10 Things I Hate about End Users
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@wirestyle22 said:
Interesting. I guess I dodged a bullet. My friend did lose his hair at this job lol.
Well it sounds like where you ended up was pretty crappy, too. So hard to say
But Disney has rather a strong reputation and I've known people who have worked there in more low end roles and Disney certainly doesn't get a chance to interview anyone that I know. So Disney may not even know what a good hiring process looks like as they tend to get overwhelmed with literal fan boys and girls and industry heavyweights keep their distance. So they feel like they have tons of potential hires, but they lack the ability to attract the ones that they should want. -
@scottalanmiller said:
@wirestyle22 said:
Interesting. I guess I dodged a bullet. My friend did lose his hair at this job lol.
Well it sounds like where you ended up was pretty crappy, too. So hard to say
But Disney has rather a strong reputation and I've known people who have worked there in more low end roles and Disney certainly doesn't get a chance to interview anyone that I know. So Disney may not even know what a good hiring process looks like as they tend to get overwhelmed with literal fan boys and girls and industry heavyweights keep their distance. So they feel like they have tons of potential hires, but they lack the ability to attract the ones that they should want.My sister works for Disney... I would say this is completely accurate judging from her experience. Granted she is on low-end customer service but the fanboy-ism/cult of the mouse thing is strong in everyone you talk to.
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@coliver said:
My sister works for Disney... I would say this is completely accurate judging from her experience. Granted she is on low-end customer service but the fanboy-ism/cult of the mouse thing is strong in everyone you talk to.
I had many friends who took jobs with them (direct, not a division like ABC) and their description of it was pure hell, and yet they all loved it and would work nowhere else. Which is fine, to each their own.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
My sister works for Disney... I would say this is completely accurate judging from her experience. Granted she is on low-end customer service but the fanboy-ism/cult of the mouse thing is strong in everyone you talk to.
I had many friends who took jobs with them (direct, not a division like ABC) and their description of it was pure hell, and yet they all loved it and would work nowhere else. Which is fine, to each their own.
The conditions seem to have improved. She works in Disney World, she doesn't work 90 hours a week (like one of her friends said they did five years ago) and she has overtime limits. She also gets paid a decent wage and has options for health benefits.
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@coliver said:
The conditions seem to have improved. She works in Disney World, she doesn't work 90 hours a week (like one of her friends said they did five years ago) and she has overtime limits. She also gets paid a decent wage and has options for health benefits.
That's definitely better than I heard that it was there. I believe "opium den slash brothel" was the description of the working conditions there before.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
The conditions seem to have improved. She works in Disney World, she doesn't work 90 hours a week (like one of her friends said they did five years ago) and she has overtime limits. She also gets paid a decent wage and has options for health benefits.
That's definitely better than I heard that it was there. I believe "opium den slash brothel" was the description of the working conditions there before.
Haha. That doesn't surprise me. Some of the stories she is told (and then relays to us) seems to indicate something along those lines.
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I'm probably going to go for state jobs. I'm paid in bread and water currently so it's a big step up for me and a pretty secure job from what I'm told. I also miss working on a team.
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@wirestyle22 said:
I'm probably going to go for state jobs. I'm paid in bread and water currently so it's a big step up for me and a pretty secure job from what I'm told. I also miss working on a team.
I speak from current experience on this. If you enjoy working in several areas of IT, you may want to avoid state jobs. I have a decent bit of experience across a several IT disciplines, and at my current job, I am starting to feel like I am stagnating because I only deal with server stuff. I know the networking stuff, but only the networking team gets to do the networking stuff.
I don't mind it too much, in some regards though, because I am not in a position that requires me to be available after hours too often.
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@dafyre said:
@wirestyle22 said:
I'm probably going to go for state jobs. I'm paid in bread and water currently so it's a big step up for me and a pretty secure job from what I'm told. I also miss working on a team.
I speak from current experience on this. If you enjoy working in several areas of IT, you may want to avoid state jobs. I have a decent bit of experience across a several IT disciplines, and at my current job, I am starting to feel like I am stagnating because I only deal with server stuff. I know the networking stuff, but only the networking team gets to do the networking stuff.
I don't mind it too much, in some regards though, because I am not in a position that requires me to be available after hours too often.
I'm okay with specializing. I play around at home with a variety of scenarios etc for fun. The issue is most of the state jobs are very specific in nature so I would have to educate myself for the job which sounds....rough? Another part of it is I'm starting a family with my fiance` within the next few years. I am now very motivated to make more money as babies are a money vacuum.
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@wirestyle22 said:
I'm probably going to go for state jobs. I'm paid in bread and water currently so it's a big step up for me and a pretty secure job from what I'm told. I also miss working on a team.
My take on that is, as a general thing...
The more secure a "job" is, the less secure the "career" is.
