Felt Betrayed??

sirius_kid · #1 06-29-2005, 03:13 AM

I wanted to know any employees out there that does so much for the park. That enforces all park polices and rules and do thing beyond duty. And you made a mistake or safety violation. And the park said if you get another safety violation you will be Terminated. Do you think the park should give the associate time to redeem him or her self? I wanted to know what are your procedures of safety violation and write ups.

1. Safety violation of any type- Write up
2. Happens again -Terminated
3. No rehire status for a year

Do keep in mind we are all humans WE MAKE MISTAKES! thanks you

Cid · #2 06-29-2005, 06:50 AM

Considering almost every incident with a coaster accident can be put on an employee I say I agree 100%. Depending on the case I'd say you could skip number one sometimes too.

sirius_kid · #3 06-29-2005, 01:12 PM

It does depends on the situation.

ragan · #4 06-29-2005, 02:27 PM

it depends how much they screwed up.

Carowinds 73-03 · #5 06-29-2005, 03:52 PM

What did you do Sirius_Kid??

sirius_kid · #6 06-29-2005, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Carowinds 73-03

What did you do Sirius_Kid??

LOL no no its not me that messed up I lost one of my friends he was Terminated. And Its another close friend close to being terminated aswell and she is a very good person, the park needs people like her. And me? lol I'm far from being terminated I havent had any violations this year. I just hate to see good people go.... Know what I mean?

Carowinds 73-03 · #7 06-29-2005, 08:04 PM

I do. I made a few mistakes of my own at Carowinds back in 94 & 97. Thankfully i have grown up alot since then.

So yeah i agree people should have a 2nd chance, I've had 3.

FlimflamShwansn · #8 06-30-2005, 12:48 AM

In this business you can't afford to make mistakes, and the consequences must be harsh. You have people's lives in your hands.

Alpengurl · #9 07-02-2005, 01:09 AM

I think every park has different rules when it comes to safety violations.. and the point of having such rules leaves very little room to say.. "oh.. since she had a guest compliment an hour before.. we shouldn't fire her for doing blah blah.".. like everyone has said.. it depends on the situation, and it's the person's job that's giving the violation to set an example. when you work rides before you're certified you're told exactly what you can and can't do.. and at least at our park every job has written descriptions identifying what you can and can't do. when they make the manuals they've usually thought of everything. and when unusual situations come up during the season we add to the manual. when we have trainees we constantly ask... "do you have any questions.." because if the trainer doesn't know it.. the manual or someone else will. i think sometimes mistakes can happen, but usually such mistakes could cost lives, and if not lives someone could get hurt. at log flume guests like to splash eachother, and the reason why as cast members we have to tell them to keep their hands out of the water is because it keeps them from getting their hand caught in the through.

no matter what ride you work, kiddie or coaster, you should always have everyone's safety as your priority.

FlimflamShwansn · #10 07-02-2005, 02:21 AM

^Well put. Guests aren't the only people you need to watch out for. You can forget the safety of your team...Wanna see 4 attendants jump/dive? Drop an invert's platform on them... and I still hate him to this day...

MaGnUmKeLly · #11 07-03-2005, 11:56 AM

I think you really shoudnt have to many chances...cause if you keep giving more of them to people, that could be a time when someone gets hurt. People here are not understanding the concept of safety. They sometimes don't understand that they jepordize people's lives out there.

Carowinds 73-03 · #12 07-03-2005, 06:01 PM

Speanking of dropping [eople on Inverts, we have had several people dropped this year already, some days it happened to the same person twice. It's ok now cause i think we have weeded out alll the bad op's except for maybe 1 or 2. I have yet too drop anyone or be dropped.

beltzies64 · #13 07-03-2005, 10:42 PM

Like someone else said, you have everyone's lives in your hands. If the screwup warrents it, I have no problem seeing the person terminated, whether they are a friend or not.

ClicheCoaster · #14 07-04-2005, 01:58 AM

For safety violations, more than a chance or two is too many.
On the other hand, for doing things like leaning on counters, not smiling enough, giving away prizes--even though they are all against company policy I don't think that any should be reason for a person to be fired or even targeted for firing. Warnings should suffice. I read a thread over on thispagecannotbedisplayed about a whole bunch of employees getting fired over writing on somebody's door (probably on a white board, but still) inside a dorm/apartment that upset that guys dad, and they were all fired for it (yes, it was company property, but that seems a little extreme).
I think if a park is going to give chances on safety violations they need to give chances on everything. Or nothing. Doing it both ways is just sort of messed up.

PGH_Steeler · #15 07-05-2005, 11:22 AM

Saftey violation - as trump would say " You're Fired"

KW is big on saftey and if you do something that could seriously hurt a guest, then you get no second chances.

one of my friends was fired and she didn't even do anything wrong. It was another kid that got her fired. I was super mad about that. But his Karma came and got him, he got fired a few weeks ago for showing up late too much and he stole like 250 dollars from employees i heard. Thats what he gets. And something else big happened that got one of the supervisors fired. and the sad part is, she just got promoted to supervisor. She was a manager on my crew too before she got promoted. Lets just say it was a big saftey issue.