You know what, jake? I'm OK with that.
And again, does it ever cross your mind that I may have a good basis for what I write here? Do you ever think 'he may just have access to information that I don't?'
No, because your post are filled with such personal aggression and vitriol towards TDO and "corporations" in general, that I can't really trust most you say. Perhaps if you stopped injecting five pounds of personal and political commentary for every one ounce of fact you present you would be taken a little more seriously.
True enough. But it wasn't a far leap for me to make. And again, the information is out there ... both in the media and on sites/blogs like this. If all you care about is the government's report you're putting a lot of faith in them ... and a lot of folks don't even trust them over say ... health insurance corps that make billions in profit. So one report will completely satisfy you?
All this shows is that you have absolutely no perspective when you throw health care into a debate like this. You sound like a crazy person.
So let me get this straight, we can't trust Disney because they are evil. We can't trust the government because evil Disney is canoodling with them. So we should just trust your CM buddies? Rumors and opinions are a great way to get justice served and affect change.
Very true. I'm making an educated guess. And I'll stick with it. Regardless of what transpired that tragic night, I don't see the NTSB throwing the book at Disney ... and I know they should.
No your not making an educated guess. You are making a biased guess based on your own negative views of Disney and the governement. An educated guess would realize the limit of the information we have and would patiently wait.
Nope. I'll cast judgments based upon what I know from rails CMs and ex-CMs who have voiced concerns for years now, as well as what I have read from others and simply knowing how/why Disney changed its policies.
No one says you have to believe a word I write. But guess what? It doesn't matter. It doesn't change reality.
You're right is doesn't change what happened, but it doesn't mean you can't wait until all the facts are in and official before making a final judgement on the issue.
Your reality might not be the truth, or it might be. All I'm saying is that "innocent until proven guilty" works pretty well. That is not the benefit of the doubt, it's the right thing to do.
Disney has been cutting corners on safety in transport for years. They got away with it for years. One night in July, they didn't. And a young man died. The only one doing his job correctly, it appears.
And where the breakdown was and the factors that contributed will be identified. Beyond that, I don't know what will happen.
I won't suggest anything. Other than you choose to give Disney every benefit of the doubt. Why? Only you can answer that. I think it's pretty obvious there was an error. One train backed into another and killed a guy. That's not what's ever supposed to happen. Safetys were shut off ... but that's OK we're told because Disney created the protocols and they could change them. The spur switch happened with the driver in the front cab, not the back. Again, that's OK because Disney changed policy to make it so and remove yet another layer of safety. The managers who OK'd the switch were at a freaking Denny's enjoying Grand Slams. Again, Disney policy apparently says that's cool. Not one CM in the station was paying attention to throw a kill switch to prevent the pilot from being killed.
It sure seems like a whole lot of things were done wrong -- BUT if they all followed the policies Disney enacted, how could Disney possibly be wrong? It was all just a terrible accident, right?
Um ... no. Not even close.
Wow, it's like you don't even read what I write before going off on one of your rants. There was a failure that night on some level, whether it be an individual or a group of CMs who broke SOP, or the SOP itself, or both. The NTSB report is going to be the closest thing we have to a complete picture of what happened.
The only thing I have said throughout this whole conversation is we should wait and cast judgement on the final product. I've never given Disney the benefit of the doubt in this case. In fact, if it does turn out to be an SOP failure, I'll be right beside you calling for management's head, and I've said that before. However, I'm going to wait until we have facts and a complete picture.
The only thing that could make this situation worse is if a rush to judgement resulted in the wrong person losing their job, or the wrong SOP being changed.
