Amusement park workers disgruntled?

[eliza61]

According to this weeks, time magazine amusement park workers are the one of the most unhappy jobs in the nation.
Maybe that's why disney is having such customer service problems? Clergy and firefighters are the happiest at their jobs.

http://www.time.com/time/2007/america_numbers/job.html

 

[Robo]

According to this weeks, time magazine amusement park workers are the one of the most unhappy jobs in the nation.
Maybe that's why disney is having such customer service problems? Clergy and firefighters are the happiest at their jobs.

http://www.time.com/time/2007/america_numbers/job.html

It all depends on exactly whom they poll... and WHEN they asked them, I suppose.

 

[reeeoga]

They have to put up with people like the ones on this board (me included) .

 

[OKW Lover]

I'm sure you'll find that broad generalizations (like this one) may not have any relationship with actual conditions at a particular amusement park, or for specific workers.

For our part, we've found that the typical Disney CM is gruntled.

 

[jlovesee]

I worked at our local amusement park this summer part time (I have a regular good paying full time job) and I can understand how you could easily get disgruntled.

People gripping about their kids being to short was a big problem, and there is not much you can do, except say your sorry. People mad at you about the waits for rides, People upset at you when the ride goes down for mechanical reasons and you can't explain how long its going to be, people mad because the ride is down for weather.

That's just the normal every day stuff. Then there is the fact that you only get paid $7 an hour, and some of those kids have to work 60 hours a week. They work really hard, for lousy pay and even lousier hours, doing the lousiest work ever. Think about it cleaning up cigarette butts, pulling trash liners full of pink melted slushy, cleaning up "protein spills", and working in 105 degree heat, lots of fun.

It is fun though, and I found it to be very satisfying, in the end it just boils down to how you look at it. If you go in and want to have fun, you usually will, if you go in thinking oh this is going to be aweful, then it will be.

Jennifer

 

[pumpkinfish]

I worked at our local amusement park for 3 summers and I understand exactly where these people are coming from!
Now mind you, I don't consider Disney amusement parks, but rather "theme" parks.

Most of the workers are mid to late teens or even early 20s. We weren't exactly treated the best (worked long hours in the hot sun with minimal breaks, ect). Dealing with the guests was rough because as we know, the customer is always right. Luckily the guests liked me and I hardly received complaints. That's not always the case though.

But I did enjoy that time- I learned a strong work ethic I still have to this day. I also have a little more compassion for those that are in the shoes I used to be in. But also I have higher expectations since I know how hard I worked even in those conditions. (For the record, I began as a sweeper and bathroom cleaner and worked up into a supervisor position).

But yeah, if they polled many of the younger workers I can see them saying how unhappy they are.

 

[foltzy]

I worked at Hershey Park for a summer in High School and I loved it. Yeah there were some people who were rude but most people were nice and friedly. I really enjoyed it and would have gone back but I had another job in retail and didn't want to give it up.

 

[CanadianGuy]

I moved this over to the Rumors & News Board.

Thanks,

Knox

 

[EUROPACL]

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1. Lies
2. Disney Surveys
3. Statistics.