I'm working Haunted Mansion Holiday!

VonSeegs · Post by **VonSeegs** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 10:12 pm

DLRFantasmic!Dan wrote:I heard you can't get trained at Pirates AND Mansion. Somehow you can't know them at the smae time.

I knew them both before going back to Fantasyland.

GMC · Post by **GMC** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 1:47 am

Is PAC a trained position? they want Fantasmic! to be it's own attraction so that it can have an OG (have y'all heard they dropped the L) i hope they don't though, because as much as i hate it, i love it, and if they do they ought to make it exempt to landlocking, and simply continue to have NO/CC provide the leads and pull the RO's from all over, including DCA, they need to learn how to set up ropes and stuff, i've heard that the tape bussiness works, but that just seem really lazy to me.

and yeah vehicles is over staffed, and high senority, and even with them running as many as five vehicles a day, it's still not enough for us ot need more drivers.

Stduck · Post by **Stduck** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 10:03 am

I don't want special training for Fantasmic! You don't need it. It doesn't need an OG. IT'S SIMPLE GUEST CONTROL!!!!!!!!!! Yeah DCA people don't know what real guest control is. -grumbles about abc prime time weekend-

DLRFantasmic!Dan · Post by **DLRFantasmic!Dan** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 11:41 am

I know Fantasyland Theather is a trained attraction. It's like Guest Control, isn't it?

Zazu · Post by **Zazu** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 3:39 pm

GMC wrote:Is PAC a trained position?

Yup. My training was pretty brief though. On my first PAC shift - with only a month with the company - the manager handed out assingments and asked if there were any questions.

"Yes," I said, "What on earth am I supposed to do out there?"

"Don't worry, you'll do fine."

That was it. Five words. And wrong, at that!

coldfire409 · Post by **coldfire409** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 7:22 pm

Your training for PAC sounds like what mine was like. Except for the fact that I got sent to PAC right after Once Upon A Time is Now. I didn't realy know much of anything about MK at the time. I was about useless for that shift. But it put me on doubleback for my day one training. At the time Tomorrowland was extremely short staffed, and from what I've herd they still are. Damn when I started training sucked. Space Mountain was only 3 days training and for somebody that had no experance that wasn't enough.

Thatguy · Post by **Thatguy** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 8:16 pm

yeah, my first GC shift was jul 4 2001 the first performance of the electrical parade's return... and I've hated it ever since

Stduck · Post by **Stduck** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 9:58 pm

Thatguy wrote:yeah, my first GC shift was jul 4 2001 the first performance of the electrical parade's return ... and I've hated it ever since

EW. My first GC experience was a rainy Friday night in Early January, I was losing my voice and I sent to parade land help. The parade was half ass cause it was wet. We didn't enforce anything but keeping the street clear. As for the fire works. There was no snow. And Dennis had to give one of his insane scavenger hunts.

GMC · Post by **GMC** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 3:06 am

mine wasn't half bad, it was my first shift after being signed off, i, like stduck, was sent as land help, and they had a construction wall up on main street (what's new) and i stood in front of it directing everyone through the ice cream parlor and into the bluse ribbon bakery, it wan't too bad, and came pretty naturally. my first actualy GC shift was Fantasmic!, and i was a section, and lisa put me on horse shoe split, for the first show, inbetween shows i covered wheelchair section, and second show, i had the dock (that was tough stuff) (for anyone who's never worked fantasmic, or A section, the dock is the easiest position in the world, you stand in the dock passenger waiting area, and make sure no one goes onto the dock, (the big boats used in the show are, in fact, on a track, and wheelchairs roll right onto the mark twain, so they come right up to that dock) and if someone does, you tackle them and wrestle them off the dock, or something..k of it lisa never really told me what to do if someone managed to get out there, and i didn't get a radio or anything to call if there actually was an emergency.

Main Streeter · Post by **Main Streeter** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 5:24 am

Stduck wrote:I don't want special training for Fantasmic! You don't need it. It doesn't need an OG. IT'S SIMPLE GUEST CONTROL!!!!!!!!!! Yeah DCA people don't know what real guest control is. -grumbles about abc prime time weekend-

Was given Fantasmic! 3 weeks after I hired in. No training, just a dim yellow flashlight & huge yellow coat which fit not at all! Guess all went fine - management thought :roll: as I was often told to run out & do Fantasmic! GC. Love GC & parades :!: A bit of knowledge would have been useful - but this was asking too much....so I've learned!