Worst Job at Walt Disney World?

[Jon Good]

I use to work in attractions before I retired. My wife worked in housekeeping for a while and that is the worst job. You get tips, but the work is hard. You have to do 15 rooms every day and you have to do them the Disney way. Its like being a slave. My wife finally transferred to attractions and she said that was like being on vacation compared to housekeeping.

 

["El Gran Magnifico"]

Adventurers Club Host/Hostess.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

It is amazing when some parents bring their little ones to a restaurant and after the party departs after paying their bill, the wait staff have to clean up the tables, chairs and flooring like a mini hurricane clean up.

Yeah kids are messy, so what?

 

[Lilofan]

Yeah kids are messy, so what?

Think they'd ever allow their kids to pull that crap at home? Doubt it.

 

[rk03221]

I’ve worked a lot of roles at WDW but the worst had to be outdoor foods. To this day I’ve never experienced such an awful toxic work environment with the most incompetent management. Our managers would come into work with the mindset of “let’s see who we can fire/get in trouble today”, sleep with lower level cms for promotions, hookup with CPs at work after the park closed, berate us backstage, sometimes wouldn’t let us take breaks, etc. I even think a few cms filed complaints with OSHA and the union. Outdoor foods made me quit Disney and it took me about a year to get back on Disney property after that

 

[UNCgolf]

I’ve worked a lot of roles at WDW but the worst had to be outdoor foods. To this day I’ve never experienced such an awful toxic work environment with the most incompetent management. Our managers would come into work with the mindset of “let’s see who we can fire/get in trouble today”, sleep with lower level cms for promotions, hookup with CPs at work after the park closed, berate us backstage, sometimes wouldn’t let us take breaks, etc. I even think a few cms filed complaints with OSHA and the union. Outdoor foods made me quit Disney and it took me about a year to get back on Disney property after that

What does outdoor foods encompass? Just the food carts and kiosks?

 

[NelleBelle]

It is amazing when some parents bring their little ones to a restaurant and after the party departs after paying their bill, the wait staff have to clean up the tables, chairs and flooring like a mini hurricane clean up.

If we ever left a restaurant table looking like that, we left an enormous tip to cover it.

Think they'd ever allow their kids to pull that crap at home? Doubt it.

That why we had a dog! Seriously, if our kids left a mess like that, and kids often do when they're learning to feed themselves, I was ever so thankful of having a dog to clean the larger "chunks" on the floor so I just had to swiffer under the high chair. It's phase and unfortunately it happens when we'd dine out occasionally--but we always made sure to tip extra if we couldn't tidy up the mess our selves. And frankly, I've seen messes left by adults that were just as bad!

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Think they'd ever allow their kids to pull that crap at home? Doubt it.

Yes, kids are messy at home too.

Believe it or not.

 

[Benjamin_Nicholas]

They're all bad.

The mouse pays nothing. Even to management.

You couldn't get me to work those parks, ever.

 

[Lilofan]

Yes, kids are messy at home too.

Believe it or not.

My brother and I were not when we grew up but we grew up in a household of tough love if we got out of line.

 

[Lilofan]

They're all bad.

The mouse pays nothing. Even to management.

You couldn't get me to work those parks, ever.

Well whatever they pay you probably must like living on property or else you would live elsewhere.

 

[NickPytlinski]

yeah can imagine the job roles you don't see being pretty grim at times.

face to face i'd say guest relations probably get a load a crap

 

[Lilofan]

yeah can imagine the job roles you don't see being pretty grim at times.

face to face i'd say guest relations probably get a load a crap

Any guest relations ( WDW, airport, hotels ) one should get battle pay like when getting deployed in the military.

 

[NickPytlinski]

Any guest relations ( WDW, airport, hotels ) one should get battle pay like when getting deployed in the military.

underappreciated job role definitely

 

[BeanCounterBob]

The poor cast members having to work It's a Small World

 

[Lilofan]

The poor cast members having to work It's a Small World

If one had to listen to that song in their entire shift could make someone bonkers also.

 

[aliceismad]

If we ever left a restaurant table looking like that, we left an enormous tip to cover it.


That why we had a dog! Seriously, if our kids left a mess like that, and kids often do when they're learning to feed themselves, I was ever so thankful of having a dog to clean the larger "chunks" on the floor so I just had to swiffer under the high chair. It's phase and unfortunately it happens when we'd dine out occasionally--but we always made sure to tip extra if we couldn't tidy up the mess our selves. And frankly, I've seen messes left by adults that were just as bad!

Kids are messy! I make an effort to clean up after my kid when we eat out (or ate out pre-covid).

When I was a server at a restaurant (not at Disney), our worst messes were usually from the large parties of adults. Especially if there was alcohol involved.

I feel badly for everyone at Disney and elsewhere that have to enforce the mask mandates.

 

[Heppenheimer]

We actually never realized how much food our (then) 15 month old threw on the floor until we went to Disneyland last year. Our dogs gobbled up his discarded food so quickly at home, we could never appreciate the amount. This also explained our beagle's mysterious weight gain.

After the first couple of times being told by cast members "Don't worry about it" after we tried to clean up his mess by ourselves, we just left the food.

 

[mf1972]

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i used to joke with my wife about that. i said “hey! they removed the animatronic.”

 

[Benjamin_Nicholas]

Well whatever they pay you probably must like living on property or else you would live elsewhere.

I don't live at GO full time.

I'd go insane living in Orlando. The lack of culture is staggering.