Stupid Guest Tricks

Dear Readers,
It has been a while since my last update, but I assure you this one is a doozy. A couple weeks ago I received an email from one of our new members. She got a company e-mail stating that any Cast Members found posting on this site will be subject to disciplinary action. Her are some excerpts from her e-mail. (I am leaving the original author anyonomus[sp?] for this reason.)

...other then that i am already a huge fan of your site and i cannot wait to put my postings on there although at work was already an e-mail going around that everyone who is caught posting on your site will endure disciplinary action...

...i can tell you that it was written in the most nonthreatening way to protect themselfs. they just dont want us to write any kind of contribution to your site since also guests can read this and they dont want guests to know that we make fun of them on a hourly basis. so it was just to let us know that if they find any postings of us or if they identify us then we shall have management on our tail which may not exclude disciplinary action. since i am not protected by a union (do you know what department i am now?) i cannot let things happen to me because noone is very afraid to fire anybody for no reason at all. they can always say it was attendance related with us.so now you know...

I'm pretty sure that this only applies to Guest Relations CMs considering they have no union and can fire at will. This is why I stongly urge all our members to keep thier identitys as secret as possible.

damn, those managers never change their attitudes...

of course, I'm sure Cynthia is online every night checking this site out trying to see if she catches any naughty cast members in the act - for shame, for shame! Thank god I quit years ago. They don't just want to control your working hours, they want to control your brain and your life - ugh!!!

hmmmmm...what to do to those pinhead nazi managers....

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Okay I am going to say the unpopular answer to this debate. I am a believer of free speech but I know the lines are thin when it comes to being a Cast Member. As much as I am opposed to the dictatorship that Disney has become, did it occur to anybody that the only way management would know is if someone spoke about it at work? All of us go by screen names here anyway but if a CM is dimwitted enough to spill all the details while working (it's not a conversation to have onstage at any rate) then they deserve to lose their job. It's not a nice thing to say but there it is. I know that this will make some members upset but I felt it needed to be said. Thank you for your anger in advance.

Managers surf the internet too, you know.

let me clarify a thing or two...lol...

First of all, if people chose to post here about something especially stupid that a guest did in front of them at work, and the person is posting on their own time from home or someplace away from a Disneyland company computer, it's their own damn business...not the park's. My father used to work for an international airline, and if one of the Beatles came through or if a passenger or crew member did something memorable, we'd hear about it. Does management think that people don't talk during the off-hours about what they see or hear? It's only Disneyland, people. It's not a federal job requiring that anyone sign something swearing secrecy or first-borns as a penalty. I remember years ago when I was in grade school, this girl in my class coming in one day announcing that her father had run over a guy with his Monorail (the infamous grad night episode). Whether or not management likes it, word gets out, especially in this day of instantaneous communication.

Next, the park doesn't want cast members making fun of the guests? Hello...I've had supervisors/managers make fun of the guests in front of the crews once safely away from the beasts. I don't know where they expect to find 25,000 people who are so icky-poo sweet that they would never ever question or poke fun at the ridiculous things one sees day after day in a public place, albeit one that charges admission. Excuse me, but if Letterman and Leno can make fun of the Pope, the President and assorted others who are supposed to hold positions of respect, lesser mortals should be able to dish about our worldly peers. Please.

One would think that with the way the Eastside looks these days, with the entire place looking pretty shabby compared to before Eisner took over, with the profitability questions and with preparing for the big 5-0 that management people would have better things to worry about than how some cast members (past and present) blow off a little steam on their own time. Get over it managers - this is the way the real world works...

You hit the nail right on the head, BirdMom. Thank You.