Jules76126
Practically Perfect in Every Way
- Joined
- Apr 3, 2006
Q: If you are allowed to, what are some interesting stories you can share with us? Making magical moments for guest, rude guest, guest thinking that cameras are watching them and behaving poorly. Anything good or bad...
So SSE has no cameras (or it didn't when I worked there) so who knows what happened. We did have senors if people left the cars and the ride would stop. One really cool thing was SSE went down for refub when I was there. So the last week the ride was open they let us walk the ride and take photos in the ride scenes which was so cool. I have photos with the greeks, romans, the newspaper boy, the scenes that no longer exist. We were just asked not to post them on social media. We also used to get to walk the track in the morning which was super cool.
I had people ask me out on dates and we definitely had aggressive guests, especially if they enjoyed world showcase drink carts too much. We usually could get them to move on. We had someone bring a knife on the ride once. That got them escorted out of the park. We had someone fall asleep on the ride and you are not allowed to touch people. So we sent them around again and they were so mad they complained to guest relations. Luckily, the managers and supervisors have your back so generally you only get in trouble if the complaint is legit because people complain about everything.
At Space, people would freak out when the capsules closed so sometimes we needed to reopen the ride for them. Definitely people getting sick. We had a special room right after the exit to send them to if they felt sick or if they needed to get cleaned up.
One of my favorites was during the refub, we had to just hang out in the post show area and tell people the ride was closed. That was kind of boring. But there was a lounge for Siemens above us and they were hosting an event and we had to show the caterers where to go. We made a comment that we wanted payment in food. Later on that night on our break, they actually gave us an extra meal and dessert and it was amazing, especially to poor college kids who don't cook.