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What I'm trying to say is that these people KNEW what the pay was when they went to work for Disney. They were also not told they would "magically" be making more after a certain time period. If I were to take a job knowing I wouldn't be able to pay my bills/feed my family/whatever, is the...

The problem is that your example doesn't scale. With a small company, keeping the employees happy is possible. It gets harder the more people you have working for you. When you get to the size and diversity and cultural backgrounds of the work force the size of WDW's (which is after all the...

That's what I'm referring to also. This technology has been around for a while now. It's nothing new. If you have a Garmin GPS, you've experienced it. No reason Disney couldn't adopt it to a talking Mickey.

What I described above isn't in the future, it's in the past. Well in the past. At least in the non-Disney world, things like that have been done for a while now.

One article I saw on this (which was basically just the press release) was a bit disingenuous. It quoted the solar farm as producing 210,000 MWh/year. It's a 50 MWac plant (meaning it delivers 50 MW of AC power to the grid at peak output). If you do the math: ( 210000 MWh/yr) / (50 MWh) /...

Is the current setup such that the person backstage can type a response into their computer, and have that "vocalized" by talking Mickey, complete with computer-controlled mouth movements? Or is it just a bunch of canned phrases that the backstage person has to select from?

I don't remember them creeping into the station so slowly except for our last trip in January. My theory is that the "self driving" automation they have added now causes them to creep into the stations, whereas before an experienced pilot could bring them into and stop them much more accurately...

The difference between now and then is a subtle but important one. Before, no one had the expectation that someone claiming to be "security" or "there to empty the trash" would be coming on a daily basis. In fact, the opposite was true, which might have made more people wary about someone...

You may not have, but we sure have. Several times we've had maids knocking on the door around 8 in the AM with the DND displayed. This has happened at at least 3 different Embassy Suites and Sea Watch Resort. Most of the time if you ask them to come back later, they never do. So we've been...

Next time I fly, I will be taking 10,000 pieces of small, individually wrapped candy in my carryon. Have fun, TSA!

Any idea how Windsor Hills/Windsor Palms resorts fared?

Same here. We regularly get the same winds you mention here in the mountains of NC. Never any real problems. This fact, did not, however, prevent people from descending like vultures on every WalMart, grocery store, and convenience store in sight, and emptying them out. People have no...

T Let me ask one simple question.... When you are discussing things over the supper table with your family, or with your friends at school, do you admonish them to "get back on topic" if the conversation goes in another direction than it originally started out on? I'm guessing no, unless you...

I took about 10 seconds to find this: http://www.ebay.com/bhp/pocari-sweat Powdered, canned, plastic bottles, and in gel pouches.

My point is, even if you see something you didn't think to look for on Amazon, you should immediately determine via your smartphone if you can get the exact same product cheaper elsewhere. No need to pay the ridiculous Disney markup if you don't have to.

I'd challenge you to name just one non-Disney branded thing that can be found in an Epcot shop that can't be found somewhere else for a cheaper price with a one minute internet search.

No, our experience really had nothing to do with what someone likes. Unless of course you like rotten, undercooked seafood or a cold steak full of gristle.

Nope. My steak was the worst I've ever had on-site. The steak at Coral Reef was 1000 times better. And that's saying something given Coral Reef's bad reviews (which I don't understand, we've always gotten excellent food and service there). My wife's seafood was so undercooked most of the...

Based on our experience, Mama Melrose isn't on any list of "good table services". Or at least, it shouldn't be given the nasty food were served there.

If you think the poster was a "tool" for the way he stated that the info was incorrect, then you indeed have a very thin skin. Often on the net things come across as harsher than they are meant to because there is a lack of facial expressions and tone of voice to convey the full meaning of what...