Melissa Valiquette named Epcot VP as Sam Lau moves to a new role in Asia

ford91exploder

Resident Curmudgeon
As broken by others on my thread ...

Interesting that Sam is staying on and moving to Asia where the action is.

Wonder how he will like his new digs in a Chinese Prison, The last VP they had there ran out in the middle of the night leaving everything including his clothes. One wonders why...
 

sshindel

The Epcot Manifesto
Wonder how he will like his new digs in a Chinese Prison, The last VP they had there ran out in the middle of the night leaving everything including his clothes. One wonders why...
How's it compare to a Turkish Prison?
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PhotoDave219

Well-Known Member
Wonder how he will like his new digs in a Chinese Prison, The last VP they had there ran out in the middle of the night leaving everything including his clothes. One wonders why...

Interesting that Sam is staying on and moving to Asia where the action is.

I think Sam is an excellent choice given the cultural issues that seem to be arising from the Shanghai expansion.

Makes the most sense, IMO.
 

ford91exploder

Resident Curmudgeon
Mike Crawford had a much higher level position. He was basically the top American face for Disney in China. ... Sam's position is new ... and quite ... nebulous.

'Designated Fall Guy' perhaps, Disney is just brilliant bring in a REAL transit guy and then don't let him do his job because feathers are ruffled in the Mickey Mouse operation known as 'Disney Transportation', It really seems to suck to be Sam Lau these days bet he wishes he was still in his 'pre-TWDC' job.
 

PhotoDave219

Well-Known Member
Sam wasn't really given much power to do anything in Transportation that he wanted. It was the status quo as well at Epcot.

Yeah, he ruffled a lot of feathers with the articulated buses. He tried to change the culture, he failed. The current culture just has GSMs out finding reasons to write up transportation workers rather than correcting the behavior/problem.

(Of course, the biggest problem is that the GSMs generally have zero experience in the field they're managing, so it really doesn't give those employees any incentive To respect their bosses... Especially since most transportation CMs come from the real world and have experience beyond Multiple college programs and internships.)

They moved him to Epcot (which he called a dream job) and now is moved to fix Disney's Asian ventures.

His background seems very cosmopolitan and is a bit of a world traveler.

Seems like the right guy for the job. IMO. Perhaps he can Remold Disney's Management as to how they approach their Asian development
 

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