The last four days...
Allright my "Support shifts" turned into Stocker shifts so far which has been fun.
Sunday July 16 2006
When I arrived today and went to check to see what costume I was going to need, Patrick (one of my managers) asked how long I was going to be working at ODF. I told him my program is until November but I was waiting to find out if I got a transfer to attractions. After a quick look at something on the e-mail he informed me that I was currently not on the list for the transfer and asked me if I'd rather be trained on Stocker or at Cool Post (African outpost ice cream shop). I took the choice that was easiest and more fun for me, stocker. I allready had the costume for it and it was something I had wanted to try.
When I arrived back at base, I was paired with Sean, who is a college participant who'll be leaving soon. He was just preparing an order so he showed me how to fill out the paperwork (whcih I had allready pretty much figured out from working at the carts anyway) and we ran out an order and checked the carts stock. When I got back to base I was informed that I needed to go out and cover an Ice Cream cart so the guy out there could do some HazMat training or something.
When I got out to the cart there was two guys there, I sent the one back for his training but within a half hour the other guys shift ended. So here I was on a busy Ice Cream cart by myself, and thats when everything else started to go wrong. First I ran out of Itzakadoozies which are basically multiflavored popsicles, at that moment I happened to notice that Ice Cream carts stocker and mentioned it to him, but I was so busy with guests that I didn't know if I was running low on anything else. About 45 minutes - 1 hour later he brought me out the Itzakadoozies along with some bottled water and Coca Cola. So at this point I luckily still had cold water but I had warm coke and warm Itzakadoozies (wanted to keep those in the freezer for a while before serving them). But while he was gone I started running out of everything else for the ice cream, in many cases I was on my last box of various items, and most of those I had to chizle out of dry ice, meaning the ice creams were frozen solid. Oh and also while he was gone my Matra (I think that's what it's called, my touch screen PDA thing that I use to ring through the guests) stopped working.
So here I was on an ice cream cart, selling out of items, and the ones I do have are far to frozen to really eat, having to ring everyone through using pen and paper (to keep track of what I sold). It was really the most stressful hour and a half of work I've had down here.
When I got back to base, Sean was on his break, and I was asked to cover the break of the person who was covering his break. Essentially I was covering the last half of seans break and then the last half of the other persons. When Sean came back he sent me for mine. When I got back from my break I continued working on stocking carts, until about 8:30-9:00 ish which is when Seans carts started to shut down. We first shut down his Ice Cream cart, which involved us cutting off the line, counting how many full cases they had of Ice Cream and wheeling their drinks and partially full cases of ice cream back to base. Immediatly after that we went off to the World Showcase Nut cart to do the same thing. After counting the invintory in those carts and cleaning things up a bit I was sent out to do a reload which basically involves taking full cases of ice cream, and full/partial cases of pop out to the carts so they're fully stocked for the morning (some stock stays out in the park overnight but is locked up. Most carts have to push their drinks out in the morning).
It was about 10:15 at this point and I heard a distant explosion, and looked in that direction and I could see a little bit of the ending of wishes off in the distance. I was working somewhat slowly and methodically on the carts rotating the stock where I could (FIFO First in First out so this stuff I was putting on the bottom), about 10:30 Sean came out to see where I was since we were supposted to be off then. It was perfect timing as he showed me the barge burnoff. Essentially the ignite one of the Illuminations barges every night to burnoff something left over from the fireworks... massive flames and heat.
Anyway that about sums up my training on Stocker. Pretty simple (and fun) stuff.
Monday July 17 2006
So today I worked a similar shift as the day before, I came in a half hour earlier but I was also off a half hour earlier. When I arrived I found out that the person who was supposted to be covering the stockers breaks didn't show up, and since I now had stocker training I was thrust into that position. Basically every hour I covered a different stocker (and thus had a different 3-4 carts). The stockers had a rough idea their breaks are coming and tend to overstock their carts a bit to make the breakers time a little easier, and it worked out well I didn't have to do a whole lot all day but I had no problems filling orders where needed, I had 5 breaks to cover but since I came in 90 min- 2 hours after the original breaker was scheduled for everyones got pushed back a bit. Thus creating a conflict with my break and me having to close down the Land cart, Sean said he'd break himself and that fixed all problems.
So I had 4 stockers to cover and just rotated from one to the other stocking carts until about 6:15ish when I went for my own break. After my break I was supposted to close the land cart but when I got there Patrick had allready sent someone out to do it so I did the one part of it that none of us really knew how to do and that was drain the waste water. For this I had to go get a machine, hook it up to the back of the cart, let it pump out the water and take it to drain it. I had been shown how to do it once on my training and luckily it was fairly easy to do.
After that I helped count the carts and consolodate drinks (make all the trays of drinks that are going into the cooler = 24 of the same drinks) before being sent out on another reload to close out my shift.
Tuesday July 18 2006
This day of work was definatly not as fun as the previous two. I was scheduled for a popcorn cart by Mission Space. It wasn't bad it was kind of fun but I had a bad stocker. Apparently it was his first time doing it, and well he didn't bring me much of anything all day. I called in early on when I started running low on water and a few hours later I was brought water, coke and either sprite or diet coke. Probably was he didn't bring me any ice... he also didn't rotate my drinks, so I had 24-48 warm bottles of drinks above my cold ones, so I had to dig. For popcorn we have two sizes, a box and a bucket. When I had about 15 buckets left I called him to tell him I needed more (52 to a box). I also had brought out 4 bags of seed with me in the morning so when I opened the last bag (figured it'd last 60-90 minutes) I called in that I needed more. When I ran out of buckets, got sick of digging out cold drinks and was running down to one more batch of seed I called my coorodinator (basically the person who goes out into the park for the managers).
I told him all of what I needed, and before long they were bringing out a large shipment of everything, except for ice and seed! At that moment a co-worker of mine who was working a nearby cart that had two people came by to ask the stocker a question so I asked him if he could get me ice from a nearby room sice I hadn't had any fresh ice for about 6 hours at that point! This was all about a half hour before I was getting off so I wanted to make sure everything was good for the girl who was coming in after me. I managed to get everything ready for her except for her seed which I heard her call a manager for as I was carding out.
I also had an interesting development that was a little disgusting that day as well. A few days prior I had accidnetly slammed a metal door on my finger cutting it (guess where I'm going here). Well today I closed another metal door on it (not slammed again thankfully) basically removing the scab, so I had a small cut on my figure while selling popcorn. Immediatly I called the hot dog/turkey leg carts to see if they could spare someone, they were close by and each had two people working. After a little wait and no relief my stocker showed up and so I asked him to help me out or get me someone. I then got busy so about 15-20 min later (after I wrapped paper towel around my finger and stoped the bleeding) I called base to ask for someone so I could go put some bactine on it and get a band-aid. A few minutes later my manager showed up on a segway to check it out and said he'd get someone, and at that moment the person covering my break showed up... it took 45 minutes to get someone to relieve me and they weren't even there because of my wounded finger. I was a little disturbed that they couldn't get someone to relieve me from selling popcorn with an open bleeding wound on my hand. You'ld think it would have been a priority.
Anyway that about sums up that day, I got off at 6:30 but sat around home all night, watched ECW (wrestling we don't get in Canada) and made some Pizza.
Wednesday July 19 2006
I showed up again today for a float shift and it turns out another person who was supposted to be a stocker breaker didn't show up, so I started covering stocker breaks. Halfway into my second break Ed showed up and regained control of his breaking duties. I went to ask what needed to be done and I was told to bag ice... 20-25 bags... by myself. Now keep in mind that this is basically shoveling ice cubes into a garbage bag and is also usually a two person job (one to hold the bag, one to shovel). I was told I could steal the kitchen runners if they wern't busy but keep in mind those are the people that take pretzels and turkey legs out to the carts. So I did have to do a few by myself (and got the same ammount if not more ice on the floor than I got in the bag). I did 20 bags and figured I was done for now. I had forgotten my mug in the kitchen so I went back to get it running into Jei and John in the cafeteria.
While I talked to them for a minute Ed showed up with Birttany (someone else from my program who actually got a transfer to Test Track). She had been pulled off the hot dog cart (which had 3 people) to go and bag 10-20 bags of ice! So I decided I'd help her, we got 10 bags done and that filled the ice fridge thing. I then decided after 2 hours of bagging ice I was going onto my break. Since I was floating today, I didn't need a breaker so it worked out well. When I got back I kept myself kinda busy for a while helping out where I could until about 8:30 where Sean had me help him close his carts, we actually got out about a half hour early and our manager was very impressed with how fast and well done everything was that night.
July 20 2006 (so far...)
Well I got up this morning got my paycheque FINALLY rode Test Track, cashed said paycheque, and decided I wasn't going to "play" in the Disney/MGM studios, and instead came here to update my blog! Next up is my random mishmash of pictures!
Sunday July 16 2006
When I arrived today and went to check to see what costume I was going to need, Patrick (one of my managers) asked how long I was going to be working at ODF. I told him my program is until November but I was waiting to find out if I got a transfer to attractions. After a quick look at something on the e-mail he informed me that I was currently not on the list for the transfer and asked me if I'd rather be trained on Stocker or at Cool Post (African outpost ice cream shop). I took the choice that was easiest and more fun for me, stocker. I allready had the costume for it and it was something I had wanted to try.
When I arrived back at base, I was paired with Sean, who is a college participant who'll be leaving soon. He was just preparing an order so he showed me how to fill out the paperwork (whcih I had allready pretty much figured out from working at the carts anyway) and we ran out an order and checked the carts stock. When I got back to base I was informed that I needed to go out and cover an Ice Cream cart so the guy out there could do some HazMat training or something.
When I got out to the cart there was two guys there, I sent the one back for his training but within a half hour the other guys shift ended. So here I was on a busy Ice Cream cart by myself, and thats when everything else started to go wrong. First I ran out of Itzakadoozies which are basically multiflavored popsicles, at that moment I happened to notice that Ice Cream carts stocker and mentioned it to him, but I was so busy with guests that I didn't know if I was running low on anything else. About 45 minutes - 1 hour later he brought me out the Itzakadoozies along with some bottled water and Coca Cola. So at this point I luckily still had cold water but I had warm coke and warm Itzakadoozies (wanted to keep those in the freezer for a while before serving them). But while he was gone I started running out of everything else for the ice cream, in many cases I was on my last box of various items, and most of those I had to chizle out of dry ice, meaning the ice creams were frozen solid. Oh and also while he was gone my Matra (I think that's what it's called, my touch screen PDA thing that I use to ring through the guests) stopped working.
So here I was on an ice cream cart, selling out of items, and the ones I do have are far to frozen to really eat, having to ring everyone through using pen and paper (to keep track of what I sold). It was really the most stressful hour and a half of work I've had down here.
When I got back to base, Sean was on his break, and I was asked to cover the break of the person who was covering his break. Essentially I was covering the last half of seans break and then the last half of the other persons. When Sean came back he sent me for mine. When I got back from my break I continued working on stocking carts, until about 8:30-9:00 ish which is when Seans carts started to shut down. We first shut down his Ice Cream cart, which involved us cutting off the line, counting how many full cases they had of Ice Cream and wheeling their drinks and partially full cases of ice cream back to base. Immediatly after that we went off to the World Showcase Nut cart to do the same thing. After counting the invintory in those carts and cleaning things up a bit I was sent out to do a reload which basically involves taking full cases of ice cream, and full/partial cases of pop out to the carts so they're fully stocked for the morning (some stock stays out in the park overnight but is locked up. Most carts have to push their drinks out in the morning).
It was about 10:15 at this point and I heard a distant explosion, and looked in that direction and I could see a little bit of the ending of wishes off in the distance. I was working somewhat slowly and methodically on the carts rotating the stock where I could (FIFO First in First out so this stuff I was putting on the bottom), about 10:30 Sean came out to see where I was since we were supposted to be off then. It was perfect timing as he showed me the barge burnoff. Essentially the ignite one of the Illuminations barges every night to burnoff something left over from the fireworks... massive flames and heat.
Anyway that about sums up my training on Stocker. Pretty simple (and fun) stuff.
Monday July 17 2006
So today I worked a similar shift as the day before, I came in a half hour earlier but I was also off a half hour earlier. When I arrived I found out that the person who was supposted to be covering the stockers breaks didn't show up, and since I now had stocker training I was thrust into that position. Basically every hour I covered a different stocker (and thus had a different 3-4 carts). The stockers had a rough idea their breaks are coming and tend to overstock their carts a bit to make the breakers time a little easier, and it worked out well I didn't have to do a whole lot all day but I had no problems filling orders where needed, I had 5 breaks to cover but since I came in 90 min- 2 hours after the original breaker was scheduled for everyones got pushed back a bit. Thus creating a conflict with my break and me having to close down the Land cart, Sean said he'd break himself and that fixed all problems.
So I had 4 stockers to cover and just rotated from one to the other stocking carts until about 6:15ish when I went for my own break. After my break I was supposted to close the land cart but when I got there Patrick had allready sent someone out to do it so I did the one part of it that none of us really knew how to do and that was drain the waste water. For this I had to go get a machine, hook it up to the back of the cart, let it pump out the water and take it to drain it. I had been shown how to do it once on my training and luckily it was fairly easy to do.
After that I helped count the carts and consolodate drinks (make all the trays of drinks that are going into the cooler = 24 of the same drinks) before being sent out on another reload to close out my shift.
Tuesday July 18 2006
This day of work was definatly not as fun as the previous two. I was scheduled for a popcorn cart by Mission Space. It wasn't bad it was kind of fun but I had a bad stocker. Apparently it was his first time doing it, and well he didn't bring me much of anything all day. I called in early on when I started running low on water and a few hours later I was brought water, coke and either sprite or diet coke. Probably was he didn't bring me any ice... he also didn't rotate my drinks, so I had 24-48 warm bottles of drinks above my cold ones, so I had to dig. For popcorn we have two sizes, a box and a bucket. When I had about 15 buckets left I called him to tell him I needed more (52 to a box). I also had brought out 4 bags of seed with me in the morning so when I opened the last bag (figured it'd last 60-90 minutes) I called in that I needed more. When I ran out of buckets, got sick of digging out cold drinks and was running down to one more batch of seed I called my coorodinator (basically the person who goes out into the park for the managers).
I told him all of what I needed, and before long they were bringing out a large shipment of everything, except for ice and seed! At that moment a co-worker of mine who was working a nearby cart that had two people came by to ask the stocker a question so I asked him if he could get me ice from a nearby room sice I hadn't had any fresh ice for about 6 hours at that point! This was all about a half hour before I was getting off so I wanted to make sure everything was good for the girl who was coming in after me. I managed to get everything ready for her except for her seed which I heard her call a manager for as I was carding out.
I also had an interesting development that was a little disgusting that day as well. A few days prior I had accidnetly slammed a metal door on my finger cutting it (guess where I'm going here). Well today I closed another metal door on it (not slammed again thankfully) basically removing the scab, so I had a small cut on my figure while selling popcorn. Immediatly I called the hot dog/turkey leg carts to see if they could spare someone, they were close by and each had two people working. After a little wait and no relief my stocker showed up and so I asked him to help me out or get me someone. I then got busy so about 15-20 min later (after I wrapped paper towel around my finger and stoped the bleeding) I called base to ask for someone so I could go put some bactine on it and get a band-aid. A few minutes later my manager showed up on a segway to check it out and said he'd get someone, and at that moment the person covering my break showed up... it took 45 minutes to get someone to relieve me and they weren't even there because of my wounded finger. I was a little disturbed that they couldn't get someone to relieve me from selling popcorn with an open bleeding wound on my hand. You'ld think it would have been a priority.
Anyway that about sums up that day, I got off at 6:30 but sat around home all night, watched ECW (wrestling we don't get in Canada) and made some Pizza.
Wednesday July 19 2006
I showed up again today for a float shift and it turns out another person who was supposted to be a stocker breaker didn't show up, so I started covering stocker breaks. Halfway into my second break Ed showed up and regained control of his breaking duties. I went to ask what needed to be done and I was told to bag ice... 20-25 bags... by myself. Now keep in mind that this is basically shoveling ice cubes into a garbage bag and is also usually a two person job (one to hold the bag, one to shovel). I was told I could steal the kitchen runners if they wern't busy but keep in mind those are the people that take pretzels and turkey legs out to the carts. So I did have to do a few by myself (and got the same ammount if not more ice on the floor than I got in the bag). I did 20 bags and figured I was done for now. I had forgotten my mug in the kitchen so I went back to get it running into Jei and John in the cafeteria.
While I talked to them for a minute Ed showed up with Birttany (someone else from my program who actually got a transfer to Test Track). She had been pulled off the hot dog cart (which had 3 people) to go and bag 10-20 bags of ice! So I decided I'd help her, we got 10 bags done and that filled the ice fridge thing. I then decided after 2 hours of bagging ice I was going onto my break. Since I was floating today, I didn't need a breaker so it worked out well. When I got back I kept myself kinda busy for a while helping out where I could until about 8:30 where Sean had me help him close his carts, we actually got out about a half hour early and our manager was very impressed with how fast and well done everything was that night.
July 20 2006 (so far...)
Well I got up this morning got my paycheque FINALLY rode Test Track, cashed said paycheque, and decided I wasn't going to "play" in the Disney/MGM studios, and instead came here to update my blog! Next up is my random mishmash of pictures!
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