Not surprised you are finding it difficult.
If you believe that automation always saves money and that a change in labor costs has no impact on that, then there is nothing more that I can add to this conversation. Clearly, you are not going to be convinced. But you are just wrong. There is not even a grey area here. What you said is just 100% false.
Ok. Tom. Where is your evidence that automation isn’t saving money right now????
Okay, let's start with a clarification... I absolutely do not begrudge cast members getting a raise. I don't believe you will find anywhere that I have said that. In fact, as a fan of Walt Disney World, I would prefer to see the cast members make more. Not only does that benefit them but, from a selfish perspective, my family and I are likely to receive better service from people who are well paid and not constantly stressed about their finances.Imagine being the type of person who pays Disney thousands and thousands of dollars a year, but begrudges hourly CMs getting a raise.
As @xdan0920 says, though, this is already where we are. In positions where companies like Disney can get a computer screen to do the task of a worker, it is always going to be cheaper to run that computer unless wages drop down to starvation levels. It's not a reason for workers they can't yet get rid of yet to gratefully accept whatever Disney will give them... until Disney finds a way to eliminate their position, too.
You get a certain amount of call in sick free days but, there are stipulations to receiving them and, only “full time” cms get them. There’s only a handfull of full time classified cms in a specific location in comparison to the many many part time ones. Hours worked don’t apply either. A part time worker can work 50 hours a week but, not receive the same full time benefits.
Incorrect. If you are not hourly, there is most definitely a merit raise. If your hourly there's a rate you get for starting, which is the $15 being discussed here. And then there's the rate you get for being a one-year cast member, a two-year cast member, a three-year cast member, a four-year cast member, and it keeps going until you hit a top out rate. Which is well into the double digits of years served. In either case, hourly or not hourly, There is almost most always a annual pay raise. In the case of the hourly, that is a specified dollar amount as dictated in the terms of the contract, and the case of the non hourly it is a percentage based on performance.
If a part time cast member consistently works 50 hour weeks they will quickly get capped.
And the company you work for allows you to just call sick without any ramifications to you at all? You can just call sick whenever you want? Hey you're sick it shouldn't count against you? The fact of the matter under Disney's current contract you can call sick once a month for 11 consecutive months, and as long as you skip that 12-month, you're going to be just fine without any actual reprimand coming to you. That seems more than generous.
My post is correct. My post and this entire thread are referencing hourly cast members covered by the STCU. Those cast members do not receive merit raises. They receive raises based on service time consistent with other cast members at those same milestones covered by the STCU. They do not receive raises based on performance.
If I’m not mistaken, they got rid of being capped for part timers a few years ago. They will just hire more of them to make sure the hours can be spread more around. I was just using that as an example for classification of pt and ft purposes. Your hours worked don't factor into your pt and ft status.
Interesting if true.
They don’t cap anyone but, if all the pt start having to get health insurance for working ft hours, they do mass hirings to try and stop it.
But what's the Bacon of living like?Yes very true it’s huge in Florida or Louisiana where I’m at where our Costner of living is not as high as say Cali or New York lol.
