You know when you are a Cast Member when
I have seen versions of this on the net, in break rooms and heard it from other Cast Members, but I thought it was worth printing here.
• All your conversations start with “One time at Disney . . .”
• You never point with one finger.
• You’ve worked with or lived with people from at least 5 other countries.
• You know that “my Friday” could easily fall on a Tuesday (and it probably does).
• You can calmly say “Yes, the wait really is 30 minutes” 50 times within 10 minutes.
• You speak fluent ‘radio’: 101, 102, 103, 56, 10-4, 10-9 . . .
• You know where someone can find any Disney character at any time
• You never wait for more than 10 minutes for any attraction.
• Anything heartwarming that happens is now a “Magical Moment.”
• You can spot a hidden Mickey anywhere.
• You regret not having a FastPass every time you have to wait in a line.
• You know it’s a costume, not a uniform.
• You can spot a Mickey antennae on any car that is a mile away.
• You can recite preshows and even entire attraction spiels without even thinking about it.
• You start friendly conversations with complete strangers.
• Anytime you go anywhere you wonder what the story is behind the particular place.
• Any Disney commercial brings a tear to your eyes.
• You have the overwhelming urge to offer to take people’s pictures.
• You know how to smile and politely answer the question “Why is it raining?”
• You think nothing of walking up to lost people and offering directions.
• Guests ask you for directions… when you aren’t in costume.
• You know what “EPCOT” stands for.
• You can drive a Pargo like a race car.
• You love using doors that open “Automagically.”
• You know how to answer the question “Do you know what time the 3 o’clock parade is?” (Most common asked question!!!)
• You know where all the dirty references are in each and every Disney movie!! (Yes, there are many of them!!!)
• Not “customers”, but “guests.”
• You know what it is like to actually “live” where you work.
• When the mouse becomes the rat.
• When all customer service sucks outside.
You know where your Disney ID will get you a discount...
You take the AMV bus home...
Giving perfect strangers tips n tricks on how to get around in the park, and you are not even on the property or at work.
You use a two finger point off property.
You have phone conversations with a fellow cast member using radio codes instead of words. Code 4
i still find my self saying "I'm 52 in 2".... eeeeekkkkk!
when it's not strange that someone shouts "i've got ears...." or "can you do my ears"!!!
you take it personally when someone talks about you working for a "Mickey Mouse" company
When an old friend whom you havent seen for a while says "It's a small world"... your first thought is "just don't you dare sing the song!!!"
when everything is disney speak
you refer to on and off stage in normal conversations
you can't have a normal conversation without using any disney slang in your conversation
~*~ April Marie ~*~
Even years later people just know that you were a Cast Member.
[The family took a trip to Stratford upon Avon - Shakespears home town - last month. I was in a resaurant and a German tourist singled me out of a crowd and asked me in German where the washrooms were. Automatically I replied in her native tounge, pointing with two fingers, and finished up almost wishing her a Disney day!!!! THEY JUST KNOW!]
When people say "I'm going to the park." You don't think about the local public park, you automatically assume a Disney Park.
When you automatically wish someone a "magical day" after talking to them on the phone (or email)!
Sarah M Irwin
WDW Online Communications...creating magic one email at a time!
When choosing clothing for a presentation or something you look in your closet and think "disney look"
When I can have a complete conversation about Disney with my younger sister (also a CM) and completely confuse everyone sitting in earshot.
I'm 51, 81, at 1313, 52 in 3 concider me 10-7 for 30
when you can have a conversation with a fellow lead and not even your fellow Cast Members can follow half of it! Radio codes, don't ya just love em?
As much as you complain about working for the mouse, you don't ever want to leave.
i'm bored lets go to magic kingdom any day of the year
When you spend many, many months concieving of, building, designing and running (not to mention paying for) a Cast Member Community! lol
When you get offere a free season pass for your kid at the local - non Disney - park and worry you'll spend all your time griping that thier attractions are NOT as good as the real ones at Dinsey!
When you have to call the emergency services after witnessing a road traffic accident - and four years after leaving Disney - and your mind still knows how to use radio codes to get the message out on the radio without using words that might freak Guests out...
When you spend many, many months concieving of, building, designing and running (not to mention paying for) a Cast Member Community! lol
And we thank you for it...
You know you're a Cast Member when you look at http://search.twitter.com and look for who else is saying "Disney Cast Member" in their tweets.
We certainly do thank you!!!
I still do the Disney point over 10 years later!!
When you capitalise 'Guest' and 'Cast Member', then the word 'Magic' nearly always has an exclamation mark following it - its just such Magic!
Sorry did I hear the someone say "BRAIN WASHING" ?
Ode to Old Disneyland
By Bill CM 79-80
Come forth young ones and I will tell a tale, a whale of a tale it will be.
In days of old, when Cast Members were bold and the parking lot was still out front. Employees parked by Harbor House, there was no strike… we loved the Mouse. If thirst was the case, cast members had their own Space Place! Before Indy and even Splash Mountain, they sold tickets in booths by the fountain. Security dressed in theme of the land they worked and people were thrown out for acting like jerks. The nuclear submarines and the motor boats still cruised and America the Beautiful still made the news. Monday and Tuesday the old timers say, are the days when the cast members got to play.
Buckets of Red, Yellow and Blue, through the Matterhorn they flew! Below the Monorail ran best, across a street, then called West! The hotel there still bears his name, but no more can a helicopter land… it's a shame. A land called ‘Toon did not exist, but a Captain named EO would persist. Monsanto shrank you before Star Tours would shake you, but some say Mission to Mars needed a rest.
In Tahiti, a table was reserved and glazed ribs is what was served. On the Terrace they would prance, young men doing a fire dance. A toad, once rode, an attraction, I am told. A rock called skull was sponsored by a fish, just don’t tell Peter Pan or he may not grant your wish. A Chef named Chis my boss whom I did miss, ran a Pavilion on a street not far from horses’ feet.
Trains toured caverns, as pack mules rode, Rainbow Ridge was the name of the town of old. Across the rivers a cabin you see, it burned from an Indian’s arrow meant for you and me. In the morning and at night the canoe races were such a delight.
In an apartment, at night, a light, burns bright! You will hear, above the firehouse, Walt say “…it all started with a mouse.
Security dressed in theme of the land they worked
When Paris opened in 1992 they still did that - I remember the Security team thinking it was a little odd...
you know you are a Cast Member when...
You know and repeat "por favor mantengase alejado de las puertas" please stand clear of the doors
You never stop wishing you were there.
"...Laughter is timeless.
imagination has no age.
And dreams are forever."
Disney
... When after 12 years you still can do a stupid little dance you learned for a show (and hum the song along...), or get the urge to put on a Tic et Tac outfit whenever you see a Disney commercial on tv.. sad but true!
I still want to get a pair of the Osh-Kosh overalls i wore as a Steam Train driver...
Three years A.D. (after Disney) I still refer to the patients in that health clinic I work at as Guests.
Just last weekend we were at a restuarant and it was getting close to close and the waiter was starting to get grumpy and I told my friend he was being rude, and she said he's probably getting tired and wants to go home, and I said, "yea, but he's still "onstage" he still needs to have a smile on" then I caught myself because she had NO IDEA what I was talking about...haha
When there are always Disney stories to tell and you can tell the same ones over and over!
"...Laughter is timeless.
imagination has no age.
And dreams are forever."
Disney
You have Disney reunions, and you would rather go to them than your high school class reunion.