Working on Halloween?

SpookyBlackKat, I love to hear about offices allowing costumes on Halloween. I was working in an office setting last year and each team dressed as a group and decorated. I was mad that they voted on the day I was off (and three others on the team). The ones there voted for us to be the Duck Dynasty family. The four of us could have made a major difference in this lame theme. But, it was fun. The rest of the building went all out. One team did Wizard of Oz and had all the major actors and even did a yellowbrick road from the front door all the way to their section. Other themes that day included: witches, monsters, zombies, vampires, etc.

I have always been working in schools before last year and we always dressed up. I substitute now and the district where I work has a staff development day on the 31st.

This week I have subbed for a teacher who teaches floral design all day and they were decorating empty cans by painting Halloween things on them. Today they added the florist foam and wooden skewers and candy bars for Candy Bouquets. They will add the finishing touches on Monday. Then the rest of the week they are decorating pumpkins with paint. I will be there all next week, too. Fun classes.

I was actually scheduled for a closing shift on Halloween - 6:15 p.m. to 2:45 a.m. - which is the night. I had requested the night off, but they scheduled me anyway. Fortunately, I found somebody who needed hours, so I gave my shift to her. Yay! For one thing, I've put far too much time, energy and cash into this year's version of "Rose's Haunted Graveyard" to blow it off by working. Secondly, though, working Halloween night at Universal Studios would be really unpleasant. I pilot one of the yachts that takes hotel guests from the parks to the resorts. As Halloween approaches, the Halloween Horror Nights crowds have grown progressively more drunken, aggressive and obnoxious. Last night Horror Nights hit capacity. Express passes were sold out by 8 and people were turned away at the gates. Tired of the two and three hour-long wait times for the mazes and the shoulder-to-shoulder scare zones so dense with guests it was hard to even find a scareactor, a lot of the guests ended up boozing in CityWalk, so by the time they came down to the dock to board a boat they were hammered out of their minds. And this was the Saturday before Halloween. So you can imagine my delight at not having to work the actual night.