Posted on 05/18/2004 1:10:46 PM PDT by hardhead
Each Spring recruiters from Disney World fan out across the country seeking young college students who desire to be a part of the "Disney experience," advertised as "where fantasy comes to life and vacations always end happily ever after." The new recruits join the ranks of hundreds of young men and women for a six-month internship at the giant amusement park.
According to the mother of a daughter who signed up for the Disney World College Intern Program, the new recruits quickly discover that, instead of the family-friendly environment that the company projects to the public, they are in for an experience more akin to Pinocchio's "Pleasure Island."
"Terry," a twenty-year-old student from Glendale Community College in Phoenix, answered the call from a recruiter who visited her college last February. She agreed to work as a lifeguard at one of the Magic Kingdom's resorts. The young Christian woman was assured that she would be housed and work in a safe and pleasant environment, and that underage students would be segregated from those of legal drinking age--which is 21 in Florida.
"It didn't take long for me to discover," said Terry, "that my 'dream job' was beginning to look more like a nightmare." Despite being promised her own room, she was assigned to a cramped, Disney-owned apartment with five other underage women. Moreover, on her days off she was required to attend compulsory Disney training.
Although the other women in her apartment were under 21, the apartment directly across the hall was occupied by drinking-age men. Alcohol, drugs, and sexual activity became a regular routine in the apartment complex. "A favorite spot for late night partying and sex--both heterosexual and homosexual--was around the apartment building's swimming pool," Terry said. "The pool Jacuzzi was a frequent locale for open sexual activity."
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This information is universally known in the travel industry and "Terry" should have known what she was getting herself into. It's essentially like someone complaining that boot camp was too difficult. Look, if that's the industry you want to be in, and you're willing to suck it up for six months, you've got an entry on your resume that's second to none.
As for the other behavior, what do you expect out of a bunch of 20 somethings in the travel industry? Them's the breaks, if that's not your bag, then you're not going to be very happy in that line of work, sweetheart. Better you found out now than discovered it when you were 28.
Owl_Eagle
" WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH"
ping for later
Walt Disney would never have tolerated this.
According to some here, it's all to be expected and nobody should expect anything different from Disney...or anybody for that matter. I guess we are all to embrace the new lower standards for behavior - corporate and individual. Everybody does it....what did you expect....better just wise up.....blah, blah, blah....
The recruiter must have LIED to Terry because of the answers she got to her questions.
I didn't know about these goings on either, it is not general public knowledge except among those who have been there or know someone who has been there.
Long identical thread yesterday...pretty much everything was said:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1137247/posts
Recruiters ALWAYS lie.
Ask the Army. or a Marine. Or a Navy person or someone from the Air Force.
It's what recruiters DO.
It's "uversally known" that when you work for a supposedly family friendly resort that 2 homos are going to drop trou and start having sex in front of you while denegrading your religion? Did you read the article?
I must not be very universal, because unlike you I haven't gotten with that program yet.
Walt Disney's dream has become a leftist nest of anti-Christian disordered depravity. As a Christian and a Floridian I will be discouraging anyone and everyone I know to stay far away from them and cost them as much money as possible.
Well, I'll be damned (not literally, please). I did a search for all the combinations and nothing came up. Sorry for the duplicate. The article was dated today so I 'assumed' the search was good.
"I did a search for all the combinations and nothing came up. "
"Dark Days" would have brought it up. No problem, though. I just wanted to let folks know that there were a lot of messages on the earlier thread.
Walt Disney would never have tolerated this.
AMEN. The entire Disney family must have bile in their throats over this kind of behavior.
I would have thought it common sense that a bunch of young adults together for the summer would engage in those sorts of activities.
Yep, everybody does it, it's just about sex, let's move on.
Owl_Eagle
”Guns Before Butter.”
The Marines simply state, "We're looking for a few good men." Where is the lie? In fact...where is the promise?
Disordered perversion and disgusting and dangerous behavior is harmful and destructive. If you haven't learned this yet, learn it as soon as possible.
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