Casting Excellence/Vending new hires at their finest...

Raine · Post by **Raine** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 12:42 am

Top ten greatest moments for new hires....(this month)
10. Astonished that he/she has to push back four cases of contours all by themself
9. Not being able to give the correct change for an 8.25 purchase and the guest hands him/her 10.25
8. Trading a balloon for a cheerleader's number
7. Using the guest restroom while on break, and in costume...
6. Selling $5 mugs for $3
5. Asking people who have been here at least a year, if they would like to take their glow shift
4. Going on break and taking their apron with them
3. Taking park admission tickets as food vouchers
2. Smoking on stage...twice
and the number one greatest moment was actually a phone call to our office just a few days ago....

New Hire: "Hi, do you have any open shifts to pick up today?"
Lead: "Yeah, what time can you come in?"
NH: "Well, I'm not sure"
Lead: "Well, do you have an approximate time?"
NH: "Actually I'm going to dinner with my family..."
Lead: "So...do you not want to come in then?"
NH: "Not really, I don't really want to work today."
Lead: "Then why are you calling to pick up a shift?"
NH: "Cause I thought you might need someone to help and pick up a shift, but I really don't want to work today."
Lead: "..."

Apparently they can be that stupid...*sigh*

dl_keelboater · Post by **dl_keelboater** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 4:08 pm

What is WRONG with people?!?! What kind of people are they hiring these days?

I will always enjoy my fond memories of my days in the Land, but more and more, and for many different reasons, I'm glad I got out when I did.

BirdMom · Post by **BirdMom** » Sat Apr 05, 2003 10:53 pm

The more things change the more they stay the same. Reminds me of a phone call from a pain in the ass supervisor over to the old Country Bear Playhouse. She was a real stickler for SOP, and you had to feel sorry for the ding dong cast member who answered the phone...
Ring, Ring
CM: Bear Band
Sup: Where are you?
CM: Bear band...
Sup: Where are you? (waiting to be told Country Bear Playhouse, along with cast member's name
CM: at Bear Band
Sup: Where are you???
CM: ummm...Disneyland? :roll:

Fritter · Post by **Fritter** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 2:55 pm

heh, I'm adding to that list Raine:

-selling all the pretzels for $3.50

heh and you know on pretzels over a period of time you have a gathering of salt in the little tub. Well, I had an extra one time pick up a mickey pretzel, spray it with water, then put it face down in the little tub, swirl it around and then throw it on the belt.

Me: What are you doing?
Extra: Making salted pretzels.
Me: Is that how you were taught to make them?
Extra: I think so, well, I don't know.
Me: Ummm ok.

Do we have like 5 billion people in our dept now? I swear every time I turn around it's a new face.

Fritter · Post by **Fritter** » Tue May 13, 2003 9:50 am

I was hired in right before that change, so I never really got to know the old numbers :D

I got bothered at one newhire last week because I did a shift trade with him thinking it would all be fine and dandy and I would get my saturday off. then I go to check it's status going through the approved shift changes, not finding it! So then God forbid I pick up the denied pile and it's there. "(insert name here) has a shift already!!"

What the hell! The schedule said he didn't have one and he even told me he didn't have one! And he signed the frickin' paper! So I ask the scheduler right there and she shows it to me and tells me he picked up a shift. I called him up pretty bothered and the punk tells me he has no idea where it came from!

BAH!

Excalibur · Post by **Excalibur** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 3:45 am

I love hearing new hires as they read their schedule. I remember one time an inventory and I were in shock lol.

New hire :( goes up to the board and reads) ... glow?! what the hell I dont do glow!
Inventory: what did you say?
New hire: I said I dont do glow man
Me: and how long have you been here?
New hire: 3 weeks! how about you?
Me: (Laughs) your a newbie you do whatever they damn well schedule you, be happy you got hours.

They have so much nerve I swear. I love it when they try to tell older vendors how to do their job, like how to do a change over and how to stock and how to give breaks. I once watched a newhire try to teach an inventory (she was a vendor that day) how to do the change over and she says yea I know this I'm an inventory and been here 3 years. The newbie had barely made 3 months. No respect I tell ya.

EColiOnAStick · Post by **EColiOnAStick** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 12:08 pm

Back in tha late 80s, we had a female cast member working a closing shift on what was then known as Popcorn 6. The wagon was supposed to close at 11:00 and she was to report back to the ODV office at 11:30.

11:30 rolls in....
11:45....
12:00...

So we're sitting back in the office (behind what was then America Shrieks) wondering where this CM has vanished to....and begin wondering if we should notify security...

She comes strolling in at 12:15 carrying an armful of unused popcorn boxes, spoils, and about $1000 in cash.....

Us: Ummmm....where have you been?
Her: Well....I closed my wagon and had so much to carry....so I got on the train....but it kept going around and around and around.....

tabacco · Post by **tabacco** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 12:23 pm

*SMACK*

SRT_GB · Post by **SRT_GB** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 10:55 pm

Man, i totally hear what you guys are saying about newbies who have no respect. I've been in stores 3 years and i get people who have been at the park less than 3 months acting like they're all that. I sometimes get tempted to tell them, "Don't tell me how to do my job, you were in 9th grade when I stacked my first stroller." One girl in particular totally crossed the line with me and a friend who's been around almost as long. I just happened to catch her ringing up a bunch of free items on the register (for those of you who don't know this is a MAJOR revenue/loss prevention issue). Needless to say I called my lead who forwarded it to the manager. This was a month ago and I haven't seen that girl since.

I also hate when newbies complain about working till 1:15 or 1:30 in the morning. They swear they have some kind of bedtime or something. My first summer I was their age or younger and it was no big deal for me to work till 2:30am, 5 days a week. I swear these morons come in expecting to be able to work when and where they want. I got news for ya, no matter where you get a job, you're gonna start at the bottom.

BirdMom · Post by **BirdMom** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 12:33 am

SRT_GB wrote:Man, i totally hear what you guys are saying about newbies who have no respect. I've been in stores 3 years and i get people who have been at the park less than 3 months acting like they're all that. I sometimes get tempted to tell them, "Don't tell me how to do my job, you were in 9th grade when I stacked my first stroller."

Made me think of this bratty kid on the Westside who was nicknamed "the duck" over at canoes because he was always falling in the water. Over at Pirates I used to try to nicely remind him that he was supposed to keep his eyes on the dock/flume while the boats were coming into the station but he didn't want to hear it, along with any of the other things that he was *supposed* to be doing from the leads. One day he looked at me and asked how old I was. I truthfully replied 32. He looked me dead in the eye and said "you may be twice as old as me, but I know twice as much as you." And he was totally serious. Of course, that brought out my stubborn side so I was thinking "this means war, punk!"

I swear, not even an hour later, the duck was in the control tower when the alarms went off, and a couple of supervisors happened to be in there with him. As I was behind him in the rotation on front load, I could see the panic in his face as he was trying to figure out which alarm was going off and how to make it stop. In the meantime, Tina and Bob were sort of leaning against the back wall just chuckling at him, but not helping. I walked up there, really calmly shut the offending alarm off and shut off the pumps in the area where the water was too high. Then I looked at the duck and said "you know twice as much as me, huh?" and walked out to the peels of laughter coming from our dear supervisors. As the bump was coming through, and the rule was that if you're in the tower when a problem starts, you remain in the tower to fix it, I just went ahead and went on my lunch break! :twisted:

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