First of all, I am extremely thankful and blessed for being hired by disney and getting my foot in the door, however we as humans react to different events in our own unique way. So I love disney and always will, just a little agitated and anxious about this situation.
I was recently hired onto QSFB, for respect and consideration, I am not revealing what resort or location it was. I now regret accepting the offer. It wasn't what I expected it to be, and I felt if I wanted to work fast food, I could have spent this time at Wendy or Burger King. I'm not majoring in culinary nor do I wish to start my own restaurant. Don't get me wrong as I said earlier I love disney and I feel privileged to have been hired, in hindsight, I would have gladly waited longer for a role in a better department and/or interview again to not be coerced into a position I didn't want. The transfer departments role defense you hear from associates is strictly based on luck and dismissive. Even still you have to wait just as if you never worked for the company at all as your seniority is gone. But that was my plan to stay in QSFB until my probation was over and transfer.
Long story short, this happened during my third shift, not counting training. Last Thursday. I got off a little after midnight, so obviously security backstage is more alert. I decided to take a different path backstage to walk to a cast member parking lot to my car.
On my way to the parking lot backstage, partly because I was lost being a new hire, I accidentally opened a backstage door to a popular attraction. It was the control room for the operators, and of course I wasn't supposed to be there.
One of the cast members standing about ten feet from the door asked if I needed help. He was the same age as I was so I thought I could be cute about it and told him "I'm looking for mickey mouse", and that made him upset. He obviously saw I was a foods cast member and thought his bowel movements didn't stink, being that's he is an attractions host whom are considered gods at disney.
He then tried to act like a police officer and gave me a look like he thought I was trying to trespass or do something illegal and started to march forward in my direction. I did not appreciate that and felt scared and anxious as I suffer from Autism, so I ran from him to prove a point. I ran in a direction I assumed would lead me on stage or in a safe area.
About a few seconds later I am being restrained by security cast members from different ranks. They escort me back to the door I opened, and the attractions cast member I previously involved myself with is laughing and shaking his head. They then try to see if I am a legitimate employee which I am, and why I did what I did and how everything got to this point. They were standing about 2 feet in front of me. They wanted to see if I was going to assault them or something. I was scared and uncomfortable.
The head honchos of security were then shortly called, and they confiscated my id card that I handed to them when they asked for it. The id card is for cast members to use to go through security points and clock in/out for shift. So without this card, I cannot work.
I thought by complying it would make the situation easier, but now I feel I probably should have been more vocal and defensive, as I still feel I didn't do anything to warrant this attention.
They then asked who my managers were, and escorted me to a room in the security building.
At this point, I was told to write a statement of the events. When I was done writing the statement, my manager then came into the room.
She basically told me I was on "Investigative Suspension", as they try to "investigate" what happened. I was not given my id back, and I cannot enter the park even as a guest, until this is resolved. I was told this could be anywhere from days to weeks, to months even.
I should have asked more questions about this, but being that it was late and I was scared/anxious and tired, I just told them I didn't have any. I was then escorted even further to the cast member parking lot.
I called my manager two times already and she isn't picking up her phone, and I left voice mails which haven't been answered. It's probably because it's the weekend, but I feel scared.
I feel that I could be terminated from saying a harmless joke and running from an attractions host, backstage, after hours where no guests were involved and nobody was hurt. I didn't steal anything, and I actually won a cast award already in QSFB
I mean I didn't like the way I was treated like a terrorist, but I'll let that slide, I hope I am given another chance. I could care less about what employees think of me being black and gay, I just really want to work for disney as being terminated from disney is something I couldn't stand for. I like helping guests.
Please help.
I was recently hired onto QSFB, for respect and consideration, I am not revealing what resort or location it was. I now regret accepting the offer. It wasn't what I expected it to be, and I felt if I wanted to work fast food, I could have spent this time at Wendy or Burger King. I'm not majoring in culinary nor do I wish to start my own restaurant. Don't get me wrong as I said earlier I love disney and I feel privileged to have been hired, in hindsight, I would have gladly waited longer for a role in a better department and/or interview again to not be coerced into a position I didn't want. The transfer departments role defense you hear from associates is strictly based on luck and dismissive. Even still you have to wait just as if you never worked for the company at all as your seniority is gone. But that was my plan to stay in QSFB until my probation was over and transfer.
Long story short, this happened during my third shift, not counting training. Last Thursday. I got off a little after midnight, so obviously security backstage is more alert. I decided to take a different path backstage to walk to a cast member parking lot to my car.
On my way to the parking lot backstage, partly because I was lost being a new hire, I accidentally opened a backstage door to a popular attraction. It was the control room for the operators, and of course I wasn't supposed to be there.
One of the cast members standing about ten feet from the door asked if I needed help. He was the same age as I was so I thought I could be cute about it and told him "I'm looking for mickey mouse", and that made him upset. He obviously saw I was a foods cast member and thought his bowel movements didn't stink, being that's he is an attractions host whom are considered gods at disney.
He then tried to act like a police officer and gave me a look like he thought I was trying to trespass or do something illegal and started to march forward in my direction. I did not appreciate that and felt scared and anxious as I suffer from Autism, so I ran from him to prove a point. I ran in a direction I assumed would lead me on stage or in a safe area.
About a few seconds later I am being restrained by security cast members from different ranks. They escort me back to the door I opened, and the attractions cast member I previously involved myself with is laughing and shaking his head. They then try to see if I am a legitimate employee which I am, and why I did what I did and how everything got to this point. They were standing about 2 feet in front of me. They wanted to see if I was going to assault them or something. I was scared and uncomfortable.
The head honchos of security were then shortly called, and they confiscated my id card that I handed to them when they asked for it. The id card is for cast members to use to go through security points and clock in/out for shift. So without this card, I cannot work.
I thought by complying it would make the situation easier, but now I feel I probably should have been more vocal and defensive, as I still feel I didn't do anything to warrant this attention.
They then asked who my managers were, and escorted me to a room in the security building.
At this point, I was told to write a statement of the events. When I was done writing the statement, my manager then came into the room.
She basically told me I was on "Investigative Suspension", as they try to "investigate" what happened. I was not given my id back, and I cannot enter the park even as a guest, until this is resolved. I was told this could be anywhere from days to weeks, to months even.
I should have asked more questions about this, but being that it was late and I was scared/anxious and tired, I just told them I didn't have any. I was then escorted even further to the cast member parking lot.
I called my manager two times already and she isn't picking up her phone, and I left voice mails which haven't been answered. It's probably because it's the weekend, but I feel scared.
I feel that I could be terminated from saying a harmless joke and running from an attractions host, backstage, after hours where no guests were involved and nobody was hurt. I didn't steal anything, and I actually won a cast award already in QSFB
I mean I didn't like the way I was treated like a terrorist, but I'll let that slide, I hope I am given another chance. I could care less about what employees think of me being black and gay, I just really want to work for disney as being terminated from disney is something I couldn't stand for. I like helping guests.
Please help.
