For Cedar Point Employees...

For those of you lucky ones who work at Cedar Point, do you like your job? I work at Kroger as a bagger and I do NOT like it one bit. And I really wanna work at Cedar Point, but if people don't like it, I don't want to go all the way up there.

So do you like it? If yes, say way. Same with no. Thanks!

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Do I like my Job? I love my job I work on one of my favorite coasters with one of my favorite people as my TL. Of course there are always a few people that you come across that you don't think too highly of but thats just like with every other job. BTW to any employees that post be careful management DOES in fact read GTTP.

(Hi Bob)

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Crow: Mike can I have a car like that?
Mike: You can't drive.
Crow: I can drive, I'm an excellent driver; I'm not wearing my underwear.

Camp Snoopy 2000-2002
Mean Streak 2003

I can't even begin to tell you how much I am loving my summer at Cedar Point! Not only do the days fly by working in ride operations, but you meet so many new people, and there's so much to do! I honestly didn't know what to fully expect, but I honestly love it so much and I am coming back every free summer I have. Its so different being on the "other side" of things, but I definitely 100% reccommend you work there; however, I know everything is really super overstaffed for this season, so definitely apply early for next season. You won't regret it, I promise!

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Kara (car-uh)
'Screw 'Crew '03
1024 Laps on Timbers
621 in '02

Hello. I loved cp last year but this year it is pissing me off. we are getting no hours and they are forcing us to take 2 days off a week. I dont give a crap if management is listening I can say whatever I want they cant do anything. In fact I want to say to management. " you guys did a pretty bad job this year in your hireing and whoever's idea it was to hire sooooo many people this summer should be fired last summer was cool everyone got their hours and it was fine but this year some idiot decided to change things and now we are over staffed and have no hours thanks to some idiot silver tag.

-Doug-

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This is my second season here at CP. My first season, I had decided by the end of the first month that I had to come back again. I'd love to come back for a third season, but can't because I need to be taking college classes year round. I'm way behind.

Though I gotta say that I notice much fewer people *****ing about their jobs from Rides. Though the ones that DO *****ing just won't shut the **** up sometimes. But they're usually fired quickly anyways.

-DJ

Nice to hear from you, Kara! Glad your having a blast. BTW, your "baby" is doing just fine and misses you...probably as much as you miss it!

PS: Are you planning on any MiA trips this summer? I hope to get back to The Point in the next several weeks and will stop by and say "hi".

MrScott

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"If we go any faster, she'll blow apart for sure!"

I'm loving it as well, much more than when I worked at Kroger as a cashier (and MUCH more than McDonald's...yuck). In the month I've been here, I'm surprised at how much money I've made, how many people I've met, how soon the end of summer is approaching, and how much I've learned. I even kind of liked my job at Kroger, but CP offers so much more. Almost every night there are ESD events including free food and ride nights, etc. Working at Kroger was repetitive labor, but at CP half of the employment experience takes place when you are not working. I'll do everything I can to return next year.

And Kara, about the overstaffing, thanks for transferring in to Corkscrew and stealing all my hours...;)

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Sean
'Screw Crew 2003

Hey Doug I know who is responsible for the overstaffing and they are not an idiot IMO it is better to be overstaffed than be understaffed so just chill out.

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Crow: Mike can I have a car like that?
Mike: You can't drive.
Crow: I can drive, I'm an excellent driver; I'm not wearing my underwear.

Camp Snoopy 2000-2002
Mean Streak 2003

astrosgp, hopefully Kara will make it up to you...if my sis-in-law catches up to Kara this weekend, AND if Kara shares. *WINK*

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I'd rather die living than live like I'm dead
http://www.webtechnik.com/ebony/CPLady.htm

It doesn't seem like Cedar Point employees like their jobs. I mean we joke about how you guys look like you want to commit suicide, but that may be because it still is work. I want to work at Cedar Point but when the vast majority look so unhappy, I don't want to.

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Ohio State, here I come!

Jeff da Beat said:
It doesn't seem like Cedar Point employees like their jobs. I mean we joke about how you guys look like you want to commit suicide, but that may be because it still is work. I want to work at Cedar Point but when the vast majority look so unhappy, I don't want to.
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Ohio State, here I come!

Are you sure that they aren't just tired? Or, maybe, bored with what they are doing for that day? Twelve hours of sweeping, and walking on the concrete tends to start hurting your feet toward the end of the day. I know mine start hurting at around 6 or 7 o'clock. And I'm there to have fun. It's gotta be twice as bad when you don't get to have too much fun. Although, your job is only as monotonous as you make it, right?

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If I win the lottery, I promise not to quit my job. Although, it may not take very long for me to be fired.
In the immortal words of Socrates, "I drank what?!"

Holy moley, I completely love my job. Like, it's crazy amazing. I work in Guest Services, and our crew is so great. We do indeed have the best jobs in the whole entire world. And, when we are slow, we sometimes work in Season Passes or Admissions, which are also both great departments and have awesome crews.

I love Cedar Point, and I am looking forward to coming back.

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**This is in no way supposed to be representative of Cedar Point staff views, beliefs, or an official statement from Cedar Fair. ;) It's just me talking.**

i really love my job here at cedar point as well. I work at raptor photos and we are always bouncin around and having fun while we work...we have a dj in the raptor line that is really close to us, so that makes it even better. I have like the greatest crew also. I was lucky to be working with such great people. Even my sups are awesome. Even though we have to call them like every single day! hehe. i don't think they are annoyed w. us yet! :) but, i do hope to come back next season....this is definitly one of the best jobs and you won't regret filling out the application

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-First year-

i really love my job here at cedar point as well. I work at raptor photos and we are always bouncin around and having fun while we work...we have a dj in the raptor line that is really close to us, so that makes it even better. I have like the greatest crew also. I was lucky to be working with such great people. Even my sups are awesome. Even though we have to call them like every single day! hehe. i don't think they are annoyed w. us yet! :) but, i do hope to come back next season....this is definitly one of the best jobs and you won't regret filling out the application

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-First year-

I want to be realistic. And, this is not to say that everyone before me was dishonest...because I don't know each individual's situation. I DO NOT hate my job, but I'm not enjoying it as much as last season.

Last year, I worked O-C's (some on midnight closings) and at the end of the night, I was tired and ready to go home, but I put in a good day's work and I had a good time. This year, I work a 1:30 to 8, and when 8 rolls around, I'm at my breaking point and I gotta get outta there.

Last year, we received compliments from leadership, compliments from supervision, and compliments from guests. This season, we receive nothing from leadership, by-the-book no-fun all-work mentality from supervision, and we get all these letters about how employees are being rude to them.

I still like my job at Cedar Point. I would love to make a career out of it, and I take pride in the fact that I am employed here. I simply think things aren't being done as effectively as last season. I mean, I can't speak for EVERYONE (and don't intend to) but our hours are at an all-time low, our daily memos from supervision are littered with references to angry guests, employee rudeness, etc...MORALE IS LOW.

I want to use this as a forum to say that last year, I had the best summer of my life working at Cedar Point. We worked as a team, we were proud of our rides, our crews, our reputation as a park with WORLD CLASS SERVICE. For an employee to live up to those expectations, the morale has to improve. The management should pass down compliments as well as complaints. The supervision should remember that all rules should be enforced on a case-by-case basis and that their number one goal is to make sure everything is running SMOOTH AND EFFICIENT, not HARDLINE PERFECT BY THE BOOK. And employees need to realize that we all work on the same team.

I like my crew. And any one of them can tell you that I absolutely CLASHED with one girl when she started at the ride...and I was a big stupid jerk that day and she and I just got off on the wrong foot...but I get along great with her now. I get along with the crew, we get along with each other, but when it comes to the procedures and operation of the ride, it's a big conspiracy to everyone.

I know that I have had yesterday and today off, and I feel better than I have in a couple of months. I think that I'm going to work even harder on making the job better this week, and I only hope that some random member of supervision or management takes a look at this and realizes it is merely CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM not of any person, but of the overall feeling of working for the park this season. Justin and I remember last season at the Screw, and I'm not speaking for him, but I THINK he might agree that last season, everyone was happier...and that happiness reflects onto the guests as well. It generates compliments and stops complaints. It's all in the morale.

And it's all in how each situation is handled, from my interaction with a guest at entrance, to the TL's cooperation with his/her crew on making the schedule, to supervision's action when there are issues among a crew...and on up from there. Let's remember that when someone jumps a rail, you don't send them all the way back to the entrance sign and make them walk down again...and EVERY rule should be enforced AS NECESSARY for safety, efficiency, appearance, and MORALE.

Let's turn things around.

OK, I'm finished.

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Alan
PTC02/ScrewCrew02
ScrewCrew03

I'm sorry that you aren't enjoying it as much as last year Alan. I'm sure there is alot of frustration going around (from the guests and the employees), and its easy to pass that along and forget to notice the good things. Don't forget you can always talk to management and/or your park op representative about this. Good luck with it!

~*~Pippy~*~

Well after readin some of those replies I feel compeled to tell all of you:..........

I am not an employee of Cedar Point, never was....... but I have been going to CP every year since I was 17 at least once a year.

All the people that work at CP are awesome... The announcers on the rides are funny most of the time. I can see how saying the same speel all the time can be dull... but you all pull it off great! Staff I have run into are friendly, kind, and willing to help.

Kudos to all of you..... You are the spirit of CP, and you all together make it an awesome experience for everyone.... even if it's bad news.

CP does have good workers! I was one of them a long time ago! I loved my work in foods no less up till they day I processed out! Its hot and dirty ect... but where else on the planet do you get the privilege of working in the worlds largest playground!?
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Erie: The only great lake you can walk from end to end and only get oil on your shoes!

I plan on maybe working next year at cedar point hopefully things will improve next year. This year just wasn't my year to be at cedar point, I don't know why, but it just wasn't. Anyways, I enjoyed my job it was ok working in housekeeping but after a while I noticed I wasn't getting 40 hrs a week and I was working 6 days a week, and I wanted more hours but I wouldn't get them, so I had to call it quits. I tried transferring but that wouldn't happen either.

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Resigned from housekeeping

My primary complaints are similar to Alan's. I have worked at the park for 4 years, and up until this season I enjoyed coming to work everyday. I had a good time at work, supervision was excellent, and morale was high. I had no beef working O-C's, and I was pulling down 65 hours a week. This season however things have been different. I too don't think that I could handle shifts longer than 4 hours before I was at my breaking point. And if I wanted more hours, I really couldn't have taken them anyway. We had 1:30 to 6:00 shifts. As a Team Leade I felt like I was screwing my crew if I took the long shifts and gave them all the short ones. I had people asking me every day for more hours, and if they could work longer. The tradeoff was that the people who didn't want hours could leave. Also as Alan pointed out Supervision has been very by the book this season, almost too much. I understand a need for consistency and rules, but I was written up for insubordination! And I am the least insubordinate person out there! If someone told me to do something I did. It seems as if supervision was almost out to get people this season, write-up's seemed to be handed out at a feverish pace, with people getting them for silly reasons. Management has come down hard on Team Leaders and Assistant's this year, as a result, TL morale is down, cause we're trying to cope with what we're being told and are under the burden to perform, When TL morale drops, so does crew morale. Sh** rolls downhill. On top of that Management keeps handing out guest complaints to us, day after day after day. This does not improve our morale at all, it worsens it. Instead of yelling at us about it, tell us how to fix it, or at least give us compliments as well as criticism. Cedar Point has lost a lot of good employees, in both leadership and as base rates because of the poor morale, it has changed so much that I couldn't handle it anymore. I feel that management has lost touch with us seasonals. They've forgotten what it was like to be in our position, working to live and earn money, and that's the biggest problem. I found it ironic when our weekly area 2 quote read, "What you don't respect you will lose." Well I don't think we've been respected, and well, they've lost me. It was just a summer job, and I didn't need to be dealing with all the crap that was being thrown at us for $6.55 an hour, 30 hours a week. I still love the park, and I will consider returning perhaps as a base rate when and if things get better, and if they'll have me of course. I was extremely frustrated with everything this season, I just hope all of you guys still there can tough it out and carry on a new generation of employees, I feel us old timers have reached our peak.

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2000 CP & LE RR ATL
2001 White Water Landing TL
2002 Monster/WW TL
2003 Paddlewheel Excursions TL/ White Water Landing TL/ RESIGNED
*** This post was edited by Sam Adams 7/4/2003 3:02:01 AM ***