things are looking somewhat up at work: getting a lot closer banking out
Icecream 7 is a new cart just opened on the westernmost walkway from Future World to World Showcase, in between Refreshment Port and Promenade, by Canada. It sells icecream, water, and beer, right across from a playground set up for Epcot's Flower and Garden Festival. It's slow.
You take a beer cart out there and it's so heavy that both days I've been out there someone ended up rescuing me and pushing my cart at least part of the way: Yesterday my stockers took it to the cart and back to base; today some random Seas boy helped get it up the hill from base and then, embarrassingly, a guest pushed it up the slope to the Odyssey. There is nothing more embarrassing than having a guest help you instead of the other way around the way it should be.
Yesterday I was scheduled to open and close there. I opened and it promptly started raining; they closed me in an hour after I'd sold a water and two icecreams. So today my manager and coordinator challenged me to make more than yesterday. :P Seeing as I was open longer today I totally did. The problem is, I had a key for the money box out there and lost it, didn't notice until my breaker came, and didn't have a chance to look for it until after I closed. :/ Feeling pretty gutted about that.
It makes me not mind the fact that rain got into the cart last night: There was an inch and a half of water freezing the bottom layer of icecream cartons to the cart, so the whole cart got taken for defrost off schedule. This meant they blasted the thing full of water, including the cartons we couldn't get off the bottom. Once they got the boxes out some of the icecreams were pretty waterlogged so I had to sit and sort out which icecreams were still in retail condition. For a while there I was thinking I'd end up the only idiot in Florida to get frostbite.
The fun part today was the Epcot welcome event for CPs and Cultural Reps. We weren't really expecting much, and were pretty pissed that it was at 9AM. But there was all this free stuff: Food (cookies, chips, lots and lots of candy), minibinoculars, keyring flashlight/rape whistle (okay, it was just a normal whistle, but Kyle was going "that's your rape whistle!" at everyone; it stuck), yet more disco balls from DISCO and leftover Mardi Gras beads, playing cards, notepads, more pens, little bug finger puppets because the theme was Flower Power (what with the Flower and Garden Festival)... There were activities for more prizes, as well: Some kids got posters, Kyle got a hat, I got my first ever umbrella. (I have never owned an umbrella. Wellington is too windy for one.)
Yeah, okay, and there were speeches from the vice-president of Epcot and loads of the General Managers around the park. Their Disney journeys and advice for us.
They told us "everything on the table is yours"...so we ended up with Sean and Kyle chugging Pixie Sticks back at base and us going nuts and high-fiving everyone who came in. Kyle also had the genius idea to take millions of the bugs and give them to kids, and I freeloaded the idea and handed out the bugs to upset kids or kids who wanted icecream when their parents didn't want to buy them icecream. Worked a treat for the kids and the parents. Netted me a Guest Service Fanatic card from Matt and Jessica, to my surprise. (ODF hands out these things like gold, and Matt tends to be known as the douche of ODF, though he's always been alright with me.) I feel bad for stealing Kyle's thunder. |D;;
On another tack: Yesterday after I got ER'd I planned to start my journey paper before rehearsal.
I made these instead: Tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese on the base; chicken, capsicum (bell pepper), onion, sugar snap peas, spinach, grape tomatoes, Craisins, Brie cheese. They are superb.
Yeah, so about that paper... :/ Got two long term goals to chuck down but don't know what else. I suspect "figure out what I want to do with my life" would be too vague...
Spring break hits next week. I have a grand total of one day off. Brilliant. I'm just grateful that I seem to be the only idiot CP in Epcot ODF who hasn't been deployed to Animal Kingdom: I'd hate to be in a new location during spring break.
You take a beer cart out there and it's so heavy that both days I've been out there someone ended up rescuing me and pushing my cart at least part of the way: Yesterday my stockers took it to the cart and back to base; today some random Seas boy helped get it up the hill from base and then, embarrassingly, a guest pushed it up the slope to the Odyssey. There is nothing more embarrassing than having a guest help you instead of the other way around the way it should be.
Yesterday I was scheduled to open and close there. I opened and it promptly started raining; they closed me in an hour after I'd sold a water and two icecreams. So today my manager and coordinator challenged me to make more than yesterday. :P Seeing as I was open longer today I totally did. The problem is, I had a key for the money box out there and lost it, didn't notice until my breaker came, and didn't have a chance to look for it until after I closed. :/ Feeling pretty gutted about that.
It makes me not mind the fact that rain got into the cart last night: There was an inch and a half of water freezing the bottom layer of icecream cartons to the cart, so the whole cart got taken for defrost off schedule. This meant they blasted the thing full of water, including the cartons we couldn't get off the bottom. Once they got the boxes out some of the icecreams were pretty waterlogged so I had to sit and sort out which icecreams were still in retail condition. For a while there I was thinking I'd end up the only idiot in Florida to get frostbite.
The fun part today was the Epcot welcome event for CPs and Cultural Reps. We weren't really expecting much, and were pretty pissed that it was at 9AM. But there was all this free stuff: Food (cookies, chips, lots and lots of candy), minibinoculars, keyring flashlight/rape whistle (okay, it was just a normal whistle, but Kyle was going "that's your rape whistle!" at everyone; it stuck), yet more disco balls from DISCO and leftover Mardi Gras beads, playing cards, notepads, more pens, little bug finger puppets because the theme was Flower Power (what with the Flower and Garden Festival)... There were activities for more prizes, as well: Some kids got posters, Kyle got a hat, I got my first ever umbrella. (I have never owned an umbrella. Wellington is too windy for one.)
Yeah, okay, and there were speeches from the vice-president of Epcot and loads of the General Managers around the park. Their Disney journeys and advice for us.
They told us "everything on the table is yours"...so we ended up with Sean and Kyle chugging Pixie Sticks back at base and us going nuts and high-fiving everyone who came in. Kyle also had the genius idea to take millions of the bugs and give them to kids, and I freeloaded the idea and handed out the bugs to upset kids or kids who wanted icecream when their parents didn't want to buy them icecream. Worked a treat for the kids and the parents. Netted me a Guest Service Fanatic card from Matt and Jessica, to my surprise. (ODF hands out these things like gold, and Matt tends to be known as the douche of ODF, though he's always been alright with me.) I feel bad for stealing Kyle's thunder. |D;;
On another tack: Yesterday after I got ER'd I planned to start my journey paper before rehearsal.
I made these instead: Tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese on the base; chicken, capsicum (bell pepper), onion, sugar snap peas, spinach, grape tomatoes, Craisins, Brie cheese. They are superb.
Yeah, so about that paper... :/ Got two long term goals to chuck down but don't know what else. I suspect "figure out what I want to do with my life" would be too vague...
Spring break hits next week. I have a grand total of one day off. Brilliant. I'm just grateful that I seem to be the only idiot CP in Epcot ODF who hasn't been deployed to Animal Kingdom: I'd hate to be in a new location during spring break.