# I just LOVE my employer, and my employer loves me. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 3, 2003, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-love-my-employer-and-my-employer-loves-me/185977 "2003-07-03T07:45:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Morrigoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@Morrigoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morrigoon)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-love-my-employer-and-my-employer-loves-me/185977/1 "2003-07-03T07:45:35Z")
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. I suppose you’d like to know [what incident I’m talking about,](http://www.mouseplanet.com/david/dk030702.htm) wouldn’t you? 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! ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-love-my-employer-and-my-employer-loves-me/185977/2 "2003-07-03T13:14:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Morrigoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@Morrigoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morrigoon)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-love-my-employer-and-my-employer-loves-me/185977/3 "2003-07-03T21:19:03Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-love-my-employer-and-my-employer-loves-me/185977/4 "2003-07-03T21:35:42Z")
Has Uncle Walt’s body popped out of his grave from the torque yet? ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-love-my-employer-and-my-employer-loves-me/185977/5 "2003-07-03T21:45:14Z")
Sounds to me like the usual “take no chances” attitude you hear from upperlevel management all the time. Those under them who had to carry out the orders likely just got a little overzealous. Not that this excuses any of it. ---
**Author:** ![Obvious\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Obvious\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obvious_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-love-my-employer-and-my-employer-loves-me/185977/6 "2003-07-03T22:01:15Z")
And they tolerated being treated like that? If there was ever a time for a mutiny, that would be it! ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-love-my-employer-and-my-employer-loves-me/185977/7 "2003-07-03T22:06:44Z")
I smell a lawsuit brewing. Treating hourly employees like shit + California labor law = amusement. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-love-my-employer-and-my-employer-loves-me/185977/8 "2003-07-03T22:29:09Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-love-my-employer-and-my-employer-loves-me/185977/9 "2003-07-03T22:29:28Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![3waygeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e95f7d/32.png) [@3waygeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3waygeek)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-love-my-employer-and-my-employer-loves-me/185977/10 "2003-07-03T22:58:02Z")
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: ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-love-my-employer-and-my-employer-loves-me/185977/11 "2003-07-03T23:00:01Z")
It could have been worse – they could have locked them in the Small World ride. :eek: _::shudders in horror at the repressed memory::_ ---
**Author:** ![fnord1966](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ad7895/32.png) [@fnord1966](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fnord1966)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-love-my-employer-and-my-employer-loves-me/185977/12 "2003-07-04T01:16:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-love-my-employer-and-my-employer-loves-me/185977/13 "2003-07-04T01:27:34Z")
Well, that explains why Paul Kariya left the Ducks to go to the Avalanche… ---
**Author:** ![80sHairMetalMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/ed655f/32.png) [@80sHairMetalMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80sHairMetalMaven)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-love-my-employer-and-my-employer-loves-me/185977/14 "2003-07-04T01:28:04Z")
I am shocked (but not overly surprised) that Disney treated its castmembers this way. I smell something like a lawsuit a brewin’… IDBB ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-love-my-employer-and-my-employer-loves-me/185977/15 "2003-07-04T01:33:55Z")
Those bastards. (what more can I say?) ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2003, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-love-my-employer-and-my-employer-loves-me/185977/16 "2003-07-04T13:03:35Z")
What do you expect? It’s _Disney_. Any company that has to call a guy who empties a fucking garbage can a _cast member_ has got to be fucking evil.