Originally Posted By MouseketeerCole If it means working for the Mouse, I'll put up with anything! And I hope your daughter becomes a chef one day, DyGDisney! Encourage her to get a job at Club 33 -- then you can get special treatment there =P.
Originally Posted By DyGDisney ^^Great Idea! She wants to be a chef at Pixar though! My other dd wants to work at Disneyland.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains My son has seen the downside of being a chef - the drummer in my dh's band is one and struggles. But we also see Guy Friri (sp) and how well he does. His dream is to be Guy - or someone like him. the wdw internship is something he found through the college program they have - I haven't really gotten to into it with him since I told him he had to stay home a year (our ins already paid this Orthodontist so he has to finish here)
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains How funny DyG - my 12 year old wants to go to Juliard and then come back and be a billy!
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones "No idea who Bruce Gordon is." You should. Take some time and type "bruce gordon imagineer" into Google and read about what a passionate man he was about Disneyland. Then read about how he was fired. Then be sad that he's dead. "But to say "Better learn to keep your mouth shut if you want to work at WDI" to this young guy, who came here just to share this with us (I think it's super cool by the way and I wish it was me!!) was just being negative on your part." Yes, I was being negative. I have positive and negative things to say about The Walt Disney Company and WDI. It's wonderful that this young person wants to work at WDI. However, his starry eyes shouldn't blind him to other opportunities. The Walt Disney Company is an organization that has created some of the most beautiful works of art our world has seen. It has also done a lot of crappy stuff, including some things that were downright unethical and wrong. It's great to talk about the positives, but you can't forget the negatives or reality. "I know people who work at Pixar and they LOVE it there." WDI isn't Pixar, and Pixar hasn't had time to accumulate the amount of drama WDI has. It's a younger company, of course, but there has been some seedlings of drama there.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains <WDI isn't Pixar, and Pixar hasn't had time to accumulate the amount of drama WDI has. It's a younger company, of course, but there has been some seedlings of drama there> I am confused Spokker - you mentioned a while back about working for the foods dept in DL - Do you just know people in WDI or are you just assuming it's like the foods dept.
Originally Posted By DyGDisney Just saying he could work at Pixar as an imagineer (or the equivalent anyway). Pixar is a different environment and they try to keep themselves individual and unique from Disney. I'm sure they have had seedlings of drama there, because that could be said of anyplace, anywhere. My church for one, my kids' school, my own home has drama sometimes. That's life.
Originally Posted By DyGDisney "My son has seen the downside of being a chef - the drummer in my dh's band is one and struggles. But we also see Guy Friri (sp) and how well he does. His dream is to be Guy - or someone like him." LOL, my daughter wants to be like Rachel Ray!! Her favorite is Elton Brown though because she also loves science so the science of food is just up her ally.
Originally Posted By MouseketeerCole "She wants to be a chef at Pixar though! My other dd wants to work at Disneyland." Just as good! Book me a table =D
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones "I am confused Spokker - you mentioned a while back about working for the foods dept in DL - Do you just know people in WDI or are you just assuming it's like the foods dept." I did not experience any significant drama in the foods department. Others have written quite extensively on the Bruce Gordon saga. <a href="http://mb.laughingplace.com/MsgBoard-T-97469-P-1.asp" target="_blank">http://mb.laughingplace.com/Ms...-P-1.asp</a>
Originally Posted By oc_dean Glad to hear you had a nice experience with both of them. And good luck with your future dreams. It is true .. sometime these creative types feel they are some special celebrity, and create a "disconnect" between themselves .. and those who want to ascend to their level someday ... but I'm glad they were nice. Lets hope your future Meets with industry people stay that way. And when you come across the primadonna types, shine them on .. and move on.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains Oh My sister was suppose to take my son to see Alton Brown in the Santa Rosa Mall a couple years ago but my ds got sick... he is still bummed about it
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<Bruce Gordon was doing what he loved, but he was fired inexplicably. What, was he too damn passionate for them?>> There were many reasons the incredibly talented and passionate Bruce lost his job, but they were all overshadowed by his very untimely death. I met Bruce a few times and wish I had gotten to know him better. But he was aware of the politics of WDI ... indeed it is pretty common knowledge that, for lack of a better term, he was thrown under the bus by Tony Baxter yet they remained friends to the end. Anyway ... I do think WDI and Disney as a whole is a very difficult company to work for ... I never have, but twice I had real opportunities at a fairly high level, including helping open a new resort ... and well, it just wasn't right for me. That said to get back to the original post, it is always a VERY GOOD DAY when Tony and John are in the parks together because they are constantly focusing on improving things (and for the right reasons) ... so maybe you were out there when something very important went down and you don't even know it.
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones "so maybe you were out there when something very important went down and you don't even know it." Were they talking about adding the abominable snowman from Monsters Inc to the Matterhorn? That would be a great addition to an aging attraction.
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones Nothing I have ever read about WDI or the Disney Company has affected me more, or at all really, than reading about what happened to Bruce Gordon. It made me lose faith in the Walt Disney Company and it made me lose faith in my own dreams. Just as an outside observer, as a fan, I am still deeply bitter about it and angry. It's even worse than he's dead and can't speak for himself now.
Originally Posted By MouseketeerCole "so maybe you were out there when something very important went down and you don't even know it." Cool thought! I asked one of the other Imagineers who walked by (I didn't recognise him but his name was Don if anyone knows who he is? I asked what he helped design but he wouldn't tell me lol) and he said they were just riding the rides! Something they do every so often apparently.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<Nothing I have ever read about WDI or the Disney Company has affected me more, or at all really, than reading about what happened to Bruce Gordon. It made me lose faith in the Walt Disney Company and it made me lose faith in my own dreams.>> That's very sad. Bruce got screwed over plain and simple (although it certainly isn't that simple and there are things I know that I just can't post) ... but he wasn't the first or the last. Hell, I always thought that 'give it five years and he'll be back or consulting for them and making more money' ... I never saw him dying. But you shouldn't lose faith in your own dreams no matter what ... I have had my share of adversity in life and I'll never give up chasing my dreams until my last breath. Just not in me ... <<Just as an outside observer, as a fan, I am still deeply bitter about it and angry. It's even worse than he's dead and can't speak for himself now.>> That much is for sure.
