Saturday, August 13, 2016

Days 1-4 At Sassagoula

Days 1-4 At Sassagoula

So. Transportation. A completely different ball field than recreation. I have no clue what I'm getting myself into here, but then, do we ever? Day 1, I have Fred for my trainer, and Julia shadowing him. Fred is absolutely hysterical, and I am so glad I had him for my first day. Julia is a sweetheart, just a few...

Thursday, August 11, 2016

Take One!

Take One!

Before I start this blog post, I want to preface it with the fact that I went in as a hard core, lifelong Disney fan. Disney is my end goal. Outside of Harry Potter, The Minions, and Transformers, I don't know a lot about Universal. I have a feeling I went in with some prejudice. Add in a couple...

Saturday, August 6, 2016

I Guess I Forgot To Announce.. I'm Also Working For The "Other Guy"

Surprise? I guess not really if you follow my Instagram or Facebook, but I never talked about it here? So...

At the beginning of July I went in and interviewed at Universal Studios Orlando. Interviews are held in the Human Resources building, one stop light down from the directions your GPS is going to take you. It's also where you're going to end up parking for the rest of forever if you get hired for USO (as opposed to City Walk or Islands of Adventure). Park in Applicant parking, following the very small signs pretty far down. Inside you check in with security, go through a metal detector, and have your bag run through an x-ray machine. You fill out a form, and wait for forever to be called. It's nice because they play movies while you wait, but it literally feels like it takes forever.

Eventually I got called in, and interviewed with a lovely woman whose name I forget. She asked my a lot of questions about my leadership and management experience. They were all pretty basic questions aimed at finding out how you handle different situations. She asked a couple of questions that had similar enough stories that I had to come up with different stories. In the end, she let me know that she felt comfortable hiring me, but she wanted to wait until closer to the end of my CP so I wouldn't have conflicting schedules. So I scheduled another interview for a week before the end of my program and went on my merry way.

Fast forward three weeks and I'm back in the same place. A new interviewer, Candi, who let me know I would have to go through the whole interview process again. Two questions in, she changed her mind and said I was obviously a perfect fit, and she was going to find a place for me - would I like to work in Wizarding World of Harry Potter?

At this point, I started to get excited. As in, I was actually bouncing up and down in my chair excited. Before I could get too excited though, she let me know that I would have to be able to answer some trivia questions to move forward in WWoHP. How would I rate my knowledge of Harry Potter on a scale of 1-5? I said 4, just in case she came up with some crazy obscure question, and she pulled out a quiz with questions categorized into 5 groups based on how hard they were. I flew through the number 4 questions without hesitating, and so she asked me to do the 5 questions. In the end there was only 1 question I wasn't able to answer, but once she told me I remembered and was able to recall facts surrounding the event. So I moved on and found out my role. Drum roll please!

Harry Potter and the Escape From Gringotts!


So I am going to be wearing this absolutely hideous security guard looking costume, but I don't care, because I am going to be working in Diagon Alley! My heart can hardly stand it. Butterbeer, here I come!

Friday, August 5, 2016

Welcome To Transportation

Welcome To Transportation

As many time as people have tried to convince me otherwise, The Sassagoula River Cruise is no longer part of Recreation, it does belong to the Transportation line of business. So, I got to go through Welcome To Transportation. When I first looked at my schedule, I was so confused, because Welcome to Trans was 7+ hours, whereas Welcome...

Thursday, August 4, 2016

Moving Day!

Moving Day!

Okay, the best news I have for ya'll is that it's all over. Moving out of CP housing and into an apartment in the area was more stressful than I ever could have imagined. Until just a couple days before we ended up moving, I actually thought we were going to be several days between moving out of CP...

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Quick Trip Home

Quick Trip Home

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Friday, July 15, 2016

Lifeguarding - Audit's

Lifeguarding - Audit's

Let's take a minute to talk about the thing all CP lifeguards fear coming into the program - audits. If you know what you're doing, and you do it well, audit's are quick and simple. Basically, and audit is a test to make sure you're doing your job the way you should be, to the standard Disney and Ellis...

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