The Stupidest Guest Trick EVER!!!!!

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From: Cujo cujosr104@a... <cujosr104@a...>
Date: Sat Jan 4, 2003 4:29am
Subject: The Stupidest Guest Trick EVER!!!!!


Dear Stupid Guest Tricks Members,

Halfway through my shift today I was called into my Manager's office
and was told I was being "separated form the company." AKA I was
fired! I was fired due to (in their eyes) poor attendance. Although
that is not my take on it the point is kinda moot right now. So it
seems this will be my last post on StupidGuestTricks, but boy is it a
doosy. Although this is not goodbye or the end of this fourm.
StupidGuestTricks.com will be around for a long time to come. Finally
I do want to thank all the other cast members I have worked with over
the past two years. It has been a pleasure. Thank you.

And now for the stupidest guest trick ever:
One night about a year ago I was walking out of my location after the
park (DCA) had been cleared. Passing Taste Pilots I saw a man up
ahead in street clothes walking away from me, he made a left towards
the main entrance. I kept walking thinking he was some manager
walking around after closing, but I decided to look towards him
anyway and say the he was looking out side of the gate, testing
turnstiles and such. I waited. He came back towards me.
"Are you Lost?!"
"How do you get out?" He replied.
I asked him how he came to be in the park after hours. He said that
he was staying in the Grand Californian Hotel and was trying to get
to the lobby. He went through a door and started going down the
stairs when he relized he was going the wrong way he turned back. But
the door was locked so he could only go forward. He ended up in
Condor Flats. That's pretty much where I found him. I ended up
feeling bad for him so I led him out the Hollywood Security gate. Of
course no one checked his ID on the way out. I pointed him back to
the hotel and told him to use the elevator next time.

I just hope they fixed that security problem by now.

[iridium130]

So that's the story behind your term eh? Sorry to hear...attendence terms are the dumbest IMO. We lose a lot of good CMs that way.

In regards to your story though, wouldn't it have been better to try to get a Security CM to walk him out through the front gates? Probably no good letting Guests walk around backstage, even if it is just Hollywood ;)

[CujoSR]

In regards to your story though, wouldn't it have been better to try to get a Security CM to walk him out through the front gates? Probably no good letting Guests walk around backstage, even if it is just Hollywood ;)
It was after hours the park was all locked up. getting him to a guard would have done no good since the nearest one was at hollywood gate.

[Polar33]

Well, a similar thing happened to me tonight while I was with one of my leads closing up the popcorn wagons.

We were in Toontown at around 9:00. The park had not been called clear to the Hub yet but even on the busiest of days Toontown is typically clear within 15-20 minutes after closing. Security had already locked the Toontown gates and was long gone by the time we arrived. When we were finished closing up the popcorn wagon we had noticed a man casually walking around the area, looking around Donald's boat. At first I thought he might just be maintenance, but after a second look revealed that he was wearing regular clothes my lead decided to approach him. Turns out the man was in fact a guest. He claimed to not have realized the park was closed and that he was just looking around. My lead told him that he would have to leave and the man did so, heading right towards the Toontown gate. Security was notified and the man was spotted passing the Hub a few minutes later.

The whole experience was rather odd. So, the next time you hear "the park is clear of all day guests" called over the radio, don't be supprised if it isn't.

[BirdMom]

For years, I was stuck with a locker at Space Mtn., and there were so many times when I would find guests wandering near our locker room entrance because they'd taken a wrong turn from one of the emergency exits.

Another Pirates story - there was one evac where there weren't enough support people underground to guide the guests out, and some dopey family actually got into the chow line at the DEC because they decided they'd rather eat right then and there than get funnelled back out onstage. :arrow:

[mahaihai]

i saw something like the previous post once. My first week of employment at DL i was at the Inn Between (i know it sucks) eating lunch. On my way back to my location i saw a whole group of Japanese tourists walking into the middle of backstage. Puzzled i assumed they were from guest health since the side door to it is right there. But, when they started up the steps of the inn betwen two managers stopped them and escorted them back on stage. Don't people read, someone must know some english.

[CujoSR]

some dopey family actually got into the chow line at the DEC

DEC? Let me guess the West Side Diner?

[Polar33]

mahaihai- I wonder if they were related to the Asian gentleman that I had try to purchase a balloon from me one day when I was heading out to Main Street. He came down the main set of stairs from the Inn Between and said in broken English "one red, one blue" I told him several times that he was in a restricted area, an area off limits to guests, cast members only, a place where he should not be, etc... and that he would have to go back onstage immediately, he didn't understand a single thing I said and just kept saying "uh huh, one red, an one blue". Unfortunately nobody came by to back me up, so I gave in and sold the man two balloons and he went right back onstage.

That's one of the many reasons why I dislike balloon shifts.

[tabacco]

I wonder how you could even think that the Inn Between area is part of the park? What did they think it was, Trashyland?

[Polar33]

Perhaps those Japanese tour books they all carry around have a new land in them. "Cast Member Land" :lol:

[BirdMom]

some dopey family actually got into the chow line at the DEC

DEC? Let me guess the West Side Diner?

Cujo, you have to remember I quit at the beginning of '95. I don't know what they call some of the facilities these days. For the 11 years that I was there, the employee cafeteria under Pirates was referred to as the DEC - the Disney Employee Cafeteria.

[CujoSR]

some dopey family actually got into the chow line at the DEC DEC? Let me guess the West Side Diner?Cujo, you have to remember I quit at the beginning of '95. I don't know what they call some of the facilities these days. For the 11 years that I was there, the employee cafeteria under Pirates was referred to as the DEC - the Disney Employee Cafeteria.Ahh they do like to change names all the time.

[iridium130]

Perhaps those Japanese tour books they all carry around have a new land in them. "Cast Member Land" :lol:

why would anybody in their right mind want to go there? ;)

[BirdMom]

Perhaps those Japanese tour books they all carry around have a new land in them. "Cast Member Land" :lol:

why would anybody in their right mind want to go there? ;)

Yeah, the Prairie Girls!!! (ugh!!! the old timers remember *them*)

[Weeble]

Hahahaa! The prairie girls! Good times, I remember them gals, they were enamored with many of us at Big Thunder Mountain....hmm...maybe I should have married one of them, I bet they really knew how to make ole fashioned butter with the churn and everything and skin a bear.

[jaimekauffman]

So that's where the name The Deck came from. I just thought it was another cutesy name for the Diner. Anyways, sorry for your termination. I got it too for attendance, except I was taking care of my sick son and they denied my family leave. Management sucks.

[cheshire]

The new name for the DEC is the All-Starz Diner. we still call it the DEC

[Space Man K7]

I know it's a little past, but Its still funny no matter what. I was standing at the Entrance of the Mark Twain dock... and this is when they were setting up for the Pirates Premier. We all remember the GIANT screen and the many bleachers.... well I was standing at Turnstile with a friend and this random guy walks up to us and asks, "when's the next dolphin show?"

Trying not to laugh in his face I had to leave... come on, do you really think dolphins live in that nasty rivers o' america? The only thing that's in there is that stupid sea monster, some damn ducks, and a cell phone or two.

[Weeble]

hehehe, on the JC river there must be 23948234890 pairs of sunglasses at the load and unload area. I lost so many pairs of ray-bans (yeah they were cool in 1991) by bending over to drop/pick up the last cushion or a guest bumping them off me.

[BirdMom]

I lost so many pairs of ray-bans (yeah they were cool in 1991) by bending over
Hey, I still wear my Ray-Ban cats!!! They're my signature accessory - Jackie-O style ... lol. The blade styles that are popular now look stupid on me. I also still wear them with the idiot cord I adopted after dunking my first pair in the station flume at Pirates - I'd just tucked them into my vest and they fell out - was able to fish them out before they were destroyed, and I've bought two more pairs since :wink:

I think my i.d. from 1985 is still somewhere in the river mud ... if they didn't fish it out when the river was drained for maintenance or Fantasmic construction ... lost it during canoe race practice. I do still have my original red i.d. from 1984 when I first hired in - damn I look like a baby girl in that one....

[Main Streeter]

[the DEC]
Thank you BirdMom! Wondered where this term originated. Was working backstage one night abt 11 p.m. when APD rolls up behind me. Just hired in so I didn't understand what was going on. He goes real slow behind me then tries to pass. What the ? is he doing? We'd had no accidents, I'd heard of no emergencies this night & why was APD entering backstage via Ball Gate area? Finally stopped him & asked if I could help. God knows where he would have driven if not stopped?! He looked like a rookie, sounded like one also. He proceeds to tell me he was hungery & buddies told him to go to Disney Land for a "GOOD" meal @ The DEC. I'm blank. Have no clue what APD blue means. Suddenly I vaguely remembered a friend's mom telling me she used to eat @ The DEC. Told him The DEC no longer existed & he had to get his cruiser out of my backstage area. No lead around - didn't care what I said to APD. Mr. blue begins to back out then suddenly stops & calls me over. "If The DEC isn't here where can I get a free dinner?" A courteous CM might have said Westside. Rolled my eyes then told him; "Go across Harbor to McDonald's. They always give APD free meals." :P

What a JERK! Talk abt stupid Guests ... APD ranks high in my book.