If Ms Graves simply had a knee injury and not a Bona fide Disability, the company had no obligation to give her another position. People work hard to EARN those customer service positions.
Actually a knee injury is considered a disability under ADA. Not all disabilities are permanent and the ADA does apply to both permanent and temporary disabilities
I’m sure Disney gets sued every day because it is the old theory of “deep pockets”. people find any excuse to try to get their hands on some of that money. There’s probably more to the story than we know. Disney has lawyers working on this all the time.
Ya’ll repeatedly make it clear that you don’t believe Cast Members about the rough conditions that we regularly are subjected to working under. Disney gets away with so much, and if any of it gets brought out into the light then the entitled fans come out of the woodwork to tell us we’re lying about it.
Disney can be great for disabled cast sometimes, and other times not great at all.
When I worked at Disney World and had to get ADA Accomodations for my heat related issues for the first time in 2017, they recast me pretty directly into an inside role within less than a week.
When they flared up again the second time in 2019 when I was working at Disneyland, the “accomodations” I was given were a joke. Instead of scheduling me in any of the multiple indoor locations that we had, they would schedule me shifts were absolutely all that I did was stand around in the doorway of a store and greet people for my entire shift. I worked in Photopass. They could have scheduled me in Toontown in Mickey’s House (indoor only shift), Launch Bay (indoor only shift), or trained me to do Dining which was also indoor only and I’d been begging to get trained at for over a year when I kept getting passed over for people who were newer and demonstratably worse at my job than I was. I only needed to be inside on days that were predicted to reach over 80, which yes is a lot of summer, but not all. They had more than enough people working indoor locations that I coule have taken the place of, or they could have had me outside until it got hot and then inside when it got hot.
When I left and came back in foods in late 2021, I quite literally was begging my management team to listen to me about my disabilities. I am autistic. I was forced to change to a new location that I wasn’t trained for, with a wildly different menu of food to make, and a group of cast members that I didn’t know, and wasn’t told until 20 minutes into my shift that I was being sent somewhere else for the day. When I asked to get trained for even just 5 minutes or shown around the new kitchen space, my leadership team refused, just telling me to go. This was after I let them know that I was Autistic and didn’t do well with sudden unexpected changes, especially ones that weren’t in my job description, and I couldn’t just jump into something brand new with no information on it whatsoever. I ended up having an over hour long meltdown because of the stress and anxiety of it all, and my leadership decided to tell my management that I was purposefully causing a scene because I didn’t want to go, which got me in trouble with management. They didn’t end up making me go to the new location, but quite literally exactly the same thing was done to me the next day, causing the same reaction from me and the same disdain from management.
They refused to work with me asking for an accommodation that was simply “Please do not change my schedule when I’m already at work, and please do not send me to work somewhere new without giving me at least a brief overview of what’s expected from me in the new location”, and instead treated me like a pariah for being disabled in the first place. Management and most of my lead team treated me horribly after these incidents. Two of my chefs pulled me into their office and told me, when I told them that I’d love to be a lead eventually, that they wouldn’t allow me to because they didn’t think it was a good fit for me. This was despite the fact that I was one of maybe three people actually doing my job right and not slacking off for my entire shift, constantly helping new hires figure out the ropes (and being told by the ones I helped that I was great at it), actually doing things according to the recipes we had to follow (a lot of people did things however they felt like doing them because they didn’t care if they got in trouble), etc.
And that’s just the disability related issues. I don’t even want to beging to get into the absolute mess of transphobia I delt with from leads, management, and fellow regular Cast Members. Despite company policies requiring trans and gender non-conforming cast to be recognized by their proper names and genders, even my management was calling me she/her despite me obviously having facial hair and telling them those were not my pronouns. They also used my birth name 98% of the time, despite me having quite literally never worked at Disney under that name, even in my first college program back in 2016. And this was all in late 2021/early 2022.
Disney has gone exponentially downhill for disabled Cast Members over the years, or for anyone who certain leadership doesn’t like.
Because I love Theme Parks and working in them, it’s one of my Autistic special interests. I love Disney parks especially. I’ve gone back multiple times hoping that things will be better with new management, new coworkers, etc because I still want to believe that people will actually care enough to help me do a job I love within the limits of what I’m physically and mentally capable of doing.
I’d like the name of the attorney she used that accepted her case. I have documented physical disabilities that occured after working for AdventHealth for over 15 years with excellent performance evaluations
Any help would be appreciated.
Because they are only virtue signaling and only pretend to have those values to appeal to customers (not guests, people are merely revenue generators, whether they are inside or outside the company). As soon as those values become unprofitable (i.e. don’t appeal to their customers) they will change.
Comments for Disabled Cast Member Sues Disney World Over “Unlawful Conduct”, Unsafe Conditions
Brian
Looks like she’s waiting / gambling on the big hand out.
Kerry
If Ms Graves simply had a knee injury and not a Bona fide Disability, the company had no obligation to give her another position. People work hard to EARN those customer service positions.
Chris
Actually a knee injury is considered a disability under ADA. Not all disabilities are permanent and the ADA does apply to both permanent and temporary disabilities
B
I’m sure Disney gets sued every day because it is the old theory of “deep pockets”. people find any excuse to try to get their hands on some of that money. There’s probably more to the story than we know. Disney has lawyers working on this all the time.
Auggie
Ya’ll repeatedly make it clear that you don’t believe Cast Members about the rough conditions that we regularly are subjected to working under. Disney gets away with so much, and if any of it gets brought out into the light then the entitled fans come out of the woodwork to tell us we’re lying about it.
Disney can be great for disabled cast sometimes, and other times not great at all.
When I worked at Disney World and had to get ADA Accomodations for my heat related issues for the first time in 2017, they recast me pretty directly into an inside role within less than a week.
When they flared up again the second time in 2019 when I was working at Disneyland, the “accomodations” I was given were a joke. Instead of scheduling me in any of the multiple indoor locations that we had, they would schedule me shifts were absolutely all that I did was stand around in the doorway of a store and greet people for my entire shift. I worked in Photopass. They could have scheduled me in Toontown in Mickey’s House (indoor only shift), Launch Bay (indoor only shift), or trained me to do Dining which was also indoor only and I’d been begging to get trained at for over a year when I kept getting passed over for people who were newer and demonstratably worse at my job than I was. I only needed to be inside on days that were predicted to reach over 80, which yes is a lot of summer, but not all. They had more than enough people working indoor locations that I coule have taken the place of, or they could have had me outside until it got hot and then inside when it got hot.
When I left and came back in foods in late 2021, I quite literally was begging my management team to listen to me about my disabilities. I am autistic. I was forced to change to a new location that I wasn’t trained for, with a wildly different menu of food to make, and a group of cast members that I didn’t know, and wasn’t told until 20 minutes into my shift that I was being sent somewhere else for the day. When I asked to get trained for even just 5 minutes or shown around the new kitchen space, my leadership team refused, just telling me to go. This was after I let them know that I was Autistic and didn’t do well with sudden unexpected changes, especially ones that weren’t in my job description, and I couldn’t just jump into something brand new with no information on it whatsoever. I ended up having an over hour long meltdown because of the stress and anxiety of it all, and my leadership decided to tell my management that I was purposefully causing a scene because I didn’t want to go, which got me in trouble with management. They didn’t end up making me go to the new location, but quite literally exactly the same thing was done to me the next day, causing the same reaction from me and the same disdain from management.
They refused to work with me asking for an accommodation that was simply “Please do not change my schedule when I’m already at work, and please do not send me to work somewhere new without giving me at least a brief overview of what’s expected from me in the new location”, and instead treated me like a pariah for being disabled in the first place. Management and most of my lead team treated me horribly after these incidents. Two of my chefs pulled me into their office and told me, when I told them that I’d love to be a lead eventually, that they wouldn’t allow me to because they didn’t think it was a good fit for me. This was despite the fact that I was one of maybe three people actually doing my job right and not slacking off for my entire shift, constantly helping new hires figure out the ropes (and being told by the ones I helped that I was great at it), actually doing things according to the recipes we had to follow (a lot of people did things however they felt like doing them because they didn’t care if they got in trouble), etc.
And that’s just the disability related issues. I don’t even want to beging to get into the absolute mess of transphobia I delt with from leads, management, and fellow regular Cast Members. Despite company policies requiring trans and gender non-conforming cast to be recognized by their proper names and genders, even my management was calling me she/her despite me obviously having facial hair and telling them those were not my pronouns. They also used my birth name 98% of the time, despite me having quite literally never worked at Disney under that name, even in my first college program back in 2016. And this was all in late 2021/early 2022.
Disney has gone exponentially downhill for disabled Cast Members over the years, or for anyone who certain leadership doesn’t like.
Carol
If you weren’t satisfied with how they handled things why did you keep going back?
Auggie
Because I love Theme Parks and working in them, it’s one of my Autistic special interests. I love Disney parks especially. I’ve gone back multiple times hoping that things will be better with new management, new coworkers, etc because I still want to believe that people will actually care enough to help me do a job I love within the limits of what I’m physically and mentally capable of doing.
Lil
So sorry this has happened to you. What an awful experience to undergo when you merely want to do a good job and a place you thought you liked.
Denise
Sue happy world we live in…sad
Carol
There are plenty of job out there ~ find another one where you’ll be happy.
Kathie
Did she except the job when she was first hired w knee injury. If she couldn’t do job, they-are under no obligation to accommodate her.
Chaz
The mouse house isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. It can be summed up in four words it’s a bunch of garbage.
Helen M
I’d like the name of the attorney she used that accepted her case. I have documented physical disabilities that occured after working for AdventHealth for over 15 years with excellent performance evaluations
Any help would be appreciated.
Steve
Why are these hyper liberal companies always the ones abusing their workers the most?
Sabrina
Because they are only virtue signaling and only pretend to have those values to appeal to customers (not guests, people are merely revenue generators, whether they are inside or outside the company). As soon as those values become unprofitable (i.e. don’t appeal to their customers) they will change.
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