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02-03-2010, 09:56 AM
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This is perhaps why we've spent so much on security detail.
I wholeheartedly support the right to protest, but the positions of some of the anti-2010 groups are ridiculous.
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02-03-2010, 12:26 PM
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#52 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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Originally Posted by Ch28  You never know with those clowns that run Vanoc | our security clearance currently does not allow us to walk across the venue to our break room so we have to go all the way around the venue wasting time hence money. way to go Vanoc  | |
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02-03-2010, 12:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Ch28 You never know with those clowns that run Vanoc | That means they would have to check MILLIONS of individuals just ensure that they have proper olympic branding/equipment. It is already crazy that they only allow VISA cards in venues and shops during the olypmics.
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02-03-2010, 12:43 PM
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#54 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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Originally Posted by Jsunu That means they would have to check MILLIONS of individuals just ensure that they have proper olympic branding/equipment. It is already crazy that they only allow VISA cards in venues and shops during the olypmics. | I'm an MC holder myself and while this is inconvenient, think about where we would be if we didn't have companies like Visa or Samsung putting up big money to sponsor the games.
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02-03-2010, 12:56 PM
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I'm actually worried. I was up last night hanging out in the TV lounge with some other people and all I heard was negative things. Horror stories, people quitting left and right, people not getting their pay, etc.
It just seems like CSC & Vanoc has gotten so desperate they are hiring anyone who is 19+ and can walk, talk & read. Actually I don't even kno about the talk and read, we have people from all over its kind of insane.
As for the pay, the bus drivers who shuttle us back and forth from Vancouver-Whistler and around the Whistler area, were promised a full uniform. All they got was a jacket. No pants, no boots, etc like us. Also they weren't even asked to submit a void cheque for their direct deposit for payroll. Who knwos if they're going to get paid?
CSC started hiring back in the summer around August and has repeatedly said they are done hriing in November, but yet there are people here who were hired in December. The downstairs room @ Main & Terminal may say they're not hiring anymore, but that's just bullshit. You can come upstairs to the 3rd floor and they'll give you a 5 min interview. The girl I was talking to yesterday said that's how long her interview was! When I went for mine mid october, it was much longer and thorough.
Oh yea..I also heard that 500 people quit last Friday.
Worried much? Yea. If CSC does not live up to what they've said in regards to pay (16/hr + 2.5/hr bonus upon completion of all shifts) I think there will be a HUGE class action lawsuit come end of March. They've already deceived us by saying we would have nice accomodation. We live in fucking storage containers for fuck sakes.
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02-03-2010, 02:56 PM
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#56 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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^CSC is the same as Aeroguard. Well they are under the same CEO not sure it is a subsidy or what the deal is.
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02-03-2010, 03:03 PM
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#57 | | i like gifs
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Originally Posted by K-Dub Worried much? Yea. If CSC does not live up to what they've said in regards to pay (16/hr + 2.5/hr bonus upon completion of all shifts) I think there will be a HUGE class action lawsuit come end of March. They've already deceived us by saying we would have nice accomodation. We live in fucking storage containers for fuck sakes. | 
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02-03-2010, 03:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Rogue951 Olympic security is a fancy name for security guards, aka, mall cops, aka rent-a-cops.
and I don't mean the young ones who look for trouble.
they should just be renamed crowd control cause that's what they are. | Yea I agree with you, we aren't true security. They emphasized this, said that we were "screening". We screen people coming in, but if shit truly goes down, we can't do anything, nor would we be trained to do so.
When I was hired, they said we would be getting 90 day BST licenses, and that it would be paid for. Found out from my friend who is taking security that to get a BST license in BC, you need to take a test. We took no such test!!
We don't have true security licenses, and the ones that we are given say that is' only effective under supervision, aka the Supervisors who have BST 1 and the RCMP who will be around. I think the ratio is 10:1 BST. What's funny about the supervisors is that they got the same training as SCREENERS, the people doing the wand and magnetometor (the walk through thing) and so they have no training on anything related to the X-Ray machines. There are things that ALWAYS have to be searched, such as pills, bottles, knives, nail clippers. Heard yesterday that one of the supervisors told them that ist okay just let it through. Uhhhhhh...............
So yea, this whole "security" thing is a joke, CSC is turning out to be a joke. Even the HR person I talked to today asking about my schedule (which I don't have yet) said that she's frustrated and she's resigning.
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02-03-2010, 03:17 PM
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5 star yo | Most def. Ya jealous?
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02-03-2010, 03:32 PM
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Originally Posted by K-Dub Most def. Ya jealous? | Holy fuck really containers?! shit im sorta glad my friend didnt get hired to stay up in whistler for the olympics. Must be nice living in above average hobo accomidations. Quote:
Originally Posted by Tapioca I'm an MC holder myself and while this is inconvenient, think about where we would be if we didn't have companies like Visa or Samsung putting up big money to sponsor the games. | True true, i am just sad at the fact that the olympics is basically is (and always were) a large advertisement for companies, funded majority by our tax money.
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02-03-2010, 03:36 PM
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#61 | | i like gifs
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Originally Posted by K-Dub Most def. Ya jealous? | Mos def my friend.
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02-03-2010, 03:38 PM
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#62 | | Need my Daily Fix of RS
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Anyone here working at Cypress?
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02-04-2010, 11:24 PM
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#63 | | I subscribe to Revscene
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Schedualing called me today and asked me if I wanted to go to whistler to stay. I said no ... I asked when my schedual is going to come out. She said she doesn't know .. she says they are hella backed up ...
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02-04-2010, 11:32 PM
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#64 | | 14 dolla balla aint got nothing on me!
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they sent me my schedule for cypress. 12am-8:45am seven days in a row, including my birthday, which they wont change. awesome. seriously debating quitting. i wanted this job for the experience of being apart of the games. i have a real job already that i took time off of to do this job but this isnt really worth it to me.
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02-05-2010, 12:39 AM
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#65 | | My dinner reheated before my turbo spooled
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Originally Posted by K-Dub Most def. Ya jealous? | Y would i be jealous of your crappy ass accomodation?!?!?!
since im here too. Revscene meet!
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02-05-2010, 09:55 AM
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Originally Posted by T.H.C Schedualing called me today and asked me if I wanted to go to whistler to stay. I said no ... I asked when my schedual is going to come out. She said she doesn't know .. she says they are hella backed up ... | Don't bother with phoning or emailing them, nothing gets done that way. Just head down to Terminal and ask in person. Don't leave until you get a print out of your schedule in your hand. I don't know how honest they are when they say they're backed up. I got my schedule after HR up here in Whistler phoned the head of the department and got me a schedule within 15 minutes. Quote:
Originally Posted by Bali Vince Y would i be jealous of your crappy ass accomodation?!?!?!
since im here too. Revscene meet! | I just knew someone from RS would be here, haha. I'm near 380~ in the Whistler building. Working WVL for a couple midnight shifts and then rotating through 12-8, 8-4 and 4-12 in PSA 3 till end of March.
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02-05-2010, 01:39 PM
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Anyone else here staying on one of the three cruise ships?
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02-05-2010, 01:50 PM
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#68 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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Ain't the "cruise ship" for the popo only? I was talkin to one of the officer at work today and he told me they get a tiny cabin on th hip and have to share with 1 other officer Posted via RS Mobile | |
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02-05-2010, 02:11 PM
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Originally Posted by threezero Ain't the "cruise ship" for the popo only? I was talkin to one of the officer at work today and he told me they get a tiny cabin on th hip and have to share with 1 other officer Posted via RS Mobile | Sure doesn't seem like it. There are a lot of people that I've seen who should not be in law enforcement or military. If they are, god help us all.
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02-05-2010, 02:25 PM
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#70 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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Originally Posted by threezero Ain't the "cruise ship" for the popo only? I was talkin to one of the officer at work today and he told me they get a tiny cabin on th hip and have to share with 1 other officer Posted via RS Mobile | RCMP chartered the 3 cruise ships, but who they actually put on board is up to them, I guess.
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02-05-2010, 02:30 PM
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#71 | | My dinner reheated before my turbo spooled
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Originally Posted by K-Dub Don't bother with phoning or emailing them, nothing gets done that way. Just head down to Terminal and ask in person. Don't leave until you get a print out of your schedule in your hand. I don't know how honest they are when they say they're backed up. I got my schedule after HR up here in Whistler phoned the head of the department and got me a schedule within 15 minutes.
I just knew someone from RS would be here, haha. I'm near 380~ in the Whistler building. Working WVL for a couple midnight shifts and then rotating through 12-8, 8-4 and 4-12 in PSA 3 till end of March. | 380? 384 here man. I have to go get a better sched, lasting me till end of march. I have only few weeks of graveyard.
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