This reminds me of being in EPCOT and hearing two college-age CMs at the Heraldry shop in England talk about how they didn't have enough money to live off of, lol. While I know that's pretty well always been true, it's the first I've heard people openly say stuff like that in front of park guests.
It makes me wonder if discipline hasn't just disappeared since they're so hurting for staff, so people are just more free to speak their minds because they know "Jerk CM Manager #5" isn't gonna listen to every customer complaint and then give them a write-up or a strike and then fire them. Back in the day, most CMs I knew or read interviews for said they were living CONSTANTLY in fear of getting fired. Like every manager seemed to be this weird lifer jerk who loved writing up younger workers and treating them badly, and any complaint could get you axed, since everyone knew there were thousands of people chomping at the bit to work for Disney and anyone could be easily replaced.
Makes me wonder if the current level of "Young Adults Being Young Adults" is just CMs finally being allowed to be honest, lol. They're probably just DONE after being A) overworked and B) yelled at over Genie+ all day long. I myself never really had any bad interactions with anyone over the past several years (heck, I think my only bad one was in 2014 getting hollered at to get out of Tomorrowland as the park was closing, haha), and usually had positive ones even with complaints like "Man the park wifi sucks" and they're like "TELL me about it"
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