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Accommodation

CP provides accommodation for employees. There are different accommodation such as Cedars (located at Cedar Point), Commons, Apartments and Bayside. There are many buildings for Commons (1300,1500,1600) I lived in 1300 Commons, where there are 3 or 4 beds in one room. The room included wardrobe, tables, mattress and chair. There were microwave, television, water fountain located in the lobby of 1300 Commons. The lobby always filled with people in the night for dining, gathering and chatting, it was really lively!

Food

There are places just for employees to dine in. In the accommodation area, Canteen is the place for employees to have food while in the park, Best Day Bistro is the place where all the employees will eat there.

The food was similar every day (mostly fast food) which will be around $1-3, there's everyday special menu can order (special entree) which will be around $4-5.

The food I ate almost everyday, pancake/egg/sausage, ham & cheese sandwich, egg/ham/cheese, cheeseburger & fries, pepperoni pizza or cheese pizza, grill chicken burger. It was very unhealthy to eat everyday but no choice...

Transportation
There was free employee bus for employee to go around Sandusky (Walmart, Meijer, Sandusky Mall, Downtown), and of course to work.

CP also provides Bus Trip for employee, to sign up can go ARC. It was quite worth it, and a lot of employee register. I didn't join the bus tour because friends wanted to rent car to go those places.

Uniform
My uniform as food associate was different from in the park due to my location is waterpark, my uniform was so beach look with the flower print on the shirt. I was so embarrassed when I first get it because I was different with my friends where they were just blue polo shirt. I get the uniform shirt, pants, belt, and hat from wardrobe. The good thing about uniform is we can go Wardrobe to get a clean uniform when we hand in the dirty one. We do not need to wash the uniform ourselves! But, of course I still have some clothes I needed to wash myself. As food associate, we are required to wear white T-shirt inside which is troublesome because I have to wash it. The accommodation office area have washing machine and drying machine, so people do not need to worry about laundry!

Weather

Checking weather is my daily routine when I working there, this is because i needed to get ready to work in different location. If is rain on the day or the weather is too chilling, wagons wouldnt be open and area supervisor/manager will assign me to other location.

The weather wasn't that good in the first month of my working, it get so cold sometimes or rainy. Soak City workers all are worried about working hours. I got sent home sometimes, which i didnt get to work a lot of hours.
The weather most chilling in the day was around 17~18 Degree, most hot around 25~28 Degree. It rains a lot in early June. People always say Sandusky's weather is difficult to estimate, it gets cold in the morning and super hot in the afternoon, and sometimes it rains.

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My working experience

by HP - 11:40 PM

I was a food associate that works in wagons (booth/stands) located in Soak City. It was a different park from Cedar Point. Soak City is a waterpark while Cedar Point is an amusement park.

There were total 5 wagons which selling snacks/drinks, beers, ice cream (dipping dots), snow-cone/ lemonade & Minutes Maid smoothies. Most of the time, only 2 or 3 wagons will be opened due to bad weather. Basically, supervisor will assign each of wagons employee to different wagons to work on the day, and I will be preparing stuffs to open the wagon, selling foods/drinks and cleaning after finished.

During the first month of working, I was all so confused with things and stuffs around. I remembered my very first day working there, employees have to move stuffs in and out to get ready for opening. I remembered I carried a lot of heavy stuffs, walked under the sun most of the time, and cleaned a lot things around. I was so exhausted on the first day! I met my supervisor and my co-workers who will be working with me in this summer. They were very friendly!

There are always good and bad things happen. I enjoyed a lot and gain much new experience from working. I tried to fry, clean, be cashier, pouring beers, mop, everything that food associate does. What makes me feel bad is I met unfriendly people while working. In the same time, I met a lot nice people.

The bad things about working in Soak City especially wagons was the hours. There was many employee working in wagons and sometimes (most of the time), they only open 2 or 3 wagons due to bad weather (rain or too chilling), so some stayed for wagons while for others, area supervisor will assign them to work in the park (Cedar Point). So in the end, most of the Soak City employee will end up in the park or Canteen when the weather is bad. The worst was a lot employees didnt get fair hours due to getting sent home (ask them not to work for the day) often because the park also full.

I'm actually enjoy working every place because I get to know more people and learn different things. But on the other hand, they have to teach me, some people are nice and willing to teach but some are just rude. I'm glad that my supervisor helped me out so much.

My supervisor is the best as I worked a lot of location, some supervisor are good and some are nasty. Couldn't thank my supervisor enough for always hearing me out and help me so much. Working in Soak City is tiring as working hours is less, which make me wanted to work more extra hours. I been going to Canteen work until 1am if late is 2am. which is so tired for the next day.

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Work and Travel USA Program 2016

by HP - 10:03 PM

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