You don’t think the fact that they broke even despite having major revenue lines such as movie theaters, cruising, and multiple theme parks closed is a sign of great financial strength? How many businesses do you know can still make money when more than half their business is shut down? I’d say it’s the exact opposite. It shows the company basically prints money to the point they can shut more than half of it down and still come out just fine!
You’re telling me Disney can’t figure out how to give CMs a break? Come on.
Agree to disagree I guess. I don’t think anyone is asking for unlimited resources. Adding more restaurants and entertainment is far from unlimited asks. And 9/11 was a greatly different situation than now. That had to do with fear of travel. Not a pandemic subsiding with Americans having received 3 stimulus checks and record savings.
1. You're really good at missing the point lol.
2. You mean, kind of like the fear of travel many people have right now, because of Covid? Which has been surveyed several times and discussed several times?
Moving past fear, many people do not now or will they next year, have the financial means to travel. And of course that's to say nothing of people around the world not having the ability to travel - whether because of border restrictions, quarantine requirements etc... These issues aren't going to be magically gone in the next few months.
You might want to think 9/11 and Covid are two different things with their impact on Disney and recovery, but they're not as different as you might think - hence why analysts and others have been comparing the two from the beginning.
I’ve been trying to have a civil discussion here and you’ve personally insulted me twice. I don’t think I’ve insulted you but I apologize if I have. I didn’t mean to if it came across that way. I was just trying to say that Disney is doing fine financially and if you or anyone else has a bad experience that you shouldn’t let Disney tell you they had to give you that experience for financial reasons.1. You're really good at missing the point lol.
2. You mean, kind of like the fear of travel many people have right now, because of Covid? Which has been surveyed several times and discussed several times?
Moving past fear, many people do not now or will they next year, have the financial means to travel. And of course that's to say nothing of people around the world not having the ability to travel - whether because of border restrictions, quarantine requirements etc... These issues aren't going to be magically gone in the next few months.
You might want to think 9/11 and Covid are two different things with their impact on Disney and recovery, but they're not as different as you might think - hence why analysts and others have been comparing the two from the beginning.
Rich people have a lot of savings. Billionaires have made money hand over fist during the pandemic. I don't think that applies broadly across the middle class which is the group who would pump up travel numbers after this is all over. Using an estimated number from a big investment bank doesn't tell the whole story. There are a lot of people who have lost jobs and lost income during the pandemic. It's going to take a while for them to recover. There will also be a significant chunk of people who are leery about crowding together in to a theme park or getting in to a plane. It'll take a while for that to change, if it ever does. I think COVID will have a huge subconscious psychological effect on people that will take time to overcome.
No. What I said was they can’t open more stuff without considering how that would affect the limited capacity in break rooms. For example, the princess hall is currently being used as a break space for Fantasyland cast. Open that up, and now the CM’s currently using that as a break room don’t have anywhere to take a break, and all the new cast members brought in to run the princess hall as an attraction don’t either. Attractions cast members get 15 minute breaks every two hours, plus a half hour lunch, so it’s not like they can go a long distance to a break room without Disney giving them longer for breaks. And if Disney did that, then they’d need additional cast members to cover the longer breaks. So it’s not just a simple matter of paying for more cast members.
My posts were about reopening more activities at the resorts, not the parks. I am fairly confident that a company like Disney can figure out the logistics of providing a break for their CMs. I am also confident that not opening up activities has more to do with $$ than it does with simple logistics of things like breaks.
It was an example. The same thing applies to resorts. The cast that work in the restaurants need a place to take a break. The break room that used to accommodate up to 20 cast members now only accommodate 5, because instead of up to four cast at a table they can now only allow one. If they open up a second restaurant at a resort, where are those cast going to take their break at?
Are you seriously arguing that Disney isn't reopening some of their restaurants because they can't figure out a way around break rooms? Come on. How about an empty resort room? A pop up tent in the parking lot? I don't know, but I'm sure this isn't that hard of a problem to solve.
Yes, let's have the cast members take breaks in a tent in a parking lot in the Florida heat. That seems like a great idea.
Right, because Disney also can't figure out to put AC in a tent
