Thank God I wasn’t working that night (I was smart enough to avoid the whole mess by requesting a morning shift) but what my fellow employees (cast members as we’re called) went through is just another illustration of how little we mean to the Company.
Fucking Burbank bastards should worship the ground we walk on, our division of the company is what kept the Company alive during the 70’s.
That’s right, my fellow workers were literally forced to sit in the dark for 3 hours, eating stale food (which the Burbank bastards refused to pay for, so it came out of OUR budgets, despite our park being taken over by those assholes. I don’t give a rats ass if Hollywood/Burbank want to treat their own like this, but how dare they come into Anaheim and try to pull this shit! And now they want to do it again for the HM premiere? Kiss my technicolor ass!
I admit I don’t understand why they did this. It sounds like they grabbed everyone, shoved them around, solely to dick with them. But there was no point. I don’t understand what Disney gained from this at all, even theoretically. Hell, why not simply tell people to go on break with orders to be back on duty at 11:00 (half-hour before the premiere) for the guests? Let them go get something to eat, relax, and so forth. It looks like Disney went to an extrordinary amount of trouble to, well, piss people off.
Well, the reasons for keeping a watch over everyone are twofold: not wanting the film to end up on the internet, and not wanting the stars to be bothered by starstruck employees.
The stupidity with this logic is also twofold: Our bags are searched before entering and upon leaving work, and we already see famous people with enough regularity to not give a rat’s ass - and besides, we’re actually TRAINED not to bother VIPs, yet they assume we’ll suddenly forget?
One question. Were you paid an hourly wage for the three hour period? Those of us who have cleaned toilets for a living want to put our travail in perspective.
One question. Were you paid an hourly wage for the three hour period? Those of us who have cleaned toilets for a living want to put your travail in perspective.
I’m not the least bit surprised – a friend of mine worked for the Company for many years before coming to his senses. He affectionately referred to it as “Mauschwitz” or “Duckau”; now we know why :rolleyes:
Wow, I always knew Disney was Evil incarnate.
I had a feeling they were ever since I was a kid, and the horrendous job they did with the Translations on the 3 Hayo Miyazaki films recently released(a whole paragraph was not translated, what was translated was done in a manner so as to not offend the kiddies) the Hack job of advertising the three films and the non-theatrical release of said films.
But that was nothing compared to this. Fuck corporate america, fuck the bottom line and fuck profit margins. Feed your people.
And at the very least, let the people watch the movie, I am sure that there is more than one movie screen, and more than one reel.
For the record, Even as a second year Japanese student, I could tell that the translators were amatures. Spirited Away was done right, but Castle in the Sky was butchered. They didnt even bother to put subtitles for a section of conversation in which a character said “damn” and the english version is just laughable.
But, I digress.