[azipa] Hot new job (fwd) WAY OF SUBJECT

[Donn Shumway]

My wife's Aunt and her husband are long timers at Disneyland. They have both worked there for over
20 years each. Apparently a few years ago (I'm not sure how many) in an effort to bring higher
profitibility to the park, they hired a retired General to run the park and the whole tone of the
place changed. They brought in the merchandise hawkers and placed them all over the park. Shifts
became longer for the entertainers. Regimentation is the rule. If any of you remember going to
Disneyland 10 or more years ago, there were NEVER any street vendors. All concessions were sold at
clean controlled stores or restaurants. All merchandise was sold at (I think) three stores along the
Main Street. Nowadays everywhere you look there is some snack, beverage, or merchandise hawker
pushing his wares. It almost has replaced the purpose of the park.

 They both say that they are not happy with their working conditions, and long for the old days but
have a substantial time investment in the company.

Regards,
Donn Shumway
dshumway@hypercom.com
"No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap."
--Carrie Snow




                                                                                                                                                                 
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\_ Apparently since Disney got away with paying people dirt for the right
\_ to say they worked for Disney, other companies think they can do it too.

My college roomate worked for the Mouse, and has a tshirt commerating
(sp?) the indenture saying "I spent a summer in Hell at the Happiest
Place on Earth".  And over the backdrop of Disneyland, Chernebog was
rising off of Splash Mountain...and Chernebog had big round Mouse
ears.

The shirt still makes me laugh just to think about it.

David

For the youngin's, Chernebog is the Daemon in Fantasia for 'A Night on
Bald Mountain', by Korsakov (sp?).

[disclaimer: of all the references made herein, I only feel confident
about the accuracy and/or spelling of 'Fantasia' and 'Disneyland'. :-]

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