Employees are required to smile at all times while out and about to make sure that there are never pictures of them frowning anywhere. While it feels like Disney is the place where dreams come true, it's all oddly very homogenous. Just like Bowling for Soup once said, "High school never ends. It's a rough life for people to assume you're a mean girl just because you're a princess, but it's a little bit rougher to be one of those poor saps who have to go out in 95 degree weather as Winnie the Pooh.
If you're stuck with the same people all the time, you're gonna get close with them one way or another. As they also say, "People who suffer together stay together. For how much I'm creeped out by how orchestrated and unnaturally perfect everything in Disney is, I am impressed by the great logistical prowess the planners have in making sure that there are enough of the same character across the park to ensure guests are satisfied without having any double sightings.
It would be foolish to assume that there is only one of each character at the park at any time. There aren't that many Disney characters to satisfy the needs of the tens of thousands of people that enter the park daily. It would be quite the sight to see a mob of, like, six Princess Jasmines come down into the well-known underground tunnels after a long shift. This is pretty interesting to me since Disney parks put in such a painstaking effort to make everything pleasant and perfect all the time, but employees still have to find some way to insult rude patrons, even if it is all while being very polite.
It's just like telling a terrible customer to have a great rest of their day after you're done with them, all while wishing that a piano fell on them as soon as they walked out the door.
Being in hospitality, you're forced to be kind and polite even to the worst human beings. We're all human, though, and Disney employees have to have some sense of satisfaction that they just gave the politest "f-off" in existence. Hopefully this information doesn't catch on so that they can continue their polite cussing. There are a lot of perks to working at Disney, but the pay isn't really one of them.
Sometimes to make a profit, the park will do it at the expense of the comfort of the princesses. After a former Belle gave her story to Cosmopolitan , she recalled a time when it got seeing-your-breath cold down in Florida and she had to take pictures with people outside of a restaurant. Her outfit came with a little coat, but it appeared that the coat had been hidden by another employee, so she had to keep standing outside in the cold air in a sleeveless dress.
Is the price of a picture really worth seeing a girl get frozen to the bone? A lot of the former princesses recalled their times with kids from the Make-A-Wish Foundation whose final wishes were to spend time with their idols at Disney World. From what they say, there are a lot of mixed emotions because the kids are so happy that they got to fulfill their last wish to be with their favorite characters, while their parents are off to the side just bawling their eyes out from both happiness of the moment but sadness for their child's inevitable fate.
I bet it would be hard to put into words what that experience is like, but it's probably experiences like these that make all the bad stuff about working at Disney feel worth it. These princesses really are making kids' dreams come true. Via: E! Via: Traveling Mom. Comment from discussion too-tsunami's comment from discussion "I worked as various princesses at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Via: Flickr. Via: Pinterest. Via: Rightselection.
Via: Weheartit. Disney employees are all about making your visit magical, so don't be surprised if some of what you hear them saying to one another doesn't make sense. To keep guests from getting freaked out, employees use code words for emergencies. Turns out some crying toddler-aged kid was using the sandbox as his public bathroom, and when someone approached him, he just ran away. If you're thinking of taking a dip in the water surrounding any Disney ride, think again.
In addition to the ashes of the dearly departed, those waters are frequently vomit receptacles. It was a huge pile of watery barf, easily two feet wide and three feet long," reveals one employee. Not only do fights break out among people who feel like they've been waiting for too long, guests can get mighty salty about sick kids cutting the line, too. Multiple employees recount guests complaining and even using derogatory language when children on Make-a-Wish trips were allowed to skip to the front.
Fortunately, most complaining customers did get something out of their griping: a lifetime ban. Snapping a picture with characters is all part of the experience. However, you shouldn't entrust them with the care of your infant. I think the worst of them is when people bring their newborn infants to the parks and ask us to hold them for a picture," says one former Disney cast member. Why would you let me hold your baby?
If you've ever wondered how Disney keeps its parks so clean, it's their state-of-the-art Automated Vacuum Assisted Collection System. The trash is whisked away under the park so the guests don't have to see it or smell it.
It's pretty cool," says one Disney insider. If Goofy won't tell you how to get to Splash Mountain, he's not just being rude. Many costumed characters are required to stay silent in front of guests. Backstage however, anything goes," says one former Goofy.
Those rumors about Disney jail are true. However, don't count on Mickey bringing you your meals or enjoying a Disney princess bed to rest your head on. If you're playing one of the '90s Disney princess characters, don't be surprised if newer cast members don't want to sit with you. It's really childish," says one former cast member. If you have to make the not-so-difficult choice between sitting out a ride with your baby or bringing them on board, sit it out every time.
Unfortunately, may Disney guests don't understand why trying to smuggle an infant onto rides is such a big deal. They refused. Security comes, forces them to open it. It was their 6-month-old baby," says one Redditor.
That being said Vista Way is the closest to the strip. Keeping with the positives here, it is also the home of the main College Program offices and the bus stop at Vista Way is where the bus drivers use to switch so you are rarely left waiting like you can be at the other stops. Chatham Square: Chatham Square is the second most expensive complex however is differs from Patterson by just a few dollars and it certainly the prettiest in regards to landscaping.
There is a bus stop directly in front of the complex and within walking distance of a large field people use for sports. With Chatham you will deal with Housing Events. Housing Events are put on by the College Program people and they are a way of uniting all the students in various activities throughout your program.
You go to wherever the event is located, tents are set up, you get free food, there are meet and greet characters, and usually some sort of fun theme. While these might be close they also create quite an inconvenience the day of and they can be loud.
These are also the most coveted of the Housing so they run out of Chatham quickly this happened to me and we had lined up at in the morning.
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