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Topic: DLR Casting Center - No Longer Hiring?

#	Author	Message
1	Westsider Tue 1/6/2009 4:03p	Al Lutz talked about this in his update today, and here in the Learning Center (which is more of a CM gossip lounge with Internet access than anything to do with "learning") other CM's are also talking about their friends who can't get hired at DL anymore. Basically, the Disneyland Resort is now fully staffed and has been for several months. Very few people are leaving, something I can attest to, and everyone is now scared to call in anymore for fear of losing their jobs and not being able to hire back in after a couple of months. Casting did shut down for two weeks and reopened yesterday with a skeleton crew, basically just enough people to process the top applicants and put them on a waiting list if they want to wait up to six months for a call back. I know a girl who worked in Casting and has been reassigned to another department that doesn't even need her, and so far for the last two days she says she just sat in a cubicle waiting for someone to tell her what to do or invite her to a meeting or something. Today at lunch she snuck off property because she was afraid if she went to the Eat Ticket cafeteria at TDA someone would ask her what she has been doing in her "new role". As far as she can tell, she has no role and no apparent responsibility. I'm sure they'll figure it out eventually, but for now she just sits there rustling papers whenever someone walks by who might be a boss. Casting is a shell of its former self, with no apparent need this winter. So, for those former CM's that thought they might hire back in 2009 doesn't look like it's going to be your year. I was told Casting is now basically throwing out any application from a former CM with a "Restricted" rehire status, and even "YES" rehire statuses are suspect because Casting knows managers never documented everything and YES rehire statuses don't mean much anymore. To get a shot at being put on a waiting list you need to be a new face with no prior history at Disneyland and have a stellar interview and presentation. Prior work experience is a must, and impressive extra-curricular activities and education help. It's amazing how quickly things changed, isn't it? From my perspective, it is already better having a more stable workforce who knows what they are doing more often than not. It makes the work easier that way when you aren't constantly surrounded by new hires or rehires from other departments. Personally, I hope it stays this way for a long time.
2	SuperDry Tue 1/6/2009 4:17p	Interesting. And over in the WDW section, we have reports of "full-time" CMs stretching to get even 35 hours a week, let alone 40 hours. Contrast this with a couple of years ago when it seems that there were severe problems in hiring to fill all of the available positions.
3	alexbook Tue 1/6/2009 4:23p	>>The Labor Department will release its December employment report on Friday at 8:30 a.m. EST. According to a Reuters poll, economists are expecting payroll jobs to drop 500,000, bringing job losses for all 2008 to about 2.5 million.<< http://www.reuters.com/article...20090105 I'm just sayin'...
4	SingleParkPassholder Tue 1/6/2009 5:07p	I could be wrong, and I hope I am, but it sounds a lot like a place that is planning on doing cuts in the near future. No one gets hired, the few that do leave take care of a little bit of attrition, and they won't have to lay off the newly hired, lower paid workers when the cuts come. Instead, they'll get to lop off some higher paid employees. Not that I want to be a downer or anything, I really don't.
5	SpokkerJones Tue 1/6/2009 6:15p	When the economy picks up again, don't worry, most people won't settle for employment at Disneyland anymore until they change their ways.
6	Sport Goofy Wed 1/7/2009 5:35a	<< When the economy picks up again . . >> Not happening anytime soon, especially in So. Cal.
7	SingleParkPassholder Wed 1/7/2009 12:41p	"When the economy picks up again, don't worry, most people won't settle for employment at Disneyland anymore until they change their ways." At least if you have anything to say about it.
8	gadzuux Wed 1/7/2009 12:59p	It does seem like the kind of place where you wouldn't work there long if you didn't want to do it. There are easier ways of making more money. You have to park far away from your worksite and be shuttled in, you have to wear clothing provided for you (sometimes really weird clothing too), you're effectively trapped at your workplace for your entire shift (no running out for coffee or lunch or errands), and often dealing with heavy crowds inside the park and snarls of traffic coming and going. It sounds exhausting to me. I'd be looking for something else within six months tops. Unless you really enjoy working at the circus for peanuts, which (being a DL fan) I can understand too. But not everybody feels like we do.
9	SpokkerJones Wed 1/7/2009 1:19p	The most damning part of the article. "The work environment for those hourly folks is still just as unimpressive as it used to be, with decrepit break rooms, inedible slop in the hourly cafeterias, and out of touch TDA leaders reading their lines via PowerPoint to a glassy-eyed audience that tuned them out years ago" Never mind that they aren't paid very well. The recession has effectively "fixed" Disneyland's casting problem and they didn't even have to lift a finger.
10	SingleParkPassholder Wed 1/7/2009 1:47p	Forgive me SpokkerJones for not being hip to all the jive, but what exactly is your continual beef with Disneyland?

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