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a company out of new york is hiring the disable! the company is ttaking advantage of the disability and paying us for it! our responsability is simple. go to disney world with a family and head to the front of the line. yes sir. the family pays up to $130 an hour to use our disability so they dont have to waite in line!
lol what, the fn awesome lol i remember from childhood how pissed people would get lol
If we want people to hate us for exploiting rules meant to do us a favour, this Is the way to do it. I'm disgusted.
I'm completely with Meglet on this. And...a hundred and thirty bucks an hour just to go to the front of the line? Wow, that's over twice the admission price of the largest amusement park in Canada, and while I loathe waiting in line I kinda see it as a necessary evil. Just...ouch, all around.
I'm guilty of it. As a child I went to a camp for the blind in California. We'd simply walk through a gate, get on the ride.
If felt odd until I understood the why behind it.
The founder of the park, 6 Flags, set the rule. Sometimes due to the disability some person's weren't able to wait in a long line in the Sun, so she just made a blanket rule.
Next, if was felt you had lost or been deprived of something, so a little pleasure in your life might be good.
I found that people really don't mind.
Even now as an adult I have to refuse doing it. I've been pointed out in a line and ask why I was waiting in it by the people standing in the line. Go figure.
Now, if I could just apply this rule to these hard to gbet in clubs and such. hahahaha
Crazy.
I wouldn't do it to get paid, but I would take advantage of this park rule if an employee told me to go ahead and get in the front of the line. However, when I was in high school and college and visited amusement parks often, I had high partial vision and didn't look blind to the casual observer, so I never got asked if my friends and I wanted to go to the front of the line. The only time I had the opportunity to go to the front of the line was one time when visiting King's Island in Ohio early in the season, and it had rained in the morning, so the park was practically empty. The lines were short for the rides that had any lines at all, so my friend and I ketp riding the same roller coaster over and over again by hopping out of the ride when it came to a stop and running through the maze and getting right back on. It was fun.
But bottom line, yes, if I go to another amusement park and have the chance to cut in front of the line, I will do it. However, I would not go around with an attitude of entitlement and push in front unless a park employee told me to do so.
I personally try and not take advantage of these types of situations, in part because I know people who are truly physically disabled, some sorts of mobility impairments that come with age or some debilitating diseases.
Anyway, I do have a question for the outraged:
If someone wanted to give women front of the line status because of their gender, would you be as outraged?
Are you outraged by Ladies' Night at the bars? Where they give lesser prices if you're a chick?
Are you outraged that as a guy it's cheaper for me to get my hair cut just because I'm a guy?
Are you outraged because guys like me would give a chick a seat because she's pregnant, even if she is not what they call showing, yet?
There are cases for all sorts of people who may or may not take advantage of a situation for their own personal reasons, but not all of us are outraged at the actions of some strangers on the other side of the continent.
If you're going to be outraged about this, at least maybe be consistent? But I understand that cuts into the ideology / cult following this sort of thing gets.
Leo, I've no objection to the Rule. I object to this particular exploitation of said rule.
While I wouldn't take advantage of this I'm not going to knock those who do.
Yes, Leo. I've not thought about it like that, but sure.
Can we say ladies nights? They get in free, get free drinks, then after 10 when they have to pay we do that too with a smile. Lol
Personally I try not to take advantage of such rules. I don't have working eyes, but that's the only thing that's wrong with me; I can stand on my own two damned feet and wait my proper turn just like anybody else, thank you very much. If we blind people want to be on an equal footing with the sighted, we should be doing just that unless we have a medical condition other than blindness. I may not publicly voice this opinion to a blind person who's doing this, but my respect for same will probably go down. But that's just me.
I've got a couple of comments here.
As for cutting in line for the sake of not having to wait, I wouldn't do that. I would however take advantage of the ability to schedule my ride times. The reason for this is for safety. Let me explain. Once I was getting onto a ride at 6-Flags and missed my step and almost fell between the coaster and the platform. Usually, the coaster attendants are young teens and don't necessarily have the best communication skills i.e. speak clear English. Sorry if that's offensive. That's not my intent. They do a bunch of pointing and gesturing, likely because it's a loud environment as well.
Anyway, If they're rushing and don't realize someone is blind and might take an extra second or two to orient him or herself to the ride, it can cause confusion. What our 6-flags parks allows is for people with disabilities to schedule ride times and then enter through the exits and get assistance boarding. Back in my younger more idealistic days, this would have mortified me. Now though that I'm the parent and responsible for myself and my child with no one in particular to assist me, I don't mind this. It isn't exactly cutting because my ride time might be 2 hours away from the time I sign up if that makes sense. They don't allow you to ride time after time just cutting through the exits. It's not something that people are forced to take advantage of so if a person who is blind just wants to go through the regular line, he is welcome to do so. If someone needs or wants assistance this is what they offer and I'm ok with that.
As for people hiring themselves out as line avoiding people with disabilities, I find that a bit off putting. However, I've got to hand it to them for creativity. lol
What a fun job. Shoot, I'll take it. lol Ok, not really but you have to admit it would be a fun way to make some cash.
Yes, Domestic Goddess
, safety is one concern for parks.
I'm not sure I agree with all the examples thrown up in an earlier post. Some are comparable, many aren't, in my opinion. I'm not outraged about any of this, not really, I just try and avoid it. When my mother, at fairs and carnivals, would try to ask if they had discounts for people with disabilities, it used to make me sort of mad because in most of the cases I was the one paying for my ride tickets and was happy to shell out as much as the next guy for what amounts to the same literal experience. Maybe he sees some wicked views and flashing lights or whatever, but we both get the same actual ride. I can understand the bit about scheduling ride times for the sake of safety...I had a scary moment boarding a ride as well, and you're right, the environment can be quite chaotic. That alone doesn't really bug me; some people feel they should be more cautious and you really can't take that away from them.
I saw this article on CNN this morning, I thought you was joking lol Disney lashes back and is currently investigating the problem
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/15/us/disney-skipping-lines/index.html
Disney has a right to investigate.
I only raised the questions I did earlier, because it's so easy for the overidealistic to get all outraged and upset over one thing while turning a blind eye to some more obvious problems.
This sounds like it will be a simple matter for the business in question, has less to do with disability than it does people who take advantage of loophole opportunities. But disabled people, being a relatively small demographic with a highly acceptable yuck factor, are acceptable hate targets, one would never dream of lashing out against a few women who might take advantage of a loophole exploitable by gender, or any other demographic that is currently not acceptable to hate on based on our so-called diversity.
Rather than be sensible, and deal with this as a exploitation of a loophole situation, of course we had this sort of backlash. I don't resent the loophole exploiters, though I have no sympathy for them when they get caught. But I do resent the ease with which people can cry diversity for any number of other groups, shout from the rooftops about stereotypes when it comes to other demographics, then turn the hate on disabled as a demographic, as a response to these exploiters.
I've seen this quite a bit as a response to this situation.
News flash: if you run a business, it's always a cat and mouse game when it comes to dealing with people trying to get something for nothing. Chances are, you're like a lot of people who hasn't run a business, and that like a lot of people, you don't go around trying to get things for nothing. So, when you see stories like this, you try and put two and two together, not realizing this loophole exploitation is a common problem for business owners. And, disability having the acceptable yuck factor in today's society, sort of how the gays used to be, you can immediately target that demographic.
By 'you', I don't mean anyone in particular.
But one of the hardest lessons you learn when starting a business, is that there are all kinds of people who try and exploit loopholes in various ways. They're not always even poor! They're not always even disabled, black, women, gay or members of pick-your-favorite-demographic.
I don't blame any one person. It's proving that all our so-called enlightenment, so-called diversity, means nothing. If it had meant something, people would have been able to not immediately accredit to their disability.
Especially anyone who has been in business.
My curiosity on this case is what will Disney get back? Because on the books, no matter how you look at it, they suffered financial loss, but collecting on those damages could prove very difficult. Probably not worth the effort. But at least we will see that loophole getting closed.
And we also see that all the so-called enlightenment or so-called diversity and other types of things, mean absolutely nothing. I've seen well educated so-called progressives react to this situation the same way I saw skinheads of my youth react any time a crime suspect on the news happened to be any race other than white. Prettier clothes, perhaps, but same attitude.
Anyone with half a business sense knows this is just a exploitation of loophole situation, no more and no less. And Disney has a legal right, and to my thinking anyway, a duty to its customers, to close that loophole so it doesn't happen again.