Can we tell time?

[Amanda]

Today was the first day of the 50% off of holiday merchandise. so i was holding a package in the shop for a guest. the guest asked me when we closed. i said "Main Street closes an hour after the park." he replied "OK at 12." I said no an hour AFTER the park." The guest said "Oh so at 11." I said "Yes at 11, have a good day." :shock:

[Freak]

I bet 99% of Disneyland guests can't tell time...that's why they threaten the CMs who work FastPass when they (the guest) are 5 minutes early and want in...

[Anonymous]

That's all I have to say. They're just dumb. I just wonder if they were always this dumb even when the park first opened?

[Sha]

I had a guest ask me what time the park closes so I told him midnight. He replies back "So, around 11."
I just said yes.

[Freak]

^ Guests like that are beyond help....

[WaitWhat]

I love that on the back of the fastpasses it says cannot accept early arrivals. Comes in handy.

[IndyBob]

Guests tend to get really pissed off when you point that out to them and ask if they read it :x

[Space Man K7]

Now, what I want to know is do the guests even bother looking at ANYTHING... Lately, since Twain has been down... it's been Columbia 24/7... The thing that I don't get enough of is "So is this where we get the pirate ship?" while looking at the Boat which is docked behind me and glancing at the sign that says SAILING SHIP COLUMBIA... then they ask if it's one of those dragon/pirate swing rides... Yeah... where's the supports? or "does it move?" no... the dock moves around the boat.

[Al Marcano]

I always had a soft spot in my heart for those guest who were adventureous enough to try to canoe around the river.Problem was,they believed the damn ride was on a track or had a motor.Needles to say,most of my trip time was spent making non-believers into believers ,with little success.

[DLRCM1990]

I still don't understand why Guests can't figure out what time the 9 o'clock parade begins.

[VonSeegs]

^It's a losing battle man. Just gotta go with the flow.

[flippin_mermaid]

I love that on the back of the fastpasses it says cannot accept early arrivals. Comes in handy.


But you know, some guests just have a different time on their watch is all...but they shouldn't ARGUE about it! I remember once, when I came to Disneyland as a guest, with my husband and stepdaughter and a friend of hers and we got FastPasses for Haunted Mansion....well, our watch was like 5 or 6 minutes earlier than Disney Time so they wouldn't let us in and explained why (we didn't ask), so we were fine with that...we cheerfully turned around to find a place to sit down and wait the 5 minutes out...but some REALLY MEAN guest decided to yell to us that we were too stupid to tell time and laughed at us....he thought he was so cool. The thing that made me mad is that isn't not even like we were ARGUING at all...we accepted that we had to wait and turned around to find a place to sit and this guest was totally harassing us about it! I felt like slapping him.

And that's one of the things I also don't take from guests....I refuse to let other guests be rude to or harass my guests and it's happened MANY times. I actually had to tell a guest, who thought he was "helping" me by making rude comments about a confused guest I was helping, that I didn't appreciate him belittleing MY guests and that I could handle the situation better without his snotty comments to them.

[SRT_GB]

And that's one of the things I also don't take from guests....I refuse to let other guests be rude to or harass my guests and it's happened MANY times. I actually had to tell a guest, who thought he was "helping" me by making rude comments about a confused guest I was helping, that I didn't appreciate him belittleing MY guests and that I could handle the situation better without his snotty comments to them.
I agree with you on that one, but the flip side of it is when a guest is being completely obnoxious or rude and when they finally go away the next guest says something like "what a loser." Those guests make me smile because they at least have some understanding of what we're going through.

[flippin_mermaid]

I agree with you on that one, but the flip side of it is when a guest is being completely obnoxious or rude and when they finally go away the next guest says something like "what a loser." Those guests make me smile because they at least have some understanding of what we're going through.


Yeah, I understand what you mean....I'm the same way. I like the guests who make comments because they are understanding. But when a guest is just flat out rude to another guest, for no reason, that makes me upset. Like the guests who will come up to me, while I am fully talking with another guest, and they will very rudely interupt and go, "Where's the bathroom?" or "Where's Indiana Jones?"....that bugs me to be interuppted. Once, I came into the park as a guest with just my stepdaughter and she badly wanted the green cotton candy...so we went everywhere looking for it...while one ODV cast member was being so helpful and telling us exactly where to find some, a woman comes up behind him and goes, "Excuse me! Hey! You! I'm talking to you!" and he had to stop mid-sentance and turn around and she goes, "I want to buy some cotton candy!!".....he just turned back to my stepdaughter and I and continued his sentance to us and she freaked out! I finally had to tell her how rude she was, not just to the cast member, but to my stepdaughter and me also!

The freakin NERVE of some people....

Edited by Polar33 to fix an error in BBCode.

[GuyFromTheBigSplashyRide]

I think the biggest thing that bugs me is when you are answering questions in a big group. Multiple guests will interrupt you despite the fact that they usually have the same question...it's bad enough that you have to repeat yourself 500 times per position, much less having to stop and start over because the rotund* woman with the lanyard and ECV wont let you get a word in edgewise. :x

*(person of globular proportions)

[Polar33]

I think the biggest thing that bugs me is when you are answering questions in a big group. Multiple guests will interrupt you despite the fact that they usually have the same question...

Two words - Rocket Rods.

When that evil thing was open the only question that guests in Tomorrowland asked was "How do you get to that ride up there?" or some variation. I one time had a short line of guests at my wagon that had all lined up JUST to ask me that same damn question. That day I did the math and for every item I sold I had about 6 or 7 people ask me that damn question.

At one point the conversations became very short:
Guest: How do you get... <points upward>
Me: Follow them <points at the person in line before them that asked that damn question>

I'm so glad that thing no longer exists. They may say that it was removed to to high maintenance costs...but the real reason was to prevent CMs from going postal by hearing that question too many times.

[DisneyPrincess]

I'm so glad that thing no longer exists. They may say that it was removed to to high maintenance costs...but the real reason was to prevent CMs from going postal by hearing that question too many times.

:lol: Probably ;)