Pros
Experience! I learned how to be an SM due to strong mentoring culture (my resume looks amazing!) Friendly fun coworkers, longlasting friendships, free movies (limited to who can come with you for free too), steady hours, prescreenings of anticipated releases, dress up as movie characters for marathon and midnight release events, free movie posters/standees
Cons
Guests can actually be incredibly rude and demanding especially when managers are unorganized That 'strong mentoring' also felt like I was doing my work, crew work, and manager work for very low pay. I worked over 50 hours weekly! At least 10 hour days everyshift! NO BREAK EVER! Always understaffed! Close at 3am then open at 7am! No overtime or holiday pay! Coworkers that slacked did not receive any disipline! Hardly any incentives! Always expected to prove yourself as a manager when you get paid to be a supervisor! Felt like each GM I worked under (3 in two years!) only cared of how the theater relfected on themselves. The GM position is where all the money goes (they have GM meetings in Hollywood and Las Vegas where they each received ipads). Since most crew was young, in school, first job, only got minimum wage they slacked alot! Strict weekend and holiday availability requirments even for crew. Booth management and employees were left hanging when we switched to digital. All their work was added to ours. Facilities Manager (worked for our theater then expected to also work for two others in the district with no raise of pay or gas money) needless to say he quit and I learned alot about facilities as we awaited a new manager