I left work at 1:45am and as I'm walking out from the Westclock (MK's Cast lot) bus shelter I see a security truck behind the only car left in the handicapped section. I didn't think much of it and continued on across the lot to my car. A little old lady (no joke) comes around the security truck and calls out to me, asking if I could jump her off. Naturally being a gentleman I say yes despite the fact I had to be back way to soon for today's shift.
I pull over there and as I'm getting the cables hooked up she mentions to me that the security guard was useless (he was in the truck at the time). He apparently tried using a booster pack but it couldn't jump her off. I hook up the cables, let my engine run a few minutes, then have her try starting her car. It lugged but it did start up. Told her to let it just idle for a few minutes then to not turn it off for at least 30 minutes and I went on my way.
Booster packs are wonderful things if a battery is only low. They just aren't powerful enough to jump off a completely dead battery like the lady had. That requires another vehicle with a good alternator and a good set of jumper cables. Apparently security is not allowed to hook their vehicles directly to a car, they can only use booster packs. Come to think of it, that's stupid since I have a feeling the majority of times they have to jump someone off the battery will be completely dead because the headlights got left on all day or something. Yes jumping off a car can cause damage to the car doing the jumping but normally only if you hook the cables up wrong. Hook them up right and chances are their won't be any damage.
Even though we have bandages, aspirin, ibuprofen, etc. in a nice kit at the manager/coordinator desk for my area we can't give any of that to the guests, it is for our own use only. For safety and health reasons guests have to go to First-Aid for any of that stuff even though it is the exact same stuff we have in our kit.darph nader wrote:I'm with MS and the Doctor on this one. 1000 years ago when I was in high school,you could get busted for giving someone an aspirin. Sad to say,I saw it happen. :(
Really? At WDW we're allowed to take our lanyards home (though I never do). Though getting it personalized is stupid IMO, the lanyard still belongs to the company and has to be turned in when you leave.Main Streeter wrote:Security was/is correct. No D L R property lanyards of any type are to be taken off property. This is stated in Traditions, training, & sometimes at check ins.