10 Things They Don't Tell You About Working In A Cinema

10. People Are DISGUSTING

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..." - Roy Batty, Blade Runner

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One of the most alarming things that you'll discover when working in a cinema is just how much vomit, urine and excrement you have to deal with on a day to day basis. What you don't quite fathom when accepting a job in your local multiplex is that when your hiring manager says "it's not all fun, we also need you to do the cleaning", is how involved and deeply scarring that process can be.

It can be particularly bad if your place of work shares a space with chain pubs or all-you-can-eat buffet restaurants. Soon enough you'll be dealing with a middle-aged woman, full to the brim with Chinese food, spewing it all up across an advertising standee for the latest Pixar film. Later that night, you'll be called to eject a drunk man who's inexplicably passed out fully naked in the back row of a late night screening of Transformers. The next day, horrified, you'll discover a urinal filled with human excrement and draw straws with your supervisor as to who's going to clean it up.

This stuff will stay with you for the rest of your life, you may even end up turning it into a list article...