DOWNTIMES AND YOU

[Space Man K7]

Downtimes... those are always the best. It was one of those things... you'd be there in the station doing what ever it is that you're doing... and all the sudden that stupid alarm goes off. You'd stop and look at each other, tring to avoid the unstopable... and all the sudden... "ATTENTION SPACE TRAVELERS..." Hot damn. we're down. You hurdle over the station bars and run for the tower... or at least I did.

Well after running several cascades at Space, I learend a couple of things:
1. don't do it more that three times in one day
2. Don't make eye contact with teh beasts... they'll start to ask you questions about the downtime... WHILE YOU'RE PUSHING THEM OUT
3. If there's gay guys in row three checking you out, and the ride cascades again... DO NOT GO BACK OUT THERE... They will just stare at you ass some more.
4. Running the mountain doesn't mean "RUNNING THE MOUNTAIN"
5. Running with a rocket and having it clip your knee cap hurts... it may cause some bleeding in ZONE 9

Then there was the ever popular "Screw with the Rookies" at Thunder... espically durring the Grad Nite... Now in order to make this work, you have to have some old school peeps with you, and you have to be in the tower. So when everything is running smoothly, just reach over and hit the button labled BREAKDOWN SPIEL. Don't forget to look into the station while this is playing... CMs stop, and freak out... trains are still moving but we hear... "AND SORRY FOR THE HOLD UP FOLKS, LOOKS LIKE THERE'S A SLOW MOVING TRAIN UP AHEAD..." now that was good times. Then again, I don't thing you can really do that now considereing what happend.

[VonSeegs]

I'm glad to see that #4 on your list finally sunk in. Now if it only could have happened with the others.

[Dante101]

3. If there's gay guys in row three checking you out, and the ride cascades again... DO NOT GO BACK OUT THERE... They will just stare at you ass some more.
Does it really bug you that much if a gay guy checks you out? Grow up!

Will this reply get deleted like my last one?

[tabacco]

Pfft... I'd be happy if *anyone* would check me out :)

[tourbunny]

tabacco,
what sad things do i have to read about you here. let's all get together for a group hug here.
i am sure you just don't notice.

as far as the attractionsposts are concerned: fun and games!
i was rolling on the floor about the downtimespiel to trick newhires.
:twisted:
i wish we would have something like that to do for our new people in guest relations.

[Space Man K7]

Well having gay guys check me out as I push rockets back in... not that disturbing, it was weird and caught me off guard... really didn't expect to hear... "mmmm, look at that ass coming from 2 guys in a rocket." So I started to laugh a little, and then tripped over my feet. That's all.[/quote]

[Zazu]

If there's gay guys in row three checking you out, and the ride cascades again... DO NOT GO BACK OUT THERE... They will just stare at you ass some more.

Reminds me of working as Conductor at Frontierland during Gay Day last year. I was shouting "All Aboard" in my typical overloud style when I heard a voice behind me say, "Oh, he's cute!"

I turned and promptly responded, "Yes, I am. But I'm way too butch for you!" :twisted:

The train was briefly delayed by guests laughing so hard they fell off....
:pbjtime:

[coldfire409]

So when everything is running smoothly, just reach over and hit the button labled BREAKDOWN SPIEL.

When I worked at Space Mountain I would do that when I was pulling in some OT, and was working with a bunch of College Progam CMs that just checked out. That was fun times; they would all get on the intercom and ask what happened. . . Then I would play dumb and wonder what they were talking about. I confused so many people by doing that.

[IndyBob]

when everything is running smoothly, just reach over and hit the button labled BREAKDOWN SPIEL


We use to do something similar at Indy when there was a new wave of rookies to the ride. If you turn on the station lights(took them out of show conditions) and hit the station intercom button(which muted the show sound and just made silence) on the the tower station stop, all the cm's think its a down time minus the downtime spiel. They didn't know any better! It was great!!!

Same thing at mansion, but it was more for our amusement, not to freak out the rookies. If you hit the breakdown spiel at load it goes off even if the ride is still moving. One I was at Load 1 and there was a few minutes were there were not any guests comming, and anyone whos ever worked mansion has done this, but we would just sit up on the console and wait for the guests. Sometimes not noticing them till they are standing at the yellow safety plate. But anyways, while sitting up there it was really easy to sit in the wrong place and accidentally sit on the button for the pa and not notice it. Tower usually called down because our conversations could be hears throughout the mansion and anywhere the PA went. It was rather amusing.

[VonSeegs]

Same thing at mansion, but it was more for our amusement, not to freak out the rookies.

Ok so I do like to freak out the rookies at the ghost house. Especially some of the winners we've been getting lately. My favorite things to do are:

*While at Foyer or Tower beeping down to load either 2 or 6 times. I like to do it at Tower because then I can listen to the loaders call everywhere to see if there's a chair coming down.
*Hit the manual ride stop speil when the person at Unload is new.
*Switch the park and ride phone receivers so when the phone rings the person picks up the ride phone. (It's the little things)

My favorite thing to do at Space was to turn off the color on the lift monitors and then "freak out" because if more than 2 went out we had to cycle out. I pissed off a couple of leads that way. Ha ha! You know how it is. Another good time was when another CM and I called down to the lead at Unload and said that tag #25 was missing. (We only had 24) She flipped. It was rad I tell you. RAD!!!

[IndyBob]

Same thing at mansion, but it was more for our amusement, not to freak out the rookies.

2 beep use to mean a bump was comming through back before CDS and when we actually had OBR. But the whole 6 beeps in a row without a pause thing was great because it could be 2 wheel chairs or a seeing eye dog and a bump. Kudos for that.

[WaitWhat]

the whole 6 beeps in a row without a pause thing was great because it could be 2 wheel chairs or a seeing eye dog and a bump. Kudos for that.

By my count 2 wheelchairs would be 8 beeps and a dog and a bump would be 7. But that's just me

[IndyBob]

3 beeps is a chair and 4 beeps is a seeing eye dog, so 2 chairs = 6 beeps and one dog and a bump(2 beeps) = 6 beeps

[pixiedust]

*Switch the park and ride phone receivers so when the phone rings the person picks up the ride phone. (It's the little things)

Haha... we have some pretty old phones out in the toll booths, so we like taping the buttons down on them while people are on breaks, and then calling them when they come back only to watch them answer the phone, and then hear it continue to ring despite the fact that they have the thing to their head.

Does anyone else find it funny and/or sad how easily entertained you have to be to work here? :D

[VonSeegs]

:shock: GASP! I have to do that!

[VonSeegs]

3 beeps is a chair and 4 beeps is a seeing eye dog, so 2 chairs = 6 beeps and one dog and a bump(2 beeps) = 6 beeps

Yah not so much anymore. 1 beep is to call service, 3 beeps is to call load, 4 is for a wheelie and 5 is for the doggies.

You know how it is there at the plant... Things change every 5 minutes.

[IndyBob]

My bad :oops: , it will probably change again in the time that I am writing this :roll: