Shoes can make the difference...

GMC · Post by **GMC** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 4:11 am

you'll have to forgive the lentght and choppiness of this post, as you may or may not be able to tell, i'm a bit shaken after this most previous shift, and this was a way to get it off my shoulders, my vacation was either too soon, or not long enough, but this isn't what i'd planned on comming back to, i might go sit someplace and cry for a while after this one, or do somehting horrible like, take up jogging...

just got off work about an hour ago need to unwind fucking guests man this family totally fucked up our entire operation at indy tonight
half the girls wound up crying because of these guys, well this family
alls well that ends well tho, we had thier asses ejected
first off, AP's
should know better
thier daughter wasn't tall enough, but had appearently been on before, probly because she was wearing shoes last time, and not sandals
so they go and use someone else's shoes and stuff them so that they'll fit
very insulting to our intelligence
so we get a call to watch for them, and to stop them immediatly security is on the way for them
and i think, woman and a little girl? security?
so of couse this is conveyed to me right infront of them, and she tucks uner a rail and meets her family, mind you at this point, she's shoved two cast members, broken the law by brining her to short to ride kid into the building, and completly blown me off, when i asked her to not go under the rail
pretty soon thier entire family is cussing various cast members out, well the little girl didn't really want to ride, and their son, is trying to tell them that they should just go
so security takes them from the ride, my lead and manager, and pretty much the entire crew decide they're not welcome back, at least for the evening, and they're taken out of the attraction
in the mean time, our line is backed up for 20 min, and no one is able to get onto the ride, which made us go down
which really pissed me off, becuase we could have been hitting our targets on the hourly counts or something, but no, they're in charge of the world
or something
so i go about my break, turn a fast pass into a Re-ad, and try to have a nice day
one of the worlds nicest girls is crying, guests are noticing, and reminding her that she did her job very well, and that the guy was a flamming asshole
which makes me laugh, and i'm sure she'll be laughing too later
(unfourtunatly she always has bad luck)
yeah
it didn't help that on of our indy's decided to start slumpin gover
his is later while i'm in tower (oh yes the night goes on)
yeah so my lead and another guy go to do a "running repair" on indy to see if he is infact slumped, or if the guest was high
which he was
but as soon as my lead leaes the tower to check this, guess who comes back into our line getting vip service from the security guard who escorted them out earlier
oh yes them
this time they make it all the way to grouper!
so the security gaurd goes up to tell my manager that "it's ok they said thier sorry" and everyone at indy said HELL NO IT AIN'T!
so more backing up, more nothing happening, in the mean time we're trying to cycle out the line, but can't because asshole, and bitch are in line with the take it up the butt gang
and are more than likely insisting that they be allowed on
hahaha
someone else gets shoved, and they get ejected, and hopefully they get thier passes revoked
the plus side we were able to send enough empty cars to get indy working agian, but by this time i was at grouper

grouping for both stations, and explaing to everyone(who i thought i had explained it to) that we were cycling out
(appearently whent the rotation came, no one quit got it that they needed to pass the info on)
and right when we thought we were getting our ride stop, we got more guests
but if i had stayed in tower i probly would have had to hit an e-stop, shutting us down for the night.
sad
so not much happens i go to belt check, and then break, and i'm sitting talking to my lead and some other guy, taking an extra long break (notice lead not caring) and radio buzzes: theme park 1 atrractions 1 adventure 1 blah blah blah, indy 101 for auto ride stop
or whatever, and we're sitting there like, indy? what, that's us, not really sure if we're happy about it or not
we go in and i thought i was going to get to tag out and evac, but no, the person who was supposed to be in the station, whom i was supposed to bump, was out greeting
so i speiled the rest of the night pretty much, we went down at about 11, right when fantasmic let out, but we didn't have any huge problems w/ guests
most figured it was parting of the park closing
yeah pretty random, i'm going to see if i can get a steam trains shift tomorrow instead of indy
i need a day or two away from it
yeah, this one will go down in the anals of indy history
wow, that's probly the worst day ever for me, yeah, as far as demanding goes
mental and physical demands of today were ginormous
because a fair amount of the time i was running from inside to outside, we've probly got a 1/4 mile queue
i'm alive tho, and that's all that matters.

anyone care to challenge this one? i forgot to mention that i never got a lunch trough all of that

hulkcoaster · Post by **hulkcoaster** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 3:08 pm

Did anyone press assult charges for the shoving?

GMC · Post by **GMC** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 1:45 am

no, by the time we all came to our senses about being able to do that, we were writing our statements...

did you actually read that whole thing? it's like forever!

so yeah i'm better, and so is everyone else that was there yesterday, and it was a really nice day for me, i spent a good three hours inside the temple assisting in downtime operations, didn't have to o speil once, it was so ridiculous, three auto e-stops in a row, 5 auto ride stops, a cycle out, and (assummably) a manual ride stop before i got there for the e-stops.

Thunder comes UP, Idny Goes DOWN, well sorta, by the time we resumed normal op, i was two hours from going home, and as soon as rotation sent me outside, my bump home came, or glorious day!

DLSweeper · Post by **DLSweeper** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 4:49 am

Wow.... Was Alex working? Cuz she is one of the kewlest CMs I've ever met!

Anywho, I hope that all is OK. I just think that it's so stupid! How dare Disney go out of their way to guests who assult CMs.

I mean, Knott's doesn't do that! Why should Disney be less than Knott's? They kick people out for lesser things than that. F-ing guest relations for doing stuff like that! It's just so gay... I'm sorry, I can't put it into better words how I feel about it, but you get the idea.

GMC · Post by **GMC** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:22 pm

i don't think alex was working, come to think of it i don't know that i've seen an alex there at all. but yeah everything turned out alright, i guess it's not an uncommon thing to have happen, but next time, i'm going to do my best to get assulted/batteried, so that i can threaten to press charges, if they don't agree to leave the park... can we do that?

TheyMakeMeSigh · Post by **TheyMakeMeSigh** » Thu Sep 02, 2004 10:52 pm

*sigh*... I hate Indy. One of the many things that go wrong there. I really can't stand it when dip sh!t parents insist that their small child be allowed to ride. IT'S FOR THEIR SAFETY IDIOTS. That Jeep could buck a little kid right out of the vehicle, seatbelt or not if they're small enough.

GMC · Post by **GMC** » Fri Sep 03, 2004 12:13 am

do you know indy and BTM? 'cause if you do we've probly worked together, i work day shift and night shifts, whatever is needed, and whatever i can do with my sched.