Stand there, be still, and shut your face!

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Fuck, kids are annoying. I must have told one hundred fifty to two hundred kids about three hundred and fifty to five hundred times to stand on the fucking steps until I told them they could load into the coaster's cars. And what do they do? They move from their spot on the steps(if they hadn't already when I wasn't looking) as soon as the car pulls up to the spot where I pull the lap bars up. They don't fucking get on the car there, yet they try to get around me, when I'm blocking the way with my arms, and after telling them to stay put, several times in a row! Goddammit! How do parents take this shit? Now I didn't always obey my parents when they told me I couldn't do something, I'd do it when they couldn't find out, but on stuff like this, I fucking did what I was told. I'm not just talking five year olds here either, I had this problem with kids up to I'd guess of eleven years of age. :fuming:

[Puck]

Heh, send 'em to the back of the line. And find a different job asap.

[RandomThoughts]

Did you have a bad day today? :eek:

[Legs]

JP, why do you think the kids aren't respecting you?

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Did you have a bad day today? :eek:

Yeah, kinda. I don't get enough breaks to put up with the amount of work that shit adds to me. My job is hard and stressfull enough already. If I do something wrong people could die. And these kids were making their odds of dying a lot greater. Ya know, there's no chains and motors that could tear the shit out of them if they tripped and feel into them. Everybody knows kids that are moving around like they've just done meth don't trip once and a while.

[RandomThoughts]

Did you have a bad day today? :eek:

Yeah, kinda. I don't get enough breaks to put up with the amount of work that shit adds to me. My job is hard and stressfull enough already. If I do something wrong people could die. And these kids were making their odds of dying a lot greater. Ya know, there's no chains and motors that could tear the shit out of them if they tripped and feel into them. Everybody knows kids that are moving around like they've just done meth don't trip once and a while.

Is your day over?

[Johnny Pneumatic]

JP, why do you think the kids aren't respecting you?

I don't know. I know what I'm going to do: I'm going to kick them out of the line if they pull this shit anymore. It's one thing to have to tell them once, but again, and again and again. I saw the same kids coming back time after time doing this even. It was just so hectic that I didn't have time to bother with kicking them off the ride. There's no an easy exist to this ride for people who chicken out, misbehave or aren't tall enough etc.. If there was I'd metaphorically boot them out in a heartbeat.

[Widget]

So I understand fully you operate a ride at a theme park and you had a bad day?

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Is your day over?

Yes, thank goodness, or more like what day it is.(only had to work to 4pm) If I would have had to work all the way to 9pm I'm not sure what I'd end up feeling like. I was pretty beat as it was. But I'm recovering some now.

[Johnny Pneumatic]

So I understand fully you operate a ride at a theme park and you had a bad day?

Yeah.

What's so funny is that they'd get on the ride faster if they'd just do what they're told.

I like my job, but damn, enough is enough. I'm going to crack down on this from now on. One time of being sent out of the ride and having to wait fourty min. out in the hot sun to get through the line again will cut this behavior right out methinks. And if it doesn't, the kid is reallllllly stupid.

[Widget]

Do you ever think that you are starting to talk like your parents?

[Legs]

Maybe you should make a fake measuring stick that will indicate they are not tall enough to ride. :giggle:

[Dingfod]

Maybe you shouldn't have lost that weight, Johnny-boy. Bigger guys have an imposing presence, even if their personality doesn't. Use your best drill sargeant voice next time, not just yelling, but commanding.

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Do you ever think that you are starting to talk like your parents?

Nah, because I'd let them do(if I weren't on the job) what my parents didn't like me to do. Nothing comes to mind that my parents didn't like me to do that could have killed me. In fact something that I did do could have easily killed me. But my mom, love her, let me do it anyway. I'm not being sarcastic here, I'm glad she let me climb so high.

[Ari]

1) Tazer.
2) Whip.

You need to learn your mommy voice.

[ChuckF]

Ugh. Job with children. Nightmare. My advice: find office work :)

[Dingfod]

I'm having a little trouble imagining our Johnny Pneumatic working at Disney's theme parks where they require everyone working there to smile and be friendly. Even Cinderella, in costume, on a hot day, repeatedly being asked directions to the restroom, was smiling and gracious.

[Legs]

Have a Magical Disney Day! :sun:

[MonCapitan2002]

I can't stand kids. I would never get a job that would require that I work with the abominable miniature monsters.

[JoeP]

the abominable miniature monstersI am tempted to post "The Thing in the Crib" again, but it was too recent so I'll just link to my last thread.

[Shake]

How do parents take this shit?
For us, those few minutes of excited anticipation are just one part of the whole day. We get passed it and move on to the next thing. As a ride operator, you have to deal with these crazy, excited moments for each kid that comes up to you. IOW, you're having to deal with each kid at their worst*, and you're doing it for hours on end. Most kids aren't that bad for that long.

In your position, I'd say to use a deep, loud voice to deliver instructions. Warn them that offenders will be sent to the back of the line.

*if there's any sort of a line, the kids will have been itching to get going since before they even got on line. They're not quite as in control of their emotions as we adults are.