OK, I miss over 100 posts and a few days and what happens? Many different directions and good old Frank starts with his 'Iger saved the Co' line of total and utter BS. I'll get to that later if possible ...
I'd like to talk about honesty and transparency for a bit (indulge me, I did start the thread). When last I left, I was stunned by the fact that Blondie not only lied on her linkedin profile about being employed by the New York Times, but actually was writing for a local newspaper for years while working in public relations for Disney. That is one line you just don't cross. Sorta like conducting a Passover Seder Service one day and an Easter Sunday service the next. You're either a journalist or a PR hack. Both is never an option.
This isn't like a confused fanboi who will 'try' a girl to go along with his diet of boyfriends.
But then came the other part. The part where she was lying and never worked for the NY Times, but sold content/stories to the tiny Lakeland Ledger. Now, days later, her profile still proudly hasn't been changed. If she's going down, dammit, she's going all the way. She did get a degree from Pitt in (I kid you not) ''creative nonfiction'' ... in the real world, I believe we call that lying (no, please don't give me a wiki education here).
As I looked at her profile, I began pulling up other Disney O-Town based staffers' CVs and couldn't help but notice inconsistencies and blatant lies in them, which sorta got this old Spirit to thinking.
These folks already have the jobs they lied their way into, yet they are cocky and arrogant to such a degree that they leave the lies up there for the world to see. Here I am ranting about insiginificant mentally disturbed bloggers and podcasters getting freebies on the Mouse because no one is vetting them (good luck with that new career, Laura) and I have come to the realization that no one in human resources is vetting the vetters. People are being hired for nice white collar positions, and promoted, based on lies and gross exaggerations (no, a weekend conference at the Harvard Business School does NOT make you a Harvard Business School grad no matter how good it looks on Linkedin!)And before anyone whines that these are private folks and if they lie it's none of our business, it's simply between them and their employer, I'd suggest that in an era where people use the Internet to craft great life lies for themselves that whatever anyone puts out for the world to see is absolutely 100% fair game for strangers like us to rip apart and allow them to face the consequences of their own bad behavior.
Regardless of what I know about Disney's current and future plans for social media, I don't see how Jenn can keep her job for this (no, I don't care that she's a Mommy and that she may well be a nice person ... there are plenty of Mommies who are nice people who would do her job and not lie to do so, harming both the reps of WDW and the NYT in the process).
When did materially misrepresenting your background not become grounds for immediate dismissal? Particularly, when it speaks directly to the job you were hired to do.
Are we supposed to just accept that everyone lies and move on? ... First, I don't believe everyone lies (at least about the important stuff) and these aren't little white lies or fibs.
Just something to think about and move at least part of this discussion back where it was a few days back.
