CM's that got fired.

[U2TheWho]

She was a pretty good engineer... when it came to the locomotive. Not so good when it came to her fellow CMs, much less the guests. Thus it was no big surprise when she announced that she had snagged a new role as a lighting tech at Epcot. One of the few on-stage roles with less guest contact than engineers.

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"You can't fire me! I don't work in this department any more!"

"True. Very true. Have a nice life!"

OMFG! That's hilarious! Thank God no one got hurt!
:D: :D:

[xtinkerbell84x]

I can think of 2:

The first one was a guy who would ALWAYS talk on his cell phone. Even if he wasn't talking to anyone. Well, when he finally got himself a girlfriend, he was constantly on that thing. He'd even step off stage just to talk on his cellphone. Everyone and their mother filed a complaint against this guy, but management couldn't do anything without seeing him. There was one night where he was in strollers and the photocell CM sent another CM down to the break trailer to see where he was. The CM found the cellphone guy in the bathroom with paper towel shoved underneath the door. A few weeks later, one CM saw him behind one of the ONSTAGE merchandise carts talking on his cell phone in the middle of show load! Theresa (the manager that night, not one you wanna mess with) was informed, and luckily was the parade manager the next day, so when he came in, there she was waiting for him along with Security and a Main Entrance CM. She later pulled me aside out on the parade route since I was PAC 1 and informed me that he'd been termed.

The second happened just recently, and I know the CMs in my area have heard about this. A coordinator and 3 CPs were termed for smoking weed in the Stardust Room at Tower. I've spoken with a security CM and she told me that that was the true story, and that the other one of the coordinator getting a blow job from a Tower CP was just to save face.

[leftcoaster]

On her last run, she decided that she wanted to see just how fast the trains could go. Now if she had told her fireman and conductor in advance and did it on the deadhead run back to the roundhouse, we would have strapped ourselves in and covered for her as best we could.

Nope. She didn't tell anyone, and she did it with a load of guests. Now understand that the system speed limit is 12mph, okay? She hit the Indian Villiage doing about 15mph, and then just opened it up. Nobody knows how fast she got it, as the fireman was holding on for dear life, as were the guests. The conductor was so shaken he coudln't even let go one hand to give a stop signal!

Her manager met her at the roundhouse a half hour later. "Gee, that's too bad about your job over at Epcot."

:D: ROFLMAO!! But I'm also glad no one got hurt.

So did anyone find out how fast she got the train up to? Was it ludicrous speed? :D:

[Zazu]

So did anyone find out how fast she got the train up to? Was it ludicrous speed? :D:

Locomotives of this size and vintage can get up and run at 45-50mph without much trouble, if they have enough flat and level track (in good condition). I know that in testing locos (without cars) they've gotten them up to 35mph in that back stretch.

The witness statement from the fireman guessed the speed reached 25-30mph ... with cars ... and guest passengers ... and without track rated for 30mph!

And so far, without anyone attempting to beat her record on *their* last day.

[felinefan]

When I worked at Knott's on the Calico Railroad, I asked one of the engineers how fast the train could go (it's an 1881 Baldwin Consolidation class C-19 2-8-0, only 12 were built, two of those locos are at Knott's, the third is in the railroad museum in Colorado, the other 9 were scrapped long ago.). He said that the diameter of the drive wheels in inches is the maximum speed in miles per hour. The drive wheels are 37", so therefore the fastest she can go is 37mph. As for the Galloping Goose railbus, it can usually go up to 30mph, but I was told that if it had all its gears, it could hit a maximum speed of 70mph. And neither the train nor the Goose were allowed to go more than 8 mph--unless we were running the Goose, and there was an ambulance coming across the tracks, and we needed to clear the track; then, we could crank it up to 8 1/2 mph. Point is, if you need to know how fast something goes, find the person who has that information and ASK!!!!

[dktc0821]

Knew of someone in resorts once that got fired for working with some of the ticket hacks on I-drive. At the resorts guests are able to do ticket upgrades from old passes they have left from previous visits. We can look up a ticket and figure out how much it has left on it.

Well this girl would get a big old stack of these tickets from these guys and sit in the back pulling up the tickets to tell them how much was left on each ticket. They paid her by the number of tickets she looked up. Of course this is a misuse of company equpiment but it gets better. she used to do this at the end of her shifts and claim she was working on something for a Guest and got paid OT to do it since she always made sure it was at then end of her shift. They caught her one day with a stack of 150 passes in the groups area behind the front desk looking up remaining days.

[ThunderCat]

We lost two CPs recently.

One made the HUGE mistake of heading over to Everest at AK on his day off and asking the CM at FP: "Hey, I'm a CM - wanna trade an Everest Fastpass for a couple of Magic Kingdom Attraction Readmission Passes?" The CM's reply: "Sorry, what is your name again and where exactly did you used to work?"

The other CM snapped at a particular regular AP guest, "You know, you're really annoying and nobody here likes you." Bear in mind that this guest is about 13 years old or so, and this was said in the presence of the kid's parent - plus, said kid promptly burst into tears and ran off. Whether or not we actually felt that way about the guest is irrelevant - there are some things you just can't do, no matter how annoying someone may (or may not) be. For the record: I have stories about this particular guest that I'm saving for another post. :D:

[KatzOhki]

Heh... I have a friend that got fired from ODV...
We were selling this pretzels that were filled with either cream cheese or something like apple. Long story short, she couldn't tell them apart from the outside so she would stick her finger in them to test 'em out. :p:

[CariBelle]

My best friend is in the CP right now and she told me that one of her neighbors got fired because he fell asleep in one of the Disney classes.

[goose]

I fell asleep for a good twenty minutes during my orientation five years ago. It was early in the morning, the CM kept talking about cleaning sprays that should be used and that's when I took a little break. :D: