Sunday, March 10, 2013



Well restroom training was awful. The only good thing about it was that I got to go into Club 33. The restroom in there is ridiculous!! They have their own tp and paper towels. And the toilets look like fancy chairs. Love it. 
But other than that… ugh.
We trained in the Adventureland restroom. It has 34 stalls. 
The yuck factor wasn’t what bothered me. It was the wastefulness of Disney, the extreme pace we have to go at, and the realization that efficiency is most important over safety and ‘environmentality.’ 
If a roll is less than like half there, we throw it away. No recycling. No compost. Garbage. There’s so many ways we could improve this system but it boils down to cost and efficiency. Who cares about the planet when you’re “creating happiness?” 

Because we have to move at such a lightning fast pace, safety is swept aside (custodial pun!) and after only one day I’m already nursing a handful of injuries. God forbid we take more than one hour to so a restroom, even if it means slamming your finger in a sharp seat cover dispenser. Also, with three of us working it took one hour…
I did have a magical moment when a little boy tried using a paper towel dispenser and it didn’t work. I went over and told him I’d “rescue” it. He watched intently as I fixed the problem and then excitedly told his mom, “that lady fixed it! thank you lady!”


So if you’re ever using a restroom at Disneyland please say thank you to the cast members in your restroom because they’ll be dumping your tampons in the trash, wiping up your kids’ accidents, and making sure you have more than enough toilet paper.

2 comments:

  1. Ah, yes - I've been waiting for this magical experience to lose a wee bit of its shine. "Is the honeymoon over?" Probably not, but it is encouraging to me that you are beginning to see the dark, down side of all the glitz, glamor, & entertaining. AND, you are a bright enough, determined person who just might be the one to begin to help move this one "magical" place down the road towards actually recycling/conserving our resources rather than concentrating on efficiency & the almighty $$

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  2. Thought you might enjoy this:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/13/after-ever-after-disney-jon-cozart_n_2867739.html?ir=Comedy

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