NickD

Job with good moneyOr Job you enjoy?Dilemma.

<3 The minus paydayBills come outPay doesn't come inThis being my biggest pay .. ever...

Agree, absolutely mockery that this country celebrates St.Patricks day more than St.Georges. Especially when the Irish are the ones who go bomb chucking and didn't want to be a part of Britain...Anyway, I just wanted to have a quick rant. The Police.I'd hope that most on here know me and don't see me as a nasty , dangerous , abusive person. On Saturday I went to Chelsea vs West Ham, a major derby in football. The game was moved to 5:30pm on a Saturday, which meant the chances of it kicking off where a good 99%. West Ham fans where in a pub in Chelsea, I headed down and was told to move away by 2 coppers on horses. I did as I was told and began to walk away, as I was walking away I shouted to west ham "your all a load of ****ing scum" .... carried on walking, then BANG... thrown to the floor by two coppers on police horses, put in cuffs and was nicked for "Obstructing Police". Had to wait 15 minutes for a van, then the bastards escorted me past the west ham pub .. queue chants of "Wan*er Wan*er" from all the West Ham fans. I got literally chucked about in the van, copper right in my face shouting at me .. just told them where to go. Ended up withing being locked up till 10pm , they said "your free to go" took me outside, that was it... I turned back and said "Really, is that it...?" "Yes" .. I knew they didn't have a leg to stand on, when I got nicked I told them how much my lawyer was gonna have a field day.The police are there to do a job.. that job is to POLICE. They wasted a cell in South West London on Saturday on someone who done sweet FA wrong. Fed up with it.

I reckon this will be another World First...

You don't have too for 99% of jobs..

Topic for any random old pictures you might have of Chessington.I've just found a few from what must be 1994ish of me in a pram with my family. On ride photo from Dragons falls, pictures from truckers with railway in the background, bubbleworks.I will upload eventually lol

Wow, really brilliant work there. Nice to see a screaming swing there aswell. (One swing operation lol)

Lol I do!

I'm a busy man in the week Benin

I have just found out exactly what this "Rebecca Black" person is ...I'm have two different views A) Shes a complete f***ing spastic and it's brilliant to laugh at her;) Shes been told to look like a spastic by some record label and make her a laughing stock, thus gaining more viewsIf her song 'Friday' is actually meant to be good, it is shocking. Still the funniest **** I've heard in a while!

No because the rides in Thorpes opinion will now be "getting old and having reliability issues"

He gave my mate his boots to give to his daughter... but unless you have a foot fetish I can't see much of a benefit! lol

I always have random chats with John Terry, last one being after the game on Sunday just gone!He normally comes up to the corwd after the game. At Copenhagen he said "You again, you must be loaded" ... Oh the irony.

It Consultancy in the NHS.I was going to go with 'My Name Ltd' but your not able too...

Managed to get a contract in Croydon.Now need to think of a name for my Ltd Company. lol. Ideas?

This picture makes me laugh ...Looks like something out of a movie, the bloke in a suit and shades heading towards the two women.

Thats what she said...

I completely understand and simpithise with what you are saying.It is such a difficult part of the park to manage as Guest Services are unable to say "Children of a certain age are allowed to ride with more than one carer" as I know from experience that it is not just young children, but also many Adults of which have a learning disability that often have a need to ride with both of their parents. If I was able to manage it I would do the following - Continue to be stricter on who is entitled to use ride access passes By doing this, it would then allow people to ride with two genuine carers for a genuinly disabled guest. I believe that doing this is much more effective than only allowing one carer and it will be noticeable different for all. - Re - Train rides staff in the use of the Ride Access PassIt may very well be that the system seemed to be being abused as the rides staff where unsure of how exactly the card is supposed to work. This is only a possibility, but I feel that all rides staff should be shown again exactly how the times should be recorded on the card. - Smaller rides with a queue time of Less than 15/20 Minutes should not have the times on the card checkedThis will allow Disabled guests to make more out of their day and fill the gaps during the times of which they are unable to go on rides. The arguement that often faced me is that some children with learning disabilities find it difficult to have to wait around for an hour and a half before they can next go on a ride and I feel that this issue would be solved by doing the above.Of course, these ideas are alot more difficult to implement in a theme park that is not ideal for alot of guests with disabilities. There are alot of access issues to some of the rides, there are very long queues, and very little 'smaller' rides or family attractions to allow these ideas to come into place. The system has needed changing I'm sure (even though I haven't visited the park in over a year) and hopefully the park will learn from some suggestions of this change and modify I few of their proccess's accordingly.

Job interview on Thursday.Life changing money involved.Bricking it.

The system benefits them as they do not have to queue with the normal queueline. The system does not have to be there and it is there for the convinience of the guests. They are not obliged to offer this service and if they do not, they do not class as breaking any disability discrimination laws as they are offering a service at their discretion. Not necessarily true as the rides with queue times such as 30 minutes did not require the pass to be presented. Again, I am giving my answers by what I used to work by. So it is very difficult to be accurate as I do not work for Thorpe Park and cannot confirm their procedures and proccess's. However I am happy to answer questions about this. LOL.. It's because we've just been talking about the Abience of the noise in the hospital, if though there are Ambulances here.Ambient, Ambulant and Ambulances! All too much for me this morning! Agree with you there, and there is of course the problem that the notes can be completely falsed.. but that could be said for the present time aswell and has nothing to do with the new rules around this. The right thing for the park to do would be to continue issuing disabled passes to guests but inform them that they MUST bring a proof of disability or doctors letter for the next time they visit Thorpe or Chessington. This can be put as a 'flag' on the system and whenever the guest visits either of the two parks in the future it will notify the staff member that they should have ID.I used to do this, and had people who I had asked to bring identification not bring it in on their next visit. I turned them away and told them that until they brung in the relevant documentation that I would not issue them any passes. Unfortunately we all know that it's not an easy job trying to do this, so lets hope that Gurst Services have their support of their management in doing this.

Unfortunately staff are or at least where unable to assist certain disabled guests in getting off the rides. This being for obvious reasons that I won't go into. Rules can be tightened up. At Chessington it was decided that those who are deaf or asthmatic and lots of other disabilities would still have to queue. It was, as imaginable, very difficult to explain to guests though and luckily I only had a few major confrontations. Chessington asked that all guests bring proof of disability with them .. this was asked to be a letter from the doctor explaining their disability and a reason why they are unable to queue. A letter of 'Disability Living Allowance' was simply rejected as we needed to know whether their disability would stop them from being able to queue with the general public. I am unsure as to whether this is still the case. I would hope so, as the benefits where visable to those who genuinly needed the system. Alot of people who asked questions understood that the system was being abused and appreciated why we where asking for proof. The only people who complained where those who would no longer make use of the system. As far as I knew, this is correct.

The system is there to benefit yourself and as a genuinly disable guest, I am sure you appreciate that the changes are being made in order to benefit yourself. The system was being abused, which meant that you had to wait longer to wait and get on rides behind guests who took multiple carers when not needed. Why should you have to bring more than one carer with you on the rides? Non-Ambient guests, in my opinion will be allowed two carers. This is in order for assistance if the ride would need to be evacuated in an emergency. Happy Days. The only situation that I could imagine this happening is if the guest is Non-Ambient. People of which are, will be more limited to the rides of which they can go on. In my opinion rides such as storm surge, loggers leap, rumba rapids.. are not suitable for those in wheelchairs. This is because the rides are constantly moving through the station and it is not possible to stop them without any inconvinience.As many of you know, I've worked in Chessingtons Guest Services department and implemented very similar changes to the ones of which Thorpe Park have adopted this year. It is purely for the benefit of genuinly disabled guests and I am sure that you should see the long term benefits of this system.

Come on... that is un-acceptable lads.... If that is your attitude in life then you will get nowhere. And that actually makes YOU the worst type of visitors at Thorpe Park.

I remember when maps where used to navigate my way around. Could you imagine trying to navigate the park purely with that map!

People who have met one of your mates once, and then act like they've known them forever are cringing. Also, just wanted to rant about people in general who use publc transport.- WHY for the love of god, do people wait 30 minutes for a bus, and then when they get on, scrummage around their bag for change for another 5 minutes. If you are one of these people, can I ask politely that you get your change ready prior to boarding the bus. If you don't, I will sooner or later smash you round the head with a blunt object.- The train, oh how lovely and busy it is at 8am in the morning.. so why do some stupid tossers insist on getting on the train and shouting "Can you move down please" when there is clearly no ****ing room to move into.- The taxi... Why does this ***** deserve a tip for ripping me off travelling 10 minutes down the road... AND he shows no urgency to get me to the train station on time. I hand over my money to someone who has only been in the country for a couple of days and doesn't speak a word of English, and he can't even manage to say "Thank You". How about next time you don't get a tip, you don't get anything.. and I just walk off.It won't be al queda blowing up transport at this rate...