Stupid Guest Tricks

CBeilby wrote:And in what departments?
Ok, I'll start:

Ok here goes....my pathetic disney history


88-89ish MK East Attractions
Pan
Small World
Carousel
Toad (Miss it!!!!)
Snow (The old days where if you didn't stop the car correctly you could injure someone! :twisted: )
Mickey's Birthdayland/Starland
Space Mountain

89 - 92ish MK West Attractions
Bear Band
Arcade
Diamond Horeshoe
Haunted Mansion
Pirates
Tikis
Treehouse
Thunder Mountain
Splash Mountain (Opening Team)

92 - eeearly 93
Epcot Main Entrance
HATED IT!!!!! Almost got run over by some little blue haired lady who couldn't tell the gas from the brake on my first day of training!

93 - 97ish
World Showcase Attractions
FriendShip Launches
American Adventure

97 - 99ish
MGM.. Star Tours and Epic. Mostly Star Tours

99 - 01
Coronado Springs Resort Front Desk

01 - 03
DRC Orlando (The Cave, Mauschwitz)
Reservation Sales Agent / Cast Communications

03 - 04
Pop Century Resort Opening Team

04 - 05
Moved to Tampa
DRC Tampa Guest Services (Recovery Team)
Read: Disney Whipping Boy/Complaint Line

Feb 05...... Flew the coop for a less stressful job that is starting me at MORE an hour than I was making with WDW.


There you have it

JT ex CM 88-05 :barf:

Raging Waters - personnel (included way more duties than I care to mention, some highlights are costuming, switchboard, and having the only radio in the park with all channels making me liason between all departments.) 1993 season

Knott's Halloween Haunt - vampire maze (not nearly as glamorous as it sounds) 1995 season

Disneyland - Redd Rockett's Pizza Port - 1998-2000

Maybe someday I will amuse you with Raging Waters stories. That place was a kick.

ExR2P2 wrote:Knott's Halloween Haunt - vampire maze (not nearly as glamorous as it sounds) 1995 season

That was my first job at Knott's, Blackout in Nightmares (the Maze at the Bumper Cars.)

:bouncemic ok here goes...

2001 -- :auto: Parking, Wide World of Sports (Braves Spring training)

2001 -- Custodial, River Country Water Park :)
(in the Fort Wilderness Campground)
(There was only 2 custodians for the park, I was the closer)

2001 -- Picked up Custodial Shifts at Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach

2001 -- After River Country closed for the summer :(
Custodial at the Animal Kingdom :barf:

:mad:
9-11 hit and River Country was closed perminatly, was told to go to casting.
:mad:

2002 -- Main Street Daily Ops., Magic Kingdom
:turn: Park Greeter, :locomotiv Train Conductor :) , and PAC

2004 -- :twisted: Got terminated from disney (don't want to talk about it anymore) :rip:

2005 -- Photographer, EIS Kodak :)
Magic Kingdom, Mickey's Toon Town Fair
(Pooh Room) :pooh: :eeyore: :piglet: :tigger:
Disney MGM Studios, Star Wars Weekends and Al's Toy Barn
Animal Kingdom, Camp Minnie-Mickey

All Disneyland when it was just a Park and not a whole Resort:

Spring 1977 - Summer 1979: Plaza Inn and Plaza Terrace (used to be a table service restaurant on the south patio in the evenings in the summer). Dish-up, cashier, hostess.

Summer 1979 - Thanksgiving 1979: Still at Plaza Inn, but got to be the Golden Girl and stand out in front of the restaurant in a yellow hoop skirt dress with a white parasol. Did mostly guest control (only we used to call it "crowd control"). One of those positions that they figured was really useless and I don't think they have it any more.

Christmas 1979 - Summer 1988: Guest Relations. Guided tours, Hostess tours (VIP tours - you had to have an account with the Park, it was $40/hour, 4 hour minimum, and we got to wear lovely white polyester skirts, red polyester blouses with nice long sleeves, and navy & white polyester houndstooth vests and blazers), City Hall, Information Phones (the phone room used to be the back area of City Hall), Carefree Corner (a nice, big, empty space across Main Street from Coke Corner with guest books separated by state that functioned mainly as an information center), Lost & Found, Guest Relations Window (back in the days before we even HAD Annual Passes).

Summer 1988 - Spring 1990: Guest Communications. There were 4 of us - 2 handled guest "comments" (mostly complaints) that came in after the guests left the Park (letters, phone calls); one did the information mail, and the other did the character fan mail. We also compiled a monthly report of the complaints, compliments, and suggestions. When we started, we didn't have computers yet (I SAID I am an OLD TG), so you can imagine our frustration when we'd get to the end of a page of summaries and find a typo!!!

Left the Park in June of 1990 once I realized I was taking the complaints home with me.

Worked as an ice rink attendent for a city rink in my hometown for 1 winter

Walt Disney World
2004 and 2005 ... worked attractions in all 4 parks (mostly at AK, picked up extra hours shifts at Epcot, MGM, and MK). I've also worked in bell services at the Coronado Springs, Caribbean Beach, and Pop Century, as well as a day at the Grand Floridian in the recreation dept.

Six years at the Magic Kingdom (and counting ... slowly).

Three years at the "Holiday Inn Chattanooga Choo-Choo" (I kid ye not!). Front desk, switchboard, emergency communications leader, and historical interpreter (hotel was in a 1920 RR station and passenger cars).

Nine years at the Tennessee Valley Railroad as a dining car steward and passenger conductor.

Ten years as the director of a railroad research library (some collossally rude SGTs here).

Not all parks, exactly, but all were visited by stupid guests at times.