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Only the few who have worked at AMC know the feelings you receive while you're behind that counter. I've come to love the place I call work, and work has come to be called my second home from the amount of time that I spend there. It will truly be a sad day when I stop working there.
The day starts with me walking up to the front doors of AMC. I knock on the door and wait for the manager to let me in. A gust of wind blows past cutting right through my fleece jacket making me flinch. One of my managers opens the door and I retreat into the warmth of the theater. I go to the back of concessions, then to the break room and wait till five minutes before I'm scheduled to work to clock on. I clock on and put on my AMC hat. I'm working concessions …show more content…

The popper goes off again and I dump it, then load another batch. I go back to my register and lean against the counter. I listen, I can hear the poppers sizzling, I can feel the heat and I can smell the popcorn. I hear the same commercials in the lobby for the hundredth time, yet I still don’t mind. These sights, sounds and smells are familiar to me, they make me feel at home. As time goes by, more concession workers come in, we talk, we laugh and we wait for the rushes, the first to come is the one o'clock rush. The rush comes out of nowhere, like usual. One second the lobby is dead, the next you hear poppers going, people talking everywhere, you hear the indistinguishable scratchy voice on the walkie. It seems like chaos but I love it. Its organized chaos, Ill walk back to get a popcorn and if anyone else needs popcorn they fall in line behind me like a well oiled machine. Were brushing past each other, asking if we can grab thing for each other. Then it's over and before I know it, one of the supervisors is telling me that I can go home for the day because my shift ended. Then I walk back into the break room that I began in and clock off. I go home until I have to come back the next day, maybe in box office, maybe as an usher, or maybe in concessions again. I don’t know, I just show up and love my

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