LionHeart
04-17-2009, 02:06 AM
So I had a totally awesome job to occupy the majority of my teen years. I started working for CEC Inc. August 2006, and stayed put for the next three years.
...But the end of the line comes somewhere. I finished my last day a little while ago and that's the end of it..I love working at that place with near every fiber of my being, so leaving that place obviously was bad, but I have had it. When I started working at that place, it was awesome. I'd go to work having the time of my life making awesome friends, playing with the kids and doing my job well. Then, as time goes on, everything just starts to go downhill. We suddenly start getting hit by guests by the boatload, which is perfectly fine, and we managed it well, but then the corporate office hands down this new wait system that removes the stand and has one man dealing with dozens of guests lining up out the door, people who never turn over there tables, people trying more and more often to cheat the games and us out of things, and things breaking so much more often because my tech manager would never do preventive maintenance. (Or at least, that's how it seemed.) I mean, come on. Token jams I can fix. I can't fix software component failures on SkeeBall on the fly, but the only guy who would fix it wouldn't. Then, corporate offices change the birthday format and kill live shows all toghther. Some like it yes, but the live shows were probably the favorite part of my day, as I was the most awesome Chuck E ever. Doing the dances we did (Like Jivin) were so incredibly fun I put my all into it, and wouldn't care that I'd take off that costume sweating like crazy and gasping for breath. It was awesome. Then, it changed to a new song and a dance that wasn't that well thought out, but we weren't allowed to change it. It became boring and repetitive. Then, new and more strict rules keep coming down, and it becomes to the point where all that matters is keeping things absolutely clean and always doing busy work. Apparently, interacting with guests and playing with kids doesn't count as that, as I got yelled at by a mananger for not keeping busy when I was playing with a kid. I also got yelled at for staying in the Chuck E suit too long (23 minutes. Wow. Big deal.) And it became to the point where we weren't allowed to have fun at work anymore. The friends that worked there became eventually too stressed out to have any fun while working even when the rare small opportunity presented itself. So, when I found myself so stressed out I was getting incredibly angry at children who had game calls for me, I knew it was time to leave.
Anyway, long story short, jobs not fun anymore, gotta go. Thanks for the memories!
MW
...But the end of the line comes somewhere. I finished my last day a little while ago and that's the end of it..I love working at that place with near every fiber of my being, so leaving that place obviously was bad, but I have had it. When I started working at that place, it was awesome. I'd go to work having the time of my life making awesome friends, playing with the kids and doing my job well. Then, as time goes on, everything just starts to go downhill. We suddenly start getting hit by guests by the boatload, which is perfectly fine, and we managed it well, but then the corporate office hands down this new wait system that removes the stand and has one man dealing with dozens of guests lining up out the door, people who never turn over there tables, people trying more and more often to cheat the games and us out of things, and things breaking so much more often because my tech manager would never do preventive maintenance. (Or at least, that's how it seemed.) I mean, come on. Token jams I can fix. I can't fix software component failures on SkeeBall on the fly, but the only guy who would fix it wouldn't. Then, corporate offices change the birthday format and kill live shows all toghther. Some like it yes, but the live shows were probably the favorite part of my day, as I was the most awesome Chuck E ever. Doing the dances we did (Like Jivin) were so incredibly fun I put my all into it, and wouldn't care that I'd take off that costume sweating like crazy and gasping for breath. It was awesome. Then, it changed to a new song and a dance that wasn't that well thought out, but we weren't allowed to change it. It became boring and repetitive. Then, new and more strict rules keep coming down, and it becomes to the point where all that matters is keeping things absolutely clean and always doing busy work. Apparently, interacting with guests and playing with kids doesn't count as that, as I got yelled at by a mananger for not keeping busy when I was playing with a kid. I also got yelled at for staying in the Chuck E suit too long (23 minutes. Wow. Big deal.) And it became to the point where we weren't allowed to have fun at work anymore. The friends that worked there became eventually too stressed out to have any fun while working even when the rare small opportunity presented itself. So, when I found myself so stressed out I was getting incredibly angry at children who had game calls for me, I knew it was time to leave.
Anyway, long story short, jobs not fun anymore, gotta go. Thanks for the memories!
MW