The Orlando Park president was walked out/laid off on Friday, and more rumors we're circulating about hourly leadership layoffs the next few days in Tampa. More restructuring?
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Jim Dean was not laid off. He is now the Exec VP for the Park Support Center
Tampa did fill those hourly positions. Just like in Orlando where they hired people just to lay them of in a month later. You can’t trust anything the company does. The only thing that’s constant is the continued layoffs this year and next year.
Those hourly supervisors who are left, your jobs are next. SeaWorld stopped paying rent for the corporate buildings on John Young and are moving corporate to the park. So with corporate now pulling the strings on senior leadership on a daily basis, all leadership needs is assistant supervisors to run the park. The manager will take the role of area supervisor. Do more with less. Change is not done yet.
Tampa filled quite a few hourly positions end of July/beginning of August; they were not just pulled.
Jim Dean has been gone for a week already! Cuts are coming October or November! Hiring freeze was on for a couple months those departments probably will not get those open positions back. Other departments get ready especially hourly leadership!
Why just the Florida parks? Are they closing them or is someone buying them?
What happened to all those full time job postings for Busch Gardens Tampa and SeaWorld Orlando? It went from 20 full time jobs to 3-4 left. Did they all fill them up take them down due to future layoffs soon? And to the "fake news" comment, Jim Dean was laid off/asked to step down. Check your news sources. Layoffs might be coming again for hourly leaders in both parks.
I talked to Jim Dean as he walked SeaWorld Orlando. Everyone is SAFE. SeaWorld is earning good profit, and our guest counts are up. He told us to keep up the guest service scores and sales and all will be well. Leadership can all sleep well knowing the October hourly re-strucutre is false.