Pure_Imagination
CP Spring 2010?
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- Jul 4, 2009
Anna's_Order said:Gimme a break ""3 or 4 am" is insane hours? Not for someone who's ever worked a day in their life.
I'm just saying , I got the work history to back up the fact I don't just "Talk the talk", I walk the walk.
Plenty of these young college folk with no work history are all enthusiastic and tell the potential employers what they wanna hear, and then they have to deal with putting in 12 hours daily of hard labor and they have major breakdowns.
Thats why I hate teh college kids we hire where I work, they all can't handle it.
Thats why Disney SHOULD value work history and work ethic more than the most smiley, pampered college kid.
I actually did have work experience before Disney, thank you very much. Unlike most people I didn't get the chance to go away to college. Please stop talking about everyone like you know exactly what they've been through. You're not going to make very many friends in life that way
Have you even worked for Disney yet? Why don't you let people who have actually been there tell you what it's like. Working at Disney is not like "normal" retail. You work in all weather conditions. I had to stand there with a smile on my face and tell people I loved working at 2 am when it was 40 degrees and windy outside. Normally 40 degrees isn't cold to me, but when I don't have a jacket, the wind's blowing, and there seems to be no rotation and no one has a problem letting the girl without the jacket stay outside all night it's hell. Most of my shifts were standing outside in either 90+ degrees with humidity or in 40 degrees with wind. And if you've never lived in the south then you have no idea what you're in for when it comes to terrible humidity! And sometimes you can go a long time without a break. You'll also have days where you can work say 4 pm-4 am and then turn around be back by 12 pm. When you figure in driving time, trying to get to sleep time, sleep time, and time it takes to get ready and drive there again the next morning that's not very much time. It's most likely not the same working conditions you'll be used to and, like I've said, until you've tried it you can't say anything! Not to mention that all this time you're hundreds of miles away from family so yes, it does get hard to deal with. If you make fun of people for it then you just don't have a heart.
Anna's Order said:And I DID give up a full-ride scholarship to do the Disney program, lol.
I would so kill for a full-ride scholarship. Or any scholarship. This isn't something I would be bragging about.
My advice to you is to keep your head down and don't go in acting like you know everything or that you're better than everyone. Stop trying to insist that you're an expert because trust me, people will not like that at all.
P.S.: Sheltered rich kids would most likely not be the ones willing to move cross country, live completely independently and have to provide for themselves while working at least 40 hours a week on minimum wage in all kinds of weather conditions during all kinds of crazy hours. I have no clue where you get that idea from.
Oh, and to give you an idea of my crazy hours I had, getting out at 1 am was considered getting out early! Oh, and that was if they didn't randomly decide to extend park hours without telling anyone in advance!