What are they thinking ?!

Uh oh.

http://coasterbuzz.com/Forums/Thread/55240.aspx

Shall we venture a guess at how many applications CP has been getting?

Cedar Point has always received more applications than they had available jobs. The problem lies in the quality of the applicants, their availability to work, and their retention through the summer. At $7.30 an hour and no bonus I am concerned about the end of summer and bonus weekends.

When we, the paying guests, come to the park August 20th, and pay the same as the people on June 20th did...we should get the same level of service. Maybe the bonus didn't do enough to keep employees...but I suspect it helped some.

When it comes to recruitment...funny story: I am interviewing at Ohio State one winter. Man comes up who appears to be homeless...or a couple of steps from it. He looks over the application and other materials...grabs some stuff...and leaves.

He comes back a little later to share stories about how he worked at Cedar Point in the 30s (he is probably 55 or 60...so not unless he worked there as a premature child...not possible) and he tells me he built most of the rides. Then he leaves again...with some more of the paperwork.

He comes in a third time and buddies up to me. He shares a couple more stories, walks over to the fireplace, sticks his head into the flames...or nearly does...and lights a cigarette. Grabs some more paperwork (which I now believe will be his bedding for the night) and leaves us to ponder our existence.

So, if they are getting "tons of applications", more power to them. Some applications you would rather not receive.

^sounds like your average Ohio State student to me.

Ralph Wiggum said:
Spend a few hours strapping people into those Skyscraper restraints and then let me know how much your arms and hands hate you the next day. It may not be hard, but it's certainly one of the more physical jobs in the park.

No, Ralph, we sit in the office all day and don't do anything. Our job isn't more skilled than check lap bar, thumbs up, push button. Obviously the ride ops in the park have it a lot harder than us. Because they spend hours at a time with no shade dealing directly with people who typically either don't speak English or can't follow instructions. And because people pay for their rides and call their rides the best rides in the park several times a day. We had it easy. ;)

STFU^

Truth hurts?

It's not the truth.

Keep trying.

Open gates. Welcome to blahblahblah. Close gates. Lock restraints. Push down 8-14 restraints. Stand at post. Thumbs up. Clear! Button down. Thanks for riding. Rinse. Repeat.

It's no different than the morons who claim RipCord and SkyScraper workers do nothing. I've worked on coasters before. The only position that didn't make me want to jump in front of a train entering the station was driving. I would take an entire day of Expediting at RipCord over loading or unloading a coaster, and I consider Expediting to be one of my top 3 most hated things in the world.

You guys don't do anything. Sometimes you get busy, for an hour or two straight. And when you dont have riders, you sit down.

There were SEVERAL days where I personally did not sit down my entire shift (except for the break, of course) because of how busy we were. And when there were flyers, we were the hardest working crew in the park, I made sure we were. If it wasn't busy, then we always had at least one person sweeping in Challenge Park. Otherwise, it's just the spoils of working there. It still doesn't change the fact that a chimpanzee could be trained to load and unload a roller coaster.

Oh, right. You're so full of it.

Ask Ralph, he can attest to everything I've just told you. There have been plenty of lazy blue tags in the history of RipCord, but I can guarantee you that nobody will accuse me of being one of those.

I can't say because I wasn't there every day to make that observation.

However, I do know about your many power trips, your rotations showed favoritism, and your battles with a certain Challenge Park supervisor. And how the crew went to John's office complaining about you.

Good luck.

Steve, you can keep thinking that as much as you want, but I guess I, and a few others, know the real truth to that.

The real truth is if the few people who had a problem with me were that bothered by my leadership style, then real life is going to suck for them.

I know someone from the HR office, and I think they said that something like 17,000 apps were in the system at the end of the season. So yeah lots of people will apply but if they can't pass the background check, CP passes.

lladnar said:
^sounds like your average Ohio State student to me.

Hey now I go to Ohio State and I'm not homeless or collecting a bunch of papers! LOL :)

^ just wait and see what happens when you graduate and even McDonalds won't hire you.

Brandon. Steve. Stop.

^Ok, well when I do graduate I'll prove you wrong!