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Confessions of a Chuck E Cheese Employee 6

Well, I'm running out of clever ways to introduce this, so let's just get to it   Me : how long have you been working at your local CEC? bamboozledaddy : I have been working at my “local” CEC (still about an hour drive) for a couple of months now, that’s after I transferred from a different location though. I moved away for the summer and worked at my other location first, and then when I came back home I transferred to the one I grew up going to. bamboozledaddy (Unprompted Crazy Story): Just in the couple months I’ve started working there we’ve had to call the cops but over some pretty tame stuff. like, birthday parties not getting paid for, one time this woman started swinging on her baby daddy, but other than that it’s just a regular CEC, I just hold it dearly to my heart and that’s why I drive 2 hours a day LMAO. Me : that brings me to this...what's alcohol doing at a place like CEC? bamboozledaddy : So actually, in my state we don’t sell alcohol. the state won’t give u...

Confessons of a Chuck E Cheese Employee: Volume 5

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 Well, we have yet another one for the ongoing Confessions of a CEC employee, but his time, i don't have to completely anonymize their identity (I'm using their Discord username for this)   Some "typos" remain as that's how the person meant to put it  

Confessions of a Chuck E Cheese Employee: Volume 4

 This 4th interview was from a CEC discord server, the identity of which I'll keep private per the interest of higher ups in said server  

Confessions of a Chuck E Cheese employee: Volume 3

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 Another one, which I was working on the interview & transcript on WHILE the other from "current anon" was happening.  Yes, me juggling 2 interviews/chats at the same time, all while doing other things like getting ready for a Dave & Busters trip the next day (the day after when I posted volume 2 and did the draft for this one.  Once again, edited for grammar and formatting.

Confessions of a Chuck E Cheese employee: Volume 2

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 Well, I didn't think I'd be doing a Volume 2, but after sharing the original "Confessions of a Chuck E Cheese employee" to r/chuckecheese over on Reddit, I've had a positive response to it. In fact, people FROM the subreddit wanted to sit down for a similar interview (this being one of them)  Once again, they wanna be anonymous.  When I asked what they'd want to be referred as in this post, they said "current anon employee" so that's what I'll use. Again, some of the original Discord conversation has been edited for grammar and other stuff for the sake of this blog post.

Ode to Official YT Channels with full Seasons/Series

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 Before I go to the main topic of this post.... THIS BLOG WILL BE A JUMP-SCARE/SPOOK-FREE ZONE     Now with THAT out of the way, let's give appreciation to channels that offer the fans of various shows *OFFICIAL* ways to watch shows that are NOT just fans uploading vhs rips or what have you.  These channels, having that official status, are less likely to disappear or have videos blocked (see the unofficial yet Vin Di Bona approved & assisted AFV Classics channel).  Here's some of such youtube channels (which will include things I'm embarrassed to link to due to the shows themselves, even if i watched said show on TV back in the day)   STARCADE https://www.youtube.com/@starcadetvv  Before modern E-Sports, Before G4's "Arena" with a former American Gladiator hosting... heck, before Phil Moore's impromptu lyrics going to and from Video Challenges on Nick Arcade... there was Starcade.  Oh, and be careful you spell it with one R, or you get an old...

Confessions of a Chuck E Cheese employee

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 I recently got a chance to speak to a friend from one of the Twitch/Discord communities I'm in who just so happened to have once worked for one Charles Entertainment Cheese (AKA Chuck E Cheese). This person, though, wanted to remain anonymous in this interview, so I'll refer to them as "CEC Anon" for lack of a better term. NOTE: THE INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT IS MOSTLY AS DONE IN THE DISCORD DM, WITH GRAMMAR EDITS AS WELL AS SOME CONTENT EDITS (ME ASKING TWO QUESTIONS AT ONCE, DOING ONE WHILE WAITING ON AN ANSWER FOR THE OTHER) Me: Do you remember what animatronic "stage" you had when you were working there? CEC Anon: I was actually too afraid of them to have anything to do with them. But I was a waitress/in costume. Me: Ah... which costumes were you in, if you remember? CEC Anon: Whoever they needed me to be. There was never really a rotation or anything. It's whoever was working and what they needed. Sometimes we only had a Chuck E. Sometimes we had Helen H...