The most boring job at AMC folks! The usher greeter job. Every time the schedule was released mid-week, I would pray, literally pray that I wasn't going to be stuck at door for the weekend (door is the shorter term for usher greeter). Now, our building has three floors (well technically two). The first floor is where people can buy tickets and it also holds the Imax theater and theater one. The third floor has the main concession and the other nineteen theaters. There really is no second floor - it's really only used to pass from the first escalator on the ground floor to the second that takes you to the third floor. When I did have this job, some very frustrating things happen which I will go on to describe.
1. Customers not responding to my greetings.
Look, when I say "hello how are you", its not me wasting my breath, I genuinely mean it. So, don't just walk on by thinking your all and mighty and you don't have to respond to poor minimum wage workers like me. Be a nice and respond with this word, just this one word... "good".
2. PEOPLE SPOILING THE MOVIE FOR ME!
Oh my goodness, how evil could someone be? Once this guy came out a theater and walked up to me and just started talking about the movie. Now my boss wanted all employees to be super nice to the customers so I couldn't just be like dude get the hell out of my face! I had to sit through his rave about the movie and then say thank you, have a nice day.
3. Customers telling me of their life problems.
Am I that approachable? Jeez, all I want to do is get through a shift without killing myself and yet customers make the thought of that so more realistic.
4. The bathroom policy.
Okay, so AMC has a rule of denying people the bathroom unless they have a ticket. Normally, at first I followed this rule faithfully, no ticket no entry. Until a mother comes with her crying children insisting to use the restroom or old ladies that have a nice smile to them. I tend to take it case by case but I absolutely don't allow couples and homeless people.
5. Boredom.
All you do is sit and rip tickets, that's it, nothing else. Most of the time I would sit there on my phone playing some dumb game until my phone battery died. Or talk to the cool security guards who are just as humorous as I am.
6. Fighting for the first floor door.
First one in the building before their scheduled door shift can pick which door they want. Now unless one of the OG employees is in the building, it was a mad dash to work to make sure you got first floor door which only has two theaters. Once the showtimes for those theaters have passed you were golden as you sat doing absolutely nothing.
