So for a Fortune 500 company Disney sure like the element of surprise. I guess it keeps us on our toes. Anyway, last week we got this lovely long email from Disney going through all the important last minute bits of info we need before checking in, when bam out of nowhere, slotted in the middle of the last paragraph of dot points, was a dot point along the lines of
- and your monthly insurance will be deducted from your pay monthly at a rate of $65-$75 depending on the cover you have chosen.
WTF?! This was the first we had heard about it. We had paid a $100 insurance fee and figured that covered us, but then they sprang this on us. Long story short, and a few frantic phone calls later turns out this doesn't apply to us and we don't need to fork out an extra $70 a month. Which is fantastic because a) the cover was hardly worth the money, basically just the essentials and b) I am getting my own insurance so the Disney insurance would have been redundant.
But the good news is, it is all sorted!
To add to all the excitement, last night some lovely Australians who are already doing the program started looking up all the locations for our roles! So most of us (apparently they gradually release people into the system) know where we are working. I wasn't sure if I wanted it to be a surprise or not but everyone else was finding out and I got caught up in the excitement. So.. Drum Roll... I'm working at the TTC which is the Ticket and Transport Centre or something like that. Exciting! It's the biggest Vacation Planner spot so hopefully it will be fun, the only thing I'm not sure about is apparently TTC people get a few parade control shifts which I don't think I really want. But we will see!
Umm, what else, well its 16 days till I leave, which is crazy. I feel like everything's under control but I'm sure one week out I'll be freaking out like crazy.
I've sort of, kind of started packing, I'm aiming for only one suitcase, but I struggle with one suitcase for two weeks, so this will be interesting.
I'm having a Princess Tea Party as a goodbye kind of thing for my school friends for a bit of fun. Hopefully I'll actually take some photos and upload.
OHHH and the biggest news ever. I bought my first ever Australia Flag Tattoos!! The Olympics are going to be on while we are over there so I figured to show some Australian spirit they may come in handy. And on that note it is going to be so weird watching the Olympics in another country! But it will be half the fun.
So I am pretty sure I am rambling, so I'm going to leave this here. Feel free to comment, ask questions etc etc!
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