Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder Man, I thought I was negative. Homeless Spokker takes the cake.
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones Disneyland has a problem with turnover. TDA does nothing to fix it. Economy tanks. Turnover problems magically disappear. TDA pats themselves on the back. All in a day's work at Disneyland.
Originally Posted By VanFrance2009 Spokker Jones wrote over a year ago - <<Don't worry, when the economy improves in late '09/early '10 Disneyland will be back to near 100% turnover rates.>> Here we are in 2010. How is that turnover rate now?
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Well the economy hasn't really improved -/ so the dates he suggested are off.
Originally Posted By Westsider Spring, 2010 Casting Update, after recently speaking with an old friend who works out there.... Turnover rate still extremely low. Most operating areas losing hourly CM's in small numbers and only due to those who are fired for policy violations or poor attendance, or voluntary separations for military enlistment and such. Casting has nearly shut down their walk-in interview processes, and are only really talking to people interested in working Third Shift Custodial or highly specialized Crafts roles (electricians, carpenters, theater techs). Casting is still operating however, and is still going through a charade of accepting applications off the street. However, most of the seasonal hiring is being handled through the booming College Program, and interest at college campuses has skyrocketed since TDA really got back into that concept in 2007. The interest at campus recruitment fairs is HUGE, and there is a very positive buzz on campuses about the Disneyland College Program due to the SoCal "scene" and a few hundred rather luxurious apartments Disney has secured for them in a new Anaheim complex that was originally built as condos a few years ago but reverted to apartments, of which Disney snapped up several entire wings of the complex. The College Program CM's are thought of by management as being cut from a much finer cloth and of a much higher caliber than anyone off the street, even in todays tight market. The average applicant off the street is shuttled into the system as a formality, although the Casting receptionist is able to flag applicants that dress sloppy or look like trouble and basically roundfile their application, if not simply let them know no hiring for hourly non-Craft roles is currently taking place. In some instances walk-ins off the street who appear to be a high quality candidate are sent on to the interview process, but many walk-ins don't get that courtesy. DCA and the Parking department are reported to be ramping up with a larger than average surge in hiring this spring, due to World of Color Guest Control and extra shifts added to parking and trams, but almost all of it is being filled by the College Program. Disneyland and the hotels are doing their usual spring hiring plan, in very, very modest numbers this year. Hey, I sure know how to create threads that stand the test of time, don't I? ;-)
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones "Here we are in 2010. How is that turnover rate now?" Obama didn't fix everything, after all!
Originally Posted By fkurucz ^^Welcome to the new normal. The Obama administration has been candid lately about hight unemployment being the norm for a few more years. Out here in my neck of the woods we have large numbers of people with advanced degrees applying for temporary, $13/hr Census jobs.
Originally Posted By Anatole69 OK what does TDA stand for and what are the specifics of the college program applicants? Are they doing this for lower than normal salaries, why do they get apartments, is it for college credit etc. - Anatole
Originally Posted By FerretAfros It's actually Team Disney Anaheim, not to be confused with TDO or TDB, which are the Orlando and Burbank counterparts, respectively. Basically, it's all the office-type people who work in the big green/yellow building backstage that runs along the 5 right behind the park.
Originally Posted By mousermerf Interesting side note.. TDA/TDB seem very centralized in their locations, whereas TDO is pretty much a building with very fewer of its counterpart employees actually stationed within that location, but instead scattered around WDW in various offices at the parks and resorts - often Epcot.
Originally Posted By Westsider Actually, that's very similar at Disneyland. TDA has basic services like payroll, HR, attendance planning, ride & show engineering, marketing, Cast Activities, Commuter Assistance, Disney University, etc. But then there are sattelite offices for all that stuff - and more - in the largish administration building behind Space Mountain, the same building the Primeval World is in, with a two story admin section facing Harbor Blvd. and a three story admin wing with some executive offices facing the back of Space Mountain. Area management is housed in buildings inside the park; the second floor of windows above Adventureland shops and Riverbelle Terrace is management offices for Attractions, Foods and Stores for that area of the park for example. Then there are smaller admin buildings built backstage, like the ones you can see from the Monorail as it turns west to fly over DCA. The Disneyland Hotel? Down in the basement is a catacomb city of offices and executive suites just for that hotel. The Grand also has quite a bit of office space built in the groung floor and basement levels. WDI has a complex of large trailers, that are actually quite lavish inside, built behind the Pirates and Indy show buidlings. Tony Baxter has his Anaheim exec suite there as well. And then of course there are the three brand new Admin Buildings built for DCA behind Tower of Terror. You can see them easily from the Fun Wheel or the Harbor Blvd. sidewalk. They gave tours of them recently, and they are all two stories with a great many offices, executive suites, work rooms, rehearsal studios, catering kitchens and maintenance workshops. The farthest building south looks very conservative and basic from the outside, but the interior offices on the second floor are built for DCA VP Mary Niven and her management teams; fancy and sleek with glass walled conference rooms and offices, expensive lounge furnishings, designer office furniture, etc. WDI is currently using all three of those new buildings for the massive DCA project, and they are split up by teams assigned to each building; Buena Vista Street, Paradise Pier/Mermaid, and Cars Land. The exception is the maintenance bay, the rehearsal studios, and the catering kitchen, which are alredy being used by Operations. In 2012 WDI moves out of all the office space in all three buildings, and they revert to use by DCA Ops in the summer of '12. Tons and tons of offices and managers hiding out all over both parks and the hotels. Mickey & Friends structure has fancy offices for parking suits and Security. Circle D managers are in the cozy Pope House by the pony farm, Facilities managers and Engineering are in a building by the Staff Shops behind Critter Country. And then there are even more white collar folks who officially work at "Disneyland", but are working in some leased office towers in Orange. The list goes on and on. So it sounds like both TDA and TDO are set up quite similarly. TDB is also sprawled across a network of leased and owned office parks and towers in beautiful downtown Burbank and nearby Glendale. There is of course all the stuff on the Studios lot proper, but plenty more blocks and miles away. The Grand Central Office Complex opened a few years ago in Glendale, adjacent to the WDI complex, and that sprawling office park houses marketing and HR and all sorts of departments for Disney Corporate in Burbank.
Originally Posted By Bellella What'll I do? I really want to work at the park. I'd work as a janitor if I could only work at D-land.
Originally Posted By fkurucz It sure says a lot about the economy when turnover for low paid CM positions has ground to a halt and has stayed that way for over a year. Things are tough in my neck of the woods too. My college age kids can't find a summer job.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance Bellella just keep applying over and over. They have to start hiring again sometime.
