I didn’t realize you were transferring again. It seems it happens often. Is that typical for Disney?
Congrats on your daughter’s wedding!! OMG It’s like just yesterday she was in the CP.
Yup, time flew by. She is 32 now. She moved down with us four years ago and she lives in Clermont now.
It’s rare the company transfers you against your will. It’s usually if you are in a role you can’t do for various reasons. All my transfers were voluntary. I started at the Skyliner, you have to be with the company for one year before you can transfer. After a year, you can put in to transfer to any role you wish to pursue and a choice of ten different locations to do it in. So I transferred to Creation’s in Epcot. Once you transfer, if you want to stay in the same line of business, you have to wait six months to transfer again. If you want to move into a different line of business, you have to wait a year again.
Transfers are not instantaneous, basically you’re putting your name on a list and have to wait till a position opens in the location you are requesting. You can wait for years pending what you are going for. Example, if I wanted to go into attractions, I put my name in for attractions and list ten attractions I would want to work at. Say I put in for Spaceship Earth, if a position opens, and I’m next on the list ( way to much to explain that) I would automatically get transferred. Now, I’m a status coordinator, SCs are the step between front line cms and management, which we call leaders. Leaders wear street clothes. Coord positions are very competitive, it’s a promotion and the positions are very competitive. For you to even apply, you need the backing of your present management and proprietor, they have to sign you off just to apply. Then once you get that far, you do the same transfer process and wait for an opening and get an interview. I interviewed in four locations before I got a status coord position. (Status just means that is all you do and do it full time). They wear costumes, generally different from the front line cms but they wear a gold pin above their name tag. You see a gold coord.pin, just know that person earned that position, it’s not easy.
Nobody gets hired at the top or even the middle in park ops. Office positions, yes. But everyone starts in front line positions, from there, you work your way up. You have to earn your ears as they say.
The red tags you see on some front line CMs, earning my ears, they are new to the role and usually new to the company. Most areas will let you wear it till you are comfortable taking it off. Once you’re with the company for a year and transfer, they don’t wear them, you already know how to or you should know how to conduct yourself. I took mine off as soon as I got out of training, some people see that tag and think they can take advantage of you.
CPs are considered inters. 99.9 percent of them are great “kids”. I work with a lot of them and they keep me young, and sometimes even give me grey hair. lol.
Just like any company, interns don’t get the same advantages as part time and part time don’t get the same advantages as a full timer.
Despite what you read in some places, it’s a great a company to work for. It’s like any job, you have to show up on time, hen scheduled and work when you are getting paid and adhere to the rules, it’s pretty easy. I’ve been around for a while, the CPs ask me for advice, my advice to them, reliability, dependability and attitude is 80 percent of the job, the rest of it we can teach you. These kids are taught to keep your nose in a book, get good grades and your life will be a breeze. Some of them I pray mom and dad have a comfortable basement and they are independently wealthy because they are going to have a ruff time in the real world. lol.
