Stupid Guest Tricks

Tooncinator is eating wet food and I've been putting extra water on it, so he's getting some down his gullet. He's alert now and purring when I pet him, but still won't eat unless I hold it under his nose. He does drag himself to the litter box so I have to give him points for that. Mr. Syndrome is now thinking that since he was okay for the first couple of days after the shots, maybe he hurt himself jumping down from the bed since he's arthritic to begin with and his leg was sore from the shots. Sigh...it's worst than having kids.

Syndrome wrote:Sigh...it's worst than having kids.

Nope. Cats don't get driver's licenses.

Sadly, they can...and worst yet, the most famous Driving Cat is the one that my poopy Toonces is named after:

Ha ha! I was thinking of Toonces the Driving Cat, too!

The Feliway was a godsend calming down my tabby when we brought in the ex-stray. She was hyper vigilant and freaking out and it really helped. I still have the little plu gin diffuser and will be buying a new thing of oil for it when I move in September (just across town.)

8^)

OK, this is equal part pee in public, part that sometimes Disney won't do something until they have to.

Where I worked at WOD in Anaheim, we had double doors that lead backstage with a security lock on them. Swipe your card, undo the lock, head in, no fuss, no muss. Well, one day, the lock broke. As in there was NO security on the door. Any Tom, Dick and Harry could have walked backstage or followed a CM backstage.

You'd think Security would get people out to fix the doors posthaste for that reason, for our, y'know, security, right?

Wrong.

That door was broken for at least two weeks, maybe longer. I was frankly amazed that we didn't have a problem with it or that the Managers were not screaming bloody murder about it.

Now, here's where the pee comes in. The restrooms are on the opposite side of the room where the CM backstage doors are. To picture it better, steeple your hands at the fingertips. CM doors are the left fingers, restrooms on the right. Got the image?

So, one morning, not too long after we open, a gentleman who may or may not have already had a few too many at ESPN Zone decides to pay us a visit and use our restroom. No big deal, we just point it out and go on our merry way.

Ten minutes later, I heard that the gent had gone through the wrong doors, was too drunk to figure out where he was and decided to pee on our backstage wall IN FRONT OF A FEMALE CM.

Janitors were there pretty quick, followed by repairmen to fix our door. Finally.

WarriorPoets1 wrote:OK, this is equal part pee in public, part that sometimes Disney won't do something until they have to.

Where I worked at WOD in Anaheim, we had double doors that lead backstage with a security lock on them. Swipe your card, undo the lock, head in, no fuss, no muss. Well, one day, the lock broke. As in there was NO security on the door. Any Tom, Dick and Harry could have walked backstage or followed a CM backstage.

You'd think Security would get people out to fix the doors posthaste for that reason, for our, y'know, security, right?

Wrong.

Perhaps this is because Security does not fix doors, but rather Engineering. Also, it is every cast members responsibility, not just security, to challenge anyone 'tailgating' or backstage without appropriate credentials.

Trust me, I challenged Phil Holmes' wife backstage at Magic Kingdom (WDW). Phil is the MK VP, BTW. Mrs. Holmes was backstage without escort or CM ID (she is not employed by WDW at all). She was challenged, presented a drivers license, then provided escort to her destination. The last part was at my discretion since she was Phil's wife as a courtesy but Security management was notified immediately as to the incident.

I figure let the big wigs decide what if anything besides an out of bounds escort was called for -- and let them do it. Not lil ol' me -- a non executive level CM. LOL

MAPO

mapo wrote:Perhaps this is because Security does not fix doors, but rather Engineering. Also, it is every cast members responsibility, not just security
MAPO

Very well stated MAPO, Thanks! We all seem to ask Security for far too much. Security is a great support but they don't do locks. Although I've seen them pick locks open. ;)

Ugh... not quite Disney... but relevant none the less....

In a lot of these Public Urination threads, people say things like "Do you let your kids pee on the lawn at home?"

Apparently some cases the answer is YES.

I just found out from a little old lady widow observer, that the dead grass on my lawn isn't just from the dog in the apartment downstairs... it's from the kids too. *Twitch.* So yeah... apparently some of these winners see nothing wrong with kids peeing wherever the hell outdoors.

8^S

mapo wrote:Perhaps this is because Security does not fix doors, but rather Engineering. Also, it is every cast members responsibility, not just security, to challenge anyone 'tailgating' or backstage without appropriate credentials.

MAPO

Then I apologize to anyone from Security I offended. My point stands though: even trying to protect ourselves, that door was broken for far too long.