What hours are typical shifts at movie theatres? what is the average pay for an!


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What hours are typical shifts at movie theatres? what is the average pay for an usher?

two questions there, sorry. Anyhow, I am applying online for a job at a movie theater as an usher and I don't know what hours the shifts are, so I don't know what hours to say I am available to work. Also, I would like to know what the average pay for an usher is, because that's the position I think I'd be best at.


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The movie theater I used to work at was minimum wage for high school students, slightly higher for college students.

Day shifts were usually 10am-5pm, though you typically got off at 4:30pm as the people from the next shift started to arrive. Night shifts were typically 5pm to 11pm for ushers. (I was usually concession, and night shift concession would stay until we were done, which was sometimes all the way to 1 am.) One usher usually stayed to clean after everyone left, typically until 2 or 3am, but this was always a male usher, and never, ever a female. There was also the swing shift, which was 3pm-9pm, and was typically reserved for ROP students or 16 year olds who weren't allowed to work later than that due to child labor laws. If you're going for usher, be prepared for the night shift; that's what the newbies usually get (unless you're 16 or ROP).

You'll probably work four days a week, and be on call for one more. If you were on call, you'd call in about half an hour into the shift, and if they needed you, you'd come into work. Otherwise, you'd get that day off. (Which was what usually happened; I don't think I ever actually got called in when I was on call.)

As an usher, there's a lot of pretending to look busy for long periods of time, and then getting like two hours of work done in fifteen minutes. You have to develop a system to quickly clean theaters in under five minutes. The problem is, there'll probably be four or five other people with a system different than yours. That's why you got to make sure you all work together. You'll probably have to see like the last ten minutes of movies before you get to actually watch the movie, because the way we did it was we'd go in before the movie ended, stand in the back, and start cleaning the second the lights went up. So you have to learn to not let that bother you. Also, seeing the same ending over and over again is enough to drive anyone crazy. (I can't tell you how many times I wanted to rip off my own arm just so I'd have something to throw at Tom Cruise for that awful Mission Impossible 2 ending.) At the end of your shift, your uniform will probably be covered with an unidentifiable black substance, and the smell of popcorn will probably make you nauseous after a while. (And good luck getting that smell off of you.) I'm only now starting to be able to enjoy popcorn again. However, it helps that you get to see as many free movies as you want.


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