submitted by Donald Hawkins
Term #1: ADO
Meaning: Authorized Day Off
Real Meaning: "Hey, who wants to go to the beach tomorrow and get drunk?"
Term #2: ER
Meaning: Early Release
Real Meaning: "Who wants to go home and get drunk??"
Term #3: CP
Meaning: College Program Cast Member
Real Meaning (Jon Maki): Closing Person, Company Pee-on, Corporate Prisoner, CONSTANTLY POOR
Term #4: PI
Meaning: Pleasure Island
Real Meaning: A Disney owned park taken over and ran by guests old enough to be our grandparents, who are dancing, heavily drinking, and act with no shame. A terrible sight to see someone as old as your parents grandparents bumping and grinding right next to you!!
Term #5: Thursday
Meaning: Duh!
Real Meaning: Pay Day!! & Free admission to PI
Term #6: My Friday
Meaning: The last day of work before having the next two days off
Real Meaning: What happened to Saturday??
Term #7: I-4
Meaning: Interstate 4
Real Meaning: One of the most express ways or highways in the world -- full of confused tourists and idiots going 90 mph
Term #8: Vista Way, aka. Vista Lay
Meaning: Housing complex for students on the WDWCP - after Snow White Village
Real Meaning: One of the top five places to hook up according to Penthouse
Term #9: Spaceship Earth
Meaning: It's a ride about the history and future of man in Space
Real Meaning: The big golf ball
Term #10: WDWCP
Meaning: Walt Disney World College Program
Real Meaning (Mona Tedjarahardja): College without books. click here if you don't believe me.
Real Meaning (Bryan Fykes): Walt Disney World closing people. Suckers!
Real Meaning (Kim & Jenna):A legitimate term for slave labor
Term #11: Vista Way Hot Tubs
Meaning: A place for couples to rendezvous
Real Meaning: Don't go in the water!!!!
Term #12: Guest Recovery
Meaning: A great way to exceed guest expectation
Real Meaning (Mona Tedjarahardja): A great way to cover your ass by giving a little bit of the company away!!
Term #13: DOS
Meaning: Deviation of Shift
Real Meaning (Tommy): "Ya mean, I get to go home now, but I get paid until my official clock-out time?? Let's get
drunk!!"
.... DOS is common for those that work in the character or entertainment department. The drunk part wasn't exclusive ;)
Term #14: Termination
Meaning: Fired, pink slip
Real Meaning (Tommy): "Hell, I don't know what I did! All I know is I have to turn my Vista Way key and ID in by 9 tomorrow morning."
Term #15: DAK
Meaning: Disney's Animal Kingdom
Real Meaning (Kim and Jenna): The hottest place on earth!! The place where they stick all the new CP's cause normal people won't work there.
Term #16: Costumes
Meaning: Cast Member Uniform
Real Meaning: A big, mean joke played on cast members by the Disney Corporation. Whoever Imagineered these things were either color blind or high when they designed them. Imagine the most hideous thing you could possibly wear in public multiplied by polyester and be forced to SMILE the WHOLE time!!!!
Term #17: The Vista Way shuttles
Meaning: Complementary transportation between Vista Way and the parks
Real Meaning: BRING A CAR!!!!!
Kim & Jenna's Real Meaning: I have no other way to get to work, so I might as well
defy death on the way
Term #18: Living Experience
Meaning: You may end up with roomies all the way from Utah or Norway.
Real Meaning: The best friends you will ever have and/or the bitches who you can't wait until they leave or work or are terminated.
Term #19: Call In Sick
Meaning: "I can't come to work, I'm sick"
Real Meaning: "I can't come to work, I'm hung over from last night!"
Real Meaning: "I CAN'T come to work, I AM IN KEY WEST!"
Term #20: Call In Transportation
Meaning: My car broke down, I can't come to work
Real Meaning: My car is stuck on the beach and won't be able to make it to work on time!
Term #21: Call ln Personal (aka: Seven digit ADO)
Meaning: Some thing personal is keeping me from work.
Real Meaning: It's a beautiful day, I'm goin to the beach!!!!!!
Term #22: EPCOT
Meaning: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow -- Walt Disney's 1960s vision of a futuristic community
Real Meaning: Every Paycheck Comes on Thursday, Every Person Comes Out Tired
Real Meaning (Joseph Riccitelli): Excruciatingly Painful Costumes of Torture
Real Meaning (Mona Tedjarahardja): Each Parent Carries One Tot, Every Pocket Comes Out Trashed,"
Meaning (Becky): The adult park of Walt Disney World
Real Meaning (Becky): Expensive beers from around the world that CPs cant afford to drink.
Submitted by Steve Salen 02/23/1998 -
Term #23: Wal-Mart Supercenter & Walgreen
Meaning: 24 hour retail stores
Real Meaning: Only place open for the suckers who work late shifts and have only time to shop at 3AM?
Submitted by Chris Yansick 04/10/2001
Term #24: It's a Small World
Meaning: A nice family ride celebrating global diversity
Real Meaning: Would be declared cruel and unusual punishment if it was in the penal system
Jungle Cruise Real Meaning: Where we take the kids abandon by their parents. We nail their feet to the ground and we teach them that damn song over and over again, in 20 different languages.
Term #25: Disney's Walk Around the World
Meaning: A way for a family to leave a lasting memorial to their WDW vacation
Real Meaning: The walkway in front of the Magic Kingdom needs repaving... sounds expensive... lets make the guests pay for it.
Term #26: Disney's Leave a Leagacy
Meaning: A way for a family to celebrate the new millinium and leave a picture of themselves at EPCOT
Real Meaning: Tombstones? or just another brilliant marketing ploy?
Submitted by Kim Wethe & Jenna Bradford 09/21/1998
Term #27: Utilidors
Meaning: Official first floor of Disney's Magic Kingdom. The tunnels that run underneath Cinderella's Castle
Real Meaning: A great place to lose all your personal Magical Disney Moments -- aka great place to see Snow White smoking, Alice in Wonderland cussing, Cinderella in short shorts and a t shirt talking on a pay phone and Peter Pan kissing Prince Charming
Submitted by Tommy Schwanfelder 09/1/1998
Term #28: LoLo
Meaning: Legend of the Lion King
Real Meaning: Learn a track and stay there forever. It doesn't matter what other skills you may have, once you know LoLK, you ain't goin' NOwhere.
Submitted by Jennifer Taylor 07/11/1998
Term #29: 101
Meaning: An attraction is temporarily out of service
Real Meaning: Its broken-again, extra break time for that attraction cast members
Term #30: Guest Service Measurement/Cast Excellence Measurement
Meaning: An integral part in our continuous effort to provide the best experience for Cast and Guests.
Real Meaning (Mona Tedjarahardja): Endless list of events, seminars and functions CM attend to prove they are diverse and deserve that 1-3% raise
Submitted by Mona 12/27/2001
Term #31: Westclock
Meaning: MK CM must take the internal bus at westclock to transport them to the entrance to the tunnels
Real Meaning: Add about an hour back from where your shift starts and hour after your shift ends. Because not only you have to trek a mile (exagerate) to westclock from your car, you also have to take a bus to the tunnel entrance
Term #32: FTS
Meaning: Florida Tourist Sales, a Disney Attractions department
Real Meaning: You drive a painted van all over Orlando and other parts of Central Florida and spread the word about Disney. The most stressful point of the day is where to meet other drivers for lunch.
Term #33: Disney Point
(click for Visual)
Meaning: Point with your index and middle finger or with your whole hand. It's rude to point with one finger. Even pointing at an inanimate object, the person next to that object might think you were pointing at him/her.
Real Meaning: It takes years to stop pointing with two fingers, many never recover. You can always "point out" the former CM when you see a stranger use the Disney Point. But you might also say, "that's so un-disney," to see a current CM pointing with one finger.
Term #34: Maingate
Meaning: A benefit for salaried and full time hourly CM to allow a certain amount of people into the parks for free. As many as their dependants and spouse, but usually 3 people. Up to 12x a year for full time hourly CM, but all year long with blackouts for salaried CM.
Real Meaning: If you are CT or CP, better start accummulating brownie points with full-time CM's or salaried manager. Because you're going to need their help getting your mom, dad, sister, your sister's new boyfriend, your brother & his wife and their 3 1/2 old toddler into EPCOT when all of them visit you in sunny Florida.
Term #35: $35,000/hour or $12.3M salary plus $60.5M Exerise or Options
Meaning: Eisner's earnings YR2000
Real Meaning: Let's say Eisner consolidates and liquidize his options: $12.3M + $60.5M = $72.8M before taxes. (Note, these are not official in anyway, shape or form) Net pay: $72.8M/52 weeks = $1.4M. $1.4M/40 hours = Eisner makes $35,000 an HOUR .... roughly or $5,913.47/hr just with is $12.3K salary before taxes.
Submitted by Anonymous 01/03/2002
Term #36: Junkety D
Meaning: Company D stores, several CM only stores in most Disney properties
Real Meaning: It's fun to buy up all the merchandise at "Junkety D" that says "cast member" and "Team Disney" so you can wear it back on campus.....but better not wear it around Orlando because you may as well scream, "look at me, I work at the fun factory and I am a complete dork!"
Submitted by Mona 01/09/2002
Term #37: Reedy Creek Improvement District from DW Magic
Meaning: "Proposal approved on May 12, 1967 by Florida legislature which established two cities: Lake Buena Vista and Bay Lake. Florida taxpayers would not have to spend public money on Disney construction, and the Disney company would not have to rely on state agencies for approval of anything it built."
Real Meaning: Via a small committee who runs Reedy Creek, Disney can do what ever they well damn please.
Term #38: Retlaw Enterprises
Meaning: "Walter" spelled backward
Real Meaning: One of the companies that bought up swamp land in Central Florida. They were able to purchase land cheap; an average price per acre was around $180. WED was a smart man.
Term #39: DisneyQuest
Meaning: The ultimate interactive adventure. Take all the excitement and fun of the Magic Kingdom and jam it all into a 5 story 100,000 square foot building with 4 themed zones.
Real Meaning: A theme park in a box.
Term #40: River Country
Meaning: WDW's first water park. Modeled after Huck Finn and the swimming hole
Real Meaning: Magnet for white trash.
Term #41: "When's the 3 o'clock parade?"
Meaning: One of the most common question asked by guests waiting on Main Street.
Real Meaning: Most annoying and stupid question a guest could ask. You have to say, "the 3:00 parade is at 3 o'clock ma'am," with a straight face. However, the parade does start in Frontierland and wind its way on Main Street at 3:30 PM.
Term #42: Ductorate or Mousters
Meaning: A "degree" given to CPs who is compliant of the "Learning" experience on their program
Real Meaning: Yeah, you really think it does anything for your resume'?
Term #43: The Zoo
Meaning: Central location where all the Magic Kingdom characters meet up for costuming, break room, GSM office.
Real Meaning: If you want to "keep the magic alive" for yourself. Don't go near the Zoo. That's where you find out that Queen of Hearts is sometimes male and Mickey Mouse is almost always female.
Submitted by Mike Kaplan 01/07/2003
Term #44: The Hissing Sound
Meaning: No meaning to everyday people
Real Meaning: Used in Tomorrowland (and Fantasyland sometimes) Attractions to get another cast members attention. Sometimes used to get an everyday persons attention, but people just look at you weird.
Submitted by Jennifer 02/11/2003
Term #45: WOD
Meaning: World Of Disney; largest Disney Merchandise Store In The World
Real Meaning: Disney magnet for anyone and everyone who comes to Disney parks, 8 hrs of "But you guys are supposed to have everything!", 23 CP's running the store cause the full-timers don't want to!
Submitted by Rob Smith 11/06/2003
Term #46: Dust Pans and Hiding Spots
Meaning: The item that you carry around if you're a CH (Custodial Host) that occasionally catches fire with those still burning cigarette butts.
If you work with another dorky CH, then you can have broom wars, or play "Butt
Putt". (remembers and Laughs wildly!) Butt putt is when you set the pan down
opened and walk over to the cigarette but, check the wind, line up your shot
(People are watching you by this point and you can get angry at them for walking
through your shot path - they laugh), your about to swing, and the you grab the
nearest kid and they do the trash for you! Oh what fun. I Wanna go back!!!
Real Meaning: Hiding Spots are a great thing because you learn to love your dust pan and broom and want NO ONE ELSE to use it. So you find places to hide your dustpan and broom. I usually hid mine in Spaceship earth near the break rooms. I never got around to hiding it behind the Video Game Machines, but usually hanging behind the railings of the staircases. The only thing was that I had to remember all my hiding spots. :-D.
Submitted by Kimberly 03/12/2004
Term #47: Keeping your 10/20
Meaning: For all those lifeguards out there...You have to beable to spot a person in need of rescueing in no more than 10 seconds and beable to make contact in no more than 20 seconds.
Real Meaning: a way to keep the lifeguards so paranoid that they swear they haven't blinked in 2 weeks
Term #48: T-bar of death
Meaning: a ride at Blizzard Beach for children under 12 years old. Ironically, the ride lets out into the deepest water in the park (8ft)
Real Meaning: Its a magnet for screaming children who can't swim. Parents make their children go on the ride, kicking and screaming and then is upset when the lifeguard has to rescue their kicking, screaming, and now drowning child.
