I've held off on posting this just to see if things would improve, but apparently operations at Knotts has gotten far worse. Total
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From a few friends that still work there in different departments, things have gotten progressively bad. Knotts keeps hiring more people, instead of scheduling the employees they have. They've also been severely reducing hours/shifts, even when it's Spring Break/Boysenberry Festival. Even if someone is lucky to get scheduled 4-5 days, at least 2-3 of those shifts are ONLY 4hr shifts!! The weeks leading up to Boysenberry, I was told that they'd remove shifts because the "attendance projection was low".
As of January 1st, employees apparently got a raise of $0.50... so now most are only getting paid $16.50/hr. And their scheduled hours barely hit 30 each week. It's bad.
From what I've heard, the excuse about budget keeps getting used. Which reminds me, one of the ride-ops friends told me that the "ride-ops budget has been reduced" & I guess normally they'd open with 2 leads, but now only 1 for an entire area.
In other news, Wipeout is apparently still waiting on a part in order for it to get put back together & resume operation. And it also sounds like Montezooma has possibly been delayed .....again.