WDW Laying off Cast Members

[Duckberg]

From what I've seen, partially but not entirely. A few of the layoffs that I know about personally seem to be performance-based. Others seem to have no obvious performance correlation.

Captain Hank sounds like from what your seeing a performance + wrong place/wrong time combo Duckberg

 

[Captain Hank]

Captain Hank sounds like from what your seeing a performance + wrong place/wrong time combo Duckberg

Eh, I'd really rather not speculate further at the moment. Some seem performance based, others do not.

 

[SoccerMickey]

I personally know that a couple of managers in Adventureland/Liberty Square and Frontierland attractions were let go this week as were 4 managers from Disney Univeristy.

 

[SirGoofy]

I personally know that a couple of managers in Adventureland/Liberty Square and Frontierland attractions were let go this week as were 4 managers from Disney Univeristy.

I've been told some of the Ad/Lib managers maybe relocated.

 

[SoccerMickey]

I've been told some of the Ad/Lib managers maybe relocated.

Maybe the rest (there are WAYY too many by the way) but from what I was told yesterday three were given walking papers yesterday.

 

[bayoutinkbelle]

I have been (recently) on the other end of story - having to sit down with 4 other department managers and have to pick one line manager out of all of our teams to lay off. Let me tell you, its not plesant no matter where you stand.

-dave

This is too true. I've been on both sides in the mess at my company over the past 18 months and, while I certainly can't speak as to what's going on inside WDW's case, I know our boss told us that a certain number of people had to go and to look at the obvious - performance - first in deciding who went. That was one round. I've also been through a round where it was simply directors. If you were a director, you were out - good performance or bad, didn't matter.

:shrug::shrug:

All I know is that the same amount of work remains to be done; and those of us left (salaried, of course) are bearing the burden. I'm sure some of those left at WDW will feel the same.

Much good luck and peace to everyone involved.

 

[SoccerMickey]

This is too true. I've been on both sides in the mess at my company over the past 18 months and, while I certainly can't speak as to what's going on inside WDW's case, I know our boss told us that a certain number of people had to go and to look at the obvious - performance - first in deciding who went. That was one round. I've also been through a round where it was simply directors. If you were a director, you were out - good performance or bad, didn't matter.

:shrug::shrug:

All I know is that the same amount of work remains to be done; and those of us left (salaried, of course) are bearing the burden. I'm sure some of those left at WDW will feel the same.

Much good luck and peace to everyone involved.

Seeing this happen at Walt Disney World made me think (and it happens everywhere too) that if you work hard and get promoted through the ranks only to find out your job is getting eliminated is really sad. Obviously Walt Disney World has been mismanaged for the past several years and the people who have to suffer for it are the people who earned their promotions, not the people who wrongly put them there in the first place.

 

[blackthidot]

Nope. No regular CMs are being laid off right now, it's all in management. Personally I think there are way too many managers around doing absolutely very little or nothing important that it would be good to restructure the system.

We have 7 managers over the area that I am in and there are 3 there each shift. 2 of them have nothing to do except ride around on their Segway all night and sneak around corners trying to catch CMs doing things they aren't supposed to be doing. You can laugh but it's true.

Every company has that minus the segways.

 

[SoccerMickey]

Every company has that minus the segways.

...and pickers...

 

[SirGoofy]

Maybe the rest (there are WAYY too many by the way) but from what I was told yesterday three were given walking papers yesterday.

I've been told one of those three is a possible relocation.

 

[disneydata]

4 managers in Ad/Lib were laid off as well as 4 in Frontierland. AFAIK, most of the Disney University team has been either laid off or restructured. There was almost no one there this morning. I was also told almost every MK restaurant lost 2 managers. Other areas I have only heard rumors at most.

 

[TURKEY]

Cast Service Managers (those that help cast members with things in their lives) have had those positions disappear. Don't know if they are being relocated or not.

 

[GymLeaderPhil]

Cast Service Managers (those that help cast members with things in their lives) have had those positions disappear. Don't know if they are being relocated or not.

Some.

Guess you can scratch that Disney Difference off the list and add another:

Employment (Some Exclusions Apply.)

 

[raven]

Every company has that minus the segways.

Well, one of them are gone now. The manager who actually has been caught doing nothing was let go I guess. Employed for 14 years and a manager for 11 years. But that was expected.

 

[Phonedave]

This is too true. I've been on both sides in the mess at my company over the past 18 months and, while I certainly can't speak as to what's going on inside WDW's case, I know our boss told us that a certain number of people had to go and to look at the obvious - performance - first in deciding who went. That was one round. I've also been through a round where it was simply directors. If you were a director, you were out - good performance or bad, didn't matter.

:shrug::shrug:

All I know is that the same amount of work remains to be done; and those of us left (salaried, of course) are bearing the burden. I'm sure some of those left at WDW will feel the same.

Much good luck and peace to everyone involved.

While I can't speak for how TWDC handles their force reductions, that is how we do it as well.

A certain department is told they have to go down a head, based on budget. Then based on performance, location, job function, etc a person is chosen. That person may be a better performer than somone else in a different department, but that different department may not be over budget at that time. The person who was cut then has a certain amount of time to find a new job in the company before they are let go.

So while it is performance based, it is also a matter of wrong place wrong time.

No matter how it happens, its not fun


-dave

 

[mkt]

Disney Difference

You mean the value added stuff that many other large employers offer to their staff as well, without having to advertise it in order to blind their staff of how poorly run their company is and how poorly paid their staff is?

Getting canned from Disney was the best thing to ever happen to me. It took me several years to get my life back on track, but now that it's there, I love the post-Disney world.

 

[PhotoDave219]

I have been (recently) on the other end of story - having to sit down with 4 other department managers and have to pick one line manager out of all of our teams to lay off. Let me tell you, its not plesant no matter where you stand.

-dave

That really sucks. My job isn't safe. Ive gotten a paycut as well as lost a boss and some good coworkers in the past 6 weeks.

As a friend is fond of saying... 'which of your children do you love most?' Hard decisions.

 

[Wilt Dasney]

I actually agree with most of this post.....and of course i AM VERY thankful. I also thank my maker daily that i acheived my career dream of being a Firefighter/Medic. However, along with being thankful..one must also take responsibility to ENSURE their well being despite being laid off or not.
CHOOSING a stable and virtually 100% secure career IS possible and in the end lies in the lap of the individual.

To an extent, I think this is a fair point. But if you try to apply it to the workforce as a whole, it sort of reminds me of the old line: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

The fact is if everyone made the wise choice to go into stable areas like healthcare or emergency services, it wouldn't be such a wise choice anymore. Those industries would have to start turning away lots of applicants, who would drift further and further down the corporate foodchain, latching onto jobs along the way...until some of them might even end up working in theme parks.

There are only so many secure jobs to go around. Somebody has to push that button at the beginning of the ride, or the ride won't go.

 

[mkt]

My job isn't safe.

Mine isn't either. Even though I was recently promoted to Art Director, our HR director made a point to remind me that my contract is only through May 15.

I'm... scared.

 

[peter11435]

4 managers in Ad/Lib were laid off as well as 4 in Frontierland. AFAIK, most of the Disney University team has been either laid off or restructured. There was almost no one there this morning. I was also told almost every MK restaurant lost 2 managers. Other areas I have only heard rumors at most.

Just to clairify only 2 managers were laid off from Ad/lib. The other two were on TA's that ended.