Hmm its been nearly 2 years since my first week but i vaguely remember on your first day, which i think is wednesday, you meet up at vista way and get taken to your apartment, then you have the rest of the day off to get yourself settled in, go to wal-mart etc etc then im pretty sure thursday and friday you have meeting at the commons clubhouse, about rules and banking and everything then on the saturday was traditions, you get your nametag, its at disney university, its loads of fun but a very very early start and then you also get your disney pass at traditions (your key to the world ) your pass that lets you get into disneyworld wahay and then on the sunday i think i had 'discovery day' which is a day were you get a tour of epcot, and get your costume (uniform) and meet your managers and then you get your first couple of weeks work schedule
1st day is usually a tuesday and that is your arrival day - you go to vista pick up ur welcome pack that has ur appt number, key, and a paper pass to use to access the bus system and a timetable for your first few days. 2nd day is 8am start at clubhouse in the commons (or used to be might be somewhere else now?) and you spend a couple of hours filling in paper work and being talked to about rights, - you have none, responsibilities etc then your free from early after noon onwards 3rd day is or was the talk from immigration and the presentation from the partners credit union and more paperwork most people have 4th day which is friday off traditions is on saturday and you get ur disney id that day - its the day u need smart professional attire for and your first paid day of work woohoo $50 score From then on it depends on which pavillion your in and which role your doing. Generally you will get a timetable that will have classes you have to attend that are computer based learning which is incredibly boring, a dyscovery day where you go around your pavillion and epcot and your first scheduled training shifts. thats kinda the first 2 weeks form then onwards you will be scheduled shifts,in uk f&b you do 3 days training on podium - 1 greeting, 1 open podium seater and 1 close podium seater and then 3 shifts on chippy, one open, one close and one other day. following this you could be scheduled to do any of those shifts you have been trained for
so for the first 2 days before traditions, are we wearing professional attire or just regular clothes?
regular clothes for paperwork days - professional attire for traditions, dyscovery daty and any clasxses you take at DU altho u ca also wear a clean costume at DU if u want after you have done traditions
Its all very beureaucratic, form filling for the first week-the wierd thing is, after a single week, you will feel like you have been there forever, i think a lot of it might be exhaustion because of the early starts and meetings
my discovery day was on a tuesday.. after my first happy monday.....vodka buffet with germans! i fell asleep on spaceship earth. lord have mercy if this happens again!
I think I remember that happy monday... did we play that game (god its been so long, i dont even remember game names) where 2 people stand on the table and there's slapping involved.... haha i think i remember trina getting axel good... Back on topic, basically people have said everything that happens in the first week but i thought i would add that, yes, in that first week you have very early mornings but after that you don't have to be there any earlier than 10:15 Except for one day, after about a month, when you go to get your social security card, that is ridiculously early - i think we had to be on the bus for like 6:15 or something then you get to sleep in.... relatively. Man, the SSC meeting sucked though... and mine was on July 1st, no less, for my fellow Canadians on here :-X AND had to work that night :'(
My first day of training was the night after my first `UK lads`.........i was still drunk when i got there and i only have a job because one of the chefs i was working with found it amusing, and kept me and my clear smell of alcohol away from the head chef and the managers......i nearly deep fried my hand, i remember that.
haha nice. Managers and coordinators aren't stupid - they know the amount of partying that goes on. As long as you are capable of doing your job and it's not blatantly obvious that you're hungover (or still drunk) they don't say anything. I remember the day after my Girls initiations, my friend (and initiation teammate actually) threw up onstage :-X no one caught her thankfully!!
