Rye Playland mechanic suspended for pushing park director to the ground

HAHA

Gotta love government jobs.

If someone in "corporate America" pushed their boss to the ground they'd be fired in a heartbeat.

I wish we could really hear what was said by both parties. I would like to hear both sides of the story.

Heh. At Lakemont a few weeks ago as we were waiting to dispatch on Skyliner, a maintenance guy came flying up the queue and totally ripped the ride op a new one for letting the train run "like that" - including a few nicely placed F-bombs while the handful of us on the train just sitting there like "whoa!"

The maintenance guy then proceded to wait on the loading platform for us to return smoking a cigarette.

In short, that maintenance guy is my new hero.

I never did catch what was up, but the ride was down for about 15 or 20 minutes after our ride.

I guess maintenance dudes are just a high strung bunch ;)

You never know at Lakemont. The maintenance guy may own the joint.

All the more reason to consider him my personal hero :)

I just wonder who's head would roll if the ride was sent out in an unsafe condition. I doubt the park director would be fired if it crashed.They would hold the mechanic responsable. I do not know what happened but i assume the mechanic did not think the park director was doing the right thing.

Yeah, we may be high strung, but we've got a lot of you bastards' lives in our hands.

I've never punched a management-type, but at times I've felt like it. Once you make your feelings known and tell them gently to leave-me-the-hell-alone-and-let-me-do-my-job they usually retreat.

Of course, I'm lucky to have nice management types.

You are one of my heroes too ;)

Is there anything in the article that makes me want to side with the maintenance guy? For some reason, I think he explained CALMLY to the "bureaucrat" what was going on, then got more excited as things progressed, and finally decided that reasoning wasn't working....

Perhaps it's the fact that I work with so many government employees? ;)

bill, didn't realize they DID maintenance on Skyliner...go Curve! :)