I work in a tourist attraction as a tour guide, and having worked there for 7 consecutive summers I can say without a doubt that I really have begun to detest everything about the attraction I serve. I introduce guests and lecture them about the same exhibits, bits of history, and tell the same jokes over and over again. Even worse, I've seen the same introductory videos and listened to short audio loops hundreds upon hundreds of times. At this point, not only do I receive no amusement from what I'm experiencing, I can't for the life of me understand why the guests I serve do.
This makes me wonder: Do Walt Disney World cast memebers get as burned out about their attractions and posts as I have? I imagine a cast member in the haunted mansion doing the same exact procedure at the loading station every 5 seconds and listening to the same 2-minute-long looped music track for hours at a time and going near-insane with boredom and monotony. Honestly, if I saw the Alien Encounter preshow 10 times in a row I don't think I'd ever enjoy it again, let alone after 200 times.
So, I ask the cast members here: How do you deal with the monotony of your jobs and does the familiarity with the WDW attractions bring love or contempt? Also, are there any particular procedures or practices the company uses to aleviate your sufferings? I can just imagine someone who works day in and day out as a Jungle Cruise guide getting on this message board and being dumbfounded by how enfatuated everyone is with the minute details of the theming in what is for him his daily personal hell. So, let's here it CMs, sick of the magic or glad to be in the midst of it?
This makes me wonder: Do Walt Disney World cast memebers get as burned out about their attractions and posts as I have? I imagine a cast member in the haunted mansion doing the same exact procedure at the loading station every 5 seconds and listening to the same 2-minute-long looped music track for hours at a time and going near-insane with boredom and monotony. Honestly, if I saw the Alien Encounter preshow 10 times in a row I don't think I'd ever enjoy it again, let alone after 200 times.
So, I ask the cast members here: How do you deal with the monotony of your jobs and does the familiarity with the WDW attractions bring love or contempt? Also, are there any particular procedures or practices the company uses to aleviate your sufferings? I can just imagine someone who works day in and day out as a Jungle Cruise guide getting on this message board and being dumbfounded by how enfatuated everyone is with the minute details of the theming in what is for him his daily personal hell. So, let's here it CMs, sick of the magic or glad to be in the midst of it?