I was a DisneyWorld employee in 2009, student exchange program let me live in Florida for a year and to pay for shyt (other than student subsidies from the Netherlands + loans) we were all directly eligible for jobs in the parks.
I was a PARK GREETER at Epcot aka the person at the turnstyles (back when they had turnstyles) helping you out if sth went wrong with your tickets.
Few things:
- Only (some) Americans think it's ok to work a full-time job that's NOT a basic living wage. I don't care what you do, if you spend approx 40 hours on ANY job you should be able to afford decent housing etc.
That's not to say other countries don't screw over workers, but only an American would think it's ok to say that shyt out loud
- Working in a Disney park is never ever just smiles and handing people what they want. The amount of patience it takes to deal with a disgruntled family who might've spent thousands just to be there and you get to be the one to tell them they CAN'T get what they want
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- The kind of moves Disney makes are unfathomable, the CEO makes decisions that can cost or earn the company billions and directly effects the local economy of any country/state the park is in.
Take the Skyliner they built in Florida, that shyt took years and crashed within a week. That's asking guests to pay full price while they're surrounded by construction workers for a project that will only really MAYBE pay off in a few years.
The people who make these decisions should be paid a lot as long as their decisions benefit the company
Now whether he should earn a 1000 times more than say...a PARK GREETER at Epcot... Rather than take away the CEOs money I'd rather see an increase for the minimum salaries Disney pays out to Park employees. They're the ones dealing with the actual guests who are impacted by the CEO's decisions. The last thing you want is a Disney employee telling guests who might spend the rest of their lifetimes(+influence their children) spending money on the parks that Disney doesn't care about them.
In this specific case I don't think the CEO's earning too much, I think the lowest paid workers are being paid way too little.
