Your reply is absurd. A college student being recruited for a summer job doesn't know about the travel industry. More importantly, the behavior described is not acceptable to any normal human being. It is immoral and repulsive. This is not the way most 20 somethings behave. To suggest such a thing reflects more on your experience than how most people act.
I didn't ever think ten years of experience in the hospitality/ travel/ food industry would come in handy here on FR, but I've been wrong before.
The recruiter must have LIED to Terry because of the answers she got to her questions.
Lied? Maybe, I dunno. If you sign up for a tour with the merchant marines, are you gonna get wet? Yeah. If you ask the recruiter, he's gonna tell you you'll be issued a poncho and a water tight sleeping facility. Take that for what it's worth, it's no guarantee you won't get wet.
It's "universally known" that when you work for a supposedly family friendly resort
FRiend, I doff my hat at you that you found a way through higher education, or at least your present station in life that you didn't have to pay for college by working in a hotel.
This is probably the one ultimate truth in that industry: A Johnson and Whales (probably mis-spelled that) or a six month Disney Boot Camp are the badges of honor. And everyone (okay, not the house keeper at the Motel Six by the Junction, but those in the 5 Star/ 4 Diamond properties) knows it.
I worked with 4 people who struggled through the decision of doing the Disney Boot Camp and it wasn't an easily arrived decision for any of them. They knew that they'd be worked 70+ hours a week, they knew they'd be exposed to massive forces that would test the bounds of existing relationships.
Disney is hell. If you're in the census to get in there, you've gotta know that.
A college student being recruited for a summer job doesn't know about the travel industry...To suggest such a thing reflects more on your experience than how most people act.
Essie, if someone with a major outside of hospitality applied for a job at Disney, for one of these jobs, they'd almost certainly be turned down outright. This isn't the typical "Summer Job", it's a major notch in the belt for hospitality majors.
I highly doubt that the recruiter suckered someone into the program suggesting something along the lines of "you'll be a life guard" or anything like that. The people who I knew who went through the program knew good and well what would be required of them.
Yes, Essie, I did pay my way through seven years of college at a five star hotel. I met people, saw things, heard beliefs that to this day make my blood run cold. But hospitaitly is a den of inequity. Homosexuals, social deviants, and all other manner of misfits call that industry home.
This is not a profession for the Good Life. (and I thank God that my only scars are nightmares).
Owl_Eagle
”Guns Before Butter.”