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Cuts coming to every area of parks and resorts - thanks to Shanghai and Paris
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hopemax
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How great can it be from a business side? High turnover is traditionally seen as bad for business. Turning over large portions of your staff every 5-7 months in any other organization would raise questions about what is wrong. If you read the business journals, is this a trend? "Replace large portions of your staff every 5-7 months and it will be good for your bottom line." Many businesses operate with the first 6 months being a probationary period, because it can take that long to determine if the person will be a good fit and are doing the job properly. The weekly salary may be less, but people who are not proficient at their job can not be efficient at their job, which means losses in every other metric. And the whole My Disney Experience has exponentially increased the amount of knowledge required by people manning the front desks, attraction entrances, points of sale in F&B and merchandise (like the recent outage affecting charging), etc to be proficient.
PhotoDave219
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Shot term balance sheet savings.
Next Big Thing
Well-Known Member
They don't have to worry about promoting anyone or - more importantly - giving them a raise. It's a constant turnover at low wages. I've done the program and the training is good so everyone generally knows what they are doing (a few here/there maybe that can't keep up... but they got fired in my time there).
It's all about keeping wages low.
Animaniac93-98
Well-Known Member
I seriously doubt that Paris is now suffering so much that it's affecting WDW to this extent. I call BS on that one.
Paris is sorting though its own problems in an effective and relatively quick manner. That they lost revenue due to 4 days of closure is not the park's fault as Disney was following the national mourning period set by the government. The terrorist attacks have actually not had a significant impact on either guest metrics or the resort's refurb schedule. We have facts to back this stuff up (see article on page 1 of this thread).
I say this not because I'm a DLP fanboi (though I must admit to being one), but because I'm tired of the narrative set by ignorant US-based Disney fans that continues to be pushed as an excuse for the domestic park's failings.
A major collapse in attendence and occupancy at DLP would be something the international press would have covered. Why should I believe some random WDW CM on this? Have they ever set foot in Europe?
Paris is sorting though its own problems in an effective and relatively quick manner. That they lost revenue due to 4 days of closure is not the park's fault as Disney was following the national mourning period set by the government. The terrorist attacks have actually not had a significant impact on either guest metrics or the resort's refurb schedule. We have facts to back this stuff up (see article on page 1 of this thread).
I say this not because I'm a DLP fanboi (though I must admit to being one), but because I'm tired of the narrative set by ignorant US-based Disney fans that continues to be pushed as an excuse for the domestic park's failings.
A major collapse in attendence and occupancy at DLP would be something the international press would have covered. Why should I believe some random WDW CM on this? Have they ever set foot in Europe?
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doctornick
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Are cutbacks being spread to all the Disney owned parks (e.g. not Tokyo, but including Paris and Hong Kong and even the cruise line)? While I'll don't agree with or approve of the idea of cuts in the face of increasing profits, they at least would be easier to justify if they are across the board and affecting multiple resorts.
GhostHost1000
Premium Member
While they understaff most places, one place they may need more cast members after this will be guest relations
Uncle Lupe
Well-Known Member
Sounds like retail economics. Where can we make cuts, staffing. Do more with less and let's see what happens.
Or a company uncertain about the future.
Election year. If one side gets elected you pretty much get a socialist president. That scares the crap out of businesses. If the other side wins, the media spins the economic strength mantra back towards the actual state of the economy, which will shake consumer confidence, which scares business.
I think they are just prepping for the coming storm.
wogwog
Well-Known Member
Wise decision.
doctornick
Well-Known Member
Also, I wonder (fear) if any of this cutbacks will impact planned capital projects? @ParentsOf4 has mentioned that spending in the domestic parks is finally increasing to pre-Iger levels and there are plans for much needed and overdue improvements to the domestic parks -- it would be tragic to see those budgets cut or abandoned.
Next Big Thing
Well-Known Member
Once Again: does this affect just WDW or is it beyond to other resorts?
I highly doubt the presidential elections have an impact in this decisions. No one even knows who will be the presidential candidates at this point. Although, Disney should probably prepare itself for minimum wage increases. But seeing as they fired their domestic IT teams for J1 Visas, I'm sure they can pay their staff more.
Animaniac93-98
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wogwog
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Plane loads landing weekly.
Animaniac93-98
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The only impact presidental elections have on WDW is what robot to build every 4-8 years.
insaneshadow
Active Member
I would like to know this as well. The first post sounds like both Disneyland and WDW, but ever other post makes it sound like WDW is the only one that's going to get these cuts.
MyMartianRomance
New Member
Well, this might affect my senior trip plans (4/23-4/26). Especially since our school is the only school who goes to Orlando for senior trip and refuses to do Universal. The school might have to do some upon arrival replanning. Like, changing rules to bedrooms.
skyphotographer
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I currently have Disney World trips planned for April and June of this year. If this holds true, I may just cancel those plans or go to Universal and other area parks instead. If they are cutting, I'm cutting.