Stupid Guest Tricks

From: Cujo cujosr104@a... <cujosr104@a...>
Date: Sat Jan 4, 2003 4:29am
Subject: The Stupidest Guest Trick EVER!!!!!


Dear Stupid Guest Tricks Members,

Halfway through my shift today I was called into my Manager's office
and was told I was being "separated form the company." AKA I was
fired! I was fired due to (in their eyes) poor attendance. Although
that is not my take on it the point is kinda moot right now. So it
seems this will be my last post on StupidGuestTricks, but boy is it a
doosy. Although this is not goodbye or the end of this fourm.
StupidGuestTricks.com will be around for a long time to come. Finally
I do want to thank all the other cast members I have worked with over
the past two years. It has been a pleasure. Thank you.

And now for the stupidest guest trick ever:
One night about a year ago I was walking out of my location after the
park (DCA) had been cleared. Passing Taste Pilots I saw a man up
ahead in street clothes walking away from me, he made a left towards
the main entrance. I kept walking thinking he was some manager
walking around after closing, but I decided to look towards him
anyway and say the he was looking out side of the gate, testing
turnstiles and such. I waited. He came back towards me.
"Are you Lost?!"
"How do you get out?" He replied.
I asked him how he came to be in the park after hours. He said that
he was staying in the Grand Californian Hotel and was trying to get
to the lobby. He went through a door and started going down the
stairs when he relized he was going the wrong way he turned back. But
the door was locked so he could only go forward. He ended up in
Condor Flats. That's pretty much where I found him. I ended up
feeling bad for him so I led him out the Hollywood Security gate. Of
course no one checked his ID on the way out. I pointed him back to
the hotel and told him to use the elevator next time.

I just hope they fixed that security problem by now.

So that's the story behind your term eh? Sorry to hear...attendence terms are the dumbest IMO. We lose a lot of good CMs that way.

In regards to your story though, wouldn't it have been better to try to get a Security CM to walk him out through the front gates? Probably no good letting Guests walk around backstage, even if it is just Hollywood ;)

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In regards to your story though, wouldn't it have been better to try to get a Security CM to walk him out through the front gates? Probably no good letting Guests walk around backstage, even if it is just Hollywood ]
It was after hours the park was all locked up. getting him to a guard would have done no good since the nearest one was at hollywood gate.

For years, I was stuck with a locker at Space Mtn., and there were so many times when I would find guests wandering near our locker room entrance because they'd taken a wrong turn from one of the emergency exits.

Another Pirates story - there was one evac where there weren't enough support people underground to guide the guests out, and some dopey family actually got into the chow line at the DEC because they decided they'd rather eat right then and there than get funnelled back out onstage.

i saw something like the previous post once. My first week of employment at DL i was at the Inn Between (i know it sucks) eating lunch. On my way back to my location i saw a whole group of Japanese tourists walking into the middle of backstage. Puzzled i assumed they were from guest health since the side door to it is right there. But, when they started up the steps of the inn betwen two managers stopped them and escorted them back on stage. Don't people read, someone must know some english.

BirdMom wrote:some dopey family actually got into the chow line at the DEC

DEC? Let me guess the West Side Diner?

I wonder how you could even think that the Inn Between area is part of the park? What did they think it was, Trashyland?

CujoSR wrote:

BirdMom wrote:some dopey family actually got into the chow line at the DEC

DEC? Let me guess the West Side Diner?

Cujo, you have to remember I quit at the beginning of '95. I don't know what they call some of the facilities these days. For the 11 years that I was there, the employee cafeteria under Pirates was referred to as the DEC - the Disney Employee Cafeteria.

BirdMom wrote:

CujoSR wrote:

BirdMom wrote:some dopey family actually got into the chow line at the DEC

DEC? Let me guess the West Side Diner?

Cujo, you have to remember I quit at the beginning of '95. I don't know what they call some of the facilities these days. For the 11 years that I was there, the employee cafeteria under Pirates was referred to as the DEC - the Disney Employee Cafeteria.

Ahh they do like to change names all the time.

Polar33 wrote:Perhaps those Japanese tour books they all carry around have a new land in them. "Cast Member Land"

why would anybody in their right mind want to go there? ;)