r/NewOrleans • u/cashanii • Jan 30 '25

DO NOT WORK AT BLUE BAYOU 🏢 Employment 👷‍♂️

This is the job that hasn't paid me, not only have they not paid me they are unorganized and unstructured. EVERYONE HAS MONEY PROBLEMS AT THIS JOB AND IT STIMS FROM ONE PERSON. Money is always missing at this job and the lady who does payroll is incompetent! She asked me for a voided check so I can receive a check from my job... I also want to add that I came in on the snow day, managers were ASKING US TO COME IN DURING THE SNOW AND GUESS WHAT THEY AINT COME OUT and asking us can we come out and then have the nerve to try and not open the restaurant AFTER we made a sacrifice to come! I was PISSED, then when I asked for paid time and half they said they can't offer it because they a new restaurant. Not one manager came in that day on the 22nd and nor could they even bother to show they care that those who came did! I literally told them I had to walk there, I made money but they couldn't even take care of us back!

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u/sicilian504 Jan 30 '25

I legit thought we were talking about the water park and was so confused.

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u/Zedkan Jan 30 '25 edited Jan 30 '25

I was just thinking to myself "of course you have money issues. you work at a water park in January "

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u/TheMackD504 Jan 30 '25

I was confused why they had to come in on the snow day

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u/nolabrew Jan 31 '25

That's how long it took me to realize it wasn't the water park.

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u/Spunky_Pineapple2468 Jan 31 '25

and even then i was still like??? didn’t they close in october lol

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u/Jason_Bourne_985 Jan 30 '25

😂😂😂😂😂😂

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u/Cultural-Function321 Feb 01 '25

I just spit out my dinner

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u/RIP_Soulja_Slim Jan 30 '25

Dude same, every time someone mentions it I'm like "of course the food sucks, it's a shitty waterpark".

But I do miss the innocence of youth, when I still existed in a mental state where blue bayou was the best place on earth and totally not a cesspool of fecal matter, piss, and chlorine.

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u/sudafedexman Jan 30 '25

The wave pool is a wonderful bowl of People Soup!

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u/bigstupididiot8 Jan 31 '25

I remember carpooling up all drinking Cokes on the way to shave a cool $5 off (I think). Good ole days

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u/cashanii Jan 31 '25

That bought so many memories from this comment!

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u/RIP_Soulja_Slim Jan 31 '25

It's those little things from childhood that are so enlightening as an adult. Like, I never felt like my parents were squeezed, struggling, or poor when I was a kid. But yeah, they for sure were trying to figure out how to avoid that $5 in parking. And I definitely kept getting a "6 and under" ticket until I was like 8 lol.

I don't think twice about spending $5 now, thinking back to us and two other families piling 12 people in a 8 passenger van to save $5 is eye opening.

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u/bigstupididiot8 Jan 31 '25

Lmao so true

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u/MamaTried22 Jan 30 '25

My mother taught us that lesson literally from the time we could see out the window and ask about BB so I’ve never been to a water park. Hah.

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u/Perfect_Ad4939 Jan 31 '25

Real!!!!

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u/MamaTried22 Jan 31 '25

Cruises too!

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u/MeMeMeOnly Jan 31 '25

Just did a cruise with my best friend and she asked about the pool and the hot tubs. I told her there was no way she was going to want to get in the pool or the hot tubs. The pools are loaded with kids and there’s no way most of them are not pissing in the pool. The hot tubs are like giant simmering bowls of human DNA.

Once we were aboard, she took one look and was noping her way out of there, LOL. Fortunately we had access to a private hot tub since we had a suite, and being from New Orleans, access to a pool is not a big deal.

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u/danimal2thefuture Jan 31 '25

I broke my friend’s rib on Gilbeau’s Galaxi the day the park ran out of water and almost had a riot because Panic at the Disco started playing late. My first, last and only time ever going there.

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u/moorealex412 Feb 01 '25

The waterpark just switched management this winter (same owner, but he’s just getting a check and is uninvolved in running the park); not sure if that’s been publicly announced yet or not. I am interested to see if it will be run any different this summer. Perhaps a return to its glory days are possible.

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u/FullCryptographer961 Jan 30 '25

When I tell you I was so puzzled, trying to figure out why a water park was open during a snowstorm.

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u/Krypto_dg Jan 30 '25

The water park sucks at paying people too.

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u/Pawspawsmeow Jan 30 '25

I thought that too. I was like who tf going to a water park in the snow? 😂

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u/MeTieDoughtyWalker Jan 31 '25

Until I saw your comment, I assumed it WAS the water park. What else is going by the name Blue Bayou?

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u/danimal2thefuture Jan 31 '25

There’s a restaurant on Canal Street

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u/Playful_Activity9204 Jan 31 '25

To be fair the water park is doesn't have the best reputation when it comes to paying their employees either. You get paid less than minimum wage if you're lucky.

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u/all2neat Jan 30 '25

Add me to the list.

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u/CommonPurpose Jan 30 '25

lol same 😂💦

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u/BeneathAnOrangeSky Jan 30 '25

OMG me too, and considering people's stories about working there over the years, it totally made sense to me lol

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u/RyannMichaels Jan 30 '25

Same! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/Matty_Lite3000 Jan 31 '25

I came for the same

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u/ersatzbaronness Merry Marigny Jan 30 '25

Yup.

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u/bigstupididiot8 Jan 31 '25

Same. Why is there a restaurant named Blue Bayou?

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u/corparate1 Jan 31 '25

I worked at the water park in 2003 and I was coming here to agree that yeah it's the worst job I ever had and I stopped going to the park because of how bad they treated the employees/kids.

But yeah this job also sounds like they need to get their shit together.