COME PLAY MY GAME!!

Ya, that's about what my day consists of...or just serving the people that are yelling that. For those of you that may not know, I'll tell you what my job consists of. This is mostly just because I'm bored out of my mind, not for your entertainment lol.

Depending on what area I'm in (which for now I'm in area 3...in the back of the park) I see what game I'm working, if I am working a game at all, and I go check out the cash bag and box for that game. I count the money and make sure there's $100 in fives and $100 in ones. I then take the 10 minute stroll out to area 3.
Now depending on what game I'm working, some of the other games may already be up and running. Most of the games in area 3 open at 10 when the park opens, but then some of them open at 11:30...why?... I don't know. But, if I was working second shift, then of course all of the games would be open and I would just be letting someone go at 2 or 4 in the afternoon. Anyway, I go and wait for my supervisor, Andy or Kati, to open the gate for my game and then I would proceed to put my flash up. "Flash" is just a fancy term we use for the stuffed animals that hang by hooks to attract people to our game. Hanging flash isn't as easy as you would think it is. It all has to be perfectly straight and have a pattern to it, because you know that's what everyone is looking for, a pattern in the stuffed animals, right. So, now that my flash is up, I have to make sure all the counters are clean and bug free, nobody wants to play a game with bugs on it. And now the game is open :)
Now it's time to make money. We have to yell at the top of our lungs to get people to play our games, and you have to yell at everyone...or you get yelled at. So, even if you know they won't play, you have to try to convince them that your game is the best one there (or the easiest).
And then there's closing a game. The last hour of the park being open goes by very slow, because at any moment in that hour your supervisor could tell you to do last calls, which is the last call for people to play the game. Usually you just yell out once and then immediately close the game. closing is a good deal easier than opening. You take down the flash, throw it on the floor, and put your money up. Then you take your money back to cash control and clock out, you're done.
Now for the "behind the scenes." When you're not working in a game you're an "extra" or a "breaker." Being a breaker is pretty cool, because you're giving people breaks. So, you're only spending 30min. to an hour in each game. Time goes pretty quick as a breaker. The only downfall is .. you take your break last..if you get a break (you wouldn't get a break because you would usually get sent home an hour early). As and extra you do a lot more. You have to make sure every game has enough prizes to give out (because they can't go back and get their own), give everyone water, give bathroom breaks (because we give them a lot of water), keep the back rooms clean (it can get very annoying, you get it all clean then someone wrecks it completely, so they ask you to do it again...), and then do whatever the supervisors ask you to do. Being an extra can be very annoying...you're the first ones to be sent home.

Well, I'm going to go back to being bored. I can't think of anything else to tell you about my job, you can ask questions if you want to..