Posted on 12/05/2019 6:35:48 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I didn’t realize Disney World had a blimp ride.
Just looked— she should be thankful to have a job, and a car and a phone....
Did you see her pic
She could get a job at Sea World without breaking a sweat...
She probably can’t swim. Now let’s not be mean. :)
I believe the correct term at Disney World is "cast members". See, Don't you feel better? Now, Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to work you go...
She may not be able to swim, but she'd have to strap a 50 pound weight belt on to get below the surface.
If only they would double her salary, subsidize her housing, charge $30 for a hamburger, and triple prices everything would be ok.
I did a summer in an amusement park. At 18 it was fun. At 21 it would have started becoming tedious. If I had to do it past that point, I would be in a car down by the river drinking.
Liberal in outlook and reliant on tourism industry advertising, the Orlando Sentinel has long been a supporter of massive, low skill immigration for the sake of cheap labor for tourism. Now they whine about the resulting low wages.
for $15/hr you could buy a nice camper to live in
She’s earning enough to buy plenty of food.
Ok. Thirty years ago, I worked for Disney.
To set the record straight. Workers don’t leave the building in their costumes. They show for work. Get dressed, do their work. Take off the costume and put on their own clothes and go home. Disney property doesn’t leave Disney property.
Snow White and Mickey Mouse sleeping in their cars would never be seen. Period!
On the bad side, if you are in the public’s eye, you are an entertainer, even if you wait tables. That means you audition for that job every 6 months. This gives Disney the chance to not hire you.
They like college age looking employees. If you get too old, or heavy or too tattooed, you are night rehired. ‘But feel free to try again in 6 months!
Their old CEO, Eisner, wrote the book on dumping employees to cut back on paying retirement and benefits.
My son runs a shipping department and tells me about Indian visa truck drivers. The only way they can bank money is to run the truck 24 hours a day which requires three drivers living in the cab.
Son says the stench that hits you when they open the cab door will burn your nose hair.
Oof. That sounds bad.
No, they do not.
Workers at $15 an hour in the United States are rich by the standards of most of the world.
They have a car, free education for children, running water, air-conditioned spaces to live in that are free of rats and mosquitoes.
They have plenty to eat, and have considerable leisure time.
You want "starvation wages" go to Maoist China during the Great Leap Forward.
Friend’s daughter worked for Disney. Did things like buy decor for restaurants. Traveled the world. Helped put things in Japan Disneyworld. But every six months they’d decide if they wanted to keep her. Just when she was making decent money they let her go. She didn’t do anything wrong, but at some point they could hire someone younger to do her job for less.
I worked at a theme park...THE Six Flags Over Texas...back in high school.
It was a job for kids then. Careers were in the office if one chose to go that direction.
One of my kids earns about $15 an hour, pays for school and her own apartment in a place with a far higher cost of living than Orlando.
She has no debt either.
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