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As a teenager, I worked running boardwalk games for a very well known theme park. I don't want to say the name, but let's just say it was one with <i>many flags</i>.<p>Every day the workflow was as follows:<p><pre><code>  1. Sign-in in the employee entrance office.
  2. Get your cash bag from costumes.
  3. Pick up $200 worth of singles from the cash office for making change which both you and the teller would count out.
  4. Go through a security check.
  5. Walkthrough the park from the employee entrance to where your game was (often the other side of the park).
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The whole thing took 20 minutes and we would signed-in to start being paid at <i>the next</i> 15 minute interval from when we arrived at our game.<p>When we checked out, we did the whole process in reverse but would be signed-out for the previous 15 minute interval when we left our game area.<p>All in all, we were losing 40-68 minutes of wages per day. Worse if there were long lines in the office or costumes or the cash office.<p>Of course, we were also only paid $6.15 an hour and had to pay union dues out of that, so in total, it didn't add up to much...