Those Darn Cast Members

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Re: Those Darn Cast Members

Post by darph nader » Fri Jul 14, 2006 3:38 am

O.K. MainStreeter ,you can buy me a beer. Only if I can buy us the next 12. :cool:



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Re: Those Darn Cast Members

Post by Main Streeter » Fri Jul 14, 2006 3:53 am

darph nader wrote:O.K. MainStreeter ,you can buy me a beer. Only if I can buy us the next 12. :cool:
On my "underling" pittance? :confused: Get real! ]



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Re: Those Darn Cast Members

Post by darph nader » Fri Jul 14, 2006 4:02 am

Main Streeter wrote:On my "underling" pittance? :confused: Get real! ]


I respect that. Thanks. :cool:



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Re: Those Darn Cast Members

Post by Main_Street_Merch » Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:07 pm

felinefan wrote:Knott's has had an unprecedented five job fairs in just the last six months, and they are still about 200 people short of full staffing.
200... try 2000 at WDW.


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Re: Those Darn Cast Members

Post by ThunderCat » Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:43 pm

Wizard69 wrote:Running the parks? BULLSHIT! More like not doing anything except talking with their friends, standing around and causing headaches and more work for the rest of us. This goes for 2005 and 2006 cast members...the laziest bunch of idiots I have ever seen. The 2004 and below cast members run the park!
Speaking as a 2006 hire, you sir, are formally invited to kiss my ass.



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Re: Those Darn Cast Members

Post by Wizard69 » Thu Jul 20, 2006 7:29 pm

Main_Street_Merch wrote:200... try 2000 at WDW.
Try WAY MORE THAN THAT at DLR!



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Re: Those Darn Cast Members

Post by Wizard69 » Thu Jul 20, 2006 7:30 pm

ThunderCat wrote:Speaking as a 2006 hire, you sir, are formally invited to kiss my ass.
I see you are from WDW. I was referring to the ones at DLR. Sorry I should have clarified.

Al's article was referring to DLR not WDW which is what I was commenting on.



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Re: Those Darn Cast Members

Post by Gwene65 » Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:07 pm

Wizard69 wrote:I see you are from WDW. I was referring to the ones at DLR. Sorry I should have clarified.

Al's article was referring to DLR not WDW which is what I was commenting on.
Well then, I invite you to kiss my ass. I am a 2006 hire and I value my job...and I work very hard. So let's not go an generalize all new hires shall we?



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Re: Those Darn Cast Members

Post by Wizard69 » Fri Jul 21, 2006 1:31 am

Gwene65 wrote:Well then, I invite you to kiss my ass. I am a 2006 hire and I value my job...and I work very hard. So let's not go an generalize all new hires shall we?
You are in the reservation center according to your profile. The article refers to the cast members IN the park (i.e. attractions, stores, custodial, odv).

Polar knows exactly what I am talking about.



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Re: Those Darn Cast Members

Post by Zazu » Fri Jul 21, 2006 11:20 am

Wizard69 wrote:You are in the reservation center according to your profile. The article refers to the cast members IN the park (i.e. attractions, stores, custodial, odv).

Polar knows exactly what I am talking about.
I know what you're talking about too, but I agree that you're painting with too broad a brush.

Every year's crop of newbies contains a few gems and a whole lot of lamers. As Disney finds it steadily harder to hire people (at these pay rates), they are having to lower standards just to make the body count. As a result, each of the past several years has had a higher percentage of lamers and fewer gems.

Still, it's not sufficient reason to assume the *next* newbie is a lamer. Yeah, it's likely, but why not treat them as gems until they prove otherwise. What's it going to cost you? After all, the lamers will show their colors soon enough.

*Then* you can dump all over them! :flamethro


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