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I got hired at a cinema, witnessed a full-blown disaster, and got fired on the same day. (Literally.)

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So today was supposed to be my first shift at a movie theatre. I was pretty excited. New job, free popcorn (hopefully), meeting coworkers, the usual. I was assigned to concessions. Everything was going normally until a customer walked up and asked me for a McFlurry with their popcorn. I politely explained that we don't sell McFlurries. They responded: "I SEE THE MCFLURRY MACHINE BEHIND YOU." They then started trying to climb over the counter to get behind me. I thought they were joking at first. They were not. Things escalated VERY quickly, and security got involved. The customer was apparently using their own kid as some kind of weapon, which is a sentence I never expected to write. I decided the best course of action was to get away from the situation. I hid behind the popcorn machine for a moment before making my way to the supervisor's office. My supervisor told me to stay there while he handled the situation. I locked the door, closed the blinds and waited. Then I heard the loudest scream I've ever heard, followed by a lockdown alarm playing through the cinema speakers. I also started hearing glass breaking and loud bangs outside. I called 000 and stayed in the locked office. Eventually, someone started trying to get into the office. I was instructed by 000 to verify who was outside before opening the door. It turned out to be my supervisor. I let him in, locked the door again, and then noticed something horrifying. He had a piece of glass embedded in his head. He was conscious and talking, but bleeding a little. I told 000 immediately. Police and paramedics eventually arrived and took my supervisor for medical treatment. Then things somehow got EVEN WORSE. I started smelling smoke. Police were calling for firefighters, and I heard cracking noises coming from the roof. The police eventually started evacuating everyone from the cinema. As I was walking out with everyone else, I looked over and saw a FIRE in the corner of the concession stand. The place where I had been working. I finally reached the assembly point, which was a long way from the building. Then I looked back. The entire second floor was collapsing, with massive amounts of smoke and fire coming out. We were told the building would need to be completely rebuilt. The dangerous customer had been removed, and apparently separated from their child. Thankfully, I later heard my supervisor was okay. And then, just to make this day even more ridiculous, I saw MYSELF in the background of the news footage showing the evacuation. So, to summarise: Got hired. Went to sell popcorn. Someone demanded a McFlurry. Customer tried to climb over the counter. Security got involved. Cinema went into lockdown. Supervisor suffered a head injury. Fire broke out. Second floor collapsed. Got evacuated. Saw myself on the news. All in one shift. I'm now technically unemployed. Hired and fired in the same day. Literally. I think I'll try working somewhere else next time. Edit: This is a fictional story, I was going to put the fiction flair but I can only put on flair and this is ai also so I chose the ai flair submitted by /u/SaltyWheel7112 [link] [comments]

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