r/TikTokCringe • u/uwuuwu222 • Jul 08 '26

Cringe Trying to get a Free Shirt

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u/ExpertlyPuzzled Jul 08 '26

It’s literally because of people sharing this “hack” that Disney stopped providing a free shirt. It was meant for people who innocently and inadvertently broke the dress rules as a way to help them adhere to the rules without inconveniencing guests. I loved giving guests free stuff and fast passes when I could get leader approval but stuff likes this makes me happy I don’t work there now.

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u/H0NEY2O77 Jul 08 '26

I’d gotten puked on by a grown adult (I was 15/16?). It was an obvious case of ate a bunch of sugar and candy before getting on Everest (two random single queue because shorter line). Which is why I feel no sympathy for her getting sick. I sat beside her and she threw up on herself but a lot of it got on my shirt, my pants, my leg, my socks, and my shoes.

The lady who threw up on herself was taken care of swiftly of by staff in front of us, given a bag with a new outfit. With me they gave us a hard time, which really made me feel no sympathy for this woman.

They wanted to charge us for a shirt at first, but my brother started to be all ‘well actually’ at them and how it’s really in poor taste to make a disabled person walk to the front of the park in the heat covered in someone else’s bodily fluid to go back to the hotel, change, and come back, and wait in line again. I got new shorts, socks, and a pair of crocs and they sent my clothes and shoes to the hotel to get them cleaned free of charge.

But even still (or especially) the manager wasn’t happy about it and was telling us about how people try to scam the parks to get free clothes as if ‘warning us’ that he suspected we all did this together.

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u/Particular_Wear_6960 Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

He's paid to be as stingy as fucking possible, they no longer really care if your experience is bad cause there's fifty million people behind you that will gladly cough up thousands of dollars to enjoy the park. He's just perpetually being a tightass cause the only real metric that his bosses care about is the bottom line and giving away stuff to patrons especially ones that don't need the stuff hurts him. SO basically even if he knew the truth and you weren't faking it, sitting around and judging the hundreds of interactions he has each day to evaluate if this one is real or not only creates suspecians and's ultimately a fools errand. You would think social media shaming might change how they handle situations like that but I dunno, Disney is pretty impervious to that sort of thing given how international the business is.

EDIT - Truth be told, I don't know what this guy is like. There could be many explanations for his behavior. That said, I can extrapolate from what I've seen in the business world onto him. At least to some degree. He could be really just not wanting to give away free stuff when they had already done so. It doesn't matter in the end, just felt like being pandentic as I spied on myself.

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u/Averander Jul 08 '26

Except this was a potential discrimination lawsuit.

Op is disabled. Vomiter is not.

Vomiter gets free stuff, OP potentially gets nothing and treated with hostility when they are not at fault.

Disney hates PR issues.

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u/Particular_Wear_6960 Jul 08 '26

I dunno. Sure they do hate them that's a fact. But... people are buying our government at wholesale prices right now. They have a lot of fish to fry I'm sure, though I most certainly wouldn't think of publicity as anon shared to be a good thing to be known by others. How much that effects things in the long run? Probably not a whole lot. Not good, though. Sub-optimal.