Idiot Supervisor (manager) - beware

BirdMom · Post by **BirdMom** » Fri Aug 08, 2003 4:01 pm

Seeing the post about ODV management made me think of this
management intern we got on the West side. The guy had only worked
in foods - had never worked as an r.o. or in merchandise - as a matter of
fact, I remember our area manager remarking that he could "flip a mean
burger", but might have a problem with some other things we dealt with
in attractions...

Anyway, this one glimpse was really telling of the caliber of the Disney
Intern program at the time. There was the motley lot of us over at the
hub getting set up for that night's Electrical parade when burger boy went
walking by fast with this really purposeful look on his face. Fearless
leader Noel said "Hey ----, you look like you're in a hurry...what
happenned?" Burger boy replied "There's a broken stanchion in
Frontierland." So Noel asked where is it (meaning where in Frontierland
was the broken stanchion) and burger boy says "well, see that fort over
there? If you go through the fort, you're in Frontierland..." :shock:

Argggggg!!!!!!!

Not too long after that, our area manager quit. He'd been there for
years, and thought the company was going to hell. His last act
of "revenge" on Disney was signing off on Burger Boy making him a full
fledged member of Disney Management.

Weeble · Post by **Weeble** » Sat Aug 09, 2003 11:06 am

hmmmm, were Burger boys initials: BP?

BirdMom · Post by **BirdMom** » Sat Aug 09, 2003 2:00 pm

Weeble wrote:
hmmmm, were Burger boys initials: BP?

Very good!!! (could there be anyone else?)

Another brief image. I was sitting backstage on the side of the outdoor
break area between MainStreet and the old cast center with my
husband. Burger boy saw me sitting there with the hubby (and we
were just sitting, not like we were making out or something) and for
whatever reason, he was staring and ended up walking right into a trash
can - just about fell on his face.

Weeble · Post by **Weeble** » Sat Aug 09, 2003 3:16 pm

ajsdfhajdsf Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Oh man, that guy was great. My favorite memories of, let's call him the
Burger Pflipper Boy are:

The way he had to look at your name tag before saying hello, it was like:

Heyyyyyyy budddy! *pause, conspicous look at your name tag* How you
been Bob!

And then the cookie thing, for some reason he thought it would improve
moral if he baked cookies for the staff. He would come around and be
like:

"heeeeeeyyyyy......bob! Come check out some of my cookies, they are
delicious, cookies! Baked fresh, I made em myself, you wanna cookie?"

He was also clueless as to the attractions:

BFB:Heyyyyyy buddy, so umm, what's wrong with the attraction?
ME: Umm, it's 101
BFB: Ohhhh....that's bad....
ME: Errr, yeah.
BFB: .....I guess the engineers will fix it, I should go talk to them!
ME: Good idea....
BFB: Ok Buddy! Make sure you try my cookies!

he had this wierd way of speaking, running all the words together and I
am sure this post does not do it justice. Care to expound Birdmom?

BirdMom · Post by **BirdMom** » Sun Aug 10, 2003 4:42 pm

oh gosh, how to expand when I did everything in my power to avoid the
dope...one of my biggest shortcomings is that I have no patience with
people that I view as incompetent. N-O-N-E. It's one thing if someone is
new, just getting trained - you give 'em a break and do everything that
you can to help them learn their way into the job. But I hate it when
people get promoted beyond their natural abilities (a lead friend used to
refer to it as the "yippee dog" syndrome - these eager kids wanting to
get promoted fast jumping up and down screaming "pick me, pick me"
like an annoying terrier). And I think that whatever energy the universe
expanded on giving Burger Boy beautiful curly hair meant that when it
came time to form the brains, the energy had already been used up...
OK, so he meant well (I never got any cookies, but that's because
I'd hide, as I mentioned before

).

But the whole thing with having to read the nametags...more than that, it
was the vacant quality behind the big smile. "The lights are on, but no
one's home." The thing to me was that he wasn't quite attractive
enough to qualify as a "himbo" but that word just about sums him
up... I think I have more memories of him just standing around and
not being able to contribute anything meaningful to whatever
situations we had going on (along with the near pratfalls - verbal and
otherwise) more than anything else...

Dante101 · Post by **Dante101** » Sun Aug 10, 2003 11:21 pm

I hope he didn't know that people were laughing at him behind his back,
and spit in the cookie dough as a way of getting even...

Weeble · Post by **Weeble** » Sun Aug 10, 2003 11:53 pm

So anyone know if he is still there? Initials BP, curly haired......liked cookies....

Boy1nterrupted · Post by **Boy1nterrupted** » Mon Aug 11, 2003 2:17 am

LOL..."Uh, how 'bout a cookie and a coke?" and he sounded like cartman
from southpark.

the best however is the particular time this manager asked us to pull two
tagged buggies at mansion. ok, maybe the time he asked the copy
machine for two copies when we put the voice activated copy machine
sign on it was way better. that guy sucked...he never knew anyones
name and introduced himself everytime you met him.

EColiOnAStick · Post by **EColiOnAStick** » Mon Aug 11, 2003 9:30 am

There are 2 old managerial theorems at work here:

1) Screw up and move up....

2) Promote people into postions where they can do the least amount of
damage.

I vote for number 2 knowing that its the CMs that really run things at DL.
I could count on one hand how many times my supervisors were actually
helpful and/or useful during my tenure at 'The Park'.

BirdMom · Post by **BirdMom** » Mon Aug 11, 2003 4:35 pm

Boy1nterrupted wrote: the best however is the particular time this manager asked us to pull two
tagged buggies at mansion.

ARE YOU SERIOUS??? :shock: That is beyond mornoic... You don't
suppose no one showed him the area near the ballroom where the
omnimovers are mechanically hoisted off the tracks and worked
on????????? Ya think????? It never ceases to amaze how truly dumb
some people are...

I have this sudden image of Burger Boy wandering inside the show
building looking for the spur track...