The Spirited Seventh Heaven ...

[Tigger1988]

Anyone else catch the story on AC360? It was the lead.

 

[John]

Anyone else catch the story on AC360? It was the lead.

No can you paraphrase?

 

[Quinnmac000]

Yeah.
I got the plans last year. Knew this wasn't going to go over well at all. Especially the takeover of the Court of Angels.

Disney: "If it ain't broke, we'll break it!"

Or more so...Guests...
LET IT GO. LET IT GO. WE DON"T CARE AT ALL.
LET IT GO. LET IT GO. WE ARE MAKING A WINDFALL.

 

[wogwog]

"You gonna have fries with the burger? Order number 33 pick up!"

 

[Mike S]

Well at least I got to see New Orleans Square and Court of Angels before they effed it up.

Wish I could've seen it, it looked beautiful.

 

[Nemo14]

Here's another I found, from Bret (@Schmoofy)....

Is this the way it was planned to look?

 

[Snowflake82]

Anyone else catch the story on AC360? It was the lead.

DVR'ing to look at when the kids aren't around.

 

[Tigger1988]

No can you paraphrase?

30 something Disney employees have been arrested, 8(or so) from Uni and 2 from Sea World. They set up stings and caught them. None of the activity took place on park grounds.

The parks claim they are doing all they can, background checks cannot catch those with no priors and most sexual predators do not have priors.

FL congressman is trying to overturn an old ruling that prevents private businesses from doing polygraph tests prior to hiring. Disney says they would consider this route, should it be made legal.

Disney points out (factually so) that the numbers AC360 present only represent a fraction of a fraction of the 300k people they employ.

 

[TeriofTerror]

Anyone else catch the story on AC360? It was the lead.

Yes. At the risk of sounding like a company apologist, I think Disney is in a tough spot. If the person has never been convicted of a crime, how is Disney expected to know/suspect? You can't assume someone is sick just because they want to have a job around children... right?

 

[drew81]

Anyone else catch the story on AC360? It was the lead.

Yes, I did. Interesting to say the least.

 

[bhg469]

Polygraph testing? Wow!!

 

[Tigger1988]

Yes. At the risk of sounding like a company apologist, I think Disney is in a tough spot. If the person has never been convicted of a crime, how is Disney expected to know/suspect? You can't assume someone is sick just because they want to have a job around children... right?

Agreed. Rock and a hard place. Polygraph really is the way to go. You can background check all you want, if they have no priors you won't find anything.

 

[Suspirian]

official video

 

[Captain Chaos]

There is a reason polygraphs aren't admissible in a court of law. They should't be allowed for employment either. A totally innocent person could easily flunk a polygraph while a completely guilty person can pass with flying colors.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

Polygraph really is the way to go.

Sounds a bit extreme to me.

 

[Quinnmac000]

Umm polygraphs are not fool proof. Pathological liars can easily beat a polygraph because it measures your vitals. If you lie all the time, your vitals won't change. So most of those people probably don't have that great of integrity to begin with so I'm sure they could pass a poly.

 

[maxairmike]

Agreed. Rock and a hard place. Polygraph really is the way to go. You can background check all you want, if they have no priors you won't find anything.

Except it really isn't, because polygraph testing has been proven to be a pretty lousy (if not flat out unacceptable) method.

See: http://www.apa.org/research/action/polygraph.aspx

EDIT: Also, what Captain Chaos said, they aren't admissible in court anymore.

 

[PhotoDave219]

30 something Disney employees have been arrested, 8(or so) from Uni and 2 from Sea World. They set up stings and caught them. None of the activity took place on park grounds.

The parks claim they are doing all they can, background checks cannot catch those with no priors and most sexual predators do not have priors.

FL congressman is trying to overturn an old ruling that prevents private businesses from doing polygraph tests prior to hiring. Disney says they would consider this route, should it be made legal.

Disney points out (factually so) that the numbers AC360 present only represent a fraction of a fraction of the 300k people they employ.

35/300000= 0.001%

Even 35/60000=0.06%

This is a straight up hatchet job.

 

[Tigger1988]

Sounds a bit extreme to me.

What do you suggest they do?

 

[Nemo14]

Agreed. Rock and a hard place. Polygraph really is the way to go. You can background check all you want, if they have no priors you won't find anything.

Polygraphs are pretty unreliable from what I've heard.