Total Corporate Serfdom - Crew Member AMC Entertainment Employee Review

There are so many cons for working for AMC it is hard to name them all. For one, the pay is so meager and the treatment by management is so harsh, that the turnover rate is much higher than an average fast-food restaurant. Being a crew member for AMC is in reality, five jobs. You will be performing the duties of a janitor, a fast-food cook, a cashier, a bartender, and a trainer for new employees. All without any overtime, even on holidays, which you will be expected to work on for no time and a half, or any sort of real benefits. Management at my location is extremely manic, swaying from sitting in the back office all day doing nothing, to running around screaming and berating their teenage staff at the slightest sign of a rush. One shift lead at my location regularly enjoys PDA with their SO coworker, often going as far to choke them in front of other staff members, and then foisting the most degrading tasks from their shift onto their fellow crew members. Another manager likes to refer to us coworkers as “Wastes of payroll.”, when they're not sitting around in the back, or drawing a bunch of awkward attention to everyone while having a complete mental breakdown at the front counter. Another major con is the general loss in your hope for humanity that will inevitably come from your new realization of the true degeneracy of the average American. You will be wading waist deep in garbage in both the auditoriums, and in the employee only areas. There is no proper break room for workers, just a disgusting shelf in the back that never gets cleaned for you to set your aspartame water on. Turnover is so high that you will be so short-staffed it will be necessary for you to train new workers just to be able to complete the shift before 2am, whether you are a shift lead or not. Almost any effort you put into this job will go unnoticed and unrewarded by apathetic managers that would rather see you quit than try, because it means that their position is more secure. On the rare occasion a manager decides you’ve appeased them enough, they may descend from the manager’s office in a spaceship made of solid diamond, and float down from their perch of magnificence, with their flowing golden robe of ultimate authority, to offer you a single piece of Monopoly money, which is worth the value of a single, disgusting AMC concession item. A prize which I’m sure the CEO would find as a source of shrink, and a prize too good for his largely teenage workforce. If you think witnessing a microcosm of the failure of American society firsthand is a good time, losing your dignity and not being able to afford anything is awesome, I highly recommend working for AMC.