OK, so I'm a Casual Temporary Attractions CM at California Adventure... I know why are you still a CT if you hired in July? Well I go to school a ways away from SoCal, so I really don't have much of a choice.
So I was wondering, my attraction is great and all when you're only working it for a few months, but what I would really like is to cross-train with another attraction. Does anyone know if CTs can do this? I was kinda told once that we can't, but does anyone know for sure?
Also, a good friend of mine works in Guest Relations, and he is always trying to get me to transfer over, I was also told once that CTs can't do this... is this true?
If so, then basically I'm chained to my attraction with the only possibilities of getting out being volunteering for Electrical Parade and Fantasmic Guest Control. The other thing I considered was just dropping the employment at the end of summer and then rehiring in the winter or whatever into Guest Relations... or if not that then at least another attraction... hopefully at DL.
Well that's a bit longer than I anticipated (sorry, I can get to rambling), but can anyone help?
Thanks a lot!
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If you leave and then rehire within a year you are forced back to your old attraction. You can't quit just to transfer.MaliboomerMike wrote:The other thing I considered was just dropping the employment at the end of summer and then rehiring in the winter or whatever into Guest Relations... or if not that then at least another attraction... hopefully at DL.
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Not true. When I quit from foods and rehired 6 months later, I got attractions.CujoSR wrote:If you leave and then rehire within a year you are forced back to your old attraction. You can't quit just to transfer.
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And I went from Attractions to stores. I had an awesome record in Attractions, but the woman I interiewed with didn't like me, so I got what she wanted to give me.
BAck to the cross train as a CT thing, it does not happen in attractions. I was told, once you hit your third summer season and you kiss the right bums, they might concider it, though.
BAck to the cross train as a CT thing, it does not happen in attractions. I was told, once you hit your third summer season and you kiss the right bums, they might concider it, though.
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As I was only CT when I first worked in Merchandise, I'm not sure about the cross training thing in Attractions...I mean...if you're in the dept. you're supposed to know all the rides in your area - at least CR people do...
They make people permanant in cycles. If it's a good year, you can usually become permanant pretty easily. When I originally hired in, it was for the '84 Olympics. They were thinking that the place would be overrun with tourists, and it ended up being a ghost town for the first two weeks...the CT's were lucky if we got one 4 hour shift during those weeks - it was like, you'd get there and the supervisors would be standing by the time clocks saying "you want an ADO?" Or if you made it to your location "you wanna ER?" The fall and winter season were kind of slow too...I kept thinking I'd get to be permanant, since I was still on in December, then January. Well. the jerks waited until AFTER inventory (including having to go over to the warehouse and breathe in all the dust from long-ignored stuff our department hadn't sold) and let all of the CT's but 2 go. The sneaky thing about that was that it put off our permanant hire dates until the following end of summer - and then we got lower rates, because of the strike - the new rate was something like $2.00 an hour lower than the pre-strike rate. It was screwed...
so what else is new at the mouse house, I mean, come on - they want all the money for Eisner's latest bonus...
They make people permanant in cycles. If it's a good year, you can usually become permanant pretty easily. When I originally hired in, it was for the '84 Olympics. They were thinking that the place would be overrun with tourists, and it ended up being a ghost town for the first two weeks...the CT's were lucky if we got one 4 hour shift during those weeks - it was like, you'd get there and the supervisors would be standing by the time clocks saying "you want an ADO?" Or if you made it to your location "you wanna ER?" The fall and winter season were kind of slow too...I kept thinking I'd get to be permanant, since I was still on in December, then January. Well. the jerks waited until AFTER inventory (including having to go over to the warehouse and breathe in all the dust from long-ignored stuff our department hadn't sold) and let all of the CT's but 2 go. The sneaky thing about that was that it put off our permanant hire dates until the following end of summer - and then we got lower rates, because of the strike - the new rate was something like $2.00 an hour lower than the pre-strike rate. It was screwed...
so what else is new at the mouse house, I mean, come on - they want all the money for Eisner's latest bonus...
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