Some people! (aka "overheard at work yesterday")

[French Quarter]

I took it to be a work prize. Basically something everyone who works there has a chance at winning. Those can be difficult to do. I have seen people get mad over prizes. The easiest thing to do is just give out cash - tax included. (I have seen people complain over having to pay tax on a cash prize they won)

-dave

Maybe I misunderstood the OP but I thought it was a contest at work that you could choose to enter or not.

 

[harveyt0206]

I often wonder what it says about me when I get upset about some random person criticizing my happy place (and trust me, I DO get upset :fork::fork. I try to put it into perspective but it never works for me. It's almost like someone is criticizing a family member. No rational thought.

 

[BiggerTigger]

After thinking about what makes people tick (and I still wonder with some people), my interest in Disney is no different than their interest in.......(you pick it). Most of the ones that have made comments about me going to WDW every year (or almost every year) are the same ones that park themselves infront of a television for Football, NASCAR, boxing. Those that going hunting every season (rabbit, duck, rabbit, duck, deer). You will find that they have their quirks too, Friday night Ghost Whisperer or craft fairs. Or even time warped beach blonde form the 80's. You might not understand why they take pleasure in their past-times, but don't let it ruin your time and excitment.

 

[Phonedave]

Maybe I misunderstood the OP but I thought it was a contest at work that you could choose to enter or not.

It was along the lines of you listen to the corporate webcast, they say the magic word and then you email the magic word in to enter.

So, yes, you could decide not to enter, but in reality a contest like that is something everyone enters.

-dave

 

[Phonedave]

After thinking about what makes people tick (and I still wonder with some people), my interest in Disney is no different than their interest in.......(you pick it). Most of the ones that have made comments about me going to WDW every year (or almost every year) are the same ones that park themselves infront of a television for Football, NASCAR, boxing. Those that going hunting every season (rabbit, duck, rabbit, duck, deer). You will find that they have their quirks too, Friday night Ghost Whisperer or craft fairs. Or even time warped beach blonde form the 80's. You might not understand why they take pleasure in their past-times, but don't let it ruin your time and excitment.

Ah, lets see, I am going to WDW in October with my brother and his family. My brother who has been to more NASCAR races than I care to count, who (along with my and his wife) is a rabid Giants fan, who's motto is "if it crawls it falls, if it flies it dies" (I just do the flies and dies part). No boxing or craft fairs though. I guess we have some hobbies to work on still


-dave

 

[DABIGCHEEZ]

Guess I should not talk so loudly to the women on the elevator!!!

 

[Crazy4WDW1]

Here is what I don't get . . . it was prize. It was FREE. If you won a prize you didn't like, then give it to someone, donate it, sell it, whatever. People I work with are the same way. They win something and complain about what it is. People are never happy. :brick:

 

[MissM]

OK, lets say golf (lets assume you don't like golf). You win 2 greens fees to a very expensive and nice golf club an hours drive from your house.

In previous months, there were hotel stays, gift cards for airfare and this month its Rays tickets. I don't fly and hate baseball but I didn't complain about those. I just didn't enter. Leave the prize to people who'd actually want it.

Basically something everyone who works there has a chance at winning.

Anyone who watches the webcast and gets the correct "word" can enter. Watching the webcast isn't mandatory and entering the contest isn't mandatory either.

Maybe I misunderstood the OP but I thought it was a contest at work that you could choose to enter or not.

Yup, exactly.

So Disney's not your thing. Big deal! Just don't enter. Or if you do, just give or sell the gift card to someone else should you win. It was just a gift card. Not only for hotel or tickets, but for whatever you want. Go out to dinner, see Cirque or buy merchandise instead.

I was more shocked at the attitude of hating Disney based on having been there last over 20 years ago. It's like, really? Way to get stuck in your ways!

 

[French Quarter]

Here is what I don't get . . . it was prize. It was FREE. If you won a prize you didn't like, then give it to someone, donate it, sell it, whatever. People I work with are the same way. They win something and complain about what it is. People are never happy. :brick:

It all boils down to one four-syllable word: ENTITLEMENT.

 

[fife]

Then again, the woman's hair was an awful, bleach-blond dye job straight out of 1983

Wow, this bugged you so much that you're taking pot shots at the woman's appearance?? Chill out a little. So the two co-workers aren't Disney fans. Does that somehow affect YOUR ability to enjoy it?

All that aside, I can understand what people mean when they say they've gotten "burnt out on Disney". Not that I personally feel that way, but I can at least understand it. Although I wouldn't exactly say it was the 80's, but more like the mid-90's (The lady in the elevator may have misremembered...or maybe it WAS the 80's for her). Around the mid-80's, Disney started to be considered "cool", but by the early to mid-90's they had really started to oversaturate the market and I think a lot of mainstream people (aka non hardcore Disney fans) just grew kind of tired of Disney being so in your face everywhere and all the time. Has it affected MY love for Disney? Not one bit. But can I understand a little bit why some people feel that way? Absolutely! That may have been what the people in the elevator were talking about.

 

[MillerPoppins]

I have an Uncle who chooses to point out every time I see him how often myself or my family goes to Disney. Thankfully I don't see him often as he lives in Omaha. But on the rare family occasion that I do, he feels the need to belittle me on how there are other parts of the country to see besides Disney World. This came to a head last Labor Day weekend when we were all in Chicago for my cousins wedding. I see him for the first time and after the initial hellos and hugs, his comment is "Folks mark your calender, K is in a city other then Orlando." I know a lot more people who travel down there far more often then me, but he feels that I am an "addict" who only travels there. I went on to point out the 6 other US cities that I had been to that year and he offered an apology. Later in the trip, he asked me if I had an obligation to drop in to the Chicago Disney Store. It's infuriating.

Just because you do not choose to enjoy the same things that I do does not make it wrong. I understand you getting upset over it. His comments bother me to the point where I actually dislike seeing him. You aren't alone in your anger!

 

[tink65]

Just think to yourself "Yea, more room for me!"

Yeah! What he said!!!!!!

 

[tink65]

I have an Uncle who chooses to point out every time I see him how often myself or my family goes to Disney. Thankfully I don't see him often as he lives in Omaha. But on the rare family occasion that I do, he feels the need to belittle me on how there are other parts of the country to see besides Disney World. This came to a head last Labor Day weekend when we were all in Chicago for my cousins wedding. I see him for the first time and after the initial hellos and hugs, his comment is "Folks mark your calender, K is in a city other then Orlando." I know a lot more people who travel down there far more often then me, but he feels that I am an "addict" who only travels there. I went on to point out the 6 other US cities that I had been to that year and he offered an apology. Later in the trip, he asked me if I had an obligation to drop in to the Chicago Disney Store. It's infuriating.

Just because you do not choose to enjoy the same things that I do does not make it wrong. I understand you getting upset over it. His comments bother me to the point where I actually dislike seeing him. You aren't alone in your anger!

You know I experience the same thing. People will be like "you know there's alot more out there besides Disney" This coming from the people who make the same trip to the same beach at the same time every year.............

 

[fife]

Just because you do not choose to enjoy the same things that I do does not make it wrong. I understand you getting upset over it. His comments bother me to the point where I actually dislike seeing him. You aren't alone in your anger!

Wait a minute... that's not what the OP is angry about though. :veryconfu You're talking about something completely different... someone "belittling" you because you are visiting Disney so often, versus the OP's complaint about other people not liking Disney. Those people on the elevator didn't all the sudden turn to the OP and start giving her a hard time because SHE likes Disney. They were just saying THEY didn't like it.

In contrast, your uncle wasn't bashing Disney itself. He was just giving YOU a hard time because he's trying to tell you there are other places to visit.

All that aside, if you truly love Disney, why would your uncle's comments offend you? I would think you would be flattered that someone has taken note of your love of the place. Personally, I love Disney and I'm not embarassed or ashamed at all when people point out MY love of it.

 

[MissM]

Wow, this bugged you so much that you're taking pot shots at the woman's appearance?? Chill out a little. So the two co-workers aren't Disney fans. Does that somehow affect YOUR ability to enjoy it?

Yeah when her hair looked like a worse dyed version of this - http://lh6.ggpht.com/_asusYZpyZdU/SwrhWBTzMVI/AAAAAAAAAEM/BflJAB7mA_0/s800/eighties-hair.jpg - yeah, I'm calling her out on the hair style.

Chill out a little. So the two co-workers aren't Disney fans. Does that somehow affect YOUR ability to enjoy it?

Besides, I didn't say I was mad. I said I couldn't believe people who had stopped going over twenty years ago could be so judgmental! How can you even know what the park is like if you haven't gone since the last time you changed your hairdo?

By the way, there's like 3,000 people in my company so I have no clue who they are and while they're technically "co-workers" I don't know them in the slightest.

 

[fife]

Yeah when her hair looked like a worse dyed version of this - yeah, I'm calling her out on the hair style.

That wasn't my point. What does the person's hairstyle have to do with her not liking Disney? If she had the same hairstyle but she LOVED Disney, would you feel so inclined to "call her out"? It's one thing to disagree with someone's opinion, but another to resort to taking cheap shots at their appearance. That makes you come across as immature and unable to handle that people don't all think they way you do.

Besides, I didn't say I was mad.

You posted three of these guys in your post... . The name of that emoticon is "mad" (though it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that's what that emoticon is conveying) and the tone of your writing style conveyed frustration and dislike toward the people on the elevator. How silly of me to infer that you were "mad" (apparently incorrectly :hammer

By the way, there's like 3,000 people in my company so I have no clue who they are and while they're technically "co-workers" I don't know them in the slightest.

Ummmm... okay. And this has what exactly to do with anything?? :veryconfu

 

[mp2bill]

And they are probably the kinda people who love the elevator music! :lol:

Lol. Losers...