"How Long Is The Wait?"

SassyTinkrBelle8 · Post by **SassyTinkrBelle8** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 3:30 am

SO I played a mean trick, but it was fun! I went to go change our wait time because the line went from 35 minutes to less than 20 minutes long in about a minute. So I was putting 20 minutes, I hit the 00 button on purpose, and hit ok. I looked over at the entrance, and watched the guests. A group of about 7 walked in, and the last two stopped to look at the wait time. It said 200. One of the guys with them came back out and looked at the time also. He then looked at the line, as he was looking at the line, I fixed the time to say 20. He looked back up, and told his friends, "see, 20!!" LOL that was fun! :twisted:

GMC · Post by **GMC** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 3:51 am

why do people become angry when i tell them they have to wait another five minutes, and they've been in line, what 5 already, holy shit folks, you had to wait 15 minutes to ride the train as long as you like, to any location you like, that's the best deal in the park, you can go around the park 3 times in the amount of time it'd take you to get on splash, and that's including the whoping 15 minutes you had to wait for the train to be empty enough to let you fat bitchy ass on. and it's always middle aged women, and thier faces always turn red when they yell at you. WDI needs to get us some more excursion style trains, those seat about a 320 adults each, not including any youngsters, which fit between the adults, and on laps, so let's say 640, assuming every adult has a lapsized child, can easily clear all the stations, and if they ran a cabose on each train, for overflow, that'd kick my ass. i think i'm done ranting now...

Lilo · Post by **Lilo** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 3:34 pm

The wait time sign at iasw was one of those ones you have to rotate the numbers around, and it only went in one direction. every time I would change it to a lower time, I would have to go past 60 first. For some reason, people would always gather to watch me change the sign. I loved to pause at 50 and 60, listening to people gasp, before I put it on 10 or whatever! :D

Lilo · Post by **Lilo** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 3:40 pm

This is what really annoyed me. Nearly all, if not all, of the wait time signs here just say, Wait Time:__ or Standby wait:__ All the time a guest would ask me what the wait was, I'd tell them, and they'd be like, "Well, that's from this point, what is it from where is in there?" I'd say, "No, the line is __ from where it is." The signs don't say "Wait time: 20 from this point", do they? NOO. Just because some parks have signs like that, ours DON'T SAY THAT! I guess some people can't read. :roll:

coldfire409 · Post by **coldfire409** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 8:49 pm

At the Movie Ride they changed out wait time sign and it actually says. . . "Wait time approximatly____ minutes from this point"

It pisses me off so much because we have two diffrent entrances. Also it only takes about 30 to 45 seconds to walk to where the end of the line is, anywhere the end of the line is within our queue. Although I do like it when the line is so long it passes by the wait time sighn and the guests look at the 60 minute wait and they can't belive how long it is. :twisted:

flippin_mermaid · Post by **flippin_mermaid** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 4:35 pm

DLRFantasmic!Dan wrote:Hi, new here!!! I work at Disneyland!!!

I got lots of questions when working at Disneyland. I work at "Honey, I Shrunk The Audience", or "Honey" or "HISTA" for short, and it is right next to Space Mountain, which is closed for refurbishments. THe most common question there is "How long's the wait for Space Mountain?" and I go "Two years!!!" and they go, "Seriously???" and I go, "Yeah!!!"

LOL! That's so good ... I wish I'd have used that one when I worked in Tomorrowland. People asked about Space ALL the time!

DLSweeper · Post by **DLSweeper** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 2:58 am

CujoSR wrote:Ahem...

http://www.stupidguesttricks.com/phpBB2 ... .php?t=316

I haven't seen that comercial in a long time! :) Thanks, that's a classic. I KNOW how that guy feels. "Wont someone please put up a sign?" I was working Indy (custodial) one time and some people asked me how much longer the wait was. I was like: How long have you guys been waiting?"
Them: "30 min."
Me: "Well, it was 60 from outside, right?"
Them: "Right."
Me: "So, you have 30 more min left."

They were pretty ticked off. Man!! It's not that hard to do basic math!

lady ulrike · Post by **lady ulrike** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 9:11 am

Working at Roger, we've just recently changed the way the queue works. The whole queue gets filled and fastpass has a separate path and the grouper groups from both lines, like a stand-by group then a fastpass group, then back again, or whatever depending how long the lines are. So, I'm loading with this new setup and I was like 'are you guys ready' and the guy says 'well, we've been waiting for like an hour, you guys should have a sign or something' I looked at him kinda like this :shock: and said, 'we do' then he responded with 'oh, I didn't see it'

For those who may have never been to Roger, there's a big tall sign, almost as tall as the building to the left of the entrance. The bottom is bright yellow, I honestly don't know how you could not notice it.

Stduck · Post by **Stduck** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 9:21 am

People don't read signs..they think that signs don't apply to them. At Mansion we had this sign over the gate showing where stand by and fastpass were to go. Somehow it got bumped and lost two letters so it sait Fat ass not Fastpass. My lead tore it down. So we are signless, at least 4 times a day "You really should have a sign that says where we should go..." or "You should post the wait time" in response to that I would point at the right to where the wait time was posted and then say. "We do..."

leftcoaster · Post by **leftcoaster** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 11:09 am

Stduck wrote: At Mansion we had this sign over the gate showing where stand by and fastpass were to go. Somehow it got bumped and lost two letters so it sait Fat ass not Fastpass. My lead tore it down. So we are signless, at least 4 times a day "You really should have a sign that says where we should go..." or "You should post the wait time" in response to that I would point at the right to where the wait time was posted and then say. "We do..."

The "Fat Ass" sign is for the people in the ECV's that are calorically challenged, who have to put the arm rests down because they can't fit between them, who think that by having an ECV, they will get on rides faster. These are the same "people" that will buy a Mickey Dee's Big Mac, and a DIET soda.