I’m cackling. That break area is literally unchanged except for the banner they strung up above. They probably spent more money on the gas it took to motorcade the suits all the way from TDA.
Oh, so you are familiar with this break area? It doesn't look new in the photo, judging by the stained concrete. But the bearded younger guy to Mr. Magetti's left in the ribbon-cutting shows up in the second photo showing Mr. Magetti how to use the cash register at the snack bar. I assume that snack bar is inside the doors of this break area? Maybe that's what they were cutting the ribbon on, a new snack bar that sells those 5 hour energy shots on the counter to front line CM's at a modest profit for TDA?
And again I say,
Disney's Parks & Resorts division has made $3.6 Billion in after-tax profit for the last 9 months of this current fiscal year. Just the Parks division, just this year, Billion with a B.
Really, this is so horrifying to see that this is what the "Backstage" (do they still call it that?) work environment is for the CM's. It looks so cheap and industrial and like no one cares about them. Couldn't they at least have provided comfortable padded chairs? A more colorful paint scheme for the pre-fab metal walls other than North Korean Tan? Any sort of amenity at all?
I can't believe this is what the break rooms look like in TDA, and that's the real shame here that TDA thinks this poorly of their front-line CM's out there in the parks delivering their core product to paying customers.
Meanwhile, at modern successful companies who actually care for their employees the break rooms look like this in the 21st century...
At the very least, those front-line CM's
that middle managers like Mr. Magetti profess to care so much about should have an air-conditioned and furnished break area at this minimum standard, with padded dining chairs and some sofas/armchairs, and free coffee and ice water and basic amenities available to them as they recharge before they head back out into the sun and frenzy of the parks.
This is the bare minimum that a Disneyland break room should look like instead of what Mr. Magetti cut the ribbon on...
