I did my time in the parks - WDW (all 4) and Universal Orlando (USF and IOA). The patience I developed there has guided me through a career in corporate America having to translate business and engineering speak into actionable creative deliverables, while at the same time controlling my desire to tell people who are less experienced than me and poorly-prepared to jump out of a 31st story window and into a thimble filled with thumb tacks.
That’s exactly how it’s supposed to work.
but Disney's training was superior
So, Disney training has value for “unskilled” workers that potentially benefits them in future, better jobs.
I spend so many hours paying people to learn, I should charge tuition.
I have to teach high school and college kids basic, basic things. Safety, security, how to speak in a professional manner, how you can’t call out whenever you want because this isn’t school - and, most importantly, the plural of “vinyl” is “vinyl,” not “vinyls.”
![Face with raised eyebrow :face_with_raised_eyebrow: 🤨](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/7.0/png/unicode/64/1f928.png)
![Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl: 🤣](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/7.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png)
I have to teach 60 year olds how to copy and paste, use a spreadsheet, respond to questions on social media, and how to tell the difference between a message that has been already read, responded to, forwarded, and from whom they were sent.
One guy who used to fight me a lot on how to do things moved to Texas, started working at a storage facility, and was quickly promoted to management. He called to thank me because what I taught him (at my expense) was what impressed them and helped him get promoted.
I hire “low level” jobs but prepare them for “real” jobs down the road better than school did.