chad
CALIFORNIA,#2
Sat, September 12, 2009
i have aslo worked for this company amc universal studios ca yes that secret spice on ur food is probley dead flys as an employee i was required not to throw away food that has fallen on the floor expired, molded, avoid at all costs i was aslo required to work when i was suffering from the flu managers were eric marvin general manager is jeff
Nanlisa
Upper Darby,#3Consumer Suggestion
Sun, April 19, 2009
As a former hospital/nursing home food service worker, proper food handling and safety is very important. What I read in the original post was just simply disgusting. Did you ever report them to the local Health Department. Well if I were you, I would report them right away.
Mousse
Woodstock,#4UPDATE EX-employee responds
Thu, December 11, 2008
I only worked for AMC for a month before enough was enough. AMC first requires all new employees to spend a week training before actually starting their AMC duties. The training is suppose to emphasize that AMC expects only the best from their employees. In return AMC only requires themselves minimum, as in minimum wage. In addition to this, AMC is semi-predjudice against people that cannot open bank accounts due to credit reasons, but they describe it to sound more green as, "AMC has gone paperless." This means that their employees are required to either use direct deposit as their form of a paycheck, or they may use a ATM card that AMC supplies. They can get money out at an ATM machine but must pay the fees attached to it. AMC also enjoys scheduling ON-CALL hours. In most companies I know of if an employee is scheduled ON-CALL a manager will contact you prior to the time you are ON-CALL and let you know if they require you to come in or not. However at AMC it is the employees responsibility to try to contact a manager at most 1 hour (they prefer closer to 45 minutes) before the scheduled shift to find out if they require you to work or not. At that time they may tell you yes, no, or please call back later. If you decide not to call back later you are in trouble. If they still don't need you when you call back you are in no way compensated for the time you took out of your day to call multiple times. While employed with AMC it is a good idea never to get sick. This was the straw that broke the camels back for me. I came down with a very bad case of stomach flu, to the point I wasn't able to even keep water down on Monday. I was scheduled to open Tuesday at 12pm. At 3:45pm I called the theatre and talked to the Manager on Duty and explained the situation, and also included that I was either sleeping or in the bathroom all day and would not be in the next day. Instead of doing the job of a typical manager with that much notice (almost 20 hours) and finding a replacement the manager told me I was responsible for at least attempting to find my own replacement, and told me to call back in an hour. I tried calling everyone with the availability to cover my shift without any luck, so I called the manager back and explained that I couldn't find anyone. She said that she would attempt to call around now but expected me to continue the search as well and to call her back at 6pm. At some point of attempted this feat I fell asleep. I was sick and didn't have the energy to stay awake. Because of this I was unable to return the call. The next day I kindly recieved a call at 12:30pm wondering why I wasn't at work. Most people would think that being a manager required at least some amount of communication, but I guess not. I was also scheduled to work Wednesday at 12pm and was hoping to be up to working. However at 9pm Tuesday I decided that I still needed to stick by my bathroom and was in no condition to be working with the public. This time I started by calling everyone on the AMC website that might be able to cover my shift, which took about a half hour. When I couldn't get in touch with anyone (either the phone numbers were incorrect, the availability was incorrect, or they had other plans) I called the theater to let them know I wasn't going to be able to make it because I was still recovering from the flu. The first response was to give me a guilt trip for waiting so long to call. In my mind I thought to myself, "I gave you 20 hours yesterday and that didn't seem like enough." But I kept that thought to myself. Instead I told the manager (who was the same manager on duty from the previous day) that I was hoping to be well enough to work my shift but decided that I wasn't. The next response from the manager was, "What position are you working tomorrow." When I explained concession she at least realized that I shouldn't be working with food and offered to put me in box office (where tickets are sold which is in a little box outside away from bathroom access and experiences all the weather conditions outside. Also still has an oppurtunity to infect the "guests."). At that time I thought I was recieving a call from one of the other employees that I tried to call so I hung up with the manager, but didn't get to the other call in time. At this point I was in tears. I was sick as a dog and made to feel like the support beam of an old bridge that would give out if I didn't maintain my schedule. I'm not the type of person that quits, especially without notice. I've been in management and know what is expected of employees as well as management, but I was convinced by everyone around me that it was time to throw in the towel, most of which would have done so week 1.
Stephen
Oklahoma City,#5Author of original report
Fri, July 25, 2008
It's not the stated policy of every AMC to have 25 minute breaks. At our theater however, it was. Doesn't have to be in some kind of notarized document. If they tell you when you are hired that you get 25 minutes every 4 hours and list it on schedules, then by law, they have to abide by that policy. It's like being scheduled 2-10 but being forced to work 2-12. That's actually illegal, whether they admit or not.
Joobie
Kansas City,#6UPDATE Employee
Wed, July 02, 2008
-funny taste in the hotdogs --check [I never saw a bloody thermometer] -dirty ice poles --check -mice --check -shady managers --check - no holiday pay --check[you get pizza or some kind of buffet instead] - work with strep throat --check -shady promotions --check Never seen any type of discrimination or facility trouble [aside from a toilet exploding] an fifteeners are handed out usually [where does policy state it will be 25 for every 4]. Thank god the schedules flexible though, an I can go to my white-collar job an still get them free movies baby
Electricbassguy
Sunnyvale,#7UPDATE EX-employee responds
Mon, June 23, 2008
I agree with you. I have seen many of these problems at AMC Theaters though not the mice. Mostly, the OCs and Managers were stoners and drinkers, at least the younger ones. And they got stoned/drunk with people under 21 and under 18 even. Those stoners/drunkards got promoted while I who did not smoke or drink was ignored.