Originally Posted By HMButler79 Looks like they got the hint that she's SO hated, they need to hide her! God... even Eisner and Pressler came out of thier caves to meet Cast and management. EDITOR'S NOTE 8/3: Meg Crofton has arrived this week for her first official visit to Anaheim, but she's staying undercover so far. Her visit includes quick walks through both parks, the hotels and Downtown Disney, plus samplings of all the major entertainment. She even spent Tues morning on a chauffeured tour of the various bits of Disney's Anaheim property in a rented executive minibus with blacked-out windows, apparently avoiding any contact outside of the vehicle. The goal is to get the lay of the land, learn a few snippets of Anaheim lingo, and incorporate the SoCal scene into her "talking points." Sheesh Meg, they won't bite. |-Al Lutz Hey Staggs, if you have to protect her THAT much like she's a gov't figure then you got the WRONG person guy!!!
Originally Posted By Westsider If Meg Crofton is here on property, none of us CM's know about it. I first saw this on Miceage this morning on my iPhone, and no one I've spoken to has seen or heard of any visit from her, and I'm in a pretty high-profile area in Westside Attractions. When George K or Tom Staggs swings through the park, it always gets out fast, and most Leads give the other Leads a heads up via park radio on their current location and direction they are heading. But with Meg's visit, the radio has been dead quiet. There is also no knowledge or any sightings of her visit or bus tour yesterday. (The bus tour makes sense though, since there's a lot of stuff around Anaheim that is connected to Disneyland; the Olive Street decorating warehouse, the Travel Company offices downtown, Disneyland International offices by the Stadium, Toy Story and other satellite parking lots, etc. You would want a vehicle to get to all those places on a whirlwind tour.) But if Meg is in Anaheim this week, she is doing a very good job of not introducing herself to Onstage CM's and not being visible. I can ask around from some friends that work back in TDA, but as far as that little theme park off Harbor Blvd. is concerned, she's a no-show thus far.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros If Meg isn't comfortable enough with DLR to be making public appearances yet (and at this point, any public appearance would be fairly high-profile), what's wrong with her getting escorted around to get the lay of the land? At some point, I fully expect that she will be out talking to guests and frontline CMs, but I also expect that she needs to know whats going on before that happens. I would rather her take her time to get her bearings than to be thrown into something she has no idea about. And with how long she's been stationed in WDW, shouldn't we expect her to do this type of thing before getting down to the details? It just seems like she's learning about, and interacting with, the resort in a responsible way at this point. Plus, if she's doing such a good job staying hidden that there hasn't been any other word of her, who's to say she's even doing the top-secret tour?
Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 "If Meg Crofton is here on property, none of us CM's know about it" Uuuuummmmmmmm.......I think that was the point. She is SO hated they were terrified a barrage of torch-wielding CMs would be there to meet her!
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "Looks like they got the hint that she's SO hated, they need to hide her! God... even Eisner and Pressler came out of thier caves to meet Cast and management." Why do you hate Disney management so much?
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Why do you hate Disney management so much?<< Right? I don't get these sorts of threads.
Originally Posted By HMButler79 ""Why do you hate Disney management so much?"" Is this a humorous statement? I can't tell... because it's a ludicrous one....
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder Ludicrous is repeating this Lutz blurb as fact without any proof, especially when a person such as Westsider says it doesn't appear to be true.
Originally Posted By HMButler79 Just because she wasn't in DL Park proper dosen't mean she wasn't on property.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "Just because she wasn't in DL Park proper dosen't mean she wasn't on property." Why do you care where she was, is, or is going to be? Seriously, I really want to know why the whereabouts of a Disney theme park executive is so important to you.
Originally Posted By Westsider Apparently she was here this week, but now she's gone up to Burbank and Glendale before she flies home for the weekend. Management said that she was given a tour of the park by George K one morning, but they were gone by the time the park opened. She was also spotted in the Grand Californian earlier this week by some Guest Relations CM's. That's the current word on the street.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "Why do you care where she was, is, or is going to be? Seriously, I really want to know why the whereabouts of a Disney theme park executive is so important to you." I was wondering (and almost posted) the same thing.
Originally Posted By oc_dean >>Why do you care where she was, is, or is going to be? Seriously, I really want to know why the whereabouts of a Disney theme park executive is so important to you.<< That's easy. I'd like to know where she was at. So, it gives me a clue how much or how little the DLR means to her. The less time she gives ... the less she'll give a .............!
Originally Posted By HMButler79 I wonder if Passholder will use GPS to see if Westsider is telling the truth. Must be some east coast mole or someone like that....
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "I'd like to know where she was at. So, it gives me a clue how much or how little the DLR means to her." She has a lot on her plate Dean. I seriously doubt if she really has much time in her busy schedule to devote to DLR other than looking at spreadsheets or presiding over divisional management meetings. Overseeing the intricacies of DLR's operations are George K's responsibilities not Meg's. In my opinion a certain side of Disney Fan Kingdom is unnecessarily worked up over Meg's recent promotion. In fact, I'm beginning to feel that there is a genuine effort here to get folks who normally wouldn't care about this sort of thing all riled up.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "I wonder if Passholder will use GPS to see if Westsider is telling the truth. Must be some east coast mole or someone like that...." I wonder what the hell you're saying here. It's nonsense. People here seriously believe they can make a meaningful assessment of "how much or how little the DLR means to her" by this one little visit. Get a life, folks.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Certain websites seem to constantly be placing black hats or white hats on various Disney execs. It's weird.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan At places I've worked, once in awhile a group of the top execs would walk through the various departments. They would be showing someone around. They seldom stopped to chat or engage with any employees, certainly not to ask any "hey, how's it going? What do you think our focus should be?" of the rank & file. Sometimes, the unknown guest was a major client, sometimes an investor. And sometimes, it was the new CFO or CEO to be, a low key taking a get aquainted with where everything's located tour. What I'm saying is that it isn't something strange or nefarious that an executive would check out the various divisions of an operation without a lot of fanfare.
