Life with The Company
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tealinI.
I park my bike behind the studio, so I get to see all the nitty gritty heavy lifting that goes into running the Mouse House. Usually there's some sort of big truck back there; often it's a Buena Vista Studios freight truck either coming or going from storage (resuscitating 2D means moving a lot of furniture) or else it's a garbage truck emptying one of the dumpsters. But on Tuesday it was a Glendale School District truck. Glendale School District? Have they decided to phase out school buses and truck their kids to a field trip? What could they possibly be delivering to Disney? Then I saw they were loading computer monitors into it. I'm sure there's a great big tax incentive behind it, but still – d'AWWWW. I wonder if the kids who use those monitors will know where they came from, or that the screen they're looking at was used to make the movies they watched not long ago.
II.
I pulled up to the bike rack and, next to the dumpsters, was a pile of wooden palettes. But they were not intended to be taken away by the garbagemen. How did I know this? Because stuck to them was a photocopy of Kuzco in a defensive action pose with 'NO TOUCHY!' in big black letters. It's great to know I work with people who are nerdy about their own stuff.
III.
We had a FIRE DRILL! It was very exciting! We all survived! Anyone driving down Riverside at that point must have thought they were looking at the oddest strike ever because everyone was clustered under placards sporting various Disney characters which designate evacuation groups.
Later we had healthy snacks and naptime. (Just kidding.) (About naptime.)
IV.
There's a company-wide initiative to reduce the number of Disney employee cars commuting every day – they've got carpools, vanpools, transit vouchers, and small bonuses for walking/biking, but with the recent release of Wall•E they've stepped it up. For the month of July, every day you take alternative transport to work, you get an entry in a draw whose prize is ... wait for it ... A BIG-SCREEN PLASMA TV AND BLU-RAY PLAYER! So you, too, can become a complacent blob! Who thought this through, and how much were they paid?
I park my bike behind the studio, so I get to see all the nitty gritty heavy lifting that goes into running the Mouse House. Usually there's some sort of big truck back there; often it's a Buena Vista Studios freight truck either coming or going from storage (resuscitating 2D means moving a lot of furniture) or else it's a garbage truck emptying one of the dumpsters. But on Tuesday it was a Glendale School District truck. Glendale School District? Have they decided to phase out school buses and truck their kids to a field trip? What could they possibly be delivering to Disney? Then I saw they were loading computer monitors into it. I'm sure there's a great big tax incentive behind it, but still – d'AWWWW. I wonder if the kids who use those monitors will know where they came from, or that the screen they're looking at was used to make the movies they watched not long ago.
II.
I pulled up to the bike rack and, next to the dumpsters, was a pile of wooden palettes. But they were not intended to be taken away by the garbagemen. How did I know this? Because stuck to them was a photocopy of Kuzco in a defensive action pose with 'NO TOUCHY!' in big black letters. It's great to know I work with people who are nerdy about their own stuff.
III.
We had a FIRE DRILL! It was very exciting! We all survived! Anyone driving down Riverside at that point must have thought they were looking at the oddest strike ever because everyone was clustered under placards sporting various Disney characters which designate evacuation groups.
Later we had healthy snacks and naptime. (Just kidding.) (About naptime.)
IV.
There's a company-wide initiative to reduce the number of Disney employee cars commuting every day – they've got carpools, vanpools, transit vouchers, and small bonuses for walking/biking, but with the recent release of Wall•E they've stepped it up. For the month of July, every day you take alternative transport to work, you get an entry in a draw whose prize is ... wait for it ... A BIG-SCREEN PLASMA TV AND BLU-RAY PLAYER! So you, too, can become a complacent blob! Who thought this through, and how much were they paid?
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Date: 2008-07-16 01:51 pm (UTC)