Absolutely, they should have been building a 5th gate before the pandemic and maybe a 6th gate with all that down time during the pandemic, triple the staff, and kept a 75% restriction using the park reservation system to ensure everyone could just walk on to every ride - that's how I remember the 80s!
You're Disney vacation probably isn't worth what you spend either, but yet you spend it.
https://www.bostonfed.org/home/publ...regate-effects-of-minimum-wage-increases.aspxWhether its Disney, McDonalds or your local restaurant, forced minimum wage increases force price increases. Making $15 an hour for your income is also heavily effected by region. New York verses Kansas. Disney could cut profits and pay employees more for sure! I get your corporate greed point, but all businesses will raise prices or cut staff when forced to increase minimum wages. That's all I am stating.
It’s funny how you explained yourself and made your takeaway magnitudes worse than the original statement
My daughter who recently left DCP had no trouble covering the expenses and she also had a volunteer position online which required her to always be online when home and their unit never went over. Her peers that couldn’t cover rent were those that would trade out their minimum required hours and work hardly at all. 50-60 hour work weeks were easily found and 40 hour weeks would have covered her expenses. She was able to save $8000 while in the DCP from January - May.l (left early due to getting a career job). There is no reason your daughter shouldn’t be able to cover her expenses on her own.
The wage should still be livable - if someone chooses to only work 10 or 20 hours a week - so be it.
I agree. I think Disney has used their brand and nostalgia for that brand to underpay their employees for decades and employees have decided that they've had enough. Like I've said in previous posts, I 100% do not blame CMs for leaving. Working for Disney is hard work for awful pay. People on here can talk all they want about which jobs are meant to be providing a livable wage, but for many folks working for Disney isn't one of those jobs. That's why Disney relies on the College Program so much.
It’s a bummer how many people here don’t care about the working class. Even acknowledging that people who aren’t as fortunate as them exist is considered by many to be rude. They shouldn’t have to read words typed by people who are beneath them. It’s gross honestly, but they generate AD revenue for the site and might do business with Dreams unlimited or DVC Resale so it’s all good.
I said this in a previous post, but I do find it funny that a lot of people (not on here, in general) always say "If you don't like your job, then leave. No one is making you stay." whenever employees discuss unfair/bad treatment at their jobs or even at the mention of unionizing and then when those employees do leave, those same people turn around and wonder why those jobs are understaffed. I worked at a minimum wage job for a while and I heard that sentiment all the time. Eventually I did leave and now when I go back to my old job, whenever my old manager sees me she jokes about how I should come back because they're short staffed.
Saving $8000 while in the program is impressive! Can I ask what role your daughter was in? I am hearing a lot about being able to pick up shifts and this seems a lot more common in the areas like merchandise, custodial, QSFB and not as common for some more specialized roles like attractions, deep water guard, etc. I’m finding out many things about the program depend on role.
People believe they are well off because they are special. They need to believe it. There’s something in their psyche that makes it imperative that their good fortune is a result of them actually being better, and others’ station in life is a result of them being worse. Their good fortune isn’t enough for them, they need to believe that good fortune is a result of them being inherently better people.
Outdoor concessions. Her friend that started at the same time as her worked attractions and had to give up his remote online job due to the number of hours he was picking up. The online job paid much more but the satisfaction to him was less. I say this to point out as per of the discussion, not directly to you, that people that enjoy what they are doing, will be more satisfied and work for less.
Which is why Disney will always pay a little less than others.
So your daughter had to work two jobs to save up that money? I, for some reason, thought the first online job was a volunteer position?
Wow!
But see, there you have it right there..”hard work”…”good decisions”. There are plenty of people that work hard and make the best decisions available to them that aren’t as fortunate for a host of factors. It’s the illusion of meritocracy.
Whats funny is all the posters that think I am not being nice for judging employees dress codes, are being so judgemental themselves. Calling out a company lowering its standards was the point I was trying to make when pointing out a few employees I encountered. Hope you live up to the same standards you are applying to others.
