[ SECRET POST #766 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #766 ⌋

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Comments

147 OP

[(Anonymous)]

i'm sorry that your experience was not what you expected. i did the college program as well and i loved each and every minute of it. my co-workers and my superiors were all wonderful people, and i remain friends with all of them. i NEVER had the sense that i was unappreciated - quite the opposite, in fact. and i did work at wdw, where i have yet to encounter anyone who is anything other than kind and helpful, whether they knew i was a cast member or not. again, i am very sorry that your experience has soured you on the idea of disney, but that's not really the norm.

Re: 147 OP

[azurite]

Oh, I went in with high hopes. After all, it's **DISNEY** and they were open to all majors and seemed so friendly and enthusiastic in the beginning. But Disney didn't meet my expectations of an internship serving a grander purpose. Of course, it was the first year that the College Program at Anaheim offered housing, and that presented a whole other can of worms unrelated to the internship itself, but just speaking from the "job" perspective, I got the impression that I was just there to fill a need, not to learn anything unique or do anything special. I was no different from people that got hired to work in the Stores regularly, except that I HAD to get more hours in order to afford the ridiculous rent I was being charged for the housing (which I had to be in or else I couldn't have the internship; in the case of at least 2 of my roommates, they were told they couldn't have the Roles they wanted unless they lived in housing, which is preposterous).

At WDW, I went in with the impression that people there would be just like the ones back in Anaheim, because we all received standardized training. But for every one or two nice, enthusiastic people who made the day fun or memorable, there were about five or six inattentive, grumpy people. I went into every store in the WDW parks and I rarely got asked if I needed any help. That shocked me, because that was MANDATORY at my store. We HAD to be attentive, help people with WHATEVER their request was, until it was filled or we knew 100% for a fact that it could not be. We HAD to pay attention to little details like if it's their birthday or are they newlyweds or is it their anniversary. At WDW, most Cast Members seemed to ignore me, except for the one guy in the Art building (who I told was a Cast Member) who spent the entire session MAKING FUN OF ME. Worse, at the hotel, I got hit on by an old Cast Member working at the registers. Talk about inappropriate!

My co-workers at DLR weren't bad (most of them, anyway), but it wasn't the best working environment. I thought that my bosses would be more understanding of my physical limitations, but I persistently got told that my doctor's notes weren't good enough and that I HAD to do things that hurt me more, and no, no matter how early in my shift I asked, I couldn't get my assignment switched with someone else, even if I asked that other person AND a lead.

I think it's one of those internships where people really have to think it through instead of thinking "Ooh, Disney!" and immediately imagining great things. Short of art and design people who get accepted into the internships for the studio or people who want to be an actor/singer/etc. and audition for an Entertainment role, I can't see how anyone with a declared major would take that internship and find something beneficial to apply to them. Sure, any major is accepted, but that's because the work has nothing to do with education or life skills for use OUTSIDE of Disney. The few classes I took (which were only once a month, btw) presented NOTHING I hadn't learned before in honor societies or conferences or University 101 courses. Maybe some people without my experience would have felt they got a lot more from the role I had, but I didn't enjoy it.

I did LEARN from it, though, and that's that I don't want to work retail, I don't want to work corporate (or at least not like Disney is structured), and I want to see a clear relation between my work and my goals. I don't regret doing the internship altogether, because I did meet some great people, but it wasn't the wonderful internship they made it out to be. Out of every hundred or more participants, I think only 10 or so might actually have that kind of experience. A ton of people in my program dropped out, got kicked out, or were miserable by program's end. And if the Disney program did a better job at screening its applicants and properly placing them, I don't think I (and they) would have had such a lousy time of it.

I want to keep Disney in a place of esteem in my heart, so I had to separate from the company to do that.