Today I trained from 6am-2:45pm for my fourth day of training. It was our last day with Matthew, because he is leaving for Future World to be a coordinator there. So we will have a different trainer for our closing shift, and a different one for our assessment. Today we opened Tower. There was something wrong with a track switch, so we couldn't start right away. We waited in the office for about an hour before we went to the Tower to see what was going on. We hung out near Tower for about another hour waiting for word on when we could proceed. We started opening the ride really late. By the time everything was done, it was about an hour and a half delayed.
Tower basically controls ride motion. We provide access for the track walkers to reset the lifts, brakes, etc. to open the ride. We also help with PA, intercom, and phone checks, and monitor all persons walking on/near the track. So it's a lot of spieling, a lot of button pushing, and a lot of monitoring. Once we officially opened the ride, it was around 10:20. We went to lunch, because we had been there since 6!
After that, we went to the Training Room to read the last little bit, reviewing Tower Opener, and going over closing procedures, even though we won't be closing until Day 5 of training. We reviewed evacuation routes, and some basic procedures that we should know. After that, we did our last new position, Spur Grouper. The only difference between that and Main side Grouper is that we have to account for wheelchair groups when we are grouping, so if there is a wheelchair party, we need to leave room for them and leave some rows open when we group. That's it!
We did a ride through near the end of our shift to see where the doors are. We didn't have time to pick up another position before the end of our shift, so we went to find a manager to talk about something on our schedules. We had a meeting show up on Monday, for 2 hours. That would have been the only thing we had scheduled that day. The manager looked at the meeting, and told us it was something that could be rescheduled, so now instead of a 3 day weekend, I have a 4 day weekend! Since we started really early, I got home pretty early too. I went to Buffalo Wild Wings to pick up some dinner, then went back to Panera to hop on their WiFi. I think tomorrow I might go back to the comedy show!
'Til next time!
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