disney dollars

StupidGuestTricks Yahoo · Post by **StupidGuestTricks Yahoo** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 9:21 pm

From: mahaihai <mahaihai@y...>
Date: Thu Oct 17, 2002 11:01pm
Subject: disney dollars

Things like this really make me wonder what people think when they
get up in the morning. Last week i had just come back from break
and one of the other CM's in my ticket booth comes up to me with a
California Drivers License and a credit card telling me that his
guest wanted to purchase 200 disney dollars on rthe card. I said to
him go ahead whats the problem. Thats when he shoves the ID in my
face and i notice that its a fake id. Ok no biggie but wait when i
turn the Credit card over to the signature line you can see where it
was scratched out and resigned to match the ID. Well to make a long
story short we called security they responded with Anaheim PD and
arrestesd the guy who had ID and Credit Card nad his girlfriend who
was oh wait for it a DCA foods CM. Losing your job for 200 disney
dollars sounds stupid to me. Some peoples kids!!!!!!!

Excalibur · Post by **Excalibur** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 4:15 am

I had a cm from TDA come into the park with a stack of the no strings attached forms, the little blue cards. she signed them with her own name and was using them at all the wagons on the hub.... yea I was like wtf?! lol when she whipped out about 50 of them from her pocket and shuffled through them and handed the vendor on the ice cream cart one. Took me all of 2 minutes to get to a phone call security and have them walk her out and physically seperate her fromt he company :) go security! Man if your gonna stea at least be smart, dont sign it with your own name and carry a stack in your pocket, now dumb do we look? (nevermind the costume lol)

tabacco · Post by **tabacco** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 12:21 pm

I never had any interesting criminal stories. The best I can claim is that I tried to turn in a scalper selling used tickets, but Security took approximately 6 years to arrive so the guy was long gone.

Dante101 · Post by **Dante101** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 1:46 pm

tabacco wrote:I never had any interesting criminal stories.

Oh I got a good one. Again, it's from my relatively short stint at Tomorrowland Terrace (which is odd, since I only spent 3 years there, and the next 12 years in Attractions).

The policy at the time was that if you received a bill over $20, you put it underneath the cash drawer of your register. Every now and then, the lead would walk down the counter, take all those "large bills" from the registers, and mark it all down on the register envelope.

So we had this one cast member - not a lead - who would, every now and then, go down the counter, pretending he was the lead, remove all the large bills from all the registers and pocket them! I never saw this happen, but I heard about it when they finally caught and arrested him. I guess he'd do it at night and on the weekends, when the new CMs would work.

They said they could only guess how long he'd been at it, and they had no idea of how much he got away with...

Even when I was just hired, during my cash handling class, one of my fellow new-hires pocketed a $20 bill! Again, I don't know who it was, but the trainers were all pissed off, and were trying different ways of getting it back.

In Attractions, I guess there's nothing really to steal. The only thing would be CMs taking baby switch passes and using them when they'd visit the park as a guest.

Weeble · Post by **Weeble** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 4:03 pm

You can be fired for "theft" from attractions. That old video game the R-360, they had undercover people watching that ride becuase I guess people were pocketing money and then just pressing the free ride button. Well, I never did that, but what I did do is let a cast member ride the ride for free. Good times, good times.

tourbunny · Post by **tourbunny** » Sat Jul 19, 2003 10:45 pm

the re-ad story reminded me of someting a couple of months ago. i was at dca in the info station (no not in city hall) when these guests come up holding an entire block of fresh blue re-ads. it was a nice family so they were not the once scamming here. the dad asked me how these worked. after a moment of puzzlement i asked where he got those from and he sayed his nice who works here gave these to her. poor people they were so embarssed when they found out how they are used and whet they are for. they were crushed that they had made a fool out of themselfs. to make things better i showed them how they are filled out and used and gave 'em 2 to go play with and took the rest....and put them in my pocket (naaaa just kidding.... really i am!)

BirdMom · Post by **BirdMom** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 12:04 am

tabacco wrote:I never had any interesting criminal stories.

Can still remember this girl years ago in Disney Clothiers who knew she was eventually going to get her trust fund of big bucks when she turned 21. She got stupid, decided she couldn't wait and started palming money out of the old manual cash registers. Again - the thing where you've memorized the prices of various items and combinations of items including the sales tax. She'd tell the guests how much the total came to, but instead of tabulating it on the register, she'd just hit the no-sale button. And of course, instead of putting the money completely in, she'd eventually put it in her pocket (after making the correct change!). They caught her because they noticed that every time she worked something wasn't quite right (someone must have spotted her) - the registers wouldn't be off because she didn't ring all the sales in, but the inventory was always off at the end of the period. Anyway, security set up a hidden video camera in one of the displays and that's how they got the evidence. Turns out she'd taken about $20,000 total. Before she got fired and escorted out, they made her sign a paper promising to pay restitution in that amount to the company. Guess she really wanted that stupid Porche, when if she'd just waited a couple more years, she could have paid cash for the damn thing and not have a criminal record. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

By the way, the entire time I was there, if some c.m. was caught stealing, the company always made them sign a document promising to pay restitution in the amount stolen before booting the c.m. out.

tabacco · Post by **tabacco** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 1:11 am

Oh wait, I just remembered, I do have a good criminal CM story. One of our ticket sellers was termed back in 2001 for stealing cash. That's nothing special, it happens every now and then. But then, after being termed, she re-hired by using her 2-year-old daughter's SSN on her application. She ended up in DL Foods, and lasted for almost 2 weeks before she was noticed by a MEGS manager in the Inn Between saying 'hi' to friends from ME. How dumb can you get?

SRT_GB · Post by **SRT_GB** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 1:12 am

Reminds me of another cm who got fired for stealing from registers early in the morning, before the opening lead for that location got there. This was around the time they first started leaving the opening fund in the registers overnight. The cm was either an A or B and had been one for years, so he was making a fairly decent wage. Why he needed to take money is beyond me. He ended up getting caught when a general lead closed the register at night, verified the fund, then counted it again right before opening the next morning. I guess they determined he had somehow obtained a key for the register and faked a reason to go to that location. Dunno how much he made out with, but I do know he's no longer employed.

I also heard of a guy who got fired because he did something with the computer software in TDA so that every time someone sent something to the printer, it would print at every printer in the building. I think just for kicks they also tried to get him for stealing out of a register too.

mahaihai · Post by **mahaihai** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 12:59 pm

In the ME we have had recent rash of people getting termed for stealing. But the best story was told to me by a fellow lead. One night in the plaza pavilion a guest came in with re-ads that he wanted to apply to an annual pass. When he was told that re-ads have no value he got mad and said he had paid this morning and had a receipt to prove it. So being the clever lead that this lead is she pulled up the transaction on the computer then ran the ticket barcodes through the system (yes Disney does record all that info). They came up not scanned for entry. So he credited the guest the money then called a manager while the guest was still there and they came and found out excatly which CM had swiped the tickets and replaced them with re-ads. The guest actually knew the CM's name, why? Because the stupid CM had written it on a re-ad for the guest so the guest could go to city hall and give him a compliment. HA HA

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