No one is saying the park should just leave ACs around the park broken. Obviously they need to fix them ASAP—and likely close locations that lose their ACs in the meantime. People are just highlighting that, you know, ACs break sometimes and, you know, during a massive heat wave, getting them replaced instantly isn't always feasible.
Yup. Things break, even well maintained things. IMO there's certain things that, yes, the park should have someone on staff that can take care of it and the inventory of parts to fix it. A/C is one of those (many) things that I don't blame them for. Someone certified in A/C on staff would (again IMO) be a waste of payroll dollars.
Personally I'm on the fence on needing to close locations. Let's take the example of Grogans. Why can't the close the dining, serve out disposable glasses, and make it walk through to prevent too many people in there at once?
And this is just a question tied to it - when F&B employees are hired are they trained to work just one place or multiple? Because, and I'll be honest this is where the blame BGW culture spins my mind, they don't pay people enough, they've done the tipping, which is both their fault, but then you add on that closing without cross trained employees, they would have to be sent home, which BGW would get some hate for (to be clear they should take heat for some of this). Sorry, just a place my mind goes with how this cycle goes down and down (yey for Autism).
But also, and I know this is highly unlikely, but what if the AC went out at a majority of indoor eatery venues on the same day, or within a week span and the others haven't gotten fixed yet? Especially since some places seem to be closed long term right now. So lets say Gorgons, Festhaus, Squires, Marco Polo's A/C's were all down...that leaves Trappers as the only major place to eat a full meal as a guest. So I don't even feel that closing places with broken A/C is fully the right answer either.
Anyways, sorry for the rant in the 3rd and 4th paragraph.
And I think there's universal agreement that staff deserve far better wages? Basically everyone 'round here agrees that BGW is massively overpriced for the poor experience they typically deliver to guests too. You're preachin' to the choir. Donno way you went all antagonistic all the sudden.
Agreed. But like in my rant above, I feel like at times blame for things all get's lumped into "BGW is terrible" without understanding what is and isn't their control. Does their staff deserve better wages? Absolutely. But also, does paying more always fix employee attitude? In my experience no. So in this case would not being so highly profiteering maintain the AC? Sure. Does it prevent it from breaking? Absolutely not.
Anyways sorry for the rants. Feels good to say out loud. but anyways, BGW employees deserve to be paid more, employees shouldn't be forced to work in dangerous situations (without it being an inherent part of the position), but things break and the answer always isn't just to close it all down.
