It’s good to have high standards. If the parks were poor quality, it’d go against the entire purpose of the Disney Parks to begin with. When something is amiss (ie. broken effects on Splash Mountain, crappy replacements and rethemes for good attractions, etc.) I do think it’s important for us to be vocal and express our concerns with Disney.
However, I still think it’s an interesting question to pose. Do we get too entitled sometimes? I think we do, and I’m guilty with it just as much as anyone else. Take this for an example:
Here, you have a Cast Member clearly not exhibiting the full effort that we expect of a KS driver. As hardcore and knowledgeable fans, our first instinct is to complain. But let’s put ourselves in the Cast Member’s shoes, who’s probably been driving for several hours a day, in the hot humid AK weather. Maybe the CM doesn’t feel well. Maybe the CM is having family complications at home. There’s a huge difference between an explicitly rude CM and a CM that isn’t expressing the effort we expect them to.
I also see the argument that the hardcore park goer “mainly feels bad for the first timer for not getting the proper experience”. I despise the excuse I’m about to give, but it applies best here: the first timer has no idea what to expect because he/she has never been before!
I think we give the CMs a little too hard of a time. We tend to use the CMs as a scapegoat, while the bigger problem, management, gets by unscathed. It’s a lot more prominent on bigger social media platforms like Twitter, but I see it sometimes on here.
We should always put ourselves in their shoes before we type.
However, I still think it’s an interesting question to pose. Do we get too entitled sometimes? I think we do, and I’m guilty with it just as much as anyone else. Take this for an example:
Here, you have a Cast Member clearly not exhibiting the full effort that we expect of a KS driver. As hardcore and knowledgeable fans, our first instinct is to complain. But let’s put ourselves in the Cast Member’s shoes, who’s probably been driving for several hours a day, in the hot humid AK weather. Maybe the CM doesn’t feel well. Maybe the CM is having family complications at home. There’s a huge difference between an explicitly rude CM and a CM that isn’t expressing the effort we expect them to.
I also see the argument that the hardcore park goer “mainly feels bad for the first timer for not getting the proper experience”. I despise the excuse I’m about to give, but it applies best here: the first timer has no idea what to expect because he/she has never been before!
I think we give the CMs a little too hard of a time. We tend to use the CMs as a scapegoat, while the bigger problem, management, gets by unscathed. It’s a lot more prominent on bigger social media platforms like Twitter, but I see it sometimes on here.
We should always put ourselves in their shoes before we type.