From: cwagar@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.disney
Subject: Re: Working at Walt Disney World
Date: 18 Nov 92 13:46:19 GMT
Organization: Auburn University, AL

In article <Bxsr70.LyE@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, ssquier@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Sean Alan Squier) writes:
> In article <1992Nov16.045251.2371@news.unomaha.edu> torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair) writes:
>>	$5.60/hour	at least thirty hours a week
> 
> Unless this is a brand new raise, try $5.30/hour.  That's what I got.

I believe it's now $5.40. Certainly not above that. Lifeguards get .25/hr more
than everyone else.

>>  	Four months at WDW	January-May, May-August, August-January
>        
> It's 3 months in the summer, more specifically, 2 months and 29 days
> to avoid that mandatory 3 month raise!  Again, that was my personal
> experience, so maybe someone else went longer. (May 20 - Aug 18)

Longest session I know about lasted from June 3 to September 9.

>>	Housing is provided 	$77 a person a week (four people)
>>				$65 a person a week (six people)
> 
> This has increased...It was $59/$69 when I was there, and it was
> GROSSLY overpriced then too!  I got an apartment the following summer
> CLOSER to MGM (my workplace) for $185/month (that's $60 cheaper),
> includng everything.  Must go along with the 'pay raise' :-).

Yeah, it's gone up. This summer was the last of the cheap rents (59/69).

>>		Rent is paid as a payroll deduction.
>>	You pay to get there.
>>	Two days off a week, but not during the weekends.
> 
> This is not true!  2 days off/week but they are not guaranteed to be
> back-to-back or on the weekends.  A college programmer may have Monday
> and Thursday off, or luckily, Saturday Sunday, etc...  This MAY have
> changed but I doubt it.

Special requests for days off due to religious beliefs, etc. are always
granted. I had Friday and Saturday off each week. I asked for a few 'vacations'
- Fri/Sat of one week and Sun/Mon of the next - and got them. They are very
flexible.

>>	Doug Wilkie is an alumnus.  He said that many people do not save much 
>>money while working at WDW.  If you don't do anything but work, you can save
>>about $2000.  If you are a normal human being, however, you'd better get a 
>>round trip ticket in advance.
> 
> $2000!!???!!?  Yeah, maybe, if you don't eat.  A good standard would be
> about $100/week after rent and food, maybe, which adds to around
> $400/month or $1200...I came back with about 10 bucks

Okay, I have a problem with this one. This summer I worked _massive_ overtime
(at least 55 hours a week) and my total gross for the summer was $3200. Now,
you have to figure that at least $1500 came out for rent and stuff. So, if you
don't go out, don't drive, don't have fun, work your butt off.... Maybe. But
not your first time around. You just get too tempted!!!

>>
>>Fast Foods Host/Hostess
>>	Basically, running a small one-person resturaunt.
> 
> This position is new.  I was Fast Foods at Pinocchio's Village Haus my
> first summer, and there was no separate job for carts etc..  We were
> just rotated from job to job (kitchen, counter, cash register, pretzel
> wagon, etc...)...But only in Fantasyland.

They still do the rotations. F&B is kind of a blanket term. Very, Very, Very
slim chance of getting to wait on anyone in a full serv setting.

>
>>Lifeguard Host/Hostess
>>	Lifeguard certification required.  Possibility of working other areas
>>during bad weather.
> 
> They will certify you through an intensive 2 week training session.
> If you don't pass you will be given another job, but not sent home.
> (I had 3 years lifeguard experiance and was certified and asked to be a
> lifeguard and I got Fast Foods...go figure!)

The gentleman who does the Disney Red Cross training also is the author of the
Red Cross Advanced Life Guarding Handbook. Let's just say it's hard. Can you
tread water for 5 minutes with two bricks in your hand?

>>	If this fit my major, I would apply, but it doesn't.
> 
> I'm a computer science major. And you know, I couldn't MAKE it apply
> if I tried, but yet I went back again in '92 and I'm going back for
> X-mas and Easter and summer again and...well, by then I'll be perm I
> hope!   I define it more as 3 month spring break or college WITHOUT
> classes.  You may work 30 hours/week, but where's the homework??  They
> don't even require a seminar project anymore (which sucked by the
> way). =-)

You know, the Walt Disney Company is probably the most well known company in
the world for their Corporate Culture. It would be a shame if you had the time
to be WDWCP and didn't. You could learn a lot from a mouse...

>>Any Ducktorates or Mouster Degree holders out there who like to comment?
> I guess you could call this a comment. =)  And I have a Ducktorate in
> Studio Production.

Another comment... Ducktorate in Management, Disney Style.

> Sean Squier
> (Future CEO - The Walt Disney Company)

You know, I wonder just how many Disney execs read this newsgroup... After all,
you know, they have net access (walt.disney.com if I remember correctly). Gee,
Sean, they just might offer you that CEO position just for your persistance!!

Clayton
Magic Kingdom East Attractions
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