Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 ...the first thread on the WDW Board about the new Jay Rasulo min...I mean 'handpicked' suckup ... oops, I mean successor to Al Weiss. Do like the name though ... Meg ... how nice. As to her qualifications ... well, she seems to have loads of experience with the company, but most of it is in Human Resources and Finance. I wonder if she ever held a park ops position. But since Jay is doing such a wretched job running the parks division, one must cast a wary eye (or two) upon any of his exec hires. He wants kiss-ups and yes-men ... let's hope Meg is her own woman.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Well, she sure looks like a man in drag. But gotta hand it to WDW still... with a hispanic CM population of 96.3%, they still manage to choose a white bread American to run the show.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Oh well... too bad. I think Juan "Pepito" Garcia would have been a great park prez name.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 ^^You are one funny dude. Maybe Pepito would have been a better choice ... Jay Rasulo likes puppets he can control. I am more than a bit concerned that this is still business as usual at TWDC, much like Eisner's last decade.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<with a hispanic CM population of 96.3>> That's AMAZING!!! Outside of housekeeping, the great majority of CM I've come in contact with look and sound like "white bread Americans". That must be one helluva melting pot you have down there in Florida.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Maybe you avoid contact with hispanic CMs on purpose since those of you up in the north are so prejudice of them?
Originally Posted By RoadTrip Yeah. That would be it. We prejudiced Minnesotan's who have a significant Hispanic migrant population but aren't yelling for the government to "tighten the borders".
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 Boys, boys ... please, I know you guys love each other, but I'd like this to stay on topic before someone who doesn't know you two causes it to disappear. This is kind of important as this person is the biggest hire at WDW in a over a decade.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Biggest hire!?!? Do they even make CM costumes that big?!?!?! Oh I forgot...this is FL.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Very interesting choices for these two senior management posts. I shall be watching closely.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss <<This is kind of important as this person is the biggest hire at WDW in a over a decade.>> On the face of it though, if one believes that she is being placed more as a facilitator for those above than a leader for those below, this is not so much big news as it is a footnote.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>Maybe you avoid contact with hispanic CMs on purpose since those of you up in the north are so prejudice of them?<< I am hispanic, and did not notice such a preponderance of hispanic CM's during my last visit to WDW 3 years ago. In fact, I think that were in the minority, except at San Angel Inn.
Originally Posted By ChiMike >>On the face of it though, if one believes that she is being placed more as a facilitator for those above than a leader for those below, this is not so much big news as it is a footnote.<< I agree, my feelings are that Crofton is there to continue managing up. The way Jay has his cartel setup she will probably be their Lieutenant for the entire back-office. For Jim Lewis, meh. He came in when Disney started hiring out, it's more of the same, the same culture, the same m.o. He didn't forget to mention "brand" so all is right with the world I guess. Since his realm is DVC it's not that earth shattering.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<On the face of it though, if one believes that she is being placed more as a facilitator for those above than a leader for those below, this is not so much big news as it is a footnote.>> I think, sadly, it says that Iger's parks strategy is very much going to be in line with Eisner's last decade. That's more than a footnote.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<I agree, my feelings are that Crofton is there to continue managing up. The way Jay has his cartel setup she will probably be their Lieutenant for the entire back-office.>> That's sure what it appears like. DL? Puppet in Grier. Check. DLP? Puppet in Holz. Check. WDW? ... <<For Jim Lewis, meh. He came in when Disney started hiring out, it's more of the same, the same culture, the same m.o. He didn't forget to mention "brand" so all is right with the world I guess. Since his realm is DVC it's not that earth shattering.>> You can blame the consultants for the whole branding BS. I guarantee you if you went back and reviewed documents and transcripts you'd never see that word associated with Dsney until the rise of the consultants in the mid-90s.. BTW, anyone see how they're going to destroy ABC Sports, which has one of broadcasting's great histories, to BRAND sports programming as 'ESPN on ABC'? Amazing. I wonder if these are the same consultants that told Macy's that folks in Chicago wanted to lose Marshall Field's. Or the ones that told AA that the TWA name was passe ...
Originally Posted By idleBrain Or the ones who told Disney that Epcot visitors wouldn't miss Figment if he were removed from Imagination.
Originally Posted By Socrates So is Iger's honeymoon over? Socrates "The unexamined life is not worth living."
