During the first few months of 2022, the company’s parks division generated $7.2 billion in revenue. Fun is certainly lucrative at Disney World. When she does make it home, it’s usually after midnight, and she has just enough energy left to cook dinner for her family for the next day.īut despite Alcantara-Anderson’s financial struggles, it’s never stopped her from loaning cash to fellow “cast members” (as Disney employees are) who can’t get enough to eat. On nights when she doesn’t have enough cash to make it home, she sleeps in the parking lot. She has no savings, no nest egg, and sometimes not enough gas money to make the hour-and-a-half commute (one way) to the Magic Kingdom. Life at the Magic Kingdom is in many ways a bubble, where workers face housing insecurity with few opportunities for advancement, a new book claims. “There have definitely been times when it’s like, ‘OK, kids, there’s rice for tonight, then rice tomorrow, but there will be different sides with the rice,’ ” she confided to author and NYU cultural studies professor Andrew Ross in his new book, “Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing” (Metropolitan Books), out now. Their combined salaries, in the low five figures, are barely enough to pay the rent or put food on the table. But she still struggles to make ends meet.Ī long-time supervisor at Magic Kingdom attractions like Thunder Mountain and Tom Sawyer Island, she lives with her husband, Zac -who also works for Disney, in transportation maintenance - and teenage daughter Chastity in a small three-bedroom house that she rents from a relative. Gabby Alcantara-Anderson, 31, has worked at Disney World in central Florida for almost a decade. Disney drops all but free speech claims in political retaliation suit against DeSantisĭisney CEO Bob Iger refused to give successor Bob Chapek his office ‘because of its private shower’Īngry dad slams ‘money-grabbing’ Disneyland after spending insane amount on ticketsĭisneyland Paris employee fired for refusing to put whipped cream, Nutella on guest’s waffles
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