Safety is more important than happiness (long) Hello friends, I have a few mini stories from work. So far nothing really noteworthy has happened, but there has been a few small incidents here and there. Some details have been left out since they would make the park identifiable.  The other day at work I was situated on the Ferris wheel. Like most parks, our Ferris wheel is enclosed by a fence, since it is a giant spinning wheel that can injure someone if they get close to it. The etiquete for getting on Ferris wheels seems to be fairly consistent across parks: the ride attendants stop the ride, unload the car, and then call the next people in. This is done to prevent overcrowding, and to prevent people from being hit by a giant metal wheel. However, we always have some geniuses that do not wait for instructions and try to walk into the ride. Interestingly enough, it happened 17 times yesterday, and every single time it was done by a fattie. This is one of the few rides in the park that they can definitely fit into, and they risk getting hurt/kicked out for not being able to wait an extra minute for the wheel to stop? However, this isn’t the only safety-related incident I’ve seen. We have another ride that is a shitlord ride, since I’ve heard people complain that it’s too narrow for adults, is to small for their hips, and it’s not made for fluffy people (it’s not because I’ve seen tall guys fit, there’s many adults that have extra seat space when sitting, and no shit bc it’s an intense ride so you need to be strapped down). I can’t count the number of times that fats have been unable to ride due to not being able to close the safety restraint. Some of them try to argue with me, saying that they’ll be ok and to just start the ride. Uh, no, I can’t, the ride will not start without all safety restraints being activated and I don’t want you flying out of your seat and squishing someone, sorry. What’s worse is the ones that manage to squish themselves into the ride. They complain about the seats/safety restraints being uncomfortable, and their extra weight is starting to impact the ride, causing it to overshoot the station. The one positive part to this is that ride operators are allowed to ride with children who need an adult but don’t have one riding with them, so I’ve rode with hamplanets’ kids many times. These kids are always super excited about being able to go on and look like they’re a healthy size, so it makes me a little sad knowing that they might turn out like their mom/dad.  Fats also place their kids’ happiness over their safety and mine. I got cussed out by a hamplanet when her kid was too short to ride the coaster. Telling her that her son was too short to ride was “fucking rude” (exact words) since he had waited in line for a long time. Sorry, but 1.) there’s a sign explaining our heigh policy at the entrance, 2.) it’s for safety reasons since flying out of a coaster can kill you, 3.) your kid could ride with an adult, and 4.) screaming swear words in front of children is not going to help you out. She ended up leaving in a huff, screaming about how it’s annoying that her son couldn’t ride. I ended up calling over a ride manager to keep an eye on her, since swearing in front of children is a no-no. She didn’t have any other incidents (as far as I know) for the rest of the day.  I also had another fattie tell me to help her son out at the bumper cars, since her kid was having difficulty. I wouldn’t have minded helping out the kid, aside from the fact that she wanted me to walk across the track, while the cars were running, and explain to him how to drive. How about you take a stroll through traffic first, and if that goes well I’ll walk across the track? To the fatties lurking: ride operators are shitlords, or at least have shitlord tendencies. A lot of the rides here are weight based, and having multiple fat people makes our jobs harder. Everyone I have chatted with can tell a story about how an overweight person made their job harder. A few people, myself included, have even gotten hurt due to people caring more about eating than their health (slipped while assisting a fattie at the water park, nothing major but hurt like hell, definitely would not have happened if they were human sized).  Tl,dr; fats make working at a theme park difficult due to their lack of caring about personal safety and others around them