Worst Employee Experiences 03

Being in the Magnum control booth when Rob came that guy is full of bad jokes.
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You're welcome... ;)

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June 11th, 2001 - Gemini 100
VertiGo Rides - 82

Having to come home early because I was sick. Just now found out what it was, and that I will infact recover in time for next year! Hopefully Mike Nelson allow a rehire!

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Park Admissions, FreeWay and even a little time in Guest Accomidations -2003

the day i saw michelle-i threw up

Having a "friend" yell "F--- you all!" from the fire escape as we were leaving to go out becuz he thought we said stuff that we didn't! Got to love the drama! ;)

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Hotel Breakers Desk staff - 2002
Hotel Breakers FOM - 2003
I wish I could come back for another season...:(
Finally a shoeless Raptor rider! :)

Ugh... seagulls... That's all I have to say.

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~Lee~

Group Sales ATL '01
Group Sales TL '02
Park Admissions Zone 5 Supervisor '03
2004 TBA -- Wow, four years already?!
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"The greatest leaders don't take credit for their actions; they don't have to."
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Having a guest try to get into a screaming match with me over proper riding procedures. His wife was scared of the ride and he seemed to think it was perfectly normal to request that she rides on his lap. After repeated attempts to explain the harnesses will only hold one person, and that she could ride right next to him and could hold her hand, he still didn't understand.

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Having a guest and her two kids stand on the platform and stare at the train rather than boarding. After asking her to clear the platform and either board the train if she planned on riding, or going through the train to exit, she informed me that she wasn't going to get on unless she could ride with her two kids. Stupified, I looked at the empty seats they chose not to sit in, and pointed out that she would be riding right behind them. She started complaining that "Last year, this thing had 4 seats across" so she could ride right next to her children.

(smacks forehead)

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2003 - Wicked Twister Crew

I'm assuming your talking about WT? That's funny. I got alot of those two, except mine were more along the lines of having to actually seat down (as in a traditional coaster).

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MANTIS ROCKS 2002 & 2003

Yes, WT has a bevy of stupid questions asked daily:

"How fast does this go?" "Do you know the top of that tower is shaking?" "Does this go faster than Dragster?" "How come this one launches just fine but they can't get Dragster running when it's the same thing?" "Can you launch it backwards first?" "How come sometimes it goes back and forth 7 times, and sometimes it goes 5?"

or the regular fat person line: "But, I fit in Raptor!"

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2003 - Wicked Twister Crew

First time I've heard of employees asking stupid questions like that.

Ugh. Having a special access guy come up to the Unload platform on Millennium and proceed to scream at me because he couldn't have front seat, when EVERYONE knows your book HAS to be marked for front seat on MF, because the line is only an hour wait for it otherwise! Oh yea he said he was going to report me, was like go right ahead I won't get in trouble. I wanted to staple him in that seat so hard but I was at dispatch...GRRRRR!!! GUESTS SUCK!

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When the guy was calling Joy a prick because his one twin girl was too short to ride but the other one was tall enough, like 5 of us were yelling at him to go get a freakin wristband but he was too stubborn to listen. aren't they all!?

If you've ever worked in Kiddy Kingdom, all I have to say is Motorcycles...

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Park Services 98'
Snake River 99'00'
Peanuts ATL 01'
GW/SS/Schwab TL 02'
Kiddy Kingdom TL 03'

Motorcycles!! No!! Anyone who knows me knows why I dread motorcycles and crazy pregnant mothers with raging hormones.

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Mantis Crew 03

I worked in the police station, and I would get alot of stupid questions asked!! My favorite two would have to be...

"When is the 10 o' clock lazer show"...

and

"Can I go under the coaster and get my hat, why do I have to wait until the end of the night"...

How's about when people get on to the ride and you want to get through the train (while you are not checking seats and are just walking through) and are kicked not only once but four times one by each leg as you are going through the gauntlet. It's especially nice when they are both looking at your face when they do it.

Or even when a child WATCHES the train go and then gets on and then after everybody has cleared hear I DON'T WANT TO GO ON. You hold the train, go out to the person (if anybody has worked Twister they know that most of the time after dispatch enable is depressed and then let go the gates remain locked), and then having to help them hop over the gates because they are still locked.

OR even when they are crying so badly and say they don't want to go but the parents start cussing at not only you but the child because they are chickening out and then they think you are a rude jacka** when you explain to them that this is the reason full grown adults are frightened to go to amusement parks.

OR EVEN when a person makes a scene, gets the harnesses released (also anybody that worked Twister knows ALL harnesses are released, not just one or two rows), and then releasing the harnesses after jumping over the gates like it ain't no than, (all while hurting your heels because the concrete floor from a 4+ft drop full force blow) all to be told they were just kidding and they want to ride... Anybody catch someone on a bad day, and they can def. expect to get out of that f***ing seat, believe-you-me.

And finally the most annoying experiences are when parents are freaking out, grabbing your shirt, ripping the seams, etc. all to be told that we KNOW the harnesses are released and if they would LISTEN they could hear PLAINLY to NOT PANIC because the harnesses have been released ON PURPOSE. It's always this or thinking their child's belt is not buckled when it is in the back buckle. We've had a few drunk people actually fight us b/c they could not see the seatbelt. If they have a child, it is located so far back they can't see it. If they can't see it, it must not exist. Even after explaining that it IS buckled just not in the front one, they are still fighting about it. Finally just having to tell them to trust you because you are looking and tugging on the seatbelt full force and that everything is fine. After the ride they then get off, see the seatbelt was buckled in the rear buckle, and then they walk their nasty smelling alcohol filled behinds off our platform hopefully BEFORE vomiting.

My stupid Twister questions asked: Does it hit the top a lot?
I heard this thing came off the top last year with people on it.
Am I going to die?
Is this scary?
I heard someone snapped their neck on this ride and on Dragster.
I heard someone choked on their gum and died on this ride, and on Dragster.
How many people have died on this ride? Or at CP?
What would happen if the bumpers weren't there?
Has anybody ever hit their feet on the ground?
etc.

Best reply? Looking at them with a grey expression that seems to say, "Whhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?"

I have 2 to put down.

The new height requirement at Witches Wheel, and the number of guests who chewed me out, Thankfully the majority of guests understood after a few sentences.

and...

The day the tree fell over behind witches wheel in a storm.

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- Chris -
TL Monster Witches' Wheel '03

That 6" jump really sucked for the kiddies who loved it and were no longer welcome. You should have seen the look on Da Midget's face every time we strolled by VF's Enterprise.

But at least it wasn't done in mid-season as it was with VF's Northern Lights about 3 seasons back. Just imagine how much fun that woulda been. ("But we just rode it last week!") And of course, the height window slammed on Da Midget's tiny fingers again. Cue sad baby face with huge cheeks.

-'Playa

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The CPlaya 100--6 days, 9 parks, 47 coasters, 2037 miles and a winner.....LoCoSuMo.

I can only imagine a mid season change. That would be like a football team coming out of the locker room in their rivals jerseys after half-time.

It was hard for me at first working WW for the second yea an being used to 48-60 and changing over the the squashed measurement. Well, for the first week or so of the season.
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- Chris -
TL Monster Witches' Wheel '03
*** This post was edited by Flisk 11/20/2003 3:23:35 PM ***

Having the fat guests at Mean Streak complaining becasue they could not get the seatbelt to fasten and in turn told them they had to have the belts fastened or they could not ride. And of course having to work Housekeeping for a week while both my Supervisor and Manager were yelling at me and telling me I was not doing my job even though I was.

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I'm in the world but I'm not of the world.

Camp Snoopy 2000-2002
Mean Streak 2003

Guests seem to be the lusers as in a computer world.... nvrmind.. you'd have to read the BOFH archives.

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Evan H. - B.O.F.H.
"Oh, well look who thinks he's clever dan."-Strong Bad
"Alls Fair In Love And Networking."