How does Disney get away with this (CM related)?

[Metsfan520]

You should call up whoever does the scheduling and complain.

 

[Leenk]

I'm a resident and work 90+ hours per week all the time and nobody think that's strange. In fact, it would be odd if someone work less than that in my profession. But I'm not complaining since I know what I'm getting myself into when I decided to go the medical school route. Besides, your body adjust to the work you do over time and it becomes your "normal".

 

[justhat]

I'm a resident and work 90+ hours per week all the time and nobody think that's strange. In fact, it would be odd if someone work less than that in my profession. But I'm not complaining since I know what I'm getting myself into when I decided to go the medical school route. Besides, your body adjust to the work you do over time and it becomes your "normal".

My husband is in his last year of residency and I was thinking the same thing! And you guys have overnight shifts in there as well, which are worse, IMO, than just many long days in a row. My husband did 2 18 hour shifts in a row, one of which was overnight, and will have a 13 hour shift tomorrow and Friday, along with potentially 24 hours on Saturday, then back to 2 18 hour shifts Monday and Tuesday, with Tuesday being overnight. That would be 120+ hours in 8 days. Fun times!

 

[SydneyFalco]

Good thing over health and safety??

Yeah, that was my first thought. Not to mention just the quality of her customer service. Very few people are superhuman enough to do 13 hour days of customer service over and over again and still be a good reflection on themselves and their empoyer by day six.

Fiscal sense, but not common sense.

 

[Leenk]

My husband is in his last year of residency and I was thinking the same thing! And you guys have overnight shifts in there as well, which are worse, IMO, than just many long days in a row. My husband did 2 18 hour shifts in a row, one of which was overnight, and will have a 13 hour shift tomorrow and Friday, along with potentially 24 hours on Saturday, then back to 2 18 hour shifts Monday and Tuesday, with Tuesday being overnight. That would be 120+ hours in 8 days. Fun times!

My current rotation schedule is 24 hours on and 24 hours off, that goes for 10 days and then I get three full days off. Fun times... I think I'm suppose to be sleeping right now, but DIS is better than triple espresso at keeping me awake.

 

[clutter]

A friend of mine works for Disney in the offices. She mentioned that they are allowed to volunteer to work a day in the parks over Christmas. We'd been there over NYE last year, and I was wondering where all the CMs came from!!!

Anyway, after our trip last year, I have to say that the CMs held up wonderfully. I know most of them had to have been exhausted, but they almost all kept up the holiday spirit!! I really thought it was Disney at its best.

 

[AKL_Megs]

I quite often work 5 days a week, 14 hours a day (my company would have us work more, but FAA says no can do!) It's part of being an adult... we do adult things like... eat, sleep and work. I usually get home with just enough time to eat and get in 6 hours of sleep before I do it all over again. Once it is said and done, and you have that fat paycheck in your hand, doing it again doesn't seem quite so bad...

 

[DramaQueen]

I'd die to work at WDW so I'd gladly take a 90 hour week!

OP I get where you're coming from though, it'll probably be a bummer to see how it's taking a toll on your daughter! but I'm sure she loves her job (how could she not?!) and she'll certainly love the pay check!

 

[justhat]

My current rotation schedule is 24 hours on and 24 hours off, that goes for 10 days and then I get three full days off. Fun times... I think I'm suppose to be sleeping right now, but DIS is better than triple espresso at keeping me awake.

My husband should be sleeping at the moment too. Instead he's on a field trip with our daughter's class. She begged for him to go instead of me, so he was stuck!

What's your field? My husband is in anesthesia. Last night was OB call, so with only 2 c-sections overnight, he actually slept for 3 hours.

 

[Cindy's Mom]

I would think Disney "gets away with it" because they have CMs that are willing to do it. If you DD doesnt have a problem with it, then it is no big deal. It wont be forever and she will be happy with her paycheck when it is all over. I am sure if she doesnt want to do it, someone else will take it on a heartbeat!

Personally, I don't think they are "getting away" with anything.

 

[Leenk]

My husband should be sleeping at the moment too. Instead he's on a field trip with our daughter's class. She begged for him to go instead of me, so he was stuck!

What's your field? My husband is in anesthesia. Last night was OB call, so with only 2 c-sections overnight, he actually slept for 3 hours.

I'm internal med, currently doing ICU rotation. I had two one hour naps last night, so I'm feeling pretty chipper today.

 

[a1tinkfans]

I'm a resident and work 90+ hours per week all the time and nobody think that's strange. In fact, it would be odd if someone work less than that in my profession. But I'm not complaining since I know what I'm getting myself into when I decided to go the medical school route. Besides, your body adjust to the work you do over time and it becomes your "normal".

I do not know HOW residents do this...seriously speaking how are you MENTALLY alert (never mind physically) dealing with SICK people....Its just crazy to me....and WHY do they routinely do this? WHAT is the "purpose/learning curve"? Just curious on YOUR take since you are enduring it....

 

[justhat]

I do not know HOW residents do this...seriously speaking how are you MENTALLY alert (never mind physically) dealing with SICK people....Its just crazy to me....and WHY do they routinely do this? WHAT is the "purpose/learning curve"? Just curious on YOUR take since you are enduring it....

Let me say that I wonder this too, given that if I were to wake my husband overnight he would be less than coherent, so I can't imagine him having to put someboday under or do an epidural.

The point is that they need to get X amount of cases/hours logged to become an attending. Residency is already a minimum of 3 years and would go on longer if they had shorter hours. Not that it would be a bad thing per se, but I think that's the reasoning. They have put hour maxs up, 80 hours/week, but that is not always adhered to and no one can really do anything about it.

 

[justhat]

I'm internal med, currently doing ICU rotation. I had two one hour naps last night, so I'm feeling pretty chipper today.

ICU was rough on me (well, my husband too ). The month our son was born he was in the ICU and was Q3. Between that and a newborn, I don't think he slept the entire month.

 

[fall08CP]

Yikes! I worked at Disney for a year and never got scheduled over 60 hours, even during the holidays. It says in your signature that she's a CP- if you're worried about her driving, why can't she just take the bus? I never had a car down there plus I had to work resorts, which is 10x worse than park transportation.

As others have said, usually full timers or seasonal are willing to take the extra hours. Did sign up for extra availability on the hub? Many CPs do that because they want more money but don't realize how many extra hours that entails. The worst part is being on her feet for that long Many times I came home from work with swollen feet and it's hard to be smiley when you feel so crummy! Best of luck to her She'll miss working these hours when she has to come home- I promise!

 

[bumbershoot]

I'm a resident and work 90+ hours per week all the time and nobody think that's strange. In fact, it would be odd if someone work less than that in my profession.

Oh no, there are many many people who think it's strange, awful, and completely dangerous for everyone. Don't ever think no one worries about the health of the resident/on call person and more importantly, the health of the patients they are seeing at the end of a huge shift like that. Scares me to pieces.

 

[Traveliz]

Yikes! I worked at Disney for a year and never got scheduled over 60 hours, even during the holidays. It says in your signature that she's a CP- if you're worried about her driving, why can't she just take the bus? I never had a car down there plus I had to work resorts, which is 10x worse than park transportation.

As others have said, usually full timers or seasonal are willing to take the extra hours. Did sign up for extra availability on the hub? Many CPs do that because they want more money but don't realize how many extra hours that entails. The worst part is being on her feet for that long Many times I came home from work with swollen feet and it's hard to be smiley when you feel so crummy! Best of luck to her She'll miss working these hours when she has to come home- I promise!

Judging from the OPs signature it appears her daughter is FT so the bus wouldn't be an option.

Liz

 

[merryweather20]

I'm a resident and work 90+ hours per week all the time and nobody think that's strange. In fact, it would be odd if someone work less than that in my profession. But I'm not complaining since I know what I'm getting myself into when I decided to go the medical school route. Besides, your body adjust to the work you do over time and it becomes your "normal".

I think its strange. I'm one of those crazy people who like the people who are operating on me to have a full night of rest.

 

[golfgal]

Does she get paid by the hour? Sounds like a good thing to me, if she is getting overtime pay, especially before the holidays....

I was thinking the same thing-if I were a college student again I would have been jumping at the chance for the extra money.

I'm a resident and work 90+ hours per week all the time and nobody think that's strange. In fact, it would be odd if someone work less than that in my profession. But I'm not complaining since I know what I'm getting myself into when I decided to go the medical school route. Besides, your body adjust to the work you do over time and it becomes your "normal".

When we were in college EVERYONE worked these hours--granted it wasn't a medical residency but I had 3 jobs every summer for college--one where I was outside all day long in the hot sun and in the evenings and weekends I worked 2 different retail jobs. The day time one was 40 hours/week and the 2 retail ones were at least 20 hours/week each. I did "splurge" and stopped working a week before I had to go back to school to get packed, etc. The only day I had off all summer was 4th of July when everyone was closed for business.

 

[WhateverLolaWants]

A girl I worked with used to sleep in the MK locker room instead of going home at night. Like others mentioned, she can try to give shifts away to other people, but her paycheck will be crazy. The OT and double time is something I miss about working at Disney.