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[skiingfast]

Nice blog Sean. Made me feel green with envy!

Kermit, do you mean the bike rides in LA?

 

[momrek06]

HI EVERYBODY, I have not stopped by the MISFITS in awhile!!!

Hope everyone is well?

Its cold in the OC today!

Is everyone getting ready for Christmas?

HAVE A MAGICAL DAY!!!!!

 

[skiingfast]

It look warm out here. The morning dusting of snow just melted off the roof with a tiny bit of sun making its way through the clouds.


Going shopping for gifts Saturday. Still not sure about what to get, mom, sister or sister's BF who we will be meeting. Have DS, brother and teachers, bought or on the list.

 

[ssuriano]

Great schedule if you want to take trips somewhere.

My thoughts exactly, however I'm not sure how long it will last.

Nice blog Sean. Made me feel green with envy!


This is not a slow day for me!!

Thank you very much!

Yesterday was 8 hours of mostly walking from one side of the park to the other. Finally got to see the west end of backstage, and did some GSO (guest show operations) for the "A Christmas Fantasy" parade. I had the power of the mighty flashlight!

 

[skiingfast]

My thoughts exactly, however I'm not sure how long it will last.



Finally got to see the west end of backstage, and did some GSO (guest show operations) for the "A Christmas Fantasy" parade. I had the power of the mighty flashlight!

Yeah Disney is like lots of emplyees with very variable customer levels. And they change your schedule at a whim.

When I worked with management in such a case, I spoke to several of thier emplyees and said, how would you feel if you worked the same days each week. The employees were about 75% for, 25% against and for half of them it was thier first job. Spoke to their managers, one was willing to do this schedule out of the dozen locations/departments. This managers retained 80% of his employees year after year after year, lost 0% of his seasonal employees during the season. The others had %75 turnover, with 15-25% loss during the season.

It's nice when your life follows a pattern, people like the predictability. It creates more comfort.

A big reason it helped was because many employees had low wages and having a reliable, helped them get a second job. The managers didn't need two jobs, they made at least twice as much. Sound like anywhere in Anaheim or Orlando?


So some crowd control? That's not a flash light, it's a light saber.

 

[alivingxerox]

hope everyone is having a good week.

 

[skiingfast]

hope everyone is having a good week.

I am and now it's almost done.

How is your week moving along?

 

[ssuriano]

Yeah Disney is like lots of emplyees with very variable customer levels. And they change your schedule at a whim.

When I worked with management in such a case, I spoke to several of thier emplyees and said, how would you feel if you worked the same days each week. The employees were about 75% for, 25% against and for half of them it was thier first job. Spoke to their managers, one was willing to do this schedule out of the dozen locations/departments. This managers retained 80% of his employees year after year after year, lost 0% of his seasonal employees during the season. The others had %75 turnover, with 15-25% loss during the season.

It's nice when your life follows a pattern, people like the predictability. It creates more comfort.

A big reason it helped was because many employees had low wages and having a reliable, helped them get a second job. The managers didn't need two jobs, they made at least twice as much. Sound like anywhere in Anaheim or Orlando?


So some crowd control? That's not a flash light, it's a light saber.

I'm torn on the scheduling. If I get constant days off I can try and pick up a second job for some extra money. But if random days off allow me to make more money I'd be okay with that as well.

 

[skiingfast]

I'm torn on the scheduling. If I get constant days off I can try and pick up a second job for some extra money. But if random days off allow me to make more money I'd be okay with that as well.

Since it's DLR. If your days were always M-F, you would get many less hours. If they were Thur-Sun you would get many more hours.

So what you do is balance it out. CM1 works Wed-Sat. CM2 works Sat to Tue. Or. You take a CM who needs hours and a CM who doesn't and they work the same shift together. That latter is what I prefer.

At DLR can you look online for extra shifts?

 

[alivingxerox]

I am and now it's almost done.

How is your week moving along?

It is movin' right along.


Happy almost weekend!

 

[skiingfast]

I am very gald it's Friday.

 

[ssuriano]

Since it's DLR. If your days were always M-F, you would get many less hours. If they were Thur-Sun you would get many more hours.

So what you do is balance it out. CM1 works Wed-Sat. CM2 works Sat to Tue. Or. You take a CM who needs hours and a CM who doesn't and they work the same shift together. That latter is what I prefer.

At DLR can you look online for extra shifts?

We can look for extra hours but we can't exceed more than 5 days in a work week and we have to have 9 hours between shift end time and the next shift start time.


Happy weekend everyone!

 

[skiingfast]

Happy weekend everyone!

Christmas shopping nearly done.

Are you going to a party in the next couple days?

 

[ssuriano]

Are you going to a party in the next couple days?

Sadly the private parties were sold out so I'm going to a mix in in early January.

 

[skiingfast]

Sadly the private parties were sold out so I'm going to a mix in in early January.

Sold out, doesn't everyone get to go unless they are working?

 

[ssuriano]

Sold out, doesn't everyone get to go unless they are working?

As far as I know you have to get tickets from the Team Center, when I asked about the one for Tuesday I was informed it was "sold out". I don't want to go to the one tomorrow because I work at 8:30am on Tuesday, but I may try and find someone with an extra ticket for Tuesday as I'm off at 7pm.

 

[skiingfast]

As far as I know you have to get tickets from the Team Center, when I asked about the one for Tuesday I was informed it was "sold out". I don't want to go to the one tomorrow because I work at 8:30am on Tuesday, but I may try and find someone with an extra ticket for Tuesday as I'm off at 7pm.

I had heard that Tuesday was maxed out. What not go on Monday for a few hours?

 

[skiingfast]

As far as I know you have to get tickets from the Team Center, when I asked about the one for Tuesday I was informed it was "sold out". I don't want to go to the one tomorrow because I work at 8:30am on Tuesday, but I may try and find someone with an extra ticket for Tuesday as I'm off at 7pm.

I had heard that Tuesday was maxed out. What not go on Monday for a few hours?

 

[ssuriano]

I had heard that Tuesday was maxed out. What not go on Monday for a few hours?

If I can find someone with a ticket I'll go but I doubt I can exchange my mix in tickets for tomorrow night.

 

[PrincessInOz]

Weekend's over!

Less than 2 weeks to Christmas. Enjoy your parties all!

Is this a cast only party you're referring to?