An observation

I've noticed so far this year hardly any international workers at CP. I see a lot of Michigan and PA workers but hardly any internationals. I was talking to an employee over the weekend and he was saying CP had to bus in 100 workers from Dorney Park a couple weekends ago. And there are a lot of empty dorms this year as well. That is so sad. And I've noticed a lot of food stands aren't being opened due to lack of workers. What's going on??

TrinDawg41 said:

I've noticed so far this year hardly any international workers at CP. I see a lot of Michigan and PA workers but hardly any internationals. I was talking to an employee over the weekend and he was saying CP had to bus in 100 workers from Dorney Park a couple weekends ago. And there are a lot of empty dorms this year as well. That is so sad. And I've noticed a lot of food stands aren't being opened due to lack of workers. What's going on??

I've seen plenty of international employees, more so than I usually see this time of year (i usually notice more by late July).

On page 6 off this forum is a thread on International Employees. I am not smart enough to make a link to the thread. The last entry was made on April 10 of this year. The thread is very interesting.

Here is a link to the page Bluestreaker was talking about.

https://pointbuzz.com/Forums/Topic/international-employees-4

Thank you Smiley5129.

I haven't noticed any lack of foreign employees but I can't say I've paid attention to exact amounts. I just know I've seen some specifically at Maverick and Dodgems that I can think of off hand. It's still early in the season they may just not be here yet.

I've seen a decent amount of park services internationals, but haven't seen any foods or merchandise.

I did just come back from a Kings Island visit on Monday, and eating in the employee cafeteria (Cornerstone Cafe) with my CP employee daughter it was actually kind of creepy. Nearly all of the diners were ride hosts, and about 96% of the people eating there were clean-cut white kids with sandy brown to blond hair, making the place look like the cafeteria at a Salt Lake City junior college. Definitely no internationals there unless they came from Scandinavia or Denmark.

This is in harsh contrast to their customers, who are considerably more, uh, 'diverse', both ethnically and in terms of socio-economic level. This may be hard to believe, but there were considerably more guests with 'lots' of tattoos there than at CP, which my inked up daughter took glee at pointing out.

Just out of curiosity, where does "lots" of tattoos fall on your scale of socio-economic level?

F1rePhant0m said:
Just out of curiosity, where does "lots" of tattoos fall on your scale of socio-economic level?

It depends on the quality of the tattoos. If someone is loaded up with dozens of poorly done, seemingly random amateur quality tats I feel they are probably at a lower socioeconomic level than someone with amazing artistic sleeves or side pieces with phenomenal line work and subtleties of color and shading evident.

For the record, there were more of the former than the latter at KI, but high quality ink did make an appearance here and there.

Ok. I just choose not to judge peoples financial well being based on the quality of their personal artwork decisions...but you are more than welcome to do so.

I'm not sure why, uh, ethnicity or socioeconomics even merits a mention here. Parks across the country..., no, let's say the world, serve the people of their own climate. So you think a southern Ohio/ northern Kentucky park has a different clientele than Cedar Point? Why would that even be a noteworthy observation?
And are you sure? Cedar Point customers hail from Cleveland, Toledo, and Detroit. My guess is bad ink/good ink ratio in all those metro areas is the same as found in Cincinnati Ohio.

Btw, I've seen plenty of bad tats on people with money.

Im coming from Pittsburgh, have multiple tattoos (some good, some bad) and am going to both Kings Island and Cedar Point (a yearly stay) this year for a road trip with my very successful and also tattooed girlfriend. I was confused by the thinly veiled shot at KI's clientele. I havent been there since I was a small child and am very excited.

Political correctness aside, I did notice the large amount of tornado bait strolling the midways during my trip to KI 2 years ago. I just figured that it had to do with the proximity to Kentucky.

I am not concerned about the lack of J Visas. More jobs for Americans. I can't recall the last time I went to Menard's or Cabelas and was shocked at the sheer lack of Guatamalans working there...

F1rePhant0m said:
Im coming from Pittsburgh, have multiple tattoos (some good, some bad) and am going to both Kings Island and Cedar Point (a yearly stay) this year for a road trip with my very successful and also tattooed girlfriend. I was confused by the thinly veiled shot at KI's clientele. I havent been there since I was a small child and am very excited.

You should be excited, it's awesome there. The whole reason for even mentioning the body art was that my daughter, who I have an amazing relationship with, has lots of ink herself and felt more at home there than she does walking around at Cedar Point, not to smack talk people's decisions about tattoos.

I (a moderately tattooed person, since we're sharing) had my first trip to King's Dominion two days ago, and I actually took note of the large number of people with tattoos I saw. Here in Baltimore there's no shortage, but I felt like I saw a bunch more there - especially thigh pieces. It surprised me, for some reason.

Anyway..