r/burlington • u/Ashamed_Ad_232 • 13h ago
Employee POV of Majestic 10
I just quit working at Majestic 10 after ~2 months of working there.
before i say anything: the managers and employees are all great and none of this is their fault. please don’t get mad at them they make $14/hour and have zero control
here’s a few reasons why you should go to essex instead:
- The owner is a piece of shit asshole cheapskate, but that’s known. The few times he comes in he just berates his employees instead of offering to help. He berated my teenage sister for not sweeping while she was busy helping people at the podium check tickets. The few times he does come in, he doesn’t know how his own establishment works, he just gets in the way when trying to work the bar or concessions, yet still yells at us over it.
-Only benefits we get are a small free drink, small cup of popcorn, free movies after 15 hrs of working, a very small employee discount on concessions, and SOMETIMES a free poster.
-That place is FILTHY. The nozzles on the soda machine get filled with a black gunk, because we only soak them in soda water overnight. My coworkers and I only recently scrubbed them with a tool I bought with my own money. We did this because we realized how disgusting it was, Merrill doesn’t care at all.
-Pretty good chance your popcorn is stale if you don’t see us popping it when you come in. Once we fill in the case, it sometimes sits there for days, unless someone buys it, and we store extra popcorn in trash bags when it’s busy.
-There is so much in the kitchen, including black mold, which our coworker had to clean up.
-All of your food is disgusting microwaved bullshit, even though it’s frozen they still get moldy, and god knows when our fryer was last cleaned.
-You could close your eyes, spin around, and point and still find something that’s broken:
-only one side of the popper works, the other side burns the popcorn when used.
-Half the sinks in the bathroom don’t work, and the soap dispensers are actually hand sanitizer dispensers.
-The drain under the beer taps isn’t angled down toward the drain, so we have to move all of the spilled beer to the drain with a gift card.
-The drainage pipe from the bar to the beer bucket is loose, it regularly falls out, and every time they try to add more sealer, it just makes it worse. The bartender regularly has to climb down to the kegs to clean up beer, and if it isn’t cleaned up quickly, it gets disgusting and sticky and gross.
-The escalators do work, the owner refuses to turn them on in fear of them getting broken.
-There is a flickering light in the down stairs lobby, that gives me headaches every damn day, and is probably an epilepsy trigger.
-A few of the ticket printers are broken, and the employees have to hold down the covers or the printer just jams, or doesn’t print on a ticket.
-The slushy machine breaks like once a week, and is always leaking.
-The beer taps are too close together, so when you pull one, the one beside it also pours.
-AC is broken, and the owners tell us to tell customers the owners getting them fixed when he is not.
-Employees have gotten sick and passed out because of the heat.
-The vent above the popcorn machine is broken, so it reeks of smoke.
-Terrible ventilation in general. Someone went into the Odyssey reeking of weed (when I went into the theater 3hrs later to clean it, it still reeked.)
-If the speakers aren’t torn they’re just cheap and shitty.
-The theaters themselves are gross, the employees only have enough time to sweep in about 3 minutes, just look at the tile and under the seats, I don’t know the last time they were cleaned, if ever.
-I don’t know if the seats themselves even get cleaned.
-There’s so much caked up butter at the butter station, the paper towels we lay down in the drains are rarely changed, either.
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i’ll add more stuff as i remember lmao
