My sis gets 16 passes and has only been there a year. She doesn't always stay with us. A lot of times, she gets us in and goes to work herself. The blackout days are usually for certain parks. Mainly MK during the busiest time of the year. I think there is always 1park we can get into but not positive because I prefer not to go during those times. I don't think the CM i was talking to was messing around. She had been there 20 plus years. We were having the conversation about working there and the different perks of the job because my sis was interested in becoming a CM at this point.
Your sis gets 16 sign-ins, which is standard for any CM. Once you go into a salaried position, or you have enough years, you get more. And, since she's your sister, she is allowed to sign you in and not stay with you. You're immediate family. If she's signing in her friends and not staying with them, she's technically breaking the rules and needs to be careful. People have been disciplined for not using their sign-in priviledges properly.
I have worked at Disney for 20+ years. I have a maingate pass that, yes, would
technically allow me to sign in three people a day any day of the year that's not blacked-out. However ... Disney Ticketing does keep track of how often and when CMs use their passes.
If I were to, say, sign three people in every day for a month, that would certainly flag my account, and someone from Ticketing (or HR or someplace) would definitely call me and ask about it. Mostly because the point of having the sign-ins is to enjoy the park
with your friends and family. If I'm signing in three people every day for a month, and I'm still reporting for work (which is pretty easy to check) then I am clearly not enjoying the park
with my friends and family. While it's true that I can let immediate family in without having to be with them all day, at some point someone would start wondering just how big my family was and if it truly was only my family I was signing-in each day.
So ... technically ... yes. Different levels of CMs get different levels of perks. But from a practicality standpoint, there's really no CM who is going to use their pass every single day of the year, even though they can.
