Weirdest thing you've ever been accused of...

screnwriter · Post by **screnwriter** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 3:45 pm

A few years back, a seemingly nice elderly lady was in Pooh Corner, asking me about something that WAS in that store, insisting that 'I knew' what item she was talking about. :?: I told her I hadn't worked the store that often, but she telling me I knew what she meant and wanted. Finally, she said I was deliberately trying to confuse her and was violating her civil rights!

I'm no poli sci major, but I don't think there's an amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing freedom from confusion in Disneyland Resort merchandising locations...

Unlessn' that's another one that Dubya is trying to get passed.

:roll:

IndyBob · Post by **IndyBob** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 9:56 am

Was accused of pulling my whang out in the Indy Tower. It never happened though.

Sweetums · Post by **Sweetums** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 11:09 am

I was accused of causing a CM to fall over and scrape his hand during a run of Aladdin's Royal Caravan. I was in the parade as one of the acrobats -which were huge towering inflatable costumes made to look like 3 or 4 men balancing on each other's shoulders. I was in butthead that day. (The butthead acrobat is designed to look like he's standing on his hands, so your feet become the hands and your head is where the butt is.) As I passed Superstar Television Theater, I was leaning over the crowd and meeting and greeting as usual and came across the accused who was knealing by one of the stantions. I put my foot out (butthead's hand) for him to shake it, and he rolled his eyes at me. -So I walked on by. He never fell in my pressence, I figured he faked an injury to get out of his shift. But I was approached by my manager at the end of the day to fill out a witness statement. I lost a trip to Canada because of that. I was supposed to go on a Disney Marketing Trip as Jafar, but you're not allowed to go if you receive a reprimand during the same month.
-Stupid selfish jerk. I couldn't go to Toronto because some idiot used me as an excuse to go home.

Sorry! That veteran story happened at WDW, and I just noticed this subject was in the DL forum. Oops!

coldfire409 · Post by **coldfire409** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 12:42 pm

I one day have a manager come up to me and ask me to write a witness statement on an incident that occoured in the prior week. I asked him what was this incident and he replied to me "You know what you did." I then asked for a steward and he said you don't need one; I'm not going to disipline you right now. Well since I didn't know what I was being charged with I decided to write a statement about everything that occoured that day. Incredibly detailed. It took me 3 hours to write this novel but a 20 page statement with no actual substance is very funny.

I know I'm a smartass but this was justice.

madhatter04 · Post by **madhatter04** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 12:56 pm

:roll:
I was getting someone a Becky's Fruit Plate and a grape rolled off it. The guest, about a 55 year old female and her husband, said "oh!! you dropped some of it!! give us a new one!" so I stuck it back in the fridge and got a new one. We have to bend over and get the fruit plates, and the man SWORE that I picked up the grape and put it back in the plate. I assured him I got him a brand new one, but they wouldn't believe me, so someone else had to come and get the fruit plate because I supposedly picked up food off the floor and put it into the plate. It was ONE grape... and it wasn't even a big one!

Sweetums · Post by **Sweetums** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 2:01 pm

I asked him what was this incident and he replied to me "You know what you did."

I hate it when managers say things like that. What if you really didn't know because it was unintentional, or it was a case of mistaken identity?
By the way Coldfire,...what was it you were accused of? Just curious. :?:

coldfire409 · Post by **coldfire409** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 2:10 pm

You know I honestly don't remember. It was over two years ago, but I think it was about being rude to a guest.

Scream162 · Post by **Scream162** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 2:20 pm

I asked him what was this incident and he replied to me "You know what you did."

First rule of statement forms... DENY EVERYTHING! :twisted:

coldfire409 · Post by **coldfire409** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 3:03 pm

Scream162 wrote:First rule of statement forms... DENY EVERYTHING! :twisted:

I'm a shop steward so I know how to carefully construct a witness statement. I gave this manager 20 pages that read like this:

7am I woke up and took a shower, brushed my teeth, and ate breakfast. I left my house around 7:30 and arrived at West Clock at around 8:00 am. Went to costuming and got my costume for the day and went to change. I clocked in at.... You probably get the picture now of how this statement went. I used great detail about nothing. It was kinda like a philibuster in the Senate if you read it. It was much of nothing and yet it described everything I did in the day.

screnwriter · Post by **screnwriter** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 4:16 pm

coldfire409 wrote:
Scream162 wrote:First rule of statement forms... DENY EVERYTHING! :twisted:
I'm a shop steward so I know how to carefully construct a witness statement. I gave this manager 20 pages that read like this:

7am I woke up and took a shower, brushed my teeth, and ate breakfast. I left my house around 7:30 and arrived at West Clock at around 8:00 am. Went to costuming and got my costume for the day and went to change. I clocked in at.... You probably get the picture now of how this statement went. I used great detail about nothing. It was kinda like a philibuster in the Senate if you read it. It was much of nothing and yet it described everything I did in the day.

Coldfire, you reminded me of something I read about. This woman was being accused of doing something at her office and was required to sign a statement that described what she had done, with room for "her side" of the story. Of course her word wouldn't go, so she simply wrote:

"It is inappropriate for supervisory staff to make sexual propositions to employees during disciplinary interviews." And she signed it. Her boss took one look at that and said, "I can't turn that in!"

She just smiled at him, her duty fulfilled, and walked out of the room.