Newbie Intro!

[BohoRoohaha]

Hi all! This is Audrey. I work at DCA in Day Custodial. I've been here about 4 months (finally off probabtion! Booyah!) Here are some things i've had pent up that i need to express:

"Can I get to the Tower of Terror through here?"

"You mean I have to go all the way AROUND?"

"How do I get to the Tower of Terror?"

They should post a frickin sign: FLIK'S FUN FAIR NO ACCESS TO TOWER OF TERROR.

I understand that its to keep the atmosphere. going from Small to Regular sized...and the map is kinda weird. there's a road that suddenly stops. there's a wall and some bushes (i love how the back areas are represented as trees on the map). So that i kind of understand. Here are my restroom pet peeves:

- Screaming, crying and yelling children (there's an echo, people! keep it on the downlow! it hurts my ears)
- People that urinate on the seats
- People that grab excess amounts of seatcovers and throws em all over the floor.
-People that stick little bits of paper or toliet paper in the brown bags, making me change the whole thing.
- People using the sink i'm clearly cleaning
-People blocking my way when i'm trying to service something
- (In Flik's: Just as I'm done mopping some kids run in trailing water! And I'm standing there staring at them with the mop in my hands)
- The Diapers! (We seriously need to consider gas masks of some kind. Or a Biohazardous warning labels on the diapers. Those things are toxic. And most of the time there's more than one in there)
- Parents that make their kids cry cuz they won't hurry up and go pee-pee.
- Parents threatening their kids of never coming back to Disneyland ever again, or That they're leaving right now! (they're just kids come on! You come to Disneyland to have fun, not to be tormented by your children!)
-Especially in Fliks and Golden Dreams: Wet TP.

Also, why would people come to Disneyland dressed in their business suits?

That's all I can think of for now. Talk to y'all later!

[Grumpy]

- Screaming, crying and yelling children (there's an echo, people! keep it on the downlow! it hurts my ears)
- People that urinate on the seats
- People that grab excess amounts of seatcovers and throws em all over the floor.
-People that stick little bits of paper or toliet paper in the brown bags, making me change the whole thing.
- People using the sink i'm clearly cleaning
-People blocking my way when i'm trying to service something
- (In Flik's: Just as I'm done mopping some kids run in trailing water! And I'm standing there staring at them with the mop in my hands)
- The Diapers! (We seriously need to consider gas masks of some kind. Or a Biohazardous warning labels on the diapers. Those things are toxic. And most of the time there's more than one in there)
- Parents that make their kids cry cuz they won't hurry up and go pee-pee.
- Parents threatening their kids of never coming back to Disneyland ever again, or That they're leaving right now! (they're just kids come on! You come to Disneyland to have fun, not to be tormented by your children!)
-Especially in Fliks and Golden Dreams: Wet TP.

Also, why would people come to Disneyland dressed in their business suits?

That's all I can think of for now. Talk to y'all later!

Sounds like you don't have kids of your own; nor have you had the privilege of taking care of a child or children for any longer than a few hours.

Just like you said; kids are kids. Unfortunately; threatening kids is the tactic that parents need to use in order to get their children to behave. The United States does not allow parents to LEGALLY spank their children, except for an open palm on their behind. So, if a child is acting up, the parent can't easily put them over their lap, and smack them to behave, at least not without some people getting outraged and/or thinking that the child is being "abused." Although the parent would win a case like that in a civil court, it would definitely ruin their day at Disneyland/DCA if security has to get involved, because another guest was outraged by that behavior.

As far as parents telling their kids to hurry up and pee, some kids will say they have to pee, for the attention. It's just like the story of the Boy who Cried Wolf. The kid will say he/she has to pee, then all the adults stop what they're doing, to take the kid to the bathroom. After a while, after the kid is satisfied with the attention he/she is getting from adults, he/she suddenly doesn't have to pee anymore. As a parent, that is quite frustrating. What are you going to do the next time they say they have to pee? Deny them? No!

The diaper issue. There are VERY few babies that don't have smelly diapers (those are the babies that are fed NOTHING BUT mother's milk). But, older infants; and even up to 2 years old and beyond, are obviously fed more than mother's milk. Human excrement, as we all know (no matter what someone says about their own waste), SMELLS. It would be VERY offensive to parents to see a Biohazard label on the trashcan that they are about to throw their baby's diaper in.

I can understand how some of these restroom things may annoy you, but remember, that it is a public restroom, and no matter how many times you clean it, they will either push you out of the way, inconvenience you, or just not appreciate you. But, as far as some stuff that kids/parents do (whether or not they are in conjunction with each other), try to think of it, as if that annoying, or smelly kid is/was your own. I don't know if you really have kids, Audrey, but from what I can gather, I don't think you do.

[nitro-junkie]

:P Biohazard labels! That's a very funny joke; I get it.

[Main Streeter]

Hi all! This is Audrey. I work at DCA in Day Custodial. I've been here about 4 months (finally off probabtion! Booyah!)

Congratulations Audrey :!: You have a tough job!! Am not sure all understand Restroom Custodial unless they've actually been in the trenches & put up with guests who have no concern for Custodial CMs doing their jobs, as well as going above & beyond without even a kind nod. God, there is such great abuse in restrooms :!: Vent here. We'll listen. "Biohazardous warning labels on the diapers"? HA, Don't think so! These warning labels would not be Disney Friendly - especially sense diapers now have Disney characters. Oh BTW, am NOT stating other dept. CMs have things better. Not by a long shot! We all equally share the abuse & STUPIDITY of so many guests.

Edited by Polar33: Fixed error in BBCode

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Lol, I always find it funny that someone would use the seat covers (often times wayyyy too many) thinking the restroom is messy (it is cleaned at least once an hour, even more in womens restrooms believe it or not), but then not flush them down the toilet, leaving the toilet even messier and next to useless until a custodial cm comes to clean it up. What hipoctrites. And one more question, how the hell do those guests actually manage to clog those humongous toilets in dca :shock:

Lol, another kinda off topic stupid guest trick... I was chatting with a friend in Animation, at the entrance to the screening room. We decided to pull a harmless prank on a guest wearing a large backpack, and called the phone at the entrance of the sourcers workshop the minute they walked through the "turnstyles" right there. When they heard the loud BEEP they stopped DEAD in their tracks, put their hands up, went back out the turnstyles, and put their backpack in their stroller and walked back in as if their backpack set off a metal detector. LOL it was hilarious,however a bit cruel.

[GMC]

i both love and hate ride phones, they're like chat rooms... i forgot what i was going to say.... oh yeah, Audrey, do you work as a florist or a caterer or something to that effect as well, if so, i remember talking to you, and another CM in K-lot a few times, espically when you were still getting used to walking all day, and kinda hobbled back to your car. if you're someone else... i hope your feet are well!

[Stduck]

i both love and hate ride phones, they're like chat rooms....

I've had many a fun conversations with Unload from Tower late at night at the Mansion. It's called "I'm bored there are no guests to watch and I am lonely" If we haven't dropped load 2, the load cast members chat, and then the ER cast member chats with Foyer between trips. What's a cast member to do?

Pooh's ride phones are horrible they don't work right. How come a ride that's been open since 1969 has better ride phones then a ride that opened in 2003?

[aliceindisguse]

Ride phones can be good and bad. I've had so many great conversations on them. Only cause on classics the ride phones are connected ie: Pin to Snow, Pan to Toad to Alice. It's great fun when your bored at Pin unload and you hear that someone is talking at Snow you just join right in. You just always need to be careful on what you say because someone might always be listening.

[BohoRoohaha]

hey grumpy- all that stuff was said in a semiserious, cynical comical way. And no i don't have any kids... but i understand what you mean. your comment sounded kind of angry and offensive to me. Did I offend you in any way? if so I apologize. i don't have any kids so i'm an ignoramous that way.

[Zazu]

Hi all! This is Audrey. I work at DCA in Day Custodial. I've been here about 4 months (finally off probabtion! Booyah!)

Congratulations Audrey :!: You have a tough job!! Am not sure all understand Restroom Custodial unless they've actually been in the trenches & put up with guests who have no concern for Custodial CMs doing their jobs, as well as going above & beyond without even a kind nod. ...

Oh BTW, am NOT stating other dept. CMs have things better. Not by a long shot! We all equally share the abuse & STUPIDITY of so many guests.

We all have to take crap from guests, but only Custodial has to do so literally.

I train newbies to treat Custodial CMs well. When the chips (or whatever else the guests had for lunch) are down, there's nobody on property who I'm happier to see arrive.