Getting my job back: Since Rat Face had gone as high as possible to get me fired, I decided to do the same when trying to get my job back. Ed Backlor was the VP of Downtown Disney at the time, I decided to email him. A day later I received an email from Djuan Rivers (who I just discovered is a Disney big shot now ). Ed was out of town and had forwarded my email to Djuan. We arranged a time for him to call me the next day. I was pretty nervous as a sat there staring at my phone waiting for him to call. I didn’t know where the conversation would go. Djuan was very friendly, he had read my email and asked me some more questions about the firing. I left out the part about how everyone eating for free so I wouldn’t get anyone else fired. He told me the typical “well, I know it’s not a lot of money, but if everyone gave away $3.25 worth of food, it would really hurt the company.” He said I could reapply with Disney in ...
All of my College Program posts up to this point have been in no sort of order, until now. Today's post is written 10 years to the day, the day I was fired. When you're a CP, working less than 40 hours a week is pretty much unheard of, but when you're a part time Cast Member, 40 hours a month is a miracle. My program ended in January 2004, instead of going home I found an apartment a few miles away from Downtown Disney with my coworker Dan and his roommate, Rickli. During the next program Dan and I worked a couple days a week. It was almost no different than when we were CP's. When that program ended in the summer our hours dropped drastically. We were only working one or two days a month. Instead of getting second jobs, we started doing medical experiments for money. We'd spend a weekend at a facility in Gainesville and make a quick $1,000. This is how we were able to afford our apartment. My birthday (September 18th) came and I...