I used to work at one and it genuinely is just a garbage business. The food is just one piece of a very shitty puzzle, but just to add onto the pile did you know (you could probably tell) that those expensive as fuck chicken tenders in the waterpark are Tyson brand? Bottom shelf in the freezers at Walmart.

Security is hilariously lacking for how much they advertise their RFID-wristbands and for how many flock cameras they post around (+half the interior cams do not work or are POINTING AT WALLS). Their training post-licensing consists of signing some papers stating they explained everything to you even if all they did was tell you to sign it.

My location was CONSTANTLY under renovation, so much so that I knew the contractor’s names better than some of the staff from housekeeping (which is half in-house staff and half third party both with massive turnover)

Those magiquest wants have a unit price of around 2 or 3 dollars per wand. The little attachments are a dollar or less. The whole game turns off at 10 but you will be hearing every single interactable going off constantly before the blessed silence. Oh, and yes, it is literally designed to make you take as many stairs as possible. The elevators are always too crowded, yet the stairs will be too.

Did your eyes sting like hell in the waterpark? This can happen in the summer, but it’s especially bad in the winter. Your eyes sting because the chlorine in the water is evaporating faster than the HVAC systems are pulling it out of the air. If this happens in the summer, that’s because the fans rusted and snapped because chlorine is an evil chemical. If this happens in the winter, it’s because they are running the heaters which pulls out less chlorinated air I fuckin guess. The pool staff and lifeguards are mostly teenagers and young adults, but genuinely the aquatics manager and engineering teams were the only people with their heads screwed on.

Most people I worked with actually liked the job at first. It can be a LOT no matter your department just with the sheer volume of guests but it’s fun giving someone that fun vacation experience. You notice the cracks pretty quickly though, one of my coworkers told me when I was new “this is going to feel like a cult and your best bet is to drink the punch.” Verbatim. He was one of two people in that department that had been there for over a decade, everyone else was two years or less.

Plus it’s owned by Blackstone yippeee.