WoC testing

Originally Posted By mousermerf

I was optimistic when he first moved in.. but just looks like more of the same.

 

Originally Posted By Westsider

WDI doesn't have "Disney Look" appearance policies. They don't have any policies on appearance really, although I imagine if you showed up with a swastika tattoo'ed on your neck you probably wouldn't get chosen to do the next video blog internview.

Similarly, many other divisions of DisCo don't have appearance guidelines, such as Burbank Corporate, ABC TV, ESPN, Disney Channel, Consumer Products, etc.

It's really only the Parks & Resorts departments; Cruise Line, Parks, Hotels, DVC, that have appearance policies that are all based off the Disneyland Look formalized in the latter 1950's.

Adventures by Disney is an exception, as that's officially an arm of Walt Disney Imagineering, but is staffed primarily with Guest Relations CM's from Disneyland. They cut and pasted the basic Disneyland guidelines for those AbD guides.

Go back to TDA however, and the Disney Look has gotten really sloppy back there too. Shaggy or punky hair, streaky coloring, denim jackets and sandals as "business attire", polo shirts, wild jewelry, etc. can all be seen on too many TDA workers now. It's really just inside the parks and hotels where managers still have a basic understanding of how to look profesional in front of paying customers and invited guests.

 

Originally Posted By Westsider

Forgot to add... Steven Davison works for WDI now, he no longer reports up through the Disneyland Entertainment Department structure. That explains the WDI dress code look he has lately.

 

Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt

"WDI doesn't have "Disney Look" appearance policies. They don't have any policies on appearance really..."

Well that's pretty obvious.

 

Originally Posted By Manfried

Can you imagine telling an artist he has to cut his hair or shave his beard?

 

Originally Posted By mousermerf


Yes.. vividly, as I've done it, and I also told him he had better sober up and put on some clean clothes before the press event.

It happens.

 

Originally Posted By Manfried

Well I agree with the sober up part, but not the cut your beard off part.

 

Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt

"Can you imagine telling an artist he has to cut his hair or shave his beard?"

If it's a part of corporate policy to be well groomed, of course.

 

Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance

Why are people still so offended by some facial hair? What century is this anyway?

 

Originally Posted By Manfried

WDI never had a grooming policy and to suddenly institute one would be wrong.

 

Originally Posted By mousermerf

Why?

 

Originally Posted By Manfried

It just never did. Neither did animation. Since WDI, or WED, started out with animators, Walt didn't really care.
The grooming policies started after Disneyland opened by the way, and only applied to the onstage workers initially.
And because of the law, there were some there that had moustaches and got to keep them. They were grandfathered in.
If you want to spend all your time setting up a bureaucratic manager who would run around getting Imagineers to cut their hair and shave every day, it would seem to be a waste of money.
Tony Baxter has had a moustache forever. Joe Rohde has a moustache and an ear ring.
X Atencio always had a moustache.
So, this does not seem something worth wasting money on.

 

Originally Posted By mousermerf

My real goal is to get everyone in the building presently fired.

 

Originally Posted By Manfried

Gee, mousemerf, real nice goal. Someone stuff your Easter Basket with coal this year?

 

Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance

Worse, they forgot all about his Easter basket

 

Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt

"My real goal is to get everyone in the building presently fired."

At last we agree on something.

 

Originally Posted By Manfried

The question is: Which building? WDI has lots of buildings.

 

Originally Posted By FerretAfros

"It's really only the Parks & Resorts departments; Cruise Line, Parks, Hotels, DVC, that have appearance policies that are all based off the Disneyland Look formalized in the latter 1950's."

I get that. There is plenty of documented proof of that in films and photos from the studios through the years. However, I do wonder at what point do the cast members/employees begin to fall under the jurisdiction of the other branch. If I'm an Imagineer making a promo video for Parks and Resorts, wouldn't that make me a temporary representative of WDP&R? Shouldn't that mean that I would need to comply to teh WDP&R standards? If they were making a piece about Imagineering and the work they do (like so many of the features they did with Walt, where they were just having a conversation about their ideas), I would have no problem with them dressing the way they want, but this is clearly a promo for P&R.

I guess the old films are technically promos too, but for some reason it always feels like the modern ones are more like plain old advertisments...

 

Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt

"If I'm an Imagineer making a promo video for Parks and Resorts, wouldn't that make me a temporary representative of WDP&R? Shouldn't that mean that I would need to comply to teh WDP&R standards? If they were making a piece about Imagineering and the work they do (like so many of the features they did with Walt, where they were just having a conversation about their ideas), I would have no problem with them dressing the way they want, but this is clearly a promo for P&R."

And that's exactly why some corporations have company wide dress codes. An Imagineer at Disney, especially someone like Lassiter, is no less a representative of Disney(land) than the dude selling popcorn on Main Street. Why should Lassiter be allowed to address the media looking like he just arrived from a tropical vacation while promoting a multi-million dollar DLR expansion project and the kid on Main Street is criticized for not following Disney Look policies? Call me old school, but to me this seems contradictory.

 

Originally Posted By Britain

Well, looking like you just arrived from a tropical vacation actually would reinforce Disney's message, if you ask me.