Orange County Register

 11 Comments

• Nancy Miranda says:

  March 30, 2009 at 3:39 pm

  Good afternoon,

  this in regards to the jobs that the Disney Cruise ship will offer. My daughter works on the Pride of America in Hawaii and would like to know how to apply for this particular job. She has been on many contracts on the ship that she is on now. She has been a waitress, bartender, and now works on the ship in the jewlery department .
  thank you,
  Nancy Miranda
  City of Lynwood
• Aztek says:

  March 30, 2009 at 4:03 pm

  But I thought Disney was a bad company?!? This can’t be good news! Disneyland is overcrowded and has long lines and the prices are too high! Also, the food at Disneyland is bad! And people have to wait 90 minutes to ride Space Mountain! They should lower the prices so working families can afford to go too!

  This can’t be a good thing that such an awful company as Disney, pillaging and spreading their happy shiny brand names all over the globe, is coming to LA with a big fancy cruise ship and will provide jobs and employment and tax revenue for the local community! Boo Disney! Keep your ships away from SoCal!
• krissy says:

  March 30, 2009 at 4:12 pm

  why is disney a bad place to work?
• Gus says:

  March 30, 2009 at 4:12 pm

  We took a cruise on this ship, it was just ok, lots of restrictions on where toddlers could go, etc.
  But why anyone would want to go to Mexico on vacation is a mystery to me.
• Aztek says:

  March 30, 2009 at 4:38 pm

  It’s not. Disney is a good company that is a good community citizen and provides good jobs and solid tax revenue. I just enjoy parroting the basic plotline of all other blog responses that involve Disney.
• bpsqwerty says:

  March 30, 2009 at 4:42 pm

  http://disney.go.com/disneycruise/jobs/
• Smart Shopper says:

  March 30, 2009 at 4:48 pm

  I hope we can hold off long enough till 2011 without going bankrupt or loss of jobs before the ship gets here. Also hope they offer competitive rates on the cruses or else no customers will bite
• Neil Maxwell says:

  March 30, 2009 at 5:22 pm

  My name is Neil Maxwell-Keys, I’m an ex-crewmember and former hiring specialist for some of the worlds leading cruise lines… The cruise ship industry is one of the hardest to get into, unless you already know someone. Thats why I wrote http://tinyurl.com/GetACruiseShipJobInfo which tells you everything you need to know…
• SteverR says:

  March 30, 2009 at 5:38 pm

  Wish the OCR would take the time to look into the details and report some facts. For example Disney ships like all other cruise lines are flagged in foreign countries. Guess what. No US Taxes, just port fees when they dock. Oh, and all those jobs they say they will create. Wrong. None of those jobs will be US based jobs.

  PBS a real news reporting agency has a good article on this very subject. I suggest Adam Townsend take a minute and read it. Maybe even do a follow up report.

  http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/spain/bahamas.html
• Adam Townsend, Staff Writer says:

  March 31, 2009 at 7:09 am

  SteverR:

  That’s a great article — frontline is a great source of investigative journalism.
  Disney is notoriously close-mouthed about any type of compensation or dollar figures throughout all the company’s enterprises.
  The numbers in this blog post come from the Port of Los Angeles — representatives from that entity say that half of those 2,600 jobs will be for people from the local community.
  Additionally, the port quoted the figure of $7 million in fees that Disney will pay over the life of the contract, which has yet to be signed.
• disanthropic says:

  April 1, 2009 at 2:11 am

  @krissy (3): Having known people that worked at the parks, I’ll say that working for Disney is a trap. Outside of a summer job, the hours and pay are best suited for college students, and the pay is just good enough to stick around, and the scheduling is optimal to keep you from being able to take a full course-load. Might not be official policy, but the importance they throw towards getting from CT (casual temporary) to CR (casual regular) to CR-25, etc. They’ll have you work a full-time schedule at the lowest level, but the hours won’t be guaranteed, and things like health benefits only hold up if you work a minimum number of hours per week. No guaranteed schedule, benefits go *poof* (or at least that’s the angle management keeps pushing on the employees…er…cast members)

  On top of that, the union is basically useless. You’ll get to pay the dues, sure, and you’ve got your steward to talk to when they’re around. Some years ago, they made a huge stink about splitting off the H.E.R.E chapter from the rest of anaheim, and the newly formed chapter got serious about electing leadership out of a group that (with all due respect) wasn’t serious about adult responsibility. Given a membership that was largely seasonal high-school students, college students, and many adults that were just so enamored with the Disney they remembered from their youth, it was less than shocking that union elections turned into popularity contests reminiscent of of student council elections. Say what you want about unions (I’ve got my complaints), but it seems like utter folly to elect impotent leaders (bonus points for them continuing the no-strike clauses in the contracts, so union-good or union-bad, the collective workers have nothing to fight with. They get to pay their dues, and they have union stewards to talk to before they get fired.)

  But hey, if you’re living the dream, maybe Disney is a great place to work.