Another group of people blamed me for shaming Disney. In their opinion, I shouldnt have written about the harassment I received by a Disney Security Manager. I should have just complained to Disney and they would send me an autographed picture of Mickey Mouse.
William, that is a gross misrepresentation of the exchanges you had with members on the Disboards Photography forum. For those of you that wish to read the exchanges in question go to:
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2442922
1) No one blamed you for shaming Disney. Many of us merely said that we felt that there was a likely BETTER way to handle the situation that may increase your odds of a satisfactory outcome for you.
2) We also NEVER said that you shouldnt go public about your encounter. We said that a BETTER approach would have been to work with Disneys Guest Relations staff FIRST before blasting Disney, or Don, in the blogosphere. One DISer summed it up this way by asking you to ask the same law enforcement friends who you consulted about this situation: If a citizen had an issue with a police officer, would they prefer the citizen call or email the station and tell the officer in charge about the issue, or would they prefer the citizen call the local newspaper, and TV stations, before bringing the problem to the attention of the police dept.? No one suggested that you only just write to Disney, as you claimed.
3) The autographed photo of Mickey comment was a throw away comment, which you then mocked, made by a DIS member who said that he had followed the approach of working with Disney FIRST when he had a problem during a 2006 visit. He said that Guest Relations called him personally after he wrote them, he had a good 30 minute discussion with the Disney rep., and was thanked for bringing the situation to their attention
as an aside, the poster mentioned that they also later sent him the aforementioned Mickey photo.
I understand that you generally researched the issue of how to best demand satisfaction from a company that you feel has wronged you. However, in the group that youve dismissed you have a group of people that have a collectively large knowledge base of how Disney works. We all agreed, IIRC, that you have a legitimate beef with Disney security over the incident, we pretty much all agreed that you had a right not to show your ID
and we pretty much all felt that you should have played your hand better. Youre right, those are opinions that may differ from yours. Im sorry that you felt taunted by most of us, or attacked on that site, or anything else for us expressing those contrary opinions and engaging you in debate. Oh, and I did read your posts in their entirety.
In closing, I only hope that your written details of the encounter with Don & Co. are a better representation of the facts than how your encounter with me, and the others, on the Disboards have been portrayed here by you.
I agree, that photo will now be legendary in the annals of the DIS Photography Board!
