The world never ceases to amaze.

So… this morning I let a kid into the part to use the pay phone to call for a ride then had another supervisor escort him out. On his way out he got his hand stamped for reentry which he later tired to use to get into the park. I stopped the kid and his 4 friends/cousins/whatevers from getting in at least 4 times (they never paid to get in). I can understand the first try… it was actually not an unclever thing. Even the second time I can understand because I had walked away. After that, it was just stupid. Ever security guard at the front gate knew his face, the day manager knew his face, most of the front gate personnel knew his face… what the hell?

More fun stories of IT… So the power went out at Wyandot today. Not a huge deal. Some of the rides were shut down for checks and such… but nothing major… unless you are at a water park that hasn’t had any real capital improvement in 9 years. Our UPS… yeah… uninterruptable my ass. All of my database servers died alond with our email server, pos server, credit card server, and ticketing server (although the last 2 I didn’t know about untill much later). I happened to be in our season pass processing center at the time so I knew what happened right away, and despite my pretty consistent bitching about the pos UPS I got most systems back up in around 10 minutes. Unfortunately the GM happened to be in season pass too so he was like “whats going on?” because he wanted to make a nice announcement to the people in season pass… That really isn’t the fun part of the story… 45 minutes to an hour later I get flagged down by the front gate sup and she tells me that the “ticket scanners are double beeping” and asks me who to tell. “Me.” So yeah… for 45+ minutes our ticketing scanners weren’t doing jack and no one bothered to tell me. YAY! Oh yeah… my boss also had me stay till 7 so I could replace all the UPS batteries.