A Labor Day Thank You to our favorite Cast and Crew
Ahh Labor Day! It’s the traditional final day of summer. It means baseball season is winding down. The kids are heading back to school, and traffic is about to get horrible again. It means all these things, but what it was “supposed” to be was a day off for the working man. That tradition has largely been eroded, as evidenced by my wife making me go shopping today. Those people do not get the “working man’s day” off. The same can be said for the cast and crew that make Disney’s vacation destinations work so well. They don’t get today off either, so I thought I would take today and salute those folks.
The “cast members” that work at Walt Disney World are amazing. From the guy answering questions at Town Hall, to the person cleaning up the ice cream wrappers on the World Showcase Promenade, to the Imagineer who dreamt up the things we love so much, these folks make the Mouse what it is. But you notice that I used the word “crew” in the pervious paragraph. That’s because the best experience I had with a Disney employee is from the crew of the Disney Magic.
The problem with this story is that I can not remember the man’s name. He was our head server and the job he did was impeccable. It was our honeymoon and this man made sure we had the time of our lives. And he did so in such a classy and subtle manner as to make sure he didn’t seem like he was intruding. He went out of his way for us and we can’t thank him enough for it.
When I got home I had all intentions of writing a letter to the Disney Cruise Line praising him for his work. But you know how that can go. Life’s schedule invaded my free time and after some weeks the idea had left my mind. Now I can’t even recall his name, making writing that letter pretty pointless.
The moral of the story is; don’t be like me and forget the people who work hard to make your vacation or honeymoon something truly special. If you can’t thank them with a generous gratuity, a letter goes a long way to alerting their supervisors as to how good these folks truly are.