XPost: soc.singles, alt.disney, misc.consumers   
   XPost: alt.disney.the-evil-empire   
   From: me@privacy.net   
      
   "Chris P."  wrote in message news:2r34e0d8e   
   pkkoikiin4q38jbqvb4866lo@4ax.com...   
   > I worked there  for over five years.  I finally woke up to the fact   
   > that the place was a cult.  And the pay was crap.  Over and over it   
   > was "If you care about the magic, you will do this."  This being some   
   > crazy thing, like working as an hourly worker (I was a salaried   
   > non-management professional).  Or putting in 100 hr work weeks   
   > (literaly), and then being "counseled" because you left work after the   
   > 101st hour.   
   >   
   > If you objected to some of these outrageous things, you were told you   
   > "didn't understand the magic".   
   >   
   > All my talented coworkers left the company.  Only the sucky ones   
   > stayed.  That's when I woke up.  Did I want a sucky life?  Was I a   
   > sucky professional?  Hell No!  Then whyt was I there?  The magic?   
   > Screw the magic!  It's a mind control trick Disney has been using for   
   > years to suck bucks out of people.   
   >   
   > So I quit   
   >   
   > Walked right out.   
   >   
   > My manager told me "I don't know if your career will ever recover from   
   > this".  Now I'm interviewing for jobs paying 25% - 40% more.   
      
   Out of the fire and into the frying pan.   
      
   I did the "work to make others rich" thing for too many years,   
   and used to complain bitterly about the seeming abuse of   
   frontline employees by corporate management and execs.   
      
   Finally about ten years ago I had a boss (actually he owned   
   the company I was working for at the time) who in a casual   
   conversation explained the cold hard reality.  Corporate   
   America doesn't give a rat's ass whether a given employee   
   lives or dies, nor should they, nor are they supposed to.  If   
   an employee decides to work his or her ass off to help buy   
   Michael Corporate Fatcat another Rolls Royce, that's a free   
   choice and there's no one else to blame but oneself.   
      
   That's when I decided to start my own business and start   
   working for myself, and I haven't looked back since.  Yes it   
   meant working 12 hour days, at least initially, but at least the   
   fruits of my hard work are going where they're supposed to.   
      
   Rick   
      
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