Housing pictures/information

thedevariouseffect said:

... considering you pay for a room the size of two queen mattresses laid end to end shared by you and two other employees.

When I worked at Cedar Point, I had an excuse for not knowing what to expect in terms of accommodations. 30+ years later? Internet?

Also, what Red Garter Bob said.

My first year working at the park was 2010. You weren't allowed to have overnight visitation then at all, and I know 2011 was no exception. You can't get into Commons without passing the security booth. Any visitor has to sign in, and the employee has to leave their ID with the security booth until your visitor leaves. Not sure how one had over night visitors. Not to mention, there isn't even enough room for that

True 36 years ago as well. Visitors had to leave by midnight.

The rules are flat out dumb in terms of this. It was about as dumb as the barbed wire fence surrounding the property with the barbed wire preventing people inside from leaving, now that was funny.

I guess the problem I see with it is that the housing is treated like college dorms or even less. If you keep your room clean, treat their assets and equipment with care, and don't cause a disturbance, what's it to them if you have a friend stay up with you during your day off and crash there before driving a few hours home?

Then disciplinary action for it? For something non work related? Ridiculous. Maybe I'm jaded being out of the military and now with a full time company and just expects me to be an adult and do my job. But..wow. What I do in my apartment on my own time is on me, not my job performance and expectations...

thedevariouseffect said:

... what's it to them if ...

It's their property. Their rules. You don't like the rules, don't stay. I didn't like the rules. I didn't stay.

For something non work related? Ridiculous.

You're on their property to work. They're providing you housing -- yes, at a cost -- on their property, while you're working for them. You want to live on property in company housing, instead of finding an apartment off-property? You play by their rules.

Maybe I'm jaded being out of the military...

I get it. You were in the military. Thank you for your service. It makes you special. Can you let it rest?

Cedar Point housing is not located in the best neighborhood in Sandusky. I believe the barbed wire fence was to keep the locals out and to keep the residents and their property safe. I'm also not sure that anyone breaking the rules by "entertaining" guests all night is worried about disturbing his or her neighbors or the treatment of Cedar Point's property and equipment.

Wow because I bring up the military deal in relation with how things change makes you think I'm trying to be special? It's a job, I chose to do it, it's not special lol. Just like you chose to do whatever job you do.

Many 18 year olds aren't going to have the choice to stay or not if they get the job. Unless you get a quad outside, living off minimum wage and now consistently less than 80 hours a week due to the hour cap, it's not livable for rent/utilities/expenses. Hell to the no haha. The money was there to save up and get beer money for college once fall came back around.

But seriously. I can understand rules like, hey no small gas camping hot plates, they don't want the place to burn down. That's fair and very understandable. But seriously..someone else sleeps in a bed with you, oh hell no, that's a step...really, is it worth that? Hell no.

A) You bring up your military service at the earliest opportunity, regardless of whether it's actually appropriate. And, frankly, I only have the word of someone using an Internet avatar that they were actually in the military.

B) Of course those 18 year olds have a choice.

C) It doesn't matter whether you "understand" the rules. There are rules. Don't like the rules? Don't stay in a place that has those rules.

Aside from the dd-214, I barely bring it up, but nice try. Again it was a job, a fun job at that, but it's a job. It paid bills, done story.

Again, they really don't though. Unless you live in Huron, Dusky, etc. you're living in CP housing unless you're a repeat year and have people to split a quad.

A) They really do, which is not to work at Cedar Point and find a job elsewhere. No one's holding a gun to their heads forcing them to work on the peninsula.

B) If only there were some kind of, I don't know, a computer web spanning the wide world allowing people to learn about Cedar Point housing before arriving.... maybe even a place on the world-wide web of computers that was devoted to Cedar Point with a section devoted to employees.... ah, that's a fool's dream.

C) Ya don't like the rules? Don't work at the place with rules you don't like.

thedevariouseffect said:

I barely bring it up, but nice try.

I LOL'd. Barely bring it up is not how I would describe you.

I also find a lot of irony that you think the rules are stupid and not for you, given the rules you live with in a military setting.

I'm not saying the rules in a military setting are any more reasonable either lmao...Oh the ridiculous things that exist..like hands being in pockets.

Are we allowed to leave CP anytime we want .. Like to go get some food or something

During your shift, no. You have to wait for your break. After your shift, you can come and go as you please any time of the day/night

I can neither confirm or deny that in the mid-80s, while working at Cedar Point at a food location in Frontiertown, on the day that I was sent to the Commissary to work for a few hours, that I may have asked for a lunch break from the manager at the Commissary, took it, walked over to pick up my mail, walked back to my location the long way around, and then asked that manager for a lunch break, which I took. :-)

noggin said:

I can neither confirm or deny that in the mid-80s, while working at Cedar Point at a food location in Frontiertown, on the day that I was sent to the Commissary to work for a few hours, that I may have asked for a lunch break from the manager at the Commissary, took it, walked over to pick up my mail, walked back to my location the long way around, and then asked that manager for a lunch break, which I took. :-)

I can neither confirm or deny in '80 that I got a write up for all of the trash in my Common's dorm room (it was knee deep). I can neither confirm or deny where the trash ended up as there were access panels to the "attic". I can neither confirm or deny that said trash was bagged and launched into the attic via the open access panel....

Given your demonstrated willingness to use patently offensive words, it really comes as no surprise that you would wallow in your own filth until you were reprimanded for doing so; and having been reprimanded, that you would choose to make it someone else's problem down the line, rather than take responsibility for your actions.

What I did that day at Cedar Point was wrong. But what you did took wrong and added forcing someone else to clean up after you at some point. You seem to have an amazing lack of responsibility for your words and actions.

^ Hi, but given your demonstration of pure laziness, you are nobody to determine whose wrongdoing is worse than the other's. Not only that, but then you continue to try to justify why your laziness was better than what they did, making it seem like your responsibilities were not passed to someone else as you took the long way back to your location and took the extra break. Sorry, but don't point fingers when you both are in the wrong.

With that said, here's a message to all the new year employees: Keep your dang room clean! Living in filth is disgusting. That's how you get bedbugs and all of your personal belongings get ruined. Also, as of a couple years ago, employees that need housing are required to put a $100 security deposit down. You will get that $100 back if you fulfill your contract, and after CP Housing has checked your room at the end of the season. If there is any damage or still trash in the room (under the beds, in the dressers, or up in the drop ceiling tiles) they will keep that $100 for making someone clean up after your nasty butt.

You're right, of course. Still, my transgression was easily mitigated by the staff that day. kjetskii's, on the other hand, was not. Knee deep trash involves a considerable amount of filth; kjetskii went to the extra effort of deliberately making extra work for others once he was gone.

I edited my previous post to focus on the repercussions of leaving your room dirty. In no way am I saying they were wrong. That is absolutely disgusting! I turned down 3 roommates this past season. As soon as I saw their room, I turned right around and walked back to the front desk (mind you, these roommates processed in ONLY a week before I did, and this was before the park was even open!). However, taking the long way back to your location is extra effort on your part as well, while someone else had to pick up your slack, or wait for their break to eat/get something to drink. I understand this was back in the 80s and people learn from their mistakes, but I just hope you don't do that in your real job now.