Did they at least give everyone chili?

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>Currently, the park has 75,000 cast members, as the company refers to its employees

I wonder if I started calling my colleagues ‘ fellow cast members’ how they would react..

“Poor unfortunate souls”

Good! Stand together brothers!

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Because they cast them aside.

Poor Mickey. First DeSantis - and now the union.

They are caste members from a lower caste that’s all

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There are cast members that work full time that live in their car because they can't afford rent in the area.

This is about the mouse refusing to pay a living wage.

Edit: a letter

If you want to visit Disney World for two weeks and see EVERYTHING there, it'll cost you about what the "cast members" make in a year. So... Yeah. Fuck the mouse. They can afford to pay these people.

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Who can afford to go to Disney for 2 weeks?!

Disney can and should pay.

My family could. Once. It was a super special vacation. But it was WAY more affordable back then. Looking at prices now, I don't see how anybody does it.

Feel the same way about season tickets to, say, football.

My dad had them for years, on a foreman's salary. Good seats too, his one big "for himself" item.

Now? Shit, someone doing that job would spend a week's salary for two shit seats for one game.

3 adults paying for a 3 bedroom suite is how we did.

We do, but there are caveats.

We have DVC (the disney timeshare) and we pool our points. We have 3 groups that add points to the kitty. We have either 7 or 9 adults. If there are 9 adults, there are 2 kids. If 7 adults, no kids.

Every adult pays their own way for passes, food, and merch. 2 of the 7 adults work for Disney, so they get free passes. 2 or 4 more use the disney comp passes, and the remaining 3 have annual passes.

Food wise, breakfast is always in the room (we have a full kitchen). Lunch occasionally is too. We usually do max 1 meal a day in the parks. Merch is purchased sparingly because it's not as good (to us) as it used to be, and we go all the time. We stay on property once a year for 12 nights.

Unless your everything is counting 2 weeks of Hotel Club Suites, Victoria and Albert Dinners, Yacht rentals, and personalized safaris then no it does not.

You can have a complete Disney World trip and see all the main attractions (and even take a trip down the street to Universal) for way way less.

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"Revenue was up 36% and profits more than doubled from the previous fiscal year. And both revenue and operating profits are above what the company posted in fiscal year 2019, before the pandemic, with a 12% rise in revenue and a 10% gain in earnings."

I honestly wouldn't want to be there for 2 weeks, you can do the parks in 3 days tops.

IKEA calls all their employees coworkers. That’s what you, the customer, are supposed to call them too

The thought process is basically to say that where the guests are (rides, restaurants, stores, etc) is the “stage”, your uniform is a “costume”, and the parks/guest experiences are the “show”.

Source: used to work at Disney parks

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Ah, it's one of those American english things where they randomly drop letters from words? Like how maths is math or labour is Labor?

2 weeks? Dude you can do everything in the park in about 4 or 5 day’s maximum. 2 weeks would be insane lol.

Thats... Actually because "Cast members" is a term for theater roles. Because they employ a lot of entertainment at their parks. Even though most of them are serving in background roles and are just playing around in the secret tunnels.

Does your employer consider the workplace a "stage"?

I guess everything being a part of the show is where the magic comes from.

I go to Disneyworld several times a year since we're big fans. It costs a fortune with a family of four. $109 per ticket is the cheapest it gets for a single day ticket. I travel a ton for work so I leverage my airline miles and Marriott points to remove the travel and lodging costs.

It can easily cost $1000/day to go to the park.

No way a family could do everything at all four parks in 4 or 5 days. Not possible.

Yeah last time I went we were there for 8 days, 7 of which were park days and on day seven we said fuck it and went to the movies instead. I’d say 5 days is the perfect amount of time for WDW

Wait I’m calling the IKEA employees ‘coworker’? Please don’t hurt me for this I’m high

Yep, basically. That's the theory, anyway.

(My mom worked for Disney, so can confirm too.)

Yea that is what corporate wants you to call their employees in the store. Absolutely hilarious

you can not do everything in the parks in 3 days

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Hahahahahaha it's a shit joke but an accurate shit joke nonetheless.

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I find it far less demeaning than Subway's "Sandwich Artist." At least at Disney someone really is playing a character, so it makes sense in some way.

And even if they did, they would just be constantly doing stuff all the time. That becomes exhausting, and you can't enjoy everything. I go for a week minimum, but usually longer. I like to have a rest day after a few days of the park. Then do another 3 days. Then relax for a day or two before heading home. Makes the trip much more enjoyable when you're not trying to squeeze everything in. Nothing is worse than being tired, cranky, and miserable at a park. You spend a ton of money on these trips, you want to enjoy yourself. I usually go once a year, and that's how I do it. Any other way would be miserable.

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As they should, Disney is posting record profits and insane profit margins, and can apparently throw $20M golden parachutes at failure executives. Meanwhile they stagnate wages?

Hold them by the mouse ears!

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Those are solid choices and considerations.

But, if I may ask, why do it every year? The park does not change that often and there are other places to discover on this huge planet! (:

5 days seems right. I've only been once and we did 3 park days (skipping Hollywood Studios) but the third day it was hot and I was hungover from exploiting the free soda plus one alcoholic beverage per meal to horde malt beverage tall boys in our room. So we ended up doing only half of Animal Kingdom.

We plan to return at some point and I think 5 days would be enough.

So does that mean we can hang out in the break room too?

2 weeks on property is like $5-$6k for 2 adults. Your pricing assumptions are crazy lmao

Yeah half the comments on these threads about prices are made by people who have no clue wtf they’re doing. 2 weeks for 2 adults is like MAYBE $5-$6k at pop century, including park tickets

I see other things, that is just our annual family vacation. I am fingers crossed headed to Japan this fall

If they can pay chapek $23,000,000 just to go away then they can afford to pay their workers better in CFL.

Disney is just another evil corporation that underpays the people who make it function.

I see! Fingers crossed for you and have an awesome trip (:

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Yes, poor, sad, mistreated, record-profits Disney. Why can't those godless commie employees be happy with their crumbs?! Nobody wants to work!!1!

Yes. Disney parks use theater/show themed terminology. Customers are guests, and employees are cast members. The place where guests can walk around is front of house, or "on stage." Back of house where cast go is "back stage."

Edit: I realized now that you were asking that of someone who wants to randomly call employees Cast Member. It's still unique, and I don't think I will ever drop the terms when I leave Disney employment.

This is true. Also incredibly misleading. Profits more than doubled…to roughly 1/6 of what they were before the pandemic…or 1/3 if you use 2015 as a base.

Also, that’s before adjusting for inflation.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/193126/earnings-per-share-for-the-walt-disney-company-since-2006/

I’m not advocating for Disney’s business practices, (here or in general) but they fired their CEO for a reason. The reason is that the numbers suck.

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No! They have signs posted that those are coworker spaces only!

No caste and cast are two different words.

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lol - was just there a few weeks for Christmas (annual pass, campground, far cheaper than it sounds) and didn’t get to everything

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How was camping there? Tent, Trailer, Cabin?

As a campground? A bit cramped. Though far better maintained than most we go to. So it’s a trade off. Renting or bringing your own golf cart is almost a requirement - the campground is larger than magic kingdom. They have cabins too but they are the price and quality of a resort room but with a bunk bed.

Boat transport to magic kingdom, buses internally in the campground and to all the parks.

Can see the MK fireworks each night from the beach, and you can hear them throughout the campground.

Christmas time lots of people decorate, I hear but haven’t experienced Halloween is even bigger.

You get the same mix of jerks and nice people as you do anywhere else in Disney… but unlike resorts where you don’t see them after you close your door you may have windows looking right into their campsite.

Lots more dogs, usually well behaved or more than kids at least. Only had 1 dog neighbor for a little bit that barked. The rest were fine.

I do like sleeping in my own bed though, and having my own kitchen for most meals. That’s probably where we saved the most money not having to eat out constantly. Though there’s a quick service place on property that has decent fried chicken and corn bread.

Bc you have to get the furniture from a ware house and put together yourself. So you are a co-worker too!

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one of my first jobs was at Disneyland in Anaheim. I was desktop support at the then new admin building. I enjoyed my time there and I still have the Disney branded hard hat they gave me to walk through Disney California Adventure while it was under construction.

I was never "on stage" so was not referred to as a cast member.

We did it too, once, in the 90’s. Stayed at three different resorts, went to all three parks, and just enjoyed the pools and food.

Glad my dad got to do it once like that because Disney is his favorite.

Is it a translation/culture thing? Like makes sense in Swedish but not so much in American English?

Kinda like the Mormons trying to get people to refer to them as "latter day saints."

My sister does it, and let’s put it this way… my family makes 4 times what her family does and we can’t even afford Disney

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Greetings fellow cast members!

Ah, so you brought your own camper. We have looked at it in the past, but since we don't have a camper the cost to rent is the same as just getting a room; and I'm not tenting in Disney!

I tent camped growing up, I don’t tent camp now. Haha

But yeah we have our own RV, we are from DFW but enjoy the traveling.

Knowing RVs I’m almost fearful of a rented one to be honest…

I tent camp and love it, but all the things that make tenting great and relaxing are also the things that make me not think it would be a fit for disney

It’s worth trying probably - the sites are far more private than you’d be used to in a normal camp ground but not near as private as proper primitive camping. If you’re local or in the area worth the experience