I'm a semi-local, we got about twice a month and a few weeks back had a very weird encounter with 2 cast members at different locations. One in DCA when doing mobile checkout, he thought he was funny by making fun of my last name saying it was spelled wrong. When I said actually names can be spelled differently based on your ethnicity and country. He got aggressive and kept going he wouldn't give me a bag for my stuff and kept saying to admit I was wrong. My husband stepped in and was like what do you want her to do change it legally because you think so? And he's like no but she's still wrong. What's worse he was a former marine per his name tag.I hope our flannel clad hero does speak out and even file suit. I have no doubt he was treated unfairly based on his appearance (not that there was one thing wrong with it). I feel like it would have been a different story if he had a Mickey shirt on and his daughter was wearing ears.
We had two awkward experiences with cast members on our last trip. One was a security guard mocking my daughter in law for wearing a bugs bunny shirt. He said she was in the wrong park and he bets she wears Mickey shirts to Universal. It was her first visit to a theme park ever and he was unnecessarily rude. She felt stupid, like she had done something wrong. She was self conscious about it all day. The other was a Main Street vehicle driver in one of the smaller cars. He asked us where we were from, we said Texas. No response. He then asked the other family in the vehicle and they said Orange County. He said, “that’s right, locals only” and they fist bumped. It was an awkward ride down Main Street after that LOL.
And no KT, I didn’t go screaming to guest services about it! But I do think there is a bias there whether they are completely aware of it or not.
Then at Oga's a CM who wasn't even helping us made it a point to come over and make him show him my ID once again. I am 11 years over the legal drinking age and he then kept making fun of me for looking young. It made us and the people sharing our table super uncomfortable. He kept trying to say it was a joke but it was clear no one found it funny much less for him to keep going.
I also just let it go and didn't go to city hall. We're in a tough time as a whole after the initial pandemic closures and didn't want someone to lose their job but yeah it was just odd and not the usual friendliness.
Could you imagine blob if they had those experiences from say a new CM who doesn't know them or is having a bad day and don't want to be filmed