wowwwwwwww... and to think last year they were still having peak crowds :|
Well, last I heard it was near $70 for ONE person to go in there, and $94 for a two-park pass (just saw that tonight on a pass in the checkout aisle at the supermarket). That really is NUTS when ya consider it was still $7.50 before Eisner took over.
The real death-knell began (in some cast-members humble opinion) was when they bought the money-sucking ABC Network. Not only has it been a drain, that's the time they told us that with ALL those new employees coming in, they would be cutting our park-access days in HALF.
Time to cut that tv tumor loose. :/
It's long been contended that employee comps are a money-maker for the company, bringing guests in that would otherwise not attend. I know when I go in there I often spend scores of bux on mickey-knick-knacks and food.
But there still are a few 'super geeeeeenius' v.p. types who have backasswards reasoning, and still want to clench the darth-vader-neck-grasp even tighter, further lightening attendance even more (which is what's happening now). Even one of the managers I know (not just rank and file) got a nudge-warning recently in the form of a letter, to curtail her sign-ins. If every one of her sign-ins last year had not existed, Disney would be out between $7,000 and $28,000 (based on conservative estimates of their spending).
Unfortunately, corporations historically aren't all that smart when it comes to deflecting stupid little groupthink ideas that arise to cloud the clarity in their ego-filled bureaucratic corners. :/
(oh, and I don't mean to discount the free-birthday idea promotion.. that's pretty good actually.. a long time coming I'd say...) :>
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Date: 2009-03-11 07:22 am (UTC)Well, last I heard it was near $70 for ONE person to go in there, and $94 for a two-park pass (just saw that tonight on a pass in the checkout aisle at the supermarket). That really is NUTS when ya consider it was still $7.50 before Eisner took over.
The real death-knell began (in some cast-members humble opinion) was when they bought the money-sucking ABC Network. Not only has it been a drain, that's the time they told us that with ALL those new employees coming in, they would be cutting our park-access days in HALF.
Time to cut that tv tumor loose. :/
It's long been contended that employee comps are a money-maker for the company, bringing guests in that would otherwise not attend. I know when I go in there I often spend scores of bux on mickey-knick-knacks and food.
But there still are a few 'super geeeeeenius' v.p. types who have backasswards reasoning, and still want to clench the darth-vader-neck-grasp even tighter, further lightening attendance even more (which is what's happening now). Even one of the managers I know (not just rank and file) got a nudge-warning recently in the form of a letter, to curtail her sign-ins.
If every one of her sign-ins last year had not existed, Disney would be out between $7,000 and $28,000 (based on conservative estimates of their spending).
Unfortunately, corporations historically aren't all that smart when it comes to deflecting stupid little groupthink ideas that arise to cloud the clarity in their ego-filled bureaucratic corners. :/
(oh, and I don't mean to discount the free-birthday idea promotion.. that's pretty good actually.. a long time coming I'd say...) :>