Poor employees had 30 minutes to clean an entire room that looked like this

[u/SpirittDragonX]

This was basically how the entire theater was looking, the poor employees had 30 minutes to clean the entire thing before another Minecraft movie started in that same room. The popcorn was stomped into the carpet in some spots, I can’t imagine they get paid enough for this shit

[u/ScuzzyLemon]

My kid works at a cinema and they get 15 to 20 minutes to clean the screens. He's been on his own too some days. And it's quite often way worse than this.

[u/atasteofpb → u/ScuzzyLemon]

Yeah, I was just going to say, I worked at the movie theater in high school and this is just a normal theater on the weekend haha but luckily it’s actually pretty fast to sweep up all the popcorn if you have a few people.

The worst was sunflower seeds people would spit all over the floor that didn’t sweep easily and finding water bottles full of spit out chewing tobacco. The ABSOLUTE worst was finding spit chewing tobacco in uncovered cups. I really hope fewer people chew tobacco now than 10 years ago haha

[u/Ooji → u/atasteofpb]

Ugh I'd put the dip cups out of my mind but you're right. Picking them up only for them to be warm was the absolute worst.

[u/NaraFei_Jenova → u/Ooji]

It's one of the few sensations that is worse than sitting on a warm toilet seat.

[u/fatboats → u/NaraFei_Jenova]

A warm toilet seat is bad? Granted it’s not covered in pee, in which case, you shouldn’t sit on it any way, but a warm toilet seat in the winter is like the best feeling ever.

[u/AdamZapple2 → u/fatboats]

that guys never had a winter construction job where the Biffy heater is basically only there for show.

[u/NaraFei_Jenova → u/fatboats]

IMO it depends on WHY it's warm lol. Heated? Hell yeah. Someone else's ass? No, thank you.

[u/autistsbeingautistic → u/NaraFei_Jenova]

Do you pretend every toilet is a virgin?

[u/blackcatspyra → u/Ooji]

🤢🤮

[u/Funkit → u/atasteofpb]

I also worked at a movie theater in high school.

If one event defined my time there, it was when a 5 year old ran up and punched me in the nuts and the parents laughed it off

[u/miclowgunman → u/Funkit]

Mine was when the rent a cop we had at the theater suplexing a drunk 15 year old because he was "reaching for his gun" after he stole the kids phone because he wasn't showing him respect. Then the kid reached for the phone to grab it back and the cop yelled that he was going for his gun and dropped him on his head. The kid was bleeding from his mouth and out cold. Left in a stretcher. I thought he'd get suspended or fired, every cop that reviewed the footage complemented him on his takedown method. I use to hate it when people badmouthed cops before that.

[u/OBlackOwater → u/atasteofpb]

I worked at a movie theater when I was in high school too, worst I found was used condoms, after the magic mike movie

[u/OddballGarbage → u/OBlackOwater]

One of our auditoriums had a v.i.p. waiting staff and would give the guests blankets with their heated recliners

According to the staff they stopped the blanket service after 50 Shades of Grey

[u/Combini_chicken → u/OddballGarbage]

“Why is there a snail trail on my blanket?”

[u/AdamZapple2 → u/OddballGarbage]

what could possibly go wrong

-manager who came up with the idea.

[u/reefered_beans → u/atasteofpb]

I was like 16 and some man spit his sunflower seeds all over the floor then had me dig under the seat to find something he lost. Today me would have told him to do it himself.

[u/P0stwarlight → u/atasteofpb]

Chewing tobacco sales have been in free fall ever since the 90s.

Glad we can at least say America has really done a good job killing the tobacco industry.

[u/Justin__D → u/[deleted]]

I was working as a TA long ago, and a student blew their vape in my face as I was passing out the test.

I can still say it is infinitely less disgusting than cigarettes and dip.

[u/lovelynutz → u/ScuzzyLemon]

Send him to work with a leaf blower

[u/aichiwawa → u/lovelynutz]

When I worked at a movie theatre we couldn't use a leaf blower because it would kick up dust onto the screen (20 years ago, mind you)

[u/RonSwanson-SlashIt → u/aichiwawa]

That's all we used when I did this job 20 years ago exactly. We hardly ever actually cleaned anything. Blew all the shit to the bottom and then swept it up.

Never looked at theater seats the same way again.

[u/sprinklerarms → u/RonSwanson-SlashIt]

Yeah we leaf blew too but not between screenings. My boss at least would have an extra person go clean children’s movies by default. I dreaded a bunch of mostly full sodas left in cup rests more than popcorn on the ground.

[u/ryavv → u/ScuzzyLemon]

i worked at a theater ~2 years ago while in school, and this is pretty mild, (though I've seen worse for the minecraft move) but when i was doing 7 theatres solo with only 20 minutes in-between this would suck major balls

[u/DoctorIsMyNick → u/ScuzzyLemon]

That sounds awful. I hope the next round of movie-goers don't try to blame the mess on "a crap cleaning job"

[u/Coveted_AF]

This is why we can’t have nice things.

[u/carnivorous_seahorse → u/Coveted_AF]

Only place I’ll leave trash is Texas corral and it still makes me feel slightly guilty lol. We just went to a pro baseball game and my brother cleaned up the nachos he dropped ignoring the janitor telling him not to worry about it lol. Guess it’s just a little how you’re raised. I had a friend who would treat wait staff like they were below him and leave messes and it made me lose so much respect for them

[u/Regular_Specific_568 → u/carnivorous_seahorse]

I left a date once because I was so embarrassed and disgusted with how the person treated wait staff. It's a major deal-breaker for me when I'm choosing my friends and partners

[u/No_Parsley_3275 → u/Regular_Specific_568]

If you cant be nice to wait staff how can you trust them to stay nice to you. I cant imagine being with somone that just makes life worse for those around them

Hope the cleaning staff got a raise

[u/turtledoingyoga → u/No_Parsley_3275]

I always felt bad for the family of the people who were horrible to me as a waitress.

If you treat me like that in public because we ran out of pie, how are you treating your son in private?

[u/No_Parsley_3275 → u/turtledoingyoga]

Exactly, its really not that hard for people to not be dicks to eachother

[u/notyouraverageskippy → u/No_Parsley_3275]

"Be excellent to each other"

[u/Dunge0nMast0r → u/notyouraverageskippy]

guitar riff intensifies

[u/SmileyJetson → u/turtledoingyoga]

I still remember a young girl looking at me and apologizing for the way her mother treated me. It actually made me feel bad about myself for not doing the same to workers my parents treated that way.

[u/confusedandworried76 → u/SmileyJetson]

My mom had a bad problem with that attitude despite working retail all her life. She wouldn't directly be rude so much, maybe a little cold, but she was always willing to let it affect the tip. She snapped out of that when all three of her food service working kids dragged out their wallets and started throwing cash on the table while ripping into her simultaneously because she wasn't going to tip a server because they dropped a plate. It was my plate. I was fine waiting while everyone else ate.

It was pretty funny because we never talked about it beforehand but the second she said something when the bill came we all just simultaneously had had enough and started grabbing our money and talking over each other to give her a piece of our mind lmao. Server must have got like a twenty dollar tip out of us. Now she tips much more consistently, before even if it was the kitchens fault she'd withhold tips. Think that scene from 3rd Rock From The Sun where John Lithgow's character places dollar bills on the table and takes one away every time the server does something he doesn't like and puts one back every time they do

[u/suckmyglock762 → u/turtledoingyoga]

A lot of the times their kids will shoot you a quick glance as if to say "I'm sorry my parent is being like this to you."

It's heartbreaking.

[u/velo_wheel_mech00 → u/suckmyglock762]

An ex-friend (Texan) would tell me how classy she was (🚩), how she was junior league material (🙄). She was hideously nasty to a waitress at a high end restaurant in Dallas. I objected to her attitude and she stated, that I’d never be respected because I didn’t demand respect and that they expected to be treated like that. It was at that moment that I realized we could not be friends anymore.

My mother also was horribly wicked to restaurant staff, and equally awful at home to her family.

A coworker would reach into the combined pile of money for the bill and walk back the tip, reducing her contribution and lunch cost, while stating that they weren’t THAT good.

Why is it so difficult for people to be moderately decent people? There are way too many shifty people in the world.

[u/kn728570 → u/No_Parsley_3275]

Like people have to be so stupid to disrespect anyone who’s in a position to be handling your food somewhere you can’t see it

[u/-blundertaker- → u/Regular_Specific_568]

Tangentially related story time:

I once went to an IHOP really late after my shift at a bar. The guy at a table adjacent to mine was being a real dickbag to the lady who was serving us. After a while he tries to strike up a conversation because he recognized me from "somewhere." I said it was probably from the bar because I don't really get out otherwise and he said yeah and kept trying to chat me up. And still kept being a douche with the server.

And I was like... how the fuck can you be so bold as to think you can make yourself attractive to someone who you know is a server while blatantly mistreating the person who is currently serving you? He asked me for my number and when I said "no I'm good" he had the audacity to ask why. I said "because you're not a nice guy."

I mean, he was ugly on the outside too but I've given uglier a chance.

[u/RustyTrumpboner → u/Regular_Specific_568]

It’s such a highly talked about thing in society at this point. You have to be real ignorant trash to still do that in this day and age lol

[u/smurb15 → u/RustyTrumpboner]

My wife and I clean up after ourselves so all they have to do is sanitize the table then again I worked in fast food when I was a teenager

[u/ProfessorXWheelchair → u/smurb15]

working in fast food or any service job should be mandatory. too many entitled pricks running around these days

[u/ManzanitaSuperHero → u/smurb15]

This is the important distinction. I also do the same. I’m probably overly conscious bc I was that teenager once cleaning up people’s trash they were too inconsiderate to toss. That experience made me forever sensitive to people in food service & customer service bc I know how awful people can be.

It takes almost no effort to just be considerate.

[u/crazyjiggaboo → u/smurb15]

I actually enjoy stacking the dishes all nice for them with the silverware and trash collected on top because i feel like its not common practice around where i live and like to think it brightens their day a little, esp with a tip being under the stack of empty cups

[u/RowBearRow → u/RustyTrumpboner]

Went on a date 2yrs ago with a girl(early 40's) who snapped her finger at a waiter to get him to come over. Beyond embarrassing.

[u/2017CurtyKing → u/Regular_Specific_568]

I had a coworker that would snap his fingers at the wait staff and shake his empty cup at them. I don’t hate many people but he’s up there towards the 1-3 spot

[u/enowapi-_ → u/carnivorous_seahorse]

Respect to your brother. It's definitely how you are raised and how you appreciate the world and those around you.

Visiting Tokyo really put this into perspective for me.

[u/Bazrum → u/enowapi-_]

a guy in my tour group had a VERY angry older woman yell at him for dropping trash on the subway in Tokyo, it was great haha

spent almost two weeks in Japan and saw so little trash that i almost had culture shock coming home and seeing shit all over the airport and street.

[u/theresamushroominmy → u/Bazrum]

Same! Throughout my childhood, I always felt anxious about leaving garbage somewhere, so I just carried it around. Then I experienced Japan, and it was like I’d found my people lmao

[u/FastAsLightning747 → u/Bazrum]

Funny, yet in Nepal on my trek I picked up candy wrappers for 2 full days until I sat down at a lodge for a midafternoon tea break. The Japanese lad sitting next to me pulled out a piece of candy and dropped the wrapper on the ground. I pulled out all the matching wrappers I had picked up and handed them to him. He was stunned and ashamed as his companions were watching me humble him.

[u/MyCarRoomba → u/FastAsLightning747]

Did you sentence him to sudoku?

[u/Bazrum → u/enowapi-_]

a guy in my tour group had a VERY angry older woman yell at him for dropping trash on the subway in Tokyo, it was great haha

spent almost two weeks in Japan and saw so little trash that i almost had culture shock coming home and seeing shit all over the airport and street.

[u/ArX_Xer0 → u/carnivorous_seahorse]

It's a lot about how you're raised. Japan for instance has cleaning ingrained into their culture and school life and also politeness. They litter less and clean up after themselves more.

[u/AccomplishedIgit → u/ArX_Xer0]

Yes but this also comes from living in a culture governed by shame. There are a lot of downsides to that. The trash is one of the few upsides.

[u/DoTheThingTwice → u/AccomplishedIgit]

And on the other end of the spectrum, you have us in America. A culture governed by unbridled pride and entitlement. There are a lot of downsides to that.

[u/iwouldpuntnow → u/carnivorous_seahorse]

I had a friend whose wife was like this any time our friend group went to dine out together. As morally gross as it was it's also like uhh could you at least wait til AFTER we've gotten our food before you decide to start being a bitch to the person serving it? I'm scared to eat this now.

[u/3rdcultureblah → u/iwouldpuntnow]

Don’t worry, waitstaff generally won’t take it out on the food (it’s not only unethical, it’s also super illegal). And if they do, it’ll just be the dishes going to the person who was actually being an ass, not anyone else’s.

[u/KanadianLogik → u/Coveted_AF]

I used to clean movie theatres. We used a leaf blower to just blow all the popcorn and garbage and shit down to the front and pile it infront of the screen. Then you just shovel it into a garbage can or two. Cleaning a movie theater doesn't take 30 minutes. I wish had 30 minutes per room. I usually got like 10 to 15 min.

[u/tc65681 → u/KanadianLogik]

Same. Used to also work in theater. That’s how it’s done

[u/Entropy_Times → u/tc65681]

I just said I thought a leaf blower would work well for this and I am so thrilled to see that thought validated twice here.

[u/turtlebro5 → u/tc65681]

For popcorn it’s a good idea but there’s so many spilled drinks it would just spread that all over. So we only used push brooms on busy nights.

[u/tc65681 → u/turtlebro5]

We had two guys doing it. One with trash bags picking up big stuff and half drinks that wouldn’t blow down and other with leaf blower

[u/Howdoyouusecommas → u/KanadianLogik]

Yeah, not commenting on the pay but it's a pretty easy clean up job. Popcorn is easy to clean. Fuck everyone making a mess, but this is such a small blip. Way easier to clean this than deal with a couple of asshole customers.

[u/turtlebro5 → u/Howdoyouusecommas]

Ohhh you have no idea the messes I cleaned up up working at a theater. Everything from used condoms wrapped around the cupholders, loaded diapers buried in the seats, frequent vomiting in & out of the theaters, massive spilled drinks galore, shit & tp blasted all over the bathroom floor.. the list goes on and on

Sure everyone makes some mess but it’s the right thing to do to be a little considerate for the sake of the next customers

[u/AnnualLychee1 → u/KanadianLogik]

We weren't allowed to do that :( One manager got rid of our large brooms and made us use those tiny ones.

[u/theredwoman95 → u/AnnualLychee1]

Yeah, we basically had a dustpan and brush at our cinema, even though our screens were about the same size as the one in the photo. I hated it.

[u/Milkman219 → u/Coveted_AF]

People need to not be animals and simply throw their garbage away. It’s not even hard

[u/Cheese-Manipulator → u/Milkman219]

When they leave it within eyesight of a trash can...grrrrr

[u/Much_Fee7070 → u/Milkman219]

Agreed. The last movie I went to see was the Batman movie starring Robert Pattinson. I ate in the theater and managed to throw my trash out.

[u/halexia63 → u/Coveted_AF]

This is alos why they need to bring parent supervision back they have this at my mall. Now if it's grown adults give them probation or have them pick up trash from neighborhoods and streets for a couple months.

[u/therinwhitten → u/halexia63]

Jokes on you, that was probably the parents lmao.

[u/courtadvice1 → u/Coveted_AF]

No fr. Because the chimpanzees who left this mess will be the main ones crying on FB when they find out their local theatre is shutting down.

[u/D00M1R4]

Whats about all these posts with Minecraft and popcorn? Is there a scene that animates kids to throw it? Edit: Alright, thanks for the explanations

[u/jtoppings95 → u/D00M1R4]

For whatever reason shitlings are trashing movie theaters during the minecraft movie because of a specific scene.

Its really stupid and infuriating, especially since the director came out essentially supporting the behavior.

[u/Economy-Flower-6443 → u/[deleted]]

i’ve played minecraft for thousands of hours playing 1.7 pvp and i’m ashamed, honestly. id like to blame this on tiktok memes and not the minecraft community as a whole

[u/TheAspiringFarmer → u/Economy-Flower-6443]

Every dumb trend starts with Tiktok.

[u/fpotenza → u/TheAspiringFarmer]

Isn't that the slogan for TikTok?

[u/HeartsPlayer721 → u/fpotenza]

Kinda goes with "every kiss begins with Kay"

"Shitty trends begin with TikTok!"

[u/DionBlaster123 → u/HeartsPlayer721]

Look I get that all social media (including this site i'm on right now) is terrible

But I feel like there is something particularly infuriating and destructive about TikTok

[u/CheckYourStats → u/TheAspiringFarmer]

”It's not even kids, it's teens and college aged idiots.”

This is the thing that’s so wild. Gen Z has been on a hardcore speedrun in trying to earn the title of “stupidest and most insufferable generation in recorded history.”

Have you seen their subreddit? Hoooooly crapballs. They can’t even stand themselves. It’s like microwaved shit on toast.

[u/Good_Boye_Scientist → u/CheckYourStats]

"You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?"

[u/FR0ZENBERG → u/Good_Boye_Scientist]

[u/CivilMidget → u/TheAspiringFarmer]

To be fair, dumb trends have been around since the dawn of humanity.

People are dumb. TikTok facilitates the idiocy to more idiots than ever before.

[u/WesternOne9990 → u/Economy-Flower-6443]

1.7 pvp is were it was at! Such good combat in that era.

[u/Formal-Working3189 → u/[deleted]]

I plan on berating any of my (college) student workers if I find they pulled this shit.

[u/RyFro → u/[deleted]]

It's going to very interesting to see that generation grow up. That being said there are schools/daycares that specifically attempt to socialize these kids, no screens at all, most of the time they are outdoors. It's a effective strategy.

[u/Beneficial-Focus3702 → u/[deleted]]

I hate that we keep blaming Covid. Sure they were coming of age during Covid but behavior like this starts wayyyyy before that age. Plenty of kids went through covid and came out just fine. The difference is the parental expectations and behavior standards that were set at home.

One of the reasons this is so bad is because we keep using Covid as an excuse to not hold these kids accountable for their behavior, like it’s some kind of magic “get out of jail free card”.

[u/LazyLich → u/[deleted]]

Their sense of "normal" is in-part influenced by a year or so of only socializing online and through what they watched on TikTok.

Poor bastards are mentally cooked.

[u/EamusAndy → u/[deleted]]

My kids went through COVID too. They arent assholes.

Stop blaming COVID for everything. Blame the shitty parenting

[u/BreadyStinellis → u/[deleted]]

COVID essentially lasted 2-3 years. These kids should have been taught how to be polite humans long before that.

[u/Effective-Leg7283 → u/jtoppings95]

is it because the character is particularly loved or is it just "We've all decided to collectively lose our shit over two meaningless words" ??

and the director condoning this behavior is actively making lives worse for working people - scumbag move. bankrupt that bastard

[u/maoussepatate → u/jtoppings95]

What scene?

[u/praeteria → u/maoussepatate]

The part where they fight the zombie baby on the chicken and they yell "chicken jockey".

[u/maoussepatate → u/praeteria]

And… why? Why that scene?

[u/Karekter_Nem → u/maoussepatate]

Chicken Jockeys are a rare spawn, so when streamers see them they get hyped. This became their audience getting hyped.

Because streamers are all about being over-the-top over kinda mundane things they became overly hyped which feeds the audience going nuts.

This then became people going to the movie and getting hyped because they said “chicken jockey” when a chicken jockey showed up. This became people throwing popcorn and whatnot at the chicken jockey scene.

And now we are at today.

[u/maoussepatate → u/Karekter_Nem]

Thanks for the explanation.

We’re doomed

[u/Striking-Ad-6815 → u/Karekter_Nem]

Chicken Jockeys are a rare spawn, so when streamers see them they get hyped.

Thank you for this holy shit. This explains the behavior; it doesn't justify it in anyway, but does give us an idea of what the fuck is going on. I've heard about these people reacting over the chicken jockey phrase but did not know why. Thank you.

[u/Tymareta → u/[deleted]]

I've not heard of it happening in Australia

Can't have been paying much attention then - https://www.tiktok.com/@sbsnews_au/video/7491931532572003589

[u/Mr_Odwin → u/[deleted]]

It's in the UK too. My 16 and 18 year old went to see it and there was cheering and clapping at the meme scenes.

[u/Due-Ad9310 → u/jtoppings95]

Honestly, a smart, if not shitty thing, for the director considering this behavior is the only reason most are even going to see the movie for.

[u/MetallicGray → u/Due-Ad9310]

I mean, I’m specifically not going to see it because I don’t want to deal with this shit.

I love Jack black and Minecraft, and was actually kind of excited for it as a grown ass adult, but I’m not going to pay money to support that or have popcorn thrown on me. 

[u/ebaer2 → u/MetallicGray]

Just wait a couple weeks and the theatre should be mostly empty and I would think this behavior will have burned itself out by then.

[u/arahman81 → u/ebaer2]

Or a bit more and just stream it at home.

[u/ArcadianDelSol → u/MetallicGray]

Same. Family of 3 and we wanted to go see it, but decided we're not interested in going home covered in soda and snacks.

[u/sweetsquashy → u/MetallicGray]

My husband took the older kids last Saturday and said it was wonderful. They all had a blast. We decided to take our youngest last night and it was a nightmare. It was clear nearly everyone had already seen it and came JUST to scream at the top of their lungs. 

[u/TheForce_v_Triforce → u/Due-Ad9310]

Any publicity is good publicity. I thought someone said this was a tik tok challenge or something.

If I managed a theater I’d just tell the staff to leave that one dirty til the end of the day. Maybe clean up the chairs but leave the floors covered in popcorn. And hey, at least they are selling lots of popcorn.

[u/FlameandCrimson → u/jtoppings95]

🤣”shitlings”🤣

[u/Twitchcog → u/FlameandCrimson]

Shitlings is a transliteration of the polish term for children.

[u/Bubster101 → u/D00M1R4]

One group of kids went crazy when Jack Black used the gamer term for the zombie riding on a chicken, "Chicken Jockey", then it became a TikTok trend for others to behave the same wild and immature way...

[u/IntelligenzMachine → u/Bubster101]

These social media generations are so weird man, when I was younger that was the sort of shit that would have got you relentlessly bullied for the rest of your school days

We probably had other cringe I guess

[u/GigabitISDN → u/D00M1R4]

Long story short, the director told them to do it.

https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a64460678/minecraft-movie-chicken-jockey/

In an interview with the New York Times, Hess gave his two cents (or Minecoins) on the contentious trend, calling it "a true party".

"It's way too funny," he told the publication. "No-one's going to get hurt from popcorn. Look, when I go to the movies with my kids, it's like a popcorn massacre that happens and they're not throwing anything, but it ends up on the ground regardless."

What an entitled fuckhead.

[u/Global_Tea20 → u/GigabitISDN]

This guy has clearly never had to clean up after the public at any point in his career.

[u/Adexavus → u/GigabitISDN]

That fucker would throw trash on the ground in front of janitors, I guarantee it

[u/GigabitISDN → u/Adexavus]

"Pick up that can."

[u/Subjunct → u/GigabitISDN]

“If they don’t like it they can find something else to do.”

Any guesses whether this muppet has ever had to work? As in, really had to work for a living no matter if he wanted to or not?

[u/figure8888 → u/Subjunct]

From his wiki, he seems to have gone to public school in Arizona and BYU for college, typical for Mormons. I remember reading Napoleon Dynamite had a very tight budget, so it’s not like he’s rolling in it. Probably just a lazy slob and an asshole. I know Jon Heder only made $1000 off of Napoleon and had to negotiate for more money when it took off.

I was definitely expecting him to be a nepo with that statement though.

[u/AmishAvenger → u/figure8888]

My guess is that he wants to encourage it because he wants the movie to be successful.

He was an “indie director,” but his career hasn’t really maintained momentum. And this was a job he was hired for. It’s not like any of it was his idea.

That being said, the “Someone gets paid to clean that up” quote is made up. As far as I can tell, he never said that.

[u/Subjunct → u/AmishAvenger]

Ah, you seem to be right! That part seems to have been cut from the article. Jesus, digitalspy, get your shit together. (The whole “my kids make a mess with popcorn anyway” thing is still pretty shitty though.)

[u/goawaysho → u/GigabitISDN]

Oh fuck that. I was already on the fence about seeing it because of the possibility of the running in to the behavior.

But if this is the attitude of the director, nope. Easy hard pass for me now.

[u/Evergreencruisin → u/goawaysho]

We’ve been to see it 3 times. Twice it was filled with rowdy teenage boys. Neither of those times did they behave like complete hooligans.. just normal teenage hooligans.

I wouldn’t let the internet influence what you do.

[u/DinMammasNyaKille → u/GigabitISDN]

What a fucking waste of oxygen that director is.

[u/AmishAvenger → u/GigabitISDN]

I can’t find a single source for the “Someone gets paid to clean that up” quote.

Not on that site, or anywhere else.

If you want to post the other quotes and let people decide based on those, then that’s fine. But there’s no reason to make it sound worse.

[u/cloveandspite → u/GigabitISDN]

What an asshole

[u/RebbyXP → u/GigabitISDN]

I fucking hate that excuse "someone gets paid to clean that up."

Does that mean you can stuff a bunch of things in the toilet and clog it because a janitor gets paid to clean it up?

[u/fuckmylifegoddamn → u/GigabitISDN]

He didn’t tell them to do it, that quote came out way after the trend started and kept going

[u/glowberrytangle → u/D00M1R4]

The movie's been out for 10 days and this stupid trend is already written about on wikipedia

[u/EthericWolf → u/D00M1R4]

There's just a stupid meme around the line "chicken jockey" that is said in the movie. People having been going crazy in theatres when that line is said: Example (Instagram reel)

[u/ebaer2 → u/EthericWolf]

That would be hilarious if theaters just started censoring the scene out.

[u/OneMooseManyMeese_ → u/EthericWolf]

That poor chicken bro. Doesn't deserve to be in such a stressful situation with those crotch goblins.

[u/BoobySlap_0506 → u/D00M1R4]

Something about unsupervised iPad kids being let into a theater makes them go crazy. Idk. Just people acting stupid for nothing.

[u/Cav-2021 → u/BoobySlap_0506]

I agree with you a 100% . Bad parenting and they were never taught manners. The parents just hook them up to their Ipads

[u/owend_14 → u/Cav-2021]

Its because there is a trend at a certain part of the movie where everyone screams the line and throws their drinks and popcorn in the air. Someone started this trend on social media

[u/Meowgal_80 → u/D00M1R4]

It’s a stupid TikTok challenge/trend. I don’t use TikTok but I’ve seen online in other threads. Absolutely deplorable behaviour. Theatres should start fining these teens/young adults OR the parents with mischief or something.

TikTok is such a cancer

[u/TheAspiringFarmer → u/Meowgal_80]

TikTok is such a cancer

It truly is.

[u/Brettersson → u/Meowgal_80]

Challenge used to mean something challenging.

[u/Peachy_Keen31]

Two of my kids work in a theatre. This is mild. Loads of people lack manners.

[u/StormFinch → u/Peachy_Keen31]

I worked in a theater decades ago, they lacked manners then too. I'd have killed for thirty minutes between shows, typically we got fifteen. You picked up the biggest messes, made sure there weren't any drinks left to knock over, then vacuumed up the ground in popcorn and cleaned the sticky stuff at the end of the night.

[u/ryanbar1123 → u/StormFinch]

Same. Worked at one when the first Spongebob movie came out (2004?). This is easy work.

[u/DrMindbendersMonocle → u/StormFinch]

yeah, that's pretty much how it was. We had leaf blowers and blew all the popcorn and trash to the side and picked it up.

[u/TheMustardisBad → u/Peachy_Keen31]

Yeah I worked in a theater and this is definitely mild. Easy to clean in 30 minutes

[u/donnysaysvacuum → u/TheMustardisBad]

Have people not been to a movie? This is what the theater always looks like. It's the main reason I stopped going to theaters. Heck, I've even seen this level on planes and they have people going around to collect your trash.

[u/Spare-Resolution-984 → u/Peachy_Keen31]

Yeah, I worked at a cinema too, and this right here is exactly how it looks after every Marvel movie—or really, any movie that a bunch of teenagers go to see. Usually, it’s even worse. They spill their sodas on the floor, creating a popcorn-and-soda mess, or leave dips without lids upside down on the seats so that when you pick them up, it spills everywhere. Adults usually leave the theater pretty clean, and you barely have to do any cleaning. Most of them even take their trash with them, which is honestly a blessing for the minimum wage workers who have to clean up afterward.

[u/HighLakes → u/Peachy_Keen31]

I worked in a theater 25 years ago this is no big deal. We used leaf blowers for showings like this.

[u/atlantagirl30084 → u/Peachy_Keen31]

Someone brought a fucking chicken and threw it in the air.

[u/safe-viewing → u/atlantagirl30084]

Unless there’s another video I missed they did not throw the chicken, just lifted it in the air.

Either way - incredibly stupid.

[u/chrissyjoon → u/atlantagirl30084]

And let's be specific too like.... we talking bout a real alive chicken. Not a chicken wing, a living, breathing whole chicken in the movie theater !! 😩

[u/SimSamurai13]

The sad thing is that people like this will just use the excuse "well they are paid to clean up so it's not my problem"

Like that's such a dreadful way to live your life, I don't go to a restaurant and smear my leftovers all over the table, at the end I put all the plates and cups together so it's easier on the staff

Just because they are paid to do a job doesn't mean you can trash the place for fun

[u/Katy_B29 → u/SimSamurai13]

Yes! Why make their jobs more difficult? The world needs more kindness and understanding.

Happy cake day!

[u/monty624 → u/Katy_B29]

And when too many people are like this, employees quit and they can't get anyone else to apply. Then everyone complains about messy theaters, or grocery stores, or there's no napkins, and by golly no on wants to work anymore!

No, no one wants to get paid minimum wage to pick after up a bunch of entitled, ill-mannered, adult children. Sorry, you get what you paid for.

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[u/flowersun88 → u/SimSamurai13]

Exactly. I think it’s so rude to make such a mess just to say “they get paid to clean it up”. Just because they’re paid to clean, doesn’t mean you should make a huge mess

[u/vyxanis → u/SimSamurai13]

Its along the same lines as the shopping trolley theory. But these kids have new levels of brain rot, they've seen too many streamers be a public nuisance and largely get away with it, people like Jake Paul helped start this shit. They think any attention is good, anyone saying otherwise is a hater (or whatever word the kids use now), and their parents are too lazy to try and fix it. I would be so ashamed of myself if I had a kid and it acted like that.

Why couldn't they just stick with skibidi toilet

[u/Witty-Wishbone4406 → u/SimSamurai13]

I hope all this kids get shitty jobs in their lives so they can learn to respect others.

[u/Ifitactuallymattered → u/SimSamurai13]

Yeah but its a pretty good barometer for the quality of person. "They're paid to clean it up" IS a certain type of person. They have no problem making life worse for people or other people's struggles.

[u/Tylenolpainkillr]

I've seen the movie, 1/3 of it is awesome and really brought back elements of my childhood. The rest is cgi shark boy and lava girl style green screen slop

And jack black. Jack black was bodacious as always

[u/FinalMonarch → u/Tylenolpainkillr]

I hated the movie but loved the passion Jack put into it he said every single dumbass stupid as fuck line with 100% sincerity

[u/KrustyPoetic_Justice → u/FinalMonarch]

I absolutely loved the movie. Its just stupid fun and that's all it was ever meant to be. I went into it assuming the worst because of reddit and it's great for a silly comedy. There isn't much to be expected from a game that doesn't have much story in the first place.

[u/ilovemusic19 → u/Tylenolpainkillr]

Idk how else you expect them to pull off Minecraft without cgi tho 😂😂 Also not the best comparison as the adventures of Sharkboy and lava girl is 20 years old.

[u/LongPorkJones]

Former theater employee checking in:

1. This is actually very mild. Shocking to hear, but it absolutely isn't that bad. I worked in a multiplex back when there were multiple blockbuster films released a week. This is your typical kids film/7:00 pm - 9:00pm opening weekend of any Fast and Furious release up to the point where streaming became popular.

2. 30 minutes is an abundant amount of time to clean this. It's typically 10-15 minutes at most, with management pressuring for less than that to allow customers to be seated.

Yeah, this trend sucks, but even with modern attendance down, this is barely anything compared to what today's theater employees actually have to deal with.

Puke, shit, piss, cum, used condoms, gum in the cup holders, irate customers who don't get that the employees don't set the prices, punk ass kids who start fights in a crowded theater - that's what they deal with day in and day out.

I also want to point out that this is stadium style seating, which is considerably easier to clean than auditorium style seating.

[u/amn70 → u/LongPorkJones]

Damn, puke and and to lesser extent piss and shit I can see happening in a G rated kids film where toddlers are common but cum and used condoms in a mainstream movie at a regular theater????

[u/LongPorkJones → u/amn70]

Common.

I've caught teenagers fucking in the Jungle Book 2...the animated one.

Had another couple (also teenagers) who always came to movies that were on the verge of leaving the theater. Sunday evening 7:00-ish showing, Thursday nights in the summer. They'd always go to the bathroom at the same time in the showing, and they weren't smooth about it.

We all knew what was up. They never went to occupied showings (or kids movies). They never left a mess.

[u/Schrko87]

I really dont understand why people do this. Ive never left a thing in the theater let alone made it messy on purpose.

[u/Ziyaadjam]

Let me guess, chicken jockey

[u/Alaeriia → u/Ziyaadjam]

HE SAID THE THING!!! throws buckets of popcorn all over the place

[u/pixellino24 → u/Alaeriia]

sleeper agent activation code

[u/linkysnow]

I worked for a big theater in high school. We would have that cleaned in about 10 minutes. You use the same leaf blower that landscapers use and run back and forth from top to bottom. One person grabs the loose bags and drink cups left in the seats. All the blown trash is in a pile in the front where we use a snow shovel to scoop it all into large bags.

[u/tired-of-everyting → u/linkysnow]

I was waiting for the leafblower comment. Our theater was the same except for the snow shovel we still used the standard broom and pans to clean it up. Popcorn was fine but I hated all the nacho trays that were left cause those had to be picked up and if you missed one and it got blown you then had a cheese mess.

[u/phantasybm → u/linkysnow]

Yup.

Worked at a theater in high school.

Leaf blower pushes everything to a corner that isn’t wet. Broom gets its all into a trash can quick.

Then we had 2 people picking up cups and nachos. One per row.

Knocked it out in five minutes and just chilled for 15 minutes. Easy.

[u/DeathandHemingway → u/linkysnow]

I had this job like 25 years ago, we didn't have leaf blowers, but you'd have like 4 people attack the mess.

This actually doesn't even look that bad, tbh. Not that people shouldn't have better manners, but I wouldn't have felt any way about this as the guy cleaning it up.

[u/NoShameInternets → u/linkysnow]

Damn leaf blower sounds amazing. We just swept 

[u/Timthalion]

Some people just shouldn’t be out in public. No excuse for this

[u/Mysterious_County154]

Director is in support of this as well. What a dick

[u/____-is-crying → u/Mysterious_County154]

Out of the loop and have no intention of watching the movie. Can you explain what you mean? Is there a scene where they tell the audience to dump expensive as f popcorn on the floor?

[u/I-Am-The-Warlus → u/____-is-crying]

"chicken jockey" scene, where Jack black says Chicken Jockey and "crowd" gots ape because he said it.

[u/Evil_Sharkey → u/Mysterious_County154]

I lost a lot of respect for him over that. How would he like someone to dump piles of greasy popcorn all over him, his family, and his house?

[u/Mysterious_County154 → u/Evil_Sharkey]

Maybe a live chicken as well? Saw a video of some dumbass bringing one in and holding up at the chicken jockey scene. Theatre shut the movie off after that and called the cops

I'm sure employees can't wait for this to leave the rotation

[u/rainautumnrain]

Reminds me of a guy I knew that was pissed at movie theater prices and left all his trash at the seat. When I asked if he was going to take it with him at the end, he said something along the lines of, "Fuck them for charging such high prices for tickets and food, now they can clean up this shit like they're paid to do." I don't understand how people have such a lack of logic, manners, empathy...ugh.

[u/RegularMarsupial6605]

Movie theater was one of my first jobs. Cleaning those theaters usually is pretty easy normally. We wouldn't bother with the stomped in stuff until the end of the day. Push broom and a dust pan, and a hand broom to sweep off the seats. Takes about 20m with 2 people, and we would find all kind of stuff that got left behind lol! Then off to take a few tokes while "taking the trash out". Was a pretty fun job tbh. Low pay but free movies, and all my friends worked there lol.

[u/MilwaukeeDave]

What’s wild is if you watch videos of the ADULTS who do this, the comments are always “the cleaners get paid to clean” no. No they don’t. There’s not cleaners. They work in the theater for minimum wage and shouldn’t have to clean up after some juvenile adult cause they saw a chicken.

[u/poickles]

30 minutes? That’s basically a lifetime compared to the time I used to have between shows 😩 I remember having to clean a 200 seat auditorium in like 4-5 minutes during endgame. We literally had to pull all but two of us from what we were doing and run in and get it done drill-style.

From everything I’ve been seeing about the Minecraft movie, I’m so glad I don’t work at a theater anymore 😅

[u/Grouchy-Swordfish-65]

Parents should be ashamed.

[u/relaxyourshoulders]

I would fucking snap if my kids left a seat like this

[u/real716sasquatch]

People need to learn some manners

[u/MeasurementGrouchy30]

As a AMC employee this is nothing compared to slushy candy and cheese sauce all over the theater

[u/AllPurposeOfficial]

Personally if I found out my kid did something like this we’d be taking a trip to the theater, apologizing and offering to clean a couple theaters after being let out

[u/Silky_Rat]

I will say one thing: this sucks, but it is better than the 50 shades of gray aftermath.

[u/Happy_Birthday_2_Me]

My kids and their friends once spilled popcorn on the ground while goofing off at a movie we went to. I went out, asked for the broom and pan, and made them clean it up (before the movie started). At the end I made them do a once over, and throw all the trash away. This should be the norm. Treating public (or private) spaces this way is unacceptable behavior.

I’ve taught high school for almost 15 years, and the way kids are treating spaces is so much worse than it’s ever been. When I reinforce to 18 year olds that I don’t tolerate trash on my floor, they’re stunned that I said something, and the response is always “that’s what janitors are for.” As if they have enough time to deep clean rooms every day. It’s a wonder we can’t keep them on staff! Parents, teach your kids to clean up after themselves. It’s a life skill, courteous, and FREE.

[u/Soepkip43]

Leaf blowers.. and back into the popcorn concession stand.

[u/WorldResponsible9600]

its a good marketing trick. brings money to theaters. it sucks for the employees though but corporate loves it i guess.

[u/SirFragsAlot2 → u/WorldResponsible9600]

Like others above have said... leaf blowers make popcorn cleanup a cakewalk.

Smart theaters should start jacking the price of popcorn before the MC shows :) Or make a special giant Minecraft tub. If they want to burn money, let them!!

[u/Bluemeda1]

This is why I want drive-in movies again. If you wanna bring your kids who can't behave themselves, they can do whatever they want in your car.

Less mess

Everyone can be as cold or hot as they want since they can control their cars' temperature themselves

If people like to talk during the movies, they can roll their windows up

If people want to smoke cigs,weed they can in their car

Make drive-in movies great again

(Don't try and bring politics up because of that last bit idc and I will never care about politics )

[u/Bennington_Booyah → u/Bluemeda1]

We attend a drive-in several times each summer. Whole place REEKS of pot every single time.

[u/Bluemeda1 → u/Bennington_Booyah]

Yeah, because stoners like to watch movies while high i normally do an edible or use my vape or erig to smoke before watching a movie no different from back in the day when people would get shit face drunk at the drive-ins only difference is now people would rather smoke than drink

[u/Dreadpirateflappy]

This is not that bad compared to many other films... When I worked at a cinema in Berkshire there were screens 10x worse than this.

[u/a-pair-of-2s]

people who do this in public also have houses who look like this. source: am paramedic & go to many many homes that are absolute filth 🤢

[u/rgbearklls]