Spirited News & Observations II -- NGE/Baxter

misterID

misterID

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Boobies!

djlaosc said:
Around 150 Layoffs planned for Wednesday for Walt Disney Studios (cuts will come from across all of Disney Studios businesses, including the NYC-based music and theatre departments.)

http://www.deadline.com/2013/04/disney-layoffs-this-week-150-job-cuts-expected/

Further cuts expected later in the year...
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This is worse than I thought. I really don't know how they can spin this... Profits are incredible and now... It seems like they're laying off a whole bunch of people, and not nearly any of the people who really need to go.

If they're going to clean house let's start at TDO, WDI and The Studios.
 
the.dreamfinder

the.dreamfinder

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PhotoDave219 said:
There's only 5 of 6 channels I want. Discovery, ESPN, MLB, HBO, Comedy Central.... and .... and... and thats about it, really. Maybe NBCSN. Maybe Cartoon Network.

Its those other channels of crap that I dont want. I wish they had an a-la-carte package.
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Especially TLC, MTV, VH1, Bravo, etc.
I'd pay for the following
AMC
ESPN
Comcast/NBCSN
HBO
Showtime
Comedy Central
Tuner Classic Movies
Cartoon Network
Maybe Disney Channel and/or Disney XD

BTW, I recently heard that Vevo may be starting a cable channel.
 
WDW1974

WDW1974

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Well, it's opening day and all is new and it's going to be a great season ... and the Marlins have ... um ... won only one game as they return home.

Even though I'm sorta not working today (isn't it some national holiday) I don't intend to go back and forth over the same points here either.

I think @asianway sorta nailed the point ... it isn't all that different
than folks who sit back and think I'm just an evil, vile, Commie,
Godless, fanboi abusing, Disney hating Spirit who is just bashing good salt of
the Earth human beings like Lou Mongello, Ricky Brigante and Jeff Lange because
I have no Disney Lifestyle business of my own and I'm jealous of the incredible
lifestyles they lead. Not because I have serious moral and ethical issues with
how they conduct themselves and how it impacts a company whose products and IP
are near and dear.

Now, folks (a very small amount to be fair) may think I am being too hard on Blondie under the guise that 'everybody lies' ... well, sorry to disappoint you, but they don't. Really. They may get screwed over in the workplace and life by those that do, but everyone doesn't lie.

Of course, the issue is likely some of the most vocal 'defenders' of Blondie are either defending her because they lie in their own lives and see nothing wrong with her behavior. Or because they wish to try and knock me down a peg because they flat out don't like me or what I bring to MAGIC (in this example, honesty, integrity and some questions that need answering) and think by focusing on something tiny they think they've found a secret way into the Spirit Cave.

Sorry.

Wrong.

The thing about telling the truth is it's so easy and neat (even if it leaves wreckage in its wake). Lying is so messy and you wind up in situations like this where people start talking about what exactly was so wrong ... the answer is it all was and is.

I have no idea if this will lead to JFB no longer working for TWDC. It might have the opposite effect where they simply move her into some less public role to avoid a lawsuit (yes, guilty people sue others for their own bad behavior all the time).

But I do know there is NO justification for what she did and continues to do. None ... even if you think you can get a shot in at me because I focused on what was wrong and didn't play semantics yet again.
 
GiveMeTheMusic

GiveMeTheMusic

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It is truly amazing how many people I know who flat out lie on their resumes. The thing is, it's not like a potential employer can't find out what really happened - everything is out there on the interwebs or a phone call away.

That said, I'm really enjoying my new gig as Steve Jobs' executive assistant.

PS, I'm pretty sure I found CountryBearFan's twitter. It has provided me with untold minutes of hilarious reading material on this Monday morning.
 
WDW1974

WDW1974

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GiveMeTheMusic said:
It is truly amazing how many people I know who flat out lie on their resumes. The thing is, it's not like a potential employer can't find out what really happened - everything is out there on the interwebs or a phone call away.

That said, I'm really enjoying my new gig as Steve Jobs' executive assistant.

PS, I'm pretty sure I found CountryBearFan's twitter. It has provided me with untold minutes of hilarious reading material on this Monday morning.
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People create elaborate life lies every day. It's much easier to do so in the Internet Era. There was a time when an online profile that you made up wasn't enough to score you a real job.

I had a friend (now, quite former) in the 1990s and I recall vividly when she told me she was applying for a position overseas. The position required her to have be fluent in Mandarin and be able to compose music. She didn't know one word of Mandarin. And she had never composed a single bar of music. It didn't stop her, though.

When asked what she would do upon arrival in Shanghai if she had landed the position she said ''I can go to the library over the weekend and pick up a book on learning Chinese.'' With regard to the music composition, there was a pregnant pause ... and than (I kid you not) ''I did take band in middle school.''

Really ... Opening Day is calling and the bat and glove are out in the garage, but there just isn't a justification for excusing other folks' unetheical behavior. ... Well, beyond possibly engaging in it yourselves.

BTW, I think this thread alone has had 7000 views in the last 12 hours. Do you think that will snag me a few nights at the Poly?
 
steve2wdw

steve2wdw

WDW Fan Since 1973
Funny....if you lie (or stretch the truth) in your resume, what's to stop you from lying (or stretching) once you're in the position. I just don't hire the person from the get go....and if I didn't catch it, before the hire, once I caught wind of the stretch, that would be the end of you in that position....plain and simple.
 
WDW1974

WDW1974

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Seeing that folks are now talking about boobies (my man are to die for ... ask any fanboi minion of mine!) and HBO and TV ... how many folks here know someone or has who have stolen cable TV?

I recall as a wee Spirit being alerted to something in my backyard by my killer beagle (she really would have killed to protect the family!) attacking our neighbor who had hopped the fence and was playing around with the cable box in our yard. ... And I don't know how many supposedly 'moral' people had no issue stealing cable, thinking that content had to be free ... they were the Jeff Lange's of their era, I guess. You just take what you want.

Now, putting aside the whole refillable mug debate, but every time I go to a quick serve dining location that has a self-serve beverage locale, I see people with little water cups gleefully filling up with soda that the rest of us are paying for. Never are they called on it.

Crap like this filters down to all of us. The reason people look at 'YOU' like you are a lying piece of crap when you try and get a GAC at WDW is because 90% of the folks who do get them are lying pieces of crap that should have baseball bats taken to their knees, so they get some clue as to who the passes are for and why.

It's sorta sickening that folks are quick to jump on the Federal Government for less than cool behavior, but think what anyone else does that is immoral, illegal, unethical etc is fine. It isn't and we all pay for it one way or the other.
 
WDW1974

WDW1974

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steve2wdw said:
Funny....if you lie (or stretch the truth) in your resume, what's to stop you from lying (or stretching) once you're in the position. I just don't hire the person from the get go....and if I didn't catch it, before the hire, once I caught wind of the stretch, that would be the end of you in that position....plain and simple.
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That's the way it should be, but it isn't.

If I worked in O-Town for WDW and had a LinkedIn profile, then I'd damn sure be working to make sure it is accurate (oh, but some Spirits did take screen grabs anyway!)

Most companies are not going to worry about lies once the person has been employed for years unless there's something that could bite them on the ... Disney doesn't even seem to care about that, though. Again, it isn't very hard to do research on these bloggers and find out in 10 minutes why you shouldn't have any relationship with them at all. Disney hasn't. And clearly their own HR Dept is very weak.
 
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Bolna

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Interesting lesson I learned from that discussion about lies. Being not a native English speaker I wanted to find out what "to lie" truly means - often translations only catch one meaning of a word that can have many. "To lie" is a word I never thought about, thinking I knew exactly what the translation would be.

Well, I looked it up and surprisingly Merriam Webster (which my trusted online dictionary leo.org links to) offers me this:


Definition of LIE
intransitive verb
1: to make an untrue statement with intent to deceive
2: to create a false or misleading impression
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I guess if we really want to be nitpicking about words, she did indeed lie in the meaning of the second definition the dictionary has for lying.
 
TP2000

TP2000

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WDW1974 said:
Most companies are not going to worry about lies once the person has been employed for years unless there's something that could bite them on the ... Disney doesn't even seem to care about that, though. Again, it isn't very hard to do research on these bloggers and find out in 10 minutes why you shouldn't have any relationship with them at all. Disney hasn't. And clearly their own HR Dept is very weak.
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I've been in and out of corporate America for decades, and long before the Internet we steered clear of the PR/Marketing folks as a matter of both sanity and career sanitation.

With the Internet the old PR Department has now become "Social Media" or "New Media" or whatever hip buzzword you want to call it. But the business is the same, and the people are the same. And it doesn't surprise me one whit that someone from that group is puffing up her cheesy LinkedIn profile from her mid-sized, one-window office in a sterile Kissimmee business park somewhere.

One of my favorite Auntie Mame quotes seems to apply here. "Well, when you're from Pittsburgh you have to do something." :cool:
 
PhotoDave219

PhotoDave219

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Bolna said:
Interesting lesson I learned from that discussion about lies. Being not a native English speaker I wanted to find out what "to lie" truly means - often translations only catch one meaning of a word that can have many. "To lie" is a word I never thought about, thinking I knew exactly what the translation would be.

Well, I looked it up and surprisingly Merriam Webster (which my trusted online dictionary leo.org links to) offers me this:




I guess if we really want to be nitpicking about words, she did indeed lie in the meaning of the second definition the dictionary has for lying.
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Oh dear god, you people like to split hairs. Some of you need remedial Sunday School for definitions of right and wrong....
 
PhotoDave219

PhotoDave219

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steve2wdw said:
Funny....if you lie (or stretch the truth) in your resume, what's to stop you from lying (or stretching) once you're in the position. I just don't hire the person from the get go....and if I didn't catch it, before the hire, once I caught wind of the stretch, that would be the end of you in that position....plain and simple.
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Thats the point. Especially when the prime tenant of the job is to uphold the truth and not to deceive anyone.
 

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