Playland cracks down on seasonals

Whats the rate of hiring there? seems like for them its an epidemic!

How is this different then any other park?

Rye's Playland is administered by Westchester County...that makes a HUGE difference! ;)

What the hell? Fired for minor violations? Rediculous.

Minor to you, major to the parent who's child is hurt because some op was talking on their cell and not paying attention like they should.

"Rediculous" is still not a word.

Many amusement park jobs involve serious safety issues. I don't see any room for screwing around. Safety is no accident.

While this may seem shocking, I see all of this stuff happen every day where I work.

I do too, and not just at amusement parks.

I remember seeing a ride op at SFA doing the same thing, talking on his cell phone while checking restraints. He was mumbling something about how he hated working there. That's always a nice thing that customers want to hear.

-Tina

Agreed. The last time I was at CLP, the ops on the Blue Streak were reading while operating the brakes. Nice...

Funny, I was not aware that the ride ops at CLP were literate.

Some books have pictures.

Banning cell phone usage for ANY employee of ANY company would be nice. Nothing is worse than going into a store and dealing with an employee that is yapping away on their cell phone. What happened to etiquette?

Kennywood is doing the same thing. Two of my friends recently got fired for just checking the time on their cell phones. Alot of parks let go of employees toward the end. One reason for this is because if they get fired now they lose their bonus pay for the entire season. Which saves the park money. I've seen certain supervisors from the park hiding out waiting for people to mess up. It's just something that happens every year.

Nobody should be talking ot their friends while operating a ride anyways. Also...what happened to the old fashioned wristband watch? lol.

I understand that using cell phones on some jobs makes no sense. But in my field Nextels are a needed evil. But then again they are only used for business while at work. Off hours BS away.

I can understand the cell phone thing. The park is protecting themselves there. If something should happen, there'd be any number of witnesses willing to say that the ops were talking on cell phones and not paying attention to their jobs. Checking time or whatever, they're expected to pay 100% attention to whatever their assigned job is.