Bad show, just plain and simple bad show.

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Re: Bad show, just plain and simple bad show.

Post by glendalais » Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:56 pm

I just saw a ridiculous instance of Bad Show on my way out of the Parks today.

Was riding on the trams back to Mickey and Friends when I see a CM in full Tomorrowland Foods Costume and a backpack board the tram. He rides the tram all the way back to the Parking Structure and heads to his car.

What gets me, beside it being Bad Show, is that he parked his Car in a Parking Structure that requires him to walk/ride all the way across Property, rather than in a CM Parking Lot that's free and only requires a much shorter ride off-property (and even if he was in Ball Lot, that's still the Long Way around when the BOH shuttles are operating, which they were at this time).



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Post by hobie16 » Mon Oct 13, 2008 11:11 pm

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Post by Doctor McKey » Tue Oct 14, 2008 4:59 pm

Zazu wrote:I was chatting one day with the head of MK Custodial about his recent vacation to Paris:

"I thought we were having a wonderful afternoon, strolling down the Champ de Elysee, stopping for lunch at a sidewalk cafe, and shopping a bit, when all of a sudden, my wife takes my arm in a death grip and whispers through clenched teeth, 'I swear to God, if you pick up one more piece of trash I am going to toss your body into the Seine and go home alone!'"

He hadn't even realized he was doing it.
Zazu... Was that Kent Krouse.. he was promoted from Africa Area Operations to MK Custodial Ops manager about July-ish...


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Re: Bad show, just plain and simple bad show.

Post by hobie16 » Tue Oct 14, 2008 6:02 pm

Zazu wrote:I was chatting one day with the head of MK Custodial about his recent vacation to Paris:

"I thought we were having a wonderful afternoon, strolling down the Champ de Elysee, stopping for lunch at a sidewalk cafe, and shopping a bit, when all of a sudden, my wife takes my arm in a death grip and whispers through clenched teeth, 'I swear to God, if you pick up one more piece of trash I am going to toss your body into the Seine and go home alone!'"

He hadn't even realized he was doing it.
Paris is actually a pretty clean city. They have a hoard of street and sidewalk cleaners that attack garbage and dog poop at 6 AM every day. They're fitted out in bright green uniforms and ride small motorcycles and mini trucks equipped with giant vacuums.

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Re: Bad show, just plain and simple bad show.

Post by Zazu » Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:31 am

Doctor McKey wrote:Zazu... Was that Kent Krouse.. he was promoted from Africa Area Operations to MK Custodial Ops manager about July-ish...
No, it was his predecessor, but it's something Kent should watch out for.


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Re: Bad show, just plain and simple bad show.

Post by goofyjoe » Sun Dec 07, 2008 10:30 am

Hey everyone! It's been a while since I've been here, but I just got back from seven days at WDW. I'm going back again in March - perhaps I will have to keep my eyes out for some SGTers while I'm there.

I know Osprey Ridge just got sold to Four Seasons, and that the course won't be a Disney course by 2010, but I experienced a little bit of "bad show" on the front nine there. We pulled up to the restroom station on the fourth hole and three people in work clothes were sitting there and smoking some really terrible cigarettes and mumbling amongst themselves. Two holes later, I ran into them again after I hit my ball into a brush pile. They were oblivious to the fact that we were playing the hole and continued talking loudly. I looked at one of them and I figured that the three weren't CMs because one of them had a beard (not Disney Look, unless he's Captain Hook, which he wasn't).

I understand that Disney needs to use outside contractors on some maintenance jobs to cut costs, but one would think that they'd at least be briefed on the "show" and, if they're working on a golf course, that they'd understand the game's courtesies.

Not a big deal, but just something I noticed. Great show by everyone else on the trip, though!


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Post by Shorty82 » Sun Dec 07, 2008 7:36 pm

goofyjoe wrote:I understand that Disney needs to use outside contractors on some maintenance jobs to cut costs, but one would think that they'd at least be briefed on the "show" and, if they're working on a golf course, that they'd understand the game's courtesies.

Not a big deal, but just something I noticed. Great show by everyone else on the trip, though!
Sorry for the bad employee experience. I'm surprised Disney allowed them to be out there like that. I thought everybody who ever worked in a guest area, be they a CM, an Operating Participant, or a contractor had to follow the Disney Look guidelines and practice good show. Guess I was wrong.


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Re: Bad show, just plain and simple bad show.

Post by BRWombat » Mon Dec 08, 2008 9:39 am

Maybe they're borrowing the "Streetmosphere" idea from the Studios? While you're golfing, you run into characters that make you think you're on a low-rent public course somewhere? :rolleyes:


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Re: Bad show, just plain and simple bad show.

Post by Mad Maxx » Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:26 am

Shorty82 wrote:Sorry for the bad employee experience. I'm surprised Disney allowed them to be out there like that. I thought everybody who ever worked in a guest area, be they a CM, an Operating Participant, or a contractor had to follow the Disney Look guidelines and practice good show. Guess I was wrong.
Hah, Disney Look for OPs in DTD here in Anaheim? Yeah, kinda non-existent. Some of the people get rather bad at some of the restaurants with the men having beards and visible tats. But I think our society is a little more acceptant of that now a days.

Disney it self does like to hold its self to just a little higher standard. But not that I see them enforcing it so well some times... Heck, go to WDI or the Studios, and you'll see plenty of CMs who would not be allowed to work Park-side due to different enforcement of look guidelines. But those are more office environments than the parks, so, yeah...



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Post by Amphigorey » Fri Dec 12, 2008 12:14 am

Mad Maxx wrote: Disney it self does like to hold its self to just a little higher standard. But not that I see them enforcing it so well some times... Heck, go to WDI or the Studios, and you'll see plenty of CMs who would not be allowed to work Park-side due to different enforcement of look guidelines. But those are more office environments than the parks, so, yeah...
WDI and the animators are explicitly exempt from the Disney Look standards.



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