verbal abuse because the shopping centre removed the parking ticket validator
one time a cockatoo chewed thru the wall from outside and got into the cinema behind the screen, super annoying
another time a junkie broke into the projectionist room, almost OD on heroin and shit all over the floor, TWICE!!
middle aged women sexually assaulting myself and my staff more times than i can count
cinemas are like a magnet for crazy shit to occur
edit: i forgot the customer that got completely undressed and left his movie, no one said anything about a naked guest but we found his clothes after the movie was done and no sign of the customer
that last guy just got raptured
Worked at a Regal cinema. We had cans of gum/sticky remover that froze whatever substance you sprayed it on so you could chip it out of the upholstered seats. We soon started packing the cans like they were guns and freezing each other's necks while we tried to sneak up on each other like Solid Snake. Went through 3 cases of the stuff in a week and management got kind of pissed about it but didn't do anything, until one of the dumbass cleaners sprayed a manager on the back of the neck while he was working concessions during a rush. Shrek was coming out and the string of curses that flowed forth was astounding. The parents got rather upset over the manager sounding like a Tarantino film in front of their crotch goblins. Cleaner was fired on the spot; manager profusely apologized and offered some free combos. All of the cans of freeze spray were removed immediately. Still the best job I have ever had.
LOL 👍👍👍 BROW
Im literally watching this on my break at work (cinema) I have so many stories to tell, but I'll start with my 2 best.
1.) an employee once found a quarter ounce bag of weed that some stoner had left. The employee made the mistake of handing it in to the manager, who promptly emptied it into the bin. Most of the people on shift were pissed that that perfectly good weed had gone to waste.
2.) when cleaning a cinema we see many things, worst I've ever found is a used nappy that a parent had left on our leather seats. Not wanting to touch the thing I grab the manager who picks it up, he then begins to shout, it's fuckin warm, it's fuckin warm. I have never been so disgusted before
As a Stoner (Medical now was Recreational) I felt their Pain, and wouldn’t have been surprised of their was someone who was a fiend for it, that they actually searched through the Bin and grabbed any that was still good XD
The second one, people are just disgusting!
OMG! 😟
@@AreiaBlood Even as a former user, I'd be annoyed. Even if I don't have it, the others or my mates would want it.
@SeanSMST I mean even if you never smoked weed, throwing away something that's worth a decent amount of money and still perfectly good is nonsensical
there are like 12 bins in the cinema itself, i don't get how people leave their shit (literally) on their seats. you walk past so many bruh were you raised in a fking barn
Zookeepers actually giving actual horror stories would be amazing!
The naked movie star frames clipping guy sounds insanely cool AND NOW THEY WANT TO TAKE THAT AWAY FROM US SO THEY CAN MAKE “SPIDER MAN” ON THE COMPUTER
if by 'and now' you mean probably decades ago at this point.
It's been a Long time since the movies were delivered to theaters on actual film rather than on discs or as digital files at this point, and that's entirely seperate from how the movie was created.
Ive got a few from over the years at a certain Brisbane Cinema. Rapid fire round. A guy who wouldnt leave when a fire broke out in the candybar because despite a free ticket he "refused to leave antman without seeing the ending". A young lad who found a very yellow bottle of jack daniels in the cinema and spilt it all over himself and the floor. A goon sack stuff in the S-Bend of the toilet. A patch of carpet that had to be cut out because someone vomitted on it on the midnight session on christmas eve and it sat there for 2 days uncleaned. 1 set of cinema staff egging the staff on the night shift when they were doing the evening bin run. Lastly, an empty carton (proper carton full size) of VB's, cans and all, left in the cinema on a new years day showing of The Good Dinosaur.
Don’t blame the guy. Have you ever seen the Good Dinosaur?
@@Tester-sh1mn WTF is a goon sack?
Damn, the good dinosaur, just reminded Me I gotta show that one to my kid k think I got a 'burnt' version version off a house mate years ago.
This screams "South Bank Cinemas"
@@gcchick91 Redcliffe!
Never worked at a cinema, but when I was 13-14 I convinced my dad to take about a dozen of my mates to Borat because it was an MA film and we needed an adult.
Spend the first half of the movie terrified he's going to be angry at me for making him take us. I look back at him (he was in the row behind us) during the scene where Borat and his manager are chasing each other naked through a hotel.
Dad was pissing himself laughing. He enjoyed the movie more than I did!
what a wholesome story :) thank you for making me smile
Do EB Games workers confess their sins
Yummers
Surely you'd lump in Zing workers too, I'd imagine the venn diagram of places where sweaty nerds shop puts it right in the middle
they do not, from my experience.
@@TheYoda50 "sweaty nerds" has simpsons profile pic and yoda in user name
@@Redman_realleast he knows who he is
7:19 Cardboard display is absolute gold !!
i think it's time you do a BUNNINGS WORKERS CONFESS THEIR SINS vid! surely it's a rich ribbon of comedy gold waiting to be dug up, chemically separated from the useless minerals in and around it, and turned into a nugget of entertainment for our benefit to fill in a little bit more time in our lives until we eventually die?!
I see Friendyjordies has become Pyrocynical but Australian.
More aggressive too
@@yacmoth770 yeah,l ike he said, Australian.
Except he's actually entertaining
pyrocynical if he wasnt insufferable
im still waiting for the fat fetish exposé
I worked at classic cinemas for like 18 months (smaller company mostly in Northern Illinois) and I have a few stories.
Theres an elevator that takes disabled people up to the top of the I-max theater where some of the disabled and wheelchair seating are. The small mechanical room that houses the elevator's inner-workings caught fire mid-showing and the whole building was evacuated. The whole theater was forced to close and the fire department originally said it would take a month to reopen. Miraculously, the theater managed to make the necessary building repairs in two days. I didnt want to be out of work for a whole month, but a week off wouldnt have been so bad.
One time a bird flew through the front door and he was chilling in the rafters of our I-max equivalent for like 36 hours before the fire department got the poor guy out.
We had a group of 4 come in once (A couple in their 50-60s and presumably their 2 mid-thirties kids) who got their tickets for some marvel movie and went to their theater. One would think that would be all, but they come back super pissed because apparently they had gotten the wrong tickets. They 1000% did not. I was standing next to my coworker who rang them up as they ordered (I was new), and they were given the right tickets. My coworker tried to reason with them but they just got more angry and demanded a refund along with free tickets to the "correct" movie. My manager gets called, he fully believes us so he denys them their request. This does not please them at all. One of the dudes in his 30s procedes to call my manager the N-word (he's not white or black and Im not sure what his ethnicity is, bro grew up in chicago though). Luckily they all decide to leave with a threat of a police call after that.
Also one time, we had a mom come in super pissed because her 15 year old daughter had left her house with some 24 year old piece of shit without the parents knowledge. She managed to track them to our theater with Life360. I was working the front at the time, but I guess the dude left through a side door the moment he saw the mom come into the theater. then the mom and daughter just left.
If you do part 2 of Cinema Workers Confessions, here's a story. One rainy day, a lady and her kid come to see Mission Impossible: Fallout after an hour into the film. We were confused but didn't ask because he looked pissed off, as if she was ready to fight. She bought a large cola and went into the theater, only to interrupt the film as she screamed out someone's name. A guy quickly walks to her and is greeted with a large drink thrown at him with a slap to his face. While this happens, she is still holding onto her kid. We rushed to stop the fight and separate the two. As the guy asks us to call the police, she quickly bolts with her kid from the cinema. When the police arrived and questioned him, we discovered that he was her husband. Apparently, they hired a babysitter for their kid, but he got out of work early. Instead of going home to take care of his kid, the husband decided to go watch a movie. The wife then found out and decided to confront him. Two months later, my manager saw the same guy walk down the highway with luggage in tow. It seemed things didn't end well for him.
Sounds like he was avoiding an abusive spouse. I used to stop off at the theater after school as a kid to delay going home to an abusive mother...
Yeah, incomplete info / context that not even OP has, but I was kinda expecting an extra lover in the story. If it was just him, then yeah it's certainly something I can see someone reasonable getting _a bit_ angry, but not "large soda to the face" level angry, or "divorce without custody" level angry.
@@Fay7666 Taking the kid along as an asset to confront the dad is blatent manipilation of the kid and a common abuse tactic among psycho mothers. I did my homework since after having witnessed several such situations first hand and I knew it wasn't right when it happened. Many of my friends growing up and since also reported experienced similar dynamics so I doubt it is merely anectdotal but more-so likely, an underreported and fairly common reality.
It doesn't feel good to be pitted between the only two people who have dominion over you as a child like an expendable pawn in a narcissist's chess game against their own daddy issues.
interesting
2:00 I also wouldn’t put it past cougars to be in missions
Ok ColonelDarkViper 🤣🤣
Worked in the ghetto theater at the local mall in my teens, it sat opposite from an arcade with a DDR machine out front. One day before opening for the afternoon showings, one of the DDR sweatlords collapsed after a hours long session and his friend came running over asking us if we could get him a cup of water. All three of us at the counter refused and told him we'd be open in 10 minutes. So he had to drag his barely conscious friend across the mall to the food court. To this day I genuinely have no idea why all 3 of us at the concession were so cruel. We risked nothing just handing him a little paper cup with tap water in it.
Maybe at the time it was just a “we’re not open yet, leave me alone” Teen kind of mentality, rather than actually being intentionally cruel? Just seems like a very Teen thing to me, “we’re not open yet” XD
You feared your manager and obeyed their rules is why. Not having first aid training is also why you didn't give them water and call for emergency services, because if that guy collapsed after doing that, he needed water, cool air, and possibly a trip to the emergency room if his core temperature didn't come down quickly enough. So yeah, you were young and didn't know any better. Hope they guy didn't end up dead.
Or cuz.. eww- DDR sweat lord 😂
@@KING_PHILLIP If you've never been in the middle of 11 football players getting their water, then you know nothing of sweat and stink. The pads, they weren't cleaned until the season ended bad in my day, so by the end of the season, the funk, yeah, that DDR sweat beast might have rolls of skin, but so does half the team and everyone's pads.
You know nothing of sweat smell.
Yall suck
> Literally gets threatened by cartels and has his house firebombed
> "My life turned out amazingly."
Hats off to such indomitable spirit.
Something to aspire to have
I was a bartender at a cinema for 2 years in the US, actually really enjoyed that job overall.
There was a lot of your standard bar stuff, people falling asleep in theaters, etc.
My theater was in the middle of a downtown area so lots of homeless people would wander in, nothing too crazy usually jappened though. One guy did OD in our lobby and had to be narcan'd and carried out by EMTs. I also had to fight some off for my tip jar a couple times cause they would try and steal it.
Best one though was during a big rush (dont remember the movie, during top gun maverick i think), this absolutely RIPPED shirtless dude who was very high on something, walks into the middle of the lobby, starts screaming like hes about to go super saiyan, does a spin kick, then sprints out the front door off into the night like some kind of homeless version of Goku.
I worked at a theater in Seattle for a couple years in the 1990s. It was pretty uneventful but we did employ two guys who wore helmets. One got fired the third time he tried to bring a bottle of wine into work in a plastic shopping bag, but Ed worked there for years and was one of the best employees.
on my third ever shift, some guy had like a cardiac event in the theatre just after the movie had ended. Spiderman Homecoming just came out (so this is somewhere in 2017) and I was ripping tickets at the front counter. the line was huge for all the theatres so I was in a rush to get everyone to their seats. this guy comes up and as I tell him where to go he drops this sob story about how he needs to charge his phone so he can call somebody to pick him up after the movies over and if it would be alright if he ducked back out to get his charger and if I would set it up somewhere for him. I said yes (didn't know at the time that I wasn't allowed to do that.) and because we were packed I didn't bother checking his bag as he came back in. I'm convinced he did this on purpose because as I soon found out he had smuggled a bottle of whiskey into the theatre, downed about a third of it, and then went horizontal because it fucked with his meds. worst part of it was that this happened just as the theatre had emptied out and we were all trying to clean it for the next screening, so while site management and the Emergency Response Team were leaning over him, asking him what the last thing he remembered was, and generally trying to figure out how fucked he was, I waddle up and say "HEy Do YOu KnOW WHEre THe Bin BAgs ARe?"
Free phone and charger for you though.
In the Fight Club book they describe how when the film is making its way across the US the projectionists in each cinema will take one nude frame out of it as a souvenir, so by the time it gets to New York from California it's a few seconds shorter than when it left. Guess he was on to something.
The davez dinners situation is crazy....
I was working as an Usher cleaning the theaters as they let out and as I arrive at one theater I notice a group of kids come out and I'm hit with the smell of weed. I don't particularly care as they're leaving and it's legal, but as I'm waiting for everyone to clear out of the theater to clean it I notice that the group had split off down the hall. Two of the kids had walked over to one of the side exits and had just blatantly let one of their friends in. Then I turn back to the rest of the group and I don't know what happened but for some reason one of them has got a taser and is jabbing it at one his friends. Security was promptly called and they were kicked out.
I was working in Gold Class and a middle aged man was the only person in the theatre of a midweek screen of Divergent. He was getting plastered all by himself on Long Island ice teas until we had to cut him off.
Worked at a cinema in high school. Slow night. Manager comes in a tells us a story of a private, company viewing of fifty shades he once worked. There were some other details but I think my brain repressed them because I was 17 and this was a grown man.
I've worked at a small independent cinema for about two years now, its in Warrawong (if you know, you know). Really slow business, most shifts its just me and the boss, a 60 something boomer who's owned the place about twenty years or so. He has some stories.
Because its Warrawong most days at least 2 people come into the bathrooms then leave (we watch them on the cameras) about 20 minutes later, we go in after them, lo and behold needles and other supplies left behind. Sometimes they steal random stuff on their way out too, hand sanitiser, flyer stands, the usual.
One time maybe five years ago, some lady was crawling under the seats during a show, like literally crawling underneath people to look in their bags and steal money, someone saw her and told the boss, so he went and confronted her, where she then attempted to lunge at him with a used needle. Somehow my boomer boss knew karate or something and ducked, pushing her over and getting the needle off her, he then picked her up and threw her outside, this man is 5"4, doesn't go outside and doesn't exercise. I have no idea.
Have a few more stories might share if there's a part 3 or something
The projectionist at my old work was a massive conspiracy theorist, and it was always fascinating to hear his latest rant while he furiously vapes.
I love those people. Most entertaining thing you will ever hear is a lengthy conspiracy theory from a true believer who's done hours and hours of research.
@@RiffRaffMama. He was also a hardcore Flat earther.
sounds like my HS sport teacher. i am convinced that there was no conspiracy theory in which he did not believe. i really liked to talk with him (tho many times had to hold back laughter) because then i did not had to do sport.
Warhammer enthusiasts confess your sins.
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Worked for the cinemas in Cairns when I just finished High School. It was about 5 minutes before my shift ended as I was doing the final cinemas checks. As I was walking to the podium to sign off paperwork, I saw this crackhead sprinting away out of cinema 5 holding his pants and screaming. As I went to investigate why, I came round the corner and was welcomed with diarrhoea everywhere, it was not only on the floor but up the WALLS and trailed all the way out of the shopping centre. Like a brown Jackson Pollock. When I told my manger, she simply said "Clean it, we have 3 more movies playing after this." As I died inside and went to get the cleaning equipment, a group of eshays attempted to sneak in didn’t see the trail of diarrhoea and slipped over, making a brown "snow angel", it wasn’t very hard to find them as I just followed the smell into the other cinema. I then worked for the company for another 5 years.
I went to armageddon expo in Auckland when I was 15 and I was in line for battlefield 3 or whatever it was that had a play test, but you had to be 16 to play it iirc, the plan was to just not pull out our IDs and just confidence tell them our fake age. We wait in line for 45 mins get to the front of the line, I tell the guy I'm 17 and don't have ID on me, tell him a fake DOB when he asks, guy didn't really care, my mate pulls out his ID and shows that he's not old enough and the guy kicks us both out of line, I was so fucking close to being able to play it and my mate ruined it
He's doing the TH-camr "Situation is Crazy" meta
he can only make so much content off of Bruz
@@suijinnokazuhiko liberal govt content only goes so far too when its a labor govt effing up the game
@@suijinnokazuhiko Until Bruz inevitably does something stupid at Motorcycles NSW and we see a "The Bruz situation is crazy STOOOOGE"
Yes
The meta comment situation is crazy
STORY TIME: Once had a line of about 100 people waiting to watch Avengers Endgame on the second or third night after release. Then some young kid runs up to the front of the line and screams out [spoiler alert] "IRON MAN DIES", convinced that kid was lucky to make it out alive haha.
I remeber having Captain Barbossa from Pirates of the Caribbean spoiled by a teenage brat in the cinema lobby
Night time security confess their sins?
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For legal reasons, no.
Dad was an assistant manager for a local joint. He had to fire no less than 6 people for jigging work to shag.
At 3 in the afternoon.
In the parking lot OUT FRONT.
The not wearing the piccolo outfit situation. Is getting crazy....
The pregnancy tests kind of make sense these days.
Where else can you find an unlocked public toilet after hitting up the 24hr chemist at 9PM?
On the last night of Christmas holidays at the cinema in gold class, We're doing close and lo and behold there was a pool of piss in the recliner leg rests that flowed out when we attempted to deep clean the recliners. The worst part was that it was multiple day old piss that had been stagnant waiting for an unsuspecting victim.. meaning countless men women and children were lining up to get comfy in a piss chair and paying absorbent prices for said chair. only luxury really
“Shut up I’m fantasising” is definitely something I’ve never heard, yep, not once , ever, definitely not 🙃
This happened pretty recently. I was working at Hoyts Chatswood the first night of school holidays. I walk into cinema 3 because a customer had told me there were some teenagers talking in the back row and I had to tell them to shut up. In a fairly large cinema with only about 8 people total, the two teens had wedged themselves into the back corner making it so I could barely see them from the entrance at the bottom of the stairs. As I approach them they remained blissfully unaware of my presence still talking to eachother pretty loudly. It was then I saw that the pair had just passed it to third base, the guys hand down her pants with the girl using him as a living Atari Joystick while both were in full school uniform. I called security who kicked them out but one of the two left their phones on the seat. About an hour later a guy comes in to collect "his daughters phone", looking as furious and defeated as a tradie being audited. Apparently the pair were on their first "date" and thought that a showing of Deadpool vs Wolverine was a good enough time for some post graduation voyeurism. And yes, the boy did go to Knox Grammar.
Worked in cinemas for 8 years and the one that always comes back to me was finding the rind of a fully eaten half-watermellon and an empty can of condensed milk under a seat... What happened there???
I got a crazy one that I think about every now and then. Worked in a cinema a couple years ago and the corn kernels that we used for the popcorn came in 20kg Hessian bags.
Long story short, at some point during transit the moths began laying eggs in the bags. They would eventually hatch in storage and you'd find couple when you opened a new bag sometimes.
Management told us to just pick them out and use the kernels. The hot oil probably would've killed any bacteria, but it still doesn't quite sit right. There's no way we got every moth.
Also had an old guy working the projectors that was mourning his wife
100% thought you were going to say the eggs started hatching in that big heated display the popcorn sits in.
Ehh, it'll be fine. Flour and essentially any grain product is practically guaranteed to have bugs in it, and most of us eat quite a lot of that.
@CAMSLAYER13 yeah true. I was more worried about having to explain when someone found a cooked moth
@@darcyyoung2266 extra protein for free!
Hoyts’ popcorn is delivered pre-popped in giant plastic bags and stored in rooms that are teeming with mice.
Please do cafe workers/starbucks workers confess their sins, I myself have a menagerie of stories including having to chase off a repeat offender tweaker eating a jar of orange marmalade with a spoon at our dumpster.
7:11 Imagine what the guy was thinking?
Maybe a Tales from Call Center employees? share their craziest calls, situations in the center, etc. hell i have a story that happened 14 years ago that i still remember. it wasnt even catastrophic or anything, it was just so embarrassing ive never forgotten it.
I second this topic... oh the stories from my time working Saturday night call centre work!!
Fight club in reverse is Bulc thgif
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I worked concessions at a movie theater in high school. We usually closed super late, so most of the theaters were empty by then. One day I noticed two of my coworkers hadn't shown up in a while, so I started asking around, wondering if they quit or something.
It turns out they would wait at the end of our shift until all of us left and go find an empty theater to smash in. And I guess our managers only found out because the girl bragged to everyone at work about it. And not only that, she gave all the details about how they would do it in the bathrooms, behind the dumpster, in the break room, etc. after everyone left. So they fired her, but since they couldn't prove that they actually did it, they couldn't fire the guy, but he quit anyway out of shame.
The wildest part to me is that none of us ever had to know about it, but she thought she was soooo cool for getting backshots behind a filthy movie theater dumpster that she just couldn't refrain from telling all of her coworkers about it.
Would like to see stories from Hotel workers. The amount of people that check their brains out when they check in. Women are the worst hotel guests. Leaving used sanitary items on the bedroom floor or the weird guests that like to answer the door naked. After over 20years nothing surprises me much anymore of what people do.
the projectionist is right out of cinema paradiso
Worked at a movie theater for way too long. Around spring time and early summer we'd sometimes get a couple of Canada geese walking through the box office on quieter days. Those rare visits were the highlight of my life at the time. Way friendlier than our usual patrons.
Here is one for if you do a 2nd one.
I worked for a cinema for 8 years but my god the things you see, from the 50 shades and cucumber incidents to kids coming and stealing Tom Cruse from a standee for Year 12 Scav Hunt.
The one that sticks with me is the time that I wasn't working and watching a movie. Casually watching Grown ups 2 in a mostly full cinema but in the corner of my eye I could see something and I turned and looked and it was this young couple doing the deed in the cinema while its packed, sitting there wondering, how has noone noticed that, So I messaged to one of the team members on the floor and was like hey, you might want to come break up the guys having sex in here but by the time they had a break to come have a look, they had already finished hahahahhaha
We went from analog to digital within that period and had an area that was literally known for where people would fuck and even when we announced it, we made it known that we knew that in the news paper hahhahah
00:30 and yet I see no 40k tattoo or accompanying video for hitting 1 million subs.
Give the people what they want.
I worked at Hoyts for a year during high school
The hiring process was a large scale group interview in a cinema itself. They asked us all a series of questions and I was hired because I was able to string a sentence together, and name 3 movies from the last 10 years??
I had just got my license so I used to work closing shifts for extra money. Every Tuesday an old seedy guy would come in for the last few screenings, with a plastic bag full of rags (likely hiding alcohol) and he would sneak into multiple movies throughout the night. We felt bad and never stopped him, he tried so hard.
The break room had an original Xbox that played season 1 of Friends on loop for the entire year I was there
I never got taught to make any coffee other than a flat white, any time someone asked for any coffee (even black) I made a flat white and never heard anything from it.
When I did temperature and screening checks, I used to walk up and down the aisle and fart next to people. What are they going to do, get up and stop watching the movie?
I used to direct people to the vending machine or woolies nearby because the snacks and drinks at Hoyts were too expensive.
Most of the time, the cinemas looked like a bomb went off after the movie. The bins would fill up and people would see this, drop any rubbish they were holding, and walk out. (In front of me)
Here’s the list of all the strange things I found while cleaning the cinemas:
Finger nail clippings (clipped)
Toe nail clipping (BITTEN)
A popcorn bucket full of vomit
A seat and floor full of vomit (company policy, we used kitty litter to soak it up and would send the next lot of customers in)
A child’s poo in the bean bag seat (we were the last Hoyts in WA to have the beanbag cinema)
Used and unused condoms
A wallet with multiple hundreds
An unattended child (everyone had left and lights shut off)
An unattended homeless man sleeping(as this cinema had been unused that day)
Thanks for reading, it was a fun time
"It's Fight Club in reverse, Club Fight".. Rule #1 & #2: Talking about Club Fight is mandatory.
He seems to be having a lot of fun in these videos, I love it!
The crazy situation situation is crazy
American movie theater employee here, once had ants crawling all over someone in a theater. The funny part is that the managers didn’t care at all and didn’t try to resolve the issue because they were all mobilizing to stop someone in a different theater from recording a movie. Those ants were still there when the ushers came in 3 hours later.
These situations are crazy videos are getting pretty crazy
I work at a cinema and some kid around 16-17 came in and asked if he could wait in the lobby I told him yes and thought that it would end there. He then tells me that he went to the cinema to find his girl friend who was in a movie and didn't tell him he was going to it. I assume that he was calling her as he would try to call her about every 30 seconds. A few minutes later I see a girl and her friend leaving but go straight into the bathroom when they see him, He then goes sits in his truck and drives up and down the parking lot rows looking for her car. No one saw her leave the cinema so I assumed she left out the fire exit in the theatre.
Yes finally! That was good, but you guys left out some really funny ones from poll from last year. Anyway, here's mine.
I worked at a cinema for 8 years and have way too many horror stories. But my worst experience involved one of our regulars, who was disabled. He always stunk of piss and was a big perv with the young candy bar girls.
Anyway, one day, I was called down to the candy bar by one of the girls on the counter who, in a panic, told me the guy had taken a shit in the middle of the candy bar. Sure enough, there was a giant cow pat-sized turd right in the middle of the floor. The gentleman had rolled his wheelchair all around the area, leaving a smelly trail to the box office.
I had to clean up his first pile of shit while also directing patrons around the shit while the two managers hid behind the counter. The gentleman, meanwhile, was leaving me a second surprise outside the box office where a nice fresh, Great Dane-sized shit was awaiting my attention. I told him to clear off, and he rolled away, shouting and leaving a trail behind him all the way to the exit. Had to bleach all the mop buckets multiple times.
I once worked at an AMC for a year. The worst thing I had to deal with was when Knifes out was in theaters. I was in charge of tickets and cleaning up the theater (since we were short staffed). Everything was going smoothly until this woman who was built like the blob walked in with a 16 year old kid. She asked in the heaviest western accent (pun intended) “is my kid allowed to see the movie” I did not know what she said since her accent was so heavy (BTW, this entire thing was in America, so it was the first time I ever heard the accent). I played it cool and got lucky by assuming what she said. After giving them their ticket, I went about my job. Things got worse after the movie. When I was cleaning her spot, I saw of all things, a Spent condom and a hole in the seat where the mother was (the daughter’s seat was the opposite end of the theater. I was so close to throwing up on the spot. I sighed, thought about my terrible decisions, and to my dismay, it was warm and wet. I then screamed “EEEUGH, What the Fuck!?”. One of my friends that also worked there speed walked in, where I was standing, made the most disgusted face ever, and said “Jesus Christ, I was going to tell you that you are overreacting, but What the fuck?”. I quit the next day.
I worked at a relatively gnarly Hoyts when I was finishing high school. The bosses were assholes to us and the managers were all like 20 year olds who thought they were hot shit. One manager I had was particularly power hungry and full of himself. One night at the beginning of a candy bar shift we discovered that someone had repacked a bag of postmix into a normal cardboard box and it was leaking. For those that don't know, postmix is meant to be in triple thickness reinforced cardboard boxes and the only part of the bag of coke syrup inside that should be exposed is the little port where you connect the hose to it. If you let it get exposed to light it expands and can start leaking or explode.
So this manager decides the best course of action is to pick up the leaky box that's been duct taped together and carry it a few meters to the sink to pour it out. I, being the 16-17 year old pleb, am tasked with grabbing a mop and mopping up the drips.
He picks it up, takes like two steps and it drips a bit so he stops and tells me to mop it up, I do that and he starts walking again. It starts pouring out a bit more and gets on his shoe. All I remember is saying "hey you got some on your shoe" and the next thing I know the box explodes out the bottom, sticky coke postmix goes everywhere and he slips repeatedly like he's in a cartoon. He falls forwards on top of the box and it bursts all over the floor. These things were like 10-15 litres or something.
I'm standing there completely unscathed trying not to laugh. His pants and arms are absolutely soaked and sticky so he screams "FUCK!", then gets up and leaves, saying nothing to me. I don't know what to do so I go into the big boss' office and they ignore me until I tell them to look at the security camera, whereupon they see a sea of coke postmix.
We ended up watching the whole thing on repeat a few times in the office, everyone laughing their asses off. It happened exactly in the center of one of the CCTV cameras, like you couldn't have planned it better. I got to recount this legendary moment to my fellow employees for the next few weeks, after having to mop up coke syrup for the rest of my shift (and by mop up, I mean push down the single drain and keep pouring boiled kettles of water down it to get it to dissolve).
Good times.
I worked at a CMX Cinema in Florida and had a girl walk in with her boyfriend who had a pistol holstered out in full view. No one in concession thought anything of it. The area that the theatre was in was also on high alert because some was sniping people with a BB gun.
I want a film about the creepy dude who steals frames.
I'm just loving the fact that he's releasing so many of these lately 😅
Harambe dying was a canon event
Is this the jordies slop era?
Brainrot slop time
Safer and more cost efficient than doing dangerous and lifethreatening journalism
I’m all for it
That crazy how crazy the situation in Hollywood is so crazy.
6:02 this is almost exactly the old Italian movie called "Cinema Paradiso" a guy clipping together hundreds of semi nudes from movies over his career at the theatre. Amazing movie btw, insane music.
Pyro would spend 1 hour explaining what a “cinema” is
You know Labor is up to some nefarious shit when Jordies puts out this many funny videos.
That was a good one. You’re on a roll lately. Thanks for all the laughs,
I work in a Qld cinema, got a couple of stories.
A co-worker was working candy-bar shift and looked out front of our work. In the undercover area next to the road, a man had stripped naked and was showering with a firehose.
On another occasion, while I was working a teenager had somehow brought an electric scooter into the cinema (Indiana Jones 5 was playing) and was riding it DOWN the steps of each layer of aisles. I kicked him out and scored a full six pack of Bundys that he had left under the seat.
a happy ending might as well be inside a massage parlour
i fucking love this series
Cinema Sins? I remember that channel...
Can’t wait for the story of cucumbers snuck into showings of “50 shades,” and how the cinema workers had to clean up pickles afterwards.
Thanks, great stories. Much appreciated
"At least I get to see Rasputin, and watch people do things to the Dr Strange Standee" -One of my DnD buddies who worked at a local theater.
Surprised we didn't get a story about Magic Mike screening
Oh my god even Jordan is jumping on the "x situation is insane" meme holy shit
the situation , situation is crazy
6:40 Now that's the kind of backbone you look for in a journalist who'll hold the government to account!
When my mum was young, so about 40 years ago, her boss was stealing shitloads of money from the cinema. She found out and offered to help him get away with it and steal more. She ended up stealing half the money he stole and used it to pay for her wedding and honeymoon
Pyrocinical esk title is crazy
Used to work at a theatre in rural Western Australia. Had the police come in right before we opened and arrested a co worker for filming and distributing child pron. we just watched him get escorted out then continued on our shift like nothing happened
warmly could just be as in like, the vibes of how it was served vs the actual temperature of the cod.
Whilst watching this my PC shut down and when I booted it up it said "Missing Operating System" rip
I'm a scaffolder, and I would LOVE to hear other scaffold stories.
Man I wish I’d heard about this, had a great one for it.
Loved hearing the brief BBC Grandstand theme.
Fantastic piece of music.
Fight Club in reverse is Talk Club, and the first rule of talk club is, there is no fighting about talk club. Or bulc thgif.
Asking again for a mechanic version. We all have some WILD stories. I know I do.
This is history, two of these videos in one week!?!?!!?!
Bought some chicken crimpy shapes last night because I wanted to check if they were as dry and bland as I remember. They are.
Worth waiting a whole year for