Awards/Recognition

slnewbus · #1 09-12-2005, 03:54 PM

Does your park have recognition/award systems for it's workers? If so, have you gotten one? In the Cedar Fair parks there is the Cornerstone system, if you show that you are a good worker they will give it to you. We get pins that we wear on our uniforms if we get the cornerstones. I just got the cornerstones recently.

Carowinds 73-03 · #2 09-12-2005, 03:58 PM

Carowinds has the Star Points program. Your awarded star cards with a points value and you can buy stuff with the points at our online store.

slnewbus · #3 09-12-2005, 04:00 PM

^Sounds better than our system. lol.

coasterell · #4 09-12-2005, 04:00 PM

I only have one cornerstone in the Cedar Fair system

. But I guess that's good for a first year employee.

Carowinds 73-03 · #5 09-12-2005, 04:06 PM

We have alot of stuff online to choose from to purchase.

Biltmore House tickets.
Chimney Rock tickets.
Dollywood tickets.
Wen N' Wild Emerald Point tickets.
Extreme rafting.
Family Kingdom.
Medevil Times.
NC & Riverbanks Zoo.
SFOG tickets.
Tweetsie Railroad tickets.
PCW,PGA,PKI & PKD tickets.

Not to mention hundreds of PC logo stuff.

coasterell · #6 09-12-2005, 04:20 PM

We also have a program where after you work 200 hours you get 2 free tickets and after another 200 you get 2 more free tickets.

Carowinds 73-03 · #7 09-12-2005, 04:25 PM

We have that also. You work 150 hours you get 6 tickets. You work another 150 you get 10 more tickets.

We also get 6 Scarowinds tickets and WinterFest tickets.

BSBMX · #8 09-12-2005, 04:40 PM

^150 hours for 6 tickets? I have to work 600 hours to get 6 tickets for SFKK. I received an "Executive Employee of the Month" award and an expired movie ticket, but oh well.

Coasterholic · #9 09-18-2005, 01:33 AM

At SFFT we have comp tickets after so many hours. New hires get less than rehires. *incentive to come back every season, i guess*
And then we have the big Service Superstar program where someone who thinks you're the best of the best employees nominates you for Service Superstar and then your full-time supervisors pick you. I got Service Superstar last season as a Team Member. I'm a lead now and leads hardly ever get it. Heh. Ah, well.

Carowinds 73-03 · #10 03-27-2006, 10:52 PM

Carowinds started a new awards program this year which involves more tickets!!!

80 Hours: 4 tickets
120 Hours: 4 more tickets
200 Hours: 4 more tickets
400 Hours: 4 more tickets
600 Hours: 4 more tickets
Total: 24 tickets + 2 Scarowinds tickets & 2 Winterfest tickets

They also still do the star points program where you earn point and redeem them for:

Biltmore House tickets.
Chimney Rock tickets.
Dollywood tickets.
Wen N' Wild Emerald Point tickets.
Extreme rafting.
Family Kingdom.
Medevil Times.
NC & Riverbanks Zoo.
SFOG tickets.
Tweetsie Railroad tickets.
PCW,PGA,PKI & PKD tickets.

Not to mention hundreds of PC logo stuff

Lets not forget over 20 local restruants where we save 10-15% buy showing our ID.

What our your parks doing this year? Any changes?

April_fool_79 · #11 03-28-2006, 11:59 AM

At Universal Studios, the rides department had the "Golden Clicker Awards" every year. Basically it was an excuse for us to get dressed up and make idiots out of ourselves. Each ride was allowed to make a 10 minute video about anything. Usually the spieling attractions (Kong, Quake, Jaws and Hitchcock) and the supervisors were the only ones who did videos. I guess we made idiots out of ourselves so much at work, we had no problems doing it for everyone to see at the awards ceremony. One year at Kong we did a take off of the Jim Carrey movie "The Cable Guy", with one of our employees dreaming about an evil cable box that every channel was showing movie spoofs hosted by Beetlejuice. At Quake one year we did a spoof montage based around "Dude, Where's My Car?" (replace car with train, of course) and including bits of "Gone in 60 Seconds" (stealing ECVs from in front of rides at the park) and "Charlie's Angels". Jaws did a music video for "All The Jaws Things" ("All The Small Things" by Blink 182), with lyrics rewritten to poke fun at all the other attractions. We had a huge rivalry between Kong, Quake and Jaws that kinda reminded me of HS rivalries. The Clicker awards were voted on by the employees and included stuff like "Best Sweeper" and "Most Likely to be UO President in 10 Years". It was a blast.

The park also had different "service programs" throughout the seasons. One summer we got cards if we were caught doing any of the 6 "service standards", then we turned those in for entries in a raffle where they gave away stuff from DVDs and movie tickets to vacations. If you worked on Thanksgiving or Christmas, you got a free turkey dinner (with *ALL* the fixins ... and most of us went to the other grills around the park and ate more than once and took some home with us ... it was REALLY good), and they even gave away turkeys a few years so you didn't have to buy one at the store. What was I gonna do with a 12 pound turkey?!? I'd be eating that thing for 6 months! If you didn't want yours, you could donate it to the homeless shelter and they'd use them for their Christmas dinners.

When I worked there, you got 2 free pass every quarter when you started. After 1 year, you got another pass. Once you became a full-time employee, you got another one. I was up to 6 passes every 3 months at one point!