Though I told the MOD that I had ended my voice in this discussion, subsequent posts have forced me to the defense...
First off, let's set things straight regarding my personal opinion stated was regarding ECVs only, not disabled peoplein general. These opinions have been formed over years of working in the amusement park industry. How do you think that happens? If you for one day would work on the other side, you might change your opinions too.
Let's talk about the things we see as ride operators every single day. The other day I had a situation involving a ECV. A rather large women (500+ pounds) was complaining about having to transfer out of her ECV to a standard wheelchair to access the ride. She was screaming obsenities and casting blame on employess and the park. What to do? Is she disabled? Of course not, she was merely fat and using the claim of being disabled to bypass the system. Now, the complaint arised because she witnessed another disabled group entering the ride through a special entrance. Mind you this group included a terminally ill child. C'mon show some compassion! And worse in her way out, she backed over a small boys foot with her EVC. Imagine how that must have felt to this child and what is his impression on people in wheelcahirs/ECVs.
Next, a group were complaining they can't wait in the line. Here we had a women being pushed in a wheelchair by her young son with no visible disability. I do realize that you cannot base being disabled on outside appearance, but it was clearly the attitude of the husband that gave it away. After being refused, he went crazy and started blurting obsenities in all directions. Finally on their way out the woman got up out of the wheelchair and put her 2 kids in it and were on their way. Hmm, what was her disibility that required the wheelchair. Again, there was none.
Are you seeing a pattern here. It's a very common pattern park employees see each and every day. This merely explains how people can be swayed. In both cases these people were yelling obsenities in this family enviroment. That is unacceptable! Further more, what kind of values are these people passing onto children? Values that I want no part of knowing.
I'm sorry for disabled people and I would not like to be in their shoes. But you have to understand that being treated a certain way is not always the fault of policy and procedure. Do you think that policies are created out the blue? No, they are derived from actual situations. And you merely think it's ok to go off and write a letter of complaint because that's the easiest thing for you to do. But where do I get to complain? I don't. I must go on and face more and more of this each and every day with a smile hoping that in the afterlife these people will suffer for their actions.
The more unfortunate matter is that you fall into a class of the largest group of scammers, the ECVs. I would say that 9 out of 10 people in an ECV are scamming for something. This is fact I might add, fact from my personal experience. So maybe you should consider this before going off and writing some massive complaint. Maybe you should sit down and think over quite a few things. May I comment that most people who call themselves handicapped are faking it. That is not the proper term for a disabled person and for someone who is disabled, someone who has fought not to be treated differnetly would know that.
I must reiterate one more time that more people should stop and think. They should stop hiding behind a wall when it comes to dealing with disabled people. Look at our own moderator...enough said.
First off, let's set things straight regarding my personal opinion stated was regarding ECVs only, not disabled peoplein general. These opinions have been formed over years of working in the amusement park industry. How do you think that happens? If you for one day would work on the other side, you might change your opinions too.
Let's talk about the things we see as ride operators every single day. The other day I had a situation involving a ECV. A rather large women (500+ pounds) was complaining about having to transfer out of her ECV to a standard wheelchair to access the ride. She was screaming obsenities and casting blame on employess and the park. What to do? Is she disabled? Of course not, she was merely fat and using the claim of being disabled to bypass the system. Now, the complaint arised because she witnessed another disabled group entering the ride through a special entrance. Mind you this group included a terminally ill child. C'mon show some compassion! And worse in her way out, she backed over a small boys foot with her EVC. Imagine how that must have felt to this child and what is his impression on people in wheelcahirs/ECVs.
Next, a group were complaining they can't wait in the line. Here we had a women being pushed in a wheelchair by her young son with no visible disability. I do realize that you cannot base being disabled on outside appearance, but it was clearly the attitude of the husband that gave it away. After being refused, he went crazy and started blurting obsenities in all directions. Finally on their way out the woman got up out of the wheelchair and put her 2 kids in it and were on their way. Hmm, what was her disibility that required the wheelchair. Again, there was none.
Are you seeing a pattern here. It's a very common pattern park employees see each and every day. This merely explains how people can be swayed. In both cases these people were yelling obsenities in this family enviroment. That is unacceptable! Further more, what kind of values are these people passing onto children? Values that I want no part of knowing.
I'm sorry for disabled people and I would not like to be in their shoes. But you have to understand that being treated a certain way is not always the fault of policy and procedure. Do you think that policies are created out the blue? No, they are derived from actual situations. And you merely think it's ok to go off and write a letter of complaint because that's the easiest thing for you to do. But where do I get to complain? I don't. I must go on and face more and more of this each and every day with a smile hoping that in the afterlife these people will suffer for their actions.
The more unfortunate matter is that you fall into a class of the largest group of scammers, the ECVs. I would say that 9 out of 10 people in an ECV are scamming for something. This is fact I might add, fact from my personal experience. So maybe you should consider this before going off and writing some massive complaint. Maybe you should sit down and think over quite a few things. May I comment that most people who call themselves handicapped are faking it. That is not the proper term for a disabled person and for someone who is disabled, someone who has fought not to be treated differnetly would know that.
I must reiterate one more time that more people should stop and think. They should stop hiding behind a wall when it comes to dealing with disabled people. Look at our own moderator...enough said.
