TDA suits to "help" CMs during Christmas season

[RebuildtheKingdom]

Al Lutz is reporting over at MicgeAge.com that the TDA suits will be working the park this Christmas:

And when it comes to those infamous Christmas crowds, there will be plenty of extra TDA elves in Disneyland this year. Greg Emmer, the old-school Senior Vice President who started as a ride operator at Disneyland in the late 1960's, is drafting a lot of the white collar salaried folks back at TDA this year to help inside Disneyland. They'll all be receiving an email shortly telling them they'll be expected to leave their TDA offices the last two weeks in December to help out with crowd control and other basic chores inside Disneyland...

...Believe it or not, the average out-of-touch TDA denizen is going to be inside Disneyland with the unwashed masses working crowd control, taking tickets at the main entrance, or ringing up t-shirts at The Emporium. Say hello to them later this month won't you? They'll be the ones wearing business attire with the scared (if not horrified) look in their eyes.

LOL! This is great! I applaud Mr. Emmer & Ouimet for their decision to make their executives get in touch with the real world of being a CM.

[Main Streeter]

...Believe it or not, the average out-of-touch TDA denizen is going to be inside Disneyland with the unwashed masses working crowd control, taking tickets at the main entrance, or ringing up t-shirts at The Emporium. Say hello to them later this month won't you? They'll be the ones wearing business attire with the scared (if not horrified) look in their eyes.

God help us, one & all!! Suits will screw the season up!

[RebuildtheKingdom]

That's why I put the word help in quotes. :D

Look at it this way, maybe they'll have a better appreciation for all the hard work the CMs do and all the crap they have to put up with. Kind of a "walk in their shoes" thing. :)

[Zazu]

See, I *told* you Greg Emmer was a keeper!

[lady ulrike]

This could be interesting. I wanna see them work the parade, in lane. :twisted: On a sold out day. :twisted: Or in front of Small World. Those are the two worst spots in Fantasyland area cause you have to keep traffic moving, they're very narrow and everyone wants to stop and watch and they get mad when you say they can't there and they demand for you to find them a spot where they can watch from.

Yes, I am mean, vicious, and evil.

[DLRFantasmic!Dan]

I want to see them help Fantasmic!! See how they can get through THAT!!! :D

[gurgi]

i would like to see the most egotistical suit with a putty knife scrapping the gum off of the bottom of the tables and walkways,and it wouldnt hurt if it was down pouring. and he better still have that suit on.

[pnutshuman]

if i happen to see any suits when im there, ill be sure to go into stupid guest mode and ask them as many questions as i can, heheheeeee

[GMC]

I don't see any need to make them fee lunwelcome the more help we can get in the GC the better, as long as they do their job, moderatly well, i'll be happy, and i'm always more than willing to help any CM when they need it. Maybe this is why i "met" Matt ouimet the yesterday, i was on my way out form jungle when someone stopped and siad those guys are talking to Matt Ouimet so i went up and joined the conversation. I think it'll be good to have these guys running around the park where they can see what we do, so this way the can SEE what it is that we need to do a better job. I like it when the managers join the GC team, even if it's standing on top of Photo supply shouting at us to tell us who they want where, i see no reason to give them a hard time, and i see no reason why they would give us a hard time either. I'm more worried about the B status CMs from trains and WD story getting parade shifts when everything in adventureland closes, they're um, well let's just say they have thier own agendas.

[lady ulrike]

the more help we can get in the GC the better, as long as they do their job, moderatly well, i'll be happy

I think that's the problem. Most of them won't do it moderately well. That's why we all want to see them do it. Except for the one person who mentioned being sure to ask them stupid questions everyone is just thinking of the toughest jobs we do and wanting to see the suits deal with it. I don't think anyone is trying to make them feel unwelcome we just don't want them to get easy jobs. It would defeat the purpose.

Group at Roger would be another good one. Since they changed the way the line is you get bitched at by like every other stand by person.