Like others have said the problem with the Florida Job market right now is that some not all are being lazy and still receiving unemployment benefits. I was one of the most hated Debby Downers when I caught wind of the Virus in November of 2019 and started stating guys get ready for a long term closure. For those in the know, Disney did have long term closure plans for Disneyland and Disneyworld i.e in the case of a Earthquake or Cat 4-5 Hurricane devastating the parks. No one expected Disney parks to be shut down for a year. and with that came a downturn on tourism across the entire state. Those who are hiring are hiring for 40+ hour weeks without benefits. No person wants to work without benefits and with the uncertainty that is tip share pay. Which has led to this.
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For the first time in over a decade Disney Corporate Hiring site is hiring for just about every hourly position available at both Disney World and Disneyland Resorts. Which in and in its self has become somewhat controversial for current and furloughed Cast Members whom many are still awaiting a call back to work.
To the many who where intelligent enough to note that they had rent and payments still due, many left Disney/ Orlando and went back home or somewhere else across the state to work or finish their education to get a better job. While you can make a career out of Disney, the cost of living anywhere within a 30 min drive of the resort is near impossible to afford even with a 15 dollar an hour wage.
The Morale across the resort with those CM's who did remain are close to an abyss, many are happy to be back to work, but the uncertainty, the wishy washy regulations and now both the County and State lifting certain mandates makes for a very interesting year in hospitality and within the company as a whole. No one expected Covid. I almost always plan annually for a contingency plan in case I get furloughed due to a Hurricane, but this was unprecedented and beyond control.
Another key issue is that Americans as a whole are woke. Last night our current president politely reiterated his intention to ask congress to lift the Federal Minimum wage to 15 dollars an hour. Most ignorant people believe that it's in effect as Florida as a whole did vote for this in the last Midterms in 2018. However it won't be implemented for a long while. While one can find some companies hiring at 15 hr, i.e. Target being the one that most often comes to mind, the reality is that most of these now hiring jobs aren't offering these rates of pay.
Which is another thing currently plaguing Disney Hiring Managers. How do we compete with Universal, Seaworld, and every last tourism related job currently hiring when so many people have left Orlando due to a year of no business. Slowly but surely conventions are beginning to return to resorts and hotels, but the reality is that even those events are short staffed. Not everything can be attributed to Unemployment checks. After all it's become a joke around here that you can't hire a Lyft or Uber because of how high the demand is that wait times are hours long.
It will take a year or two before things settle down, but for now, this is the hard cold reality of Florida's largest sector of it's economy. Hundreds of thousands unemployed all looking for the same jobs. All we can do is stipulate and see as we progress through the summer which historically does tend to be Floridas busiest season. Even without the post surge era, this does happen to be the season of hiring as UCF, the areas largest university tends to end spring semester and all those students tend to look for work at quick service, hotels, and other hospitality related work.
