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13 Years with SFGAm World!
I applied for a job at Jewel Osco, Dominick's, K-Mart, and Target.
Now I shall wait.
K-mart sucks believe me. They never promise ANY hours and they told me once I needed to wait 3 weeks to be put on the schedule. Dominick's have been dying. They don't offer much. Jewel even gives women who have been there for years less than 5 days a week.
13 Years with SFGAm World!
Kmart sucks, ask w00dland. Target sucks, they turned me down (yet the more upscale Macys hired me). Dominicks I know nothing about. Jewel hires anybody.
Somewhere in Florida a village is missing its idiot. He can be found in Washington D.C.
I'm going on a 2 week cruise to Europe Friday
SF trips 09 = 15
SF trips 10= 11 SF trips 11 =7
I have 2 days left in Chicago area and 7 days total in IL before I move to Orlando.
Stay safe. I cannot imagine a winter with NO snow.
13 Years with SFGAm World!
I have a few friends that got hired at Jewel, they say that the only down side is they are used for bringing in carts in the summer. (Complainers) I personally like Target as a store, I haven't heard about working there, we'll see. The Dominick's in my neighbor hasn't hired any teenagers, so I doubt I'll even get a call back. I'll ask W00dland.  Thanks!
It's the only winter I ever want to know in the future 
I'm moving to a place where I will live in the middle of nowhere.....yay
SF trips 09 = 15
SF trips 10= 11 SF trips 11 =7
^ succcksss. Oh look, Raging Bull!
Oh yeah it does suck
 anyways Im more excited about my vacationSF trips 09 = 15
SF trips 10= 11 SF trips 11 =7
You will have peace, grass and no nosy neighbors. good for you.  13 Years with SFGAm World!
No coasters though!
No coasters for anyone who does not live in Gurnee, IL.
13 Years with SFGAm World!
No six flags?????????
Id like to be the first to welcome monsterfan to the exclusive club of people on this site who have no winter (joining Director_Guy, Danhockey, Chitown, and me).
August is my coaster month.
SFMM Knotts Holiday World Kings Island Cedar Point *drools* Top 5: 1) El Toro. 2) Maverick. 3) Millenium Force. 4) Diamondback. 5) X2.
Coaster Count: 167 (41 Wood, 125 Steel) @Coaster_Cole on Twitter
Thank you. It's been a dream of mine since I was 8 to live in a place with warm weather, Disney and no snow. Only took me 17 more years to achieve it.
I live in Des Plaines, a commute would be about 30-60 minutes. Yeah, no thanks. haha. If I was old enough for housing, that would definitely be a top option. Just seeing all the back works of an amusement park would be really cool.
Car show Saturday and possibly urban exploring Sunday. Awesome.
Somewhere in Florida a village is missing its idiot. He can be found in Washington D.C.
It really is a great life. I really love the whole "not being miserable for six months" thing. Plus, coasters year round. I've already forgotten what an offseason is. Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking, isn't thinking of.
Doesn't that also make the park worse? They never have a good amount of time to get everything in running order.
^Nope. WDW, Sea World parks (including BGT) and Universal and ran quite well. Plus rides go down for refurbishment every year, except the Twilight Zone: Tower of Terror which has been an operational gem.
Actually rides here in Orlando very rarely ever go down for rehab. Coasters like Montu have 4 trains so it can still run 3 if needed and do take-apart annual maintenence on a rotational basis. Theres some rides, like Expedition Everest, that have never closed for rehab and has been open all day 365 days a year since it's opening day. At DLR though rides go down for rehab with more frequencey (mainly older ones like Matterhorn which require a lot of upkeep, and the other dark rides) because their market is so much different. A lot of Disneyland's attendance is Southern California residents who love the park and are more than happy to see Haunted Mansion go down at the same time every year in order to transition it to Haunted Mansion Holiday. On the other hand, tourists that visit WDW would be very disgruntled after they have been saving for years to take their dream vacation and very much looking forward to the Haunted Mansion, and when they visit it is closed. That was a major problem with Space Mountain, at DLR when it closed down many of it's guests understood the ride needed an upgrade. At WDW when it closed down there was a sh*tstorm in the guest relations office on a daily basis, not a good situation when there are large quantities of people every day demanding compensation because their vacation was ruined because the star attraction at the flagship park is closed after they saved for years to visit the park (even though rehab schedules are posted, its the GP we're talking about here, not going to think of checking it). Same goes for rides like Everest and TOT, they don't go down for rehab because closing the rides have major business reprocussions. Whenever adjustments need to be made to the ride, like when they did the new special effects on Tower of Terror for Summer Nightastic, the imagineering team/programmers have some long nights doing the work 3rd shift so the ride can operate as normal during the day.
Examples like this are also apparent at SFGAm. When Raging Bull was painted in 2008 it stayed open while it was being painted and they did it during th week while the park was closed. In 2005 when they did the major Condor rehab it was closed for almost half the season.
Destination parks like Disney and Universal have full third shift maintenence staff that come in and work on the rides all night. It's pretty obvious which parks pay more attention to maintaining their rides properly, look at all the seats that are always bypassed on SUF. You never see that on Manta because when a seat has to be bypassed that night an electrician will be there fixing it (hell i've never seen that problem on any flyer except for GAMs SUF. Tatsu, Manta, and GADV's SUF all have had all seats working every time i've been on them. And believe me I was looking for them). Also at destination parks the ops are trained to clear the errors very quickly whereas at SF parks the ride ops have to take the ride down and call for maintenence to be dispatched to the ride any time there is an error. Also, at WDW in particular, each major ride has its own maintenance team at the ride all day. At Test Track for example, the day-maintenance team does rehab work on 4 cars at a time year round, in a maintenance facility behind the ride building.
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