Stupid Guest Tricks

CBeilby wrote:It's the one at Group, on the side of the stairs. I was putting the Park Patrol back under the stairs, and bumped the damn thing with my forehead.

who was shiftlead at that time?

tskbf2005 wrote:who was shiftlead at that time?

I don't remember. And they're probably not there any more, as this was back in '98.

CBeilby wrote:

Zazu wrote:Can you say "E-Stop"?

Not at KBF, Zazu. On Bigfoot Rapids, unless you see a person in the water, have boats backing up at the bottom of the lift, or have a broken board, you do NOT hit that e-stop. When I still worked there, a first unnecessary E-stop was an immediate final written warning. A second one before the first one cleared your record? Well, best clean out your locker and head to the unemployment office. It's how the bastards got rid of me.

Basically, unnecessary downtime at KBF is the biggest nono you can commit. :mad:

Now that's a freaking brilliant approach! (NOT) :notallthe

So KBF management thinks that an E-Stop is worse than having to pull a mangled body out of the mechanism, huh? They should try it a few times before swearing off E-Stops.

(No, my experience doesn't come from a theme park, but it does come from people being stupid around heavy equipment.)

On my attraction we train that, "Whatever problem you have, it's a smaller and more managable problem at zero MPH that at any other speed." If not words to live by, at least words to avoid blood loss by.

CBeilby wrote:I don't remember. And they're probably not there any more, as this was back in '98.

shift lead Josie H. over

tskbf2005 wrote:shift lead Josie H. over

Nope. No one named Josie was even on crew when I worked Bigfoot.

i hit my e-stop with a shiftleader name debbie

When I was at KBF, I had a few lazy-bum co-workers. Usually they fell into the "princess" category. Most of these were at Calico R.R., and all but one were other female conductors. One time, I told one of the other female conductors to watch for the train coming in while I picked up trash. She said okay--then promptly turned her back to the direction the train comes in from, and the next thing I knew I was within a couple hundred feet of becoming a cowcatcher ornament on an 1881 Baldwin C-19 2-8-0! I saw the train coming and jumped back across the tracks just in time! This same conductor a couple of months later pulled the whistle handle, signaling the engineer to start the train after the Bandits had crossed out the gates. Unfortunately, I and the conductor who was taking the train out were still doing the walking inspection prior to sending the train out. This woman swore up and down that she didn't touch the whistle, had no idea who had, and when my shiftleader investigated, she asked the Bandits, and they said this woman had pulled the whistle. And she (conductor) tried to blame the Bandits! The Bandits don't ever touch the whistle for any reason. So I told my S/L my side, and confided that this conductor had impaired hearing, which is a safety hazard, plus more than once she had demonstrated signs of early dementia. So I and the other conductor, as well as the one at fault, all wrote incident reports, and I put my concerns about this woman in and recommended that she get a screening for hearing and memory loss. They must've actually listened to my recommendations , because a short time later, she seemed able to hear better and improved mentally as well. At least no serious harm followed, but the chance was always there.