Spirited News & Observations II -- NGE/Baxter

HMF

HMF

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GiveMeTheMusic said:
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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I am sure it is tweet after tweet about how wrong anyone who has even one negative thought about WDC is and how every one who disagrees with him/her constitute a threat to civilization.
 
Genie of the Lamp

Genie of the Lamp

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Here's some Shanghai DL rockwork construction samples: http://lukeandthetempleoffun.blogspot.sg/2013/04/shanghai-disneyland-construction-samples.html
Transformers could have a possible soft opening sometime in late April with HP 2.O maybe opening on June 11, 2014 (source: SS)
More magicband/NG testing at DAK & AKL on April 12-14: http://www.orlandoparksnews.com/2013/04/next-gen-magicband-testing-continues-at.html
And Blondie writes/blogs the post today about the Pirates of the Seven Seas interactive game at MK Adventureland. BTW, checked Pitt's website and a "creative nonfiction" degree doesn't exist and isn't listed in their undergrad majors programs. I live in PIT and when my school year is over, I gonna call their admissions office (maybe even drive down there myself) and see if she even attended Pitt.

Edit: Some new law bill was passed on the FL state Senate today about the resell of tickets:
http://www.wdwinfo.com/news/General...es_fine_for_re-selling_theme_park_tickets.htm
 
jt04

jt04

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So since we are raising the bar on honesty might I suggest that the most moral spirits amongst us consider actually compensating WDWMagic for the bandwidth used and become a premium member. Especially those who have determined it is their personal soap box.

Or am I being too frank. :cool:
 
Lee

Lee

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jt04 said:
So since we are raising the bar on honesty might I suggest that the most moral spirits amongst us consider actually compensating WDWMagic for the bandwidth used and become a premium member. Especially those who have determined it is their personal soap box.

Or am I being too frank. :cool:
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I've been a premium for years.
Other posters, who draw more hits to the site than I do, probably more than earn their keep in ad sales.
(That's purely speculation, of course.)
 
Mr Bill

Mr Bill

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I just came across this article, and while not about the Parks & Resorts division of Disney, it does involve legally/ethically questionable behavior. It also shows that poor treatment of front-line workers may not be limited to just the parks.

http://deadspin.com/espn-x-games-memo-asks-staffers-to-work-for-free-and-no-471205365

It seems pretty foolish to me for someone to ask hourly employees to under-report their hours to avoid overtime. It's especially foolish to put such requests in writing. But hey, they'll get recognition on a wall in the office!
 
jt04

jt04

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Lee said:
I've been a premium for years.
Other posters, who draw more hits to the site than I do, probably more than earn their keep in ad sales.
(That's purely speculation, of course.)
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That is how I justify my existence here too. :oops:

But technically speaking I could accuse some of being the interwebz equivalent of a soda stealer. I am just not that puritanical.
 
lazyboy97o

lazyboy97o

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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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You've quite right. The problem though is that it is still also true and that there can be a plausible deniability in the intent, as intent is what really makes it a lie. That's how these fluffs work.

Bolna said:
Hey, I was trying to split the hair so that it fits your way!! :) And trying to prove that hairs can be split many ways...
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This is a reoccurring problem, those who agree but don't just blindly agree are also attacked as being against truth and defending liars.
 
flynnibus

flynnibus

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Mr Bill said:
I just came across this article, and while not about the Parks & Resorts division of Disney, it does involve legally/ethically questionable behavior. It also shows that poor treatment of front-line workers may not be limited to just the parks.
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Are you reading the same memo?

The one that says
- please don't work overtime hours... cutout before working beyond the time that would push you to OT
- please don't take extras from the onsite food - but rather use the PER DIEM money the company is paying you to buy food.. to you know.. buy food

That article is horrible. Sure it makes the suggestion that if you want to volunteer that would help the cause.. but everything else in there is a gross misrepresentation of the actual content.

There is nothing illegal nor unethical about reminding workers that work supplies are for WORK - not your after hours or offsite activities.. and asking everyone to contribute as a TEAM rather than focusing on YOU YOU YOU.

That is not poor treatment of workers - that is the same type of attitude you will find in all small organizations trying to make great things happen and asking employees to be part of the success and not simply along for the ride to milk whatever they can. It's a 'watch the money..' memo.
 

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