Worst Part of Working Rides - Page 2

sirius_kid · #16 09-14-2005, 08:04 PM

Here my my problems.....

:Can I take off my shoes???

:Has any one died on this ride??

:Is this ride safe???

:He rode yesterday

: He cut line! (No I didnt what had happen was...)-Security issue not mines

: Is that real fire??

:etc cant think right now

THE NUMBER ONE THING THAT IRRATES ME IS WHEN I tell the board operator to open restraits. The thing is my roller coaster has 16 seats if you want to unlock one seat you have to unlock all seats so once I check all 16 seats its always one guest that wants to get off or "unable" to ride. so I unlock the restaits all the people on the coaster" EXCUSE ME??!! SIR! SIR! HEY!! MY SEAT IS LOOSE!!!!!!!11 HEY SIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 OMG! SIR! CHECK MINES! SIR!!!!! OMG OMG OMG HEY HEY HEY HEY YOU!. No matter how may times we say "your restraits are unlock recheck" over the p.a they still panic. And I know when there waiting in that 2 hour line they see we do unlock the restraits sometimes. And if we did unlock it we still have to recheck it. Who in the heck would dispatch a train without it being rechecked? Thats the number one thing I had to "get into"

BSBMX · #17 09-14-2005, 08:12 PM

^Wow, it's like the same thing at Chang when we are waiting for the restraints to lock. "SIR MY RESTRAINT WON'T LOCK" "I CAN'T GET MY SEAT BELT IN" "HEY I NEED HELP" I literally have people yelling at me because their retraints won't lock. It's quite sad actually.

sirius_kid · #18 09-14-2005, 08:20 PM

yea I had to yell at people to because they yell at me. Its not a case of monkey see monkey do I just simply dont like being yelled at by a complete stranger who doesnt know me. When I yell back all I say is "SIR CALM DOWN!" or "HOLD ON!" sometimes I give them the silent treatment dont say anything until I check there seat.

**Ryan F** · #19 09-14-2005, 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Steven

- Line jumpers (you leave to do anything, your forfeit your spot, simple as that... they'd continue to argue, to the point where I said I'd call security and have them escorted out of the park)

While I agree with you on that one, I do see where the guests are coming from. If you're in a 2hr line and suddenly feel like you're about to do something in your pants you're forced to leave the line. I think parks need to devise some kind of system for this (porta potty's in the line maybe).

The worst I've seen was when my friends and I were waiting 6.5hrs for TTD. The ride was down so they thought we'd have time to go to the bathroom, but just as they were leaving the line opened and we ran in the line. Little did we know the ride was going to go down again due to weather. My friends stuck it out though, they did the pee-pee dance almost the whole time but they did it. But what if the line was longer or they had to do something else? It's not far to those who have legit reasons to leave the lines.

sirius_kid · #20 09-14-2005, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by WildeFyre

While I agree with you on that one, I do see where the guests are coming from. If you're in a 2hr line and suddenly feel like you're about to do something in your pants you're forced to leave the line. I think parks need to devise some kind of system for this (porta potty's in the line maybe).

The worst I've seen was when my friends and I were waiting 6.5hrs for TTD. The ride was down so they thought we'd have time to go to the bathroom, but just as they were leaving the line opened and we ran in the line. Little did we know the ride was going to go down again due to weather. My friends stuck it out though, they did the pee-pee dance almost the whole time but they did it. But what if the line was longer or they had to do something else? It's not far to those who have legit reasons to leave the lines.

Well If I'm a entrance operator and if I see some one who leave the line and attempt to enter back in after 20 mins past. And if they attempt to enter the line again I will stop them if they tell me why such as went to the bathroom what I would do is. Ask the guest to go to the ride exit and wait there until he/she see the party there with.

Chris L · #21 09-15-2005, 12:14 AM

Line jumpers and people that sit on the handrails. 'Cause that means I have to get on the P.A. and sound like an uptight A-hole, but it's protocol - gotta follow it! Luckily, line cutters weren't a problem when I worked at the Calico Railroad at Knott's. Mostly people that sit on the handrails/bars.

**Jimmy B** · #22 09-15-2005, 12:16 AM

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Originally Posted by sirius_kid

:Is this ride safe???

Some of my responses to that rhetorical question include....

"My only job is to strap you in and see what fate holds for you in the next minute or two."

"We'll find out after the ride whether you're still alive."

If there is one thing I absolutely love doing is playing mind games with the scared/nervous guests -- especially teenage girls -- as they board the ride or after I lock them in their seat; nothing like playing with their minds, not in a way to talk down at guests, but just to make innocent comments that probably does NOT sound very comforting to riders.

On the Eruption, the one thing I like say to guests who appear to be scared of heights of any kind....

"It's not that high; you're only going to be 255 feet in the air."

BSBMX · #23 09-15-2005, 07:05 AM

^I do the same thing with Chang. "Oh it's only 154 feet tall." Now I don't have a problem with heights so I can say that with no problem, but if the person I'm talking to has a fear of heights, then it's pretty funny.

coasterell · #24 09-15-2005, 07:10 PM

^Hrm...I do that sometimes. Like I'll be it's not that high and your not up there for very long. Like for TTD I say you go up 420feet and drop down. You don't even know what happens because the ride is so fast.

BSBMX · #25 09-15-2005, 11:23 PM

^Yea and for the time you are actually on top of TTD's tophat, you don't have enough time to look around. Out of the three rides I got on it, I had enough time to look around once, and I still didn't even see much. MF, even though 110' shorter than TTD, was definitly better for looking around.

Ride Op Awesome · #26 09-15-2005, 11:23 PM

The worst part about operating rides never comes from the guests. Is it dumb when people ask me to take off their shoes? Of course. But it gives the chance to have some fun. Stupid people = funny jokes.

The worst part(s) of ride operation, for me of course, are:

1) Crappy staffing. This makes rides hard to operate efficiently, pisses off all the guests, and worsens the mood for the operators. This leads to point 2):

2) Not getting a break. Being an adult, I am not required to have a break in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Being the Senior Team Leader, it is my duty to see everything done properly and to keep my Team Members happy. Sometimes these in combination with 1) keep me from taking a break. In a 14 hour day, THAT SUCKS NUTS.

3) The heat. Not so much that it is hot, but being hot makes me sweat, and I just have a personal distaste for smelling bad.

But these all balance out because my crew is awesome, I love operations, and making fun of guests is tight.

BSBMX · #27 09-15-2005, 11:31 PM

Oh yea, I forgot about the staffing and heat. I can't believe I forgot about the staffing, but for the heat, just kick it like its hot.

speedysnail · #28 09-16-2005, 01:49 AM

The worst part of working rides is when you tell the people over the P.A. that they need their shoes on to ride the freaking ride and then they take em off anyway. But overall my job is awesome. I love it.

PGH_Steeler · #29 09-16-2005, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Carowinds 73-03

Stupid guest. Thats really the only problem i have. Guest who don't know how many are in their group and guest complaining that their kids can't ride.

THANK YOU!!!!!!! OMG you don't know how many times i ask how many and they say "2", so i let them on. Then their like "well we wanted to ride with them too". I tell them, "next time someone asks how many, say the number of people in your group, not just you and your partner."

And when parents get mad at me when i say their kid is too short. They always say, "They already road it today" I tell them, "Someone wasn't doing their job earlier and i'm telling you your kid can't ride".

Carowinds 73-03 · #30 09-16-2005, 12:33 PM

I get the dumb guest you say have no idea how many are in their group. I have had several people sctually turn around and count how many people in their group and turn back to be and say I don't know, or i'll get some people who will say 2 then 10 sec later their like no wait we have 4 then 10 sec later they will say no we have 3.

The really dumb ones just look at you weird and say i don't know. i get that alot.

C'mon folks it's not that hard.