This!!!! Came across a few mostly near fantasy land a few years ago. magic kindgom has the worst bathroom upkept imoi don't even want to think about what the bathrooms look like.
Or Tweet the pictures..... that seems to get their attention!Why not send the email now to Disney Guest Relations and include the pictures the PP posted? Also, why not email this info and photos to the Orlando Sentinel so they can do a story on the problem? That should get Disney moving!
They still do it, I saw it on a regular basis. It's not the real suits that do it, it's mostly middle and lower managers making an impression. I've seen some upper managers carrying the stick but it was rare. The amount of trash they pick up is insignificant, it makes for "good show" though. New CMs are, or were, taught the proper way to pick up a piece of trash so as not to be overly obvious. The procedure even has a name. If I recall correctly it's the Disney Dip.There was a time you'd see suits walking around with one of those sticks picking up trash as they walked through the parks. I haven't seen that in years, but this kind of garbage piled up has moved to a whole new level of gross.
i don't even want to think about what the bathrooms look like.
One thing that I noticed on my first family trip in 2013 was that the parks were spotless. I was so impressed. Over the next few years I noticed it less and less. This is just one more reason to postpone the trip. I want to feel like I am in a magical place and a big part of being immersed in magic is cleanliness.
When we did the Keys to the Kingdom tour (i think thats the name) they talked about that, all cast members, no matter how high up they are, are supposed to pick up trash, our guide said the VP of the park actually does it too. Well, later on in our tour, he spotted the VP of the park and pointed him out to us, as he was literally picking up a piece of trash. That was 10+ years ago. I hope that hasnt changed.FWIW... Once while waiting for the parade, I sat on the curb on Main St. and noticed a piece of trash in the middle of the street. I counted the number of cast members that passed it by without dipping down to pick it up. If I remember correctly it was something like 15 cast members (including managers) ignored the trash before a custodian finally came along and swept it up. If other cast members are trained to pick up trash, well it certainly was not in evidence that day. This was almost 6 years ago.
I worked MK custodial for a time. Once I missed a trash can in the BTTMR queue and caught a lot of flack from management for it. Recent problems look and sound like a staffing issue, which ultimately is no excuse. IMHO, management should be out there setting an example by helping clean the place up.
I also think this is where Disney has set the expectaions so far high for themselves, that they miss they mark sometimes because of that. For example, the parks compared to a lot of other parks are clean, but because they tell you that, you notice the trash when you see it.One thing that I noticed on my first family trip in 2013 was that the parks were spotless. I was so impressed. Over the next few years I noticed it less and less. This is just one more reason to postpone the trip. I want to feel like I am in a magical place and a big part of being immersed in magic is cleanliness.
I was stung by a wasp doing the same thing.Once of me compressing trash with my hand resulting in a trip to urgent care for a bunch of stitches has left me with an aversion to ever doing it again. I’ll leave trash can maintenance to someone else.
All the issues come down to the core of they expanded capacity too quickly before they had the staff to handle it. They’re not going to do anything about it because that would decrease their record profits. There are finite limits to how fast you can staff up. The only variable they can easily control is number of people they are letting into the parks and they clearly don’t give a rat’s patoot as they appear to have set the current capacity limit to somewhere between “Christmas Eve” and “Christmas Day.”This is definitely a terrible situation. Look, things happen sometimes, but the real key is how they respond to it. They need to make changes immediately to correct the situation as what is seen in those pictures is simply unacceptible. If staffing is an issue then they need to add more trash cans, which will at least help. They must do something.
Was there last week and it is noticeably not the same level of cleanliness. Trashcans are full, tables are not wiped down, random trash on the ground, bathrooms overflow and I keyed in on moldy floor grout (major clean needed at night, the day custodial can't do this) and a minimal number of custodial CMs. The ones I saw working hard appeared to be DCP. The few older ones I saw were just walking and talking. This is no time to cut back on your cleaning CMs.
All the issues come down to the core of they expanded capacity too quickly before they had the staff to handle it. They’re not going to do anything about it because that would decrease their record profits. There are finite limits to how fast you can staff up. The only variable they can easily control is number of people they are letting into the parks and they clearly don’t give a rat’s patoot as they appear to have set the current capacity limit to somewhere between “Christmas Eve” and “Christmas Day.”
All the issues come down to the core of they expanded capacity too quickly before they had the staff to handle it. They’re not going to do anything about it because that would decrease their record profits. There are finite limits to how fast you can staff up. The only variable they can easily control is number of people they are letting into the parks and they clearly don’t give a rat’s patoot as they appear to have set the current capacity limit to somewhere between “Christmas Eve” and “Christmas Day.”