Disney CAST Member!!! - Page 2

rlrcstrfreak · #16 07-28-2006, 01:22 AM

This will be a cool job. Have fun right. It should be a good expirience. Plus working for disney... thats good.

RidePhoto101 · #17 07-28-2006, 11:52 AM

I'm strongly considering doing the College Program next Summer. Although I really wanted to work in Operations, Hospitality, or Recreation, I guess I'll have to settle for QSFB since I don't want to take a semester off from school. Fortunately if I like it the first summer, I can go back again as an alumni and choose any program I want for the following summer.

My main purpose in doing the college program, however, is so that I qualify for a Professional/Management internship as soon as I graduate, and hopefully start a career with Disney.

I worked with a few College Program alumni at Cedar Point last summer, and all of them had nothing but good things to say about it, so I'm hoping for a good time, even if they don't pay as much as Cedar Point, and they charge $69-87 per week for housing, which I think is a little steep considering CP only charges $16-32/wk. Oh well, I'm not doing this for the money.

Carowinds 73-03 · #18 07-28-2006, 12:17 PM

Hey guys, Nice to see TN Back up. Yes i have been working for 2 weeks now and i just love it. I have been cross trained on almost every ride which is very cool but i rarely get to work on any.

RidePhoto101 · #19 07-28-2006, 12:43 PM

So you get to be a performer in parades and a ride op? How exactly does that work, does Disney let you work in multiple departments or something?

**Wes** · #20 07-28-2006, 02:17 PM

What a cool job to get to work at Disney. I should have done that after I got out of high school for a summer or two. But nooooooo. I went to work at a bank. lol

Hope you have lots o fun.

Carowinds 73-03 · #21 07-31-2006, 07:23 AM

Not really sure if they do. I was trained on several rides then expressed intrest in Entertainment so since i started Entertainment i have not worked any rides.

Raptor · #22 07-31-2006, 03:32 PM

Yeah, you wouldn't be able to be scheduled for both rides and entertainment positions at the same time. You have a line of business that you work for, and if you were to change from park operations to entertainment, they would stop scheduling you for any park operations positions.

HOWEVER... you can still pick up extra hours at anywhere you have been trained.

Carowinds 73-03 · #23 08-01-2006, 07:48 AM

Yeah, i'm going to try to get some extra hours this week at Everest or Tower Of Terror or just being a park greeter. I'm scheduled for 67 hours this week and i really want more.

Raptor · #24 08-01-2006, 08:42 AM

You have to be trained at those rides in order to pick up extra hours there...

RidePhoto101 · #25 08-01-2006, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Carowinds 73-03

Yeah, i'm going to try to get some extra hours this week at Everest or Tower Of Terror or just being a park greeter. I'm scheduled for 67 hours this week and i really want more.

You sound like I did last year when I worked at Cedar Point. During July and August, I think I averaged 65-70 hours per week, with my highest being 83.5 hours in early August. I was a whore for extra hours, especially at Olde Time or Dragster Photo.

At least you get paid overtime at Disney...

Carowinds 73-03 · #26 08-01-2006, 12:54 PM

I am trained at Everest and getting trained at TOT this week and hopefully some other rides in the coming weeks.

Raptor · #27 08-01-2006, 01:02 PM

Um. You're full of ****, to put it bluntly. First off, Disney does NOT cross-train people on multiple rides in different parks, ESPECIALLY not entertainment cast members. And ESPECIALLY NOT after only working 3 weeks at Disney. The only way you can get trained on more than one ride is if you're statused as an Operations cast member, and both rides would have to be in the same area in the same park. (the ONE exception being Kilamonjaro Safaris, because they are desperate for people.)

Only after 6 months, Disney employees can request to transfer to a different work location. So, say you wanted to transfer from Everest to Tower of Terror. THEN you could be trained at Tower (I say could because, while you can ask to go there, its up to Sunset Operations to decide where you'll actually be placed), but still pick up shifts at Everest off the portal. But in order to do that you would have to have worked for six months, be an operations cast member, and prove yourself worthy of their effort to transfer you to Tower.

Training for each ride takes on average, 4 to 5 days. Also, any time you start at a new ride, you have to take a class specifically for that park.

If you managed to do all this in 3 weeks, as a parade performer, then thats an amazing feat by any means.

Oh, and by the way... I WORK at Tower of Terror. We're overstaffed as it is. Theres no way they're going to waste time training an Entertainment cast member here. I will personally check the training schedule today and see if you're on it ;-) .

pwnt.

**Phil** · #28 08-01-2006, 01:07 PM

When did you make the move to ToT? I remember when he first posted about the program you started off in Tomorrowland.

Raptor · #29 08-01-2006, 01:15 PM

I transferred in April by extending my program (the only way you can transfer as a CP). My program is almost up, but I am becoming a seasonal CM so I can come back and work at Tower in the winter and summer.

**Kyle L** · #30 08-01-2006, 03:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Raptor

I transferred in April by extending my program (the only way you can transfer as a CP). My program is almost up, but I am becoming a seasonal CM so I can come back and work at Tower in the winter and summer.

Tower of LOL...

Sounds like the Disney program you participate in is more of a college like setting where you major on a department/ride....sounds cool. Tell us MORE!