Josh Hendy
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Anyone who is amazed and flabbergasted by the cynical negligence of the Spaceship Earth paperboy should check out River Country ... "Never mind letting broken rides stay broke for years ... we'll abandon entire parks and let them fall to ruin right in front of the paying guests. So there!"
Splendid China or Dogpatch USA I can totally understand being bankrupt, abandoned and covered with weeds and pools of scummy water. But a freaking water park right in the heart of WDW?
This says something about how large companies at some point become so wrapped up in "big things" that they become blind and deaf to plain old common sense. I guess "numb" is the word, as in "numbskulls".
The long answer is that no manager or executive is fiscally responsible for either making or losing money on the remains of River Country. The loss of income from the embarrassing ruin of the park is unquantifiable and probably close to zero, and certainly doesn't show up on any financial spreadsheet or on any guest survey ("Which of the following neglected or abandoned parks, lands, pavilions or rides did you find to be the most disgraceful ?") None of the top execs has either the common sense, the responsibility or the fiscal power to allocate $250k for a wrecking crew to bulldoze the site and plant trees over it. Besides which I suppose that they visit the parks very seldom, they get driven around by flunkies between meetings and photo ops, and never get on a bicycle to explore, or spend a lazy hour exploring WDW by satellite photos.
I'll bet that WDW employees actually visit River Country and spray it and treat the scummy water for mosquitoes every week! Because that has a corporate mandate and a person in charge. Filling in the scummy ponds and hauling away the junk ... not so much.
Splendid China or Dogpatch USA I can totally understand being bankrupt, abandoned and covered with weeds and pools of scummy water. But a freaking water park right in the heart of WDW?
This says something about how large companies at some point become so wrapped up in "big things" that they become blind and deaf to plain old common sense. I guess "numb" is the word, as in "numbskulls".
The long answer is that no manager or executive is fiscally responsible for either making or losing money on the remains of River Country. The loss of income from the embarrassing ruin of the park is unquantifiable and probably close to zero, and certainly doesn't show up on any financial spreadsheet or on any guest survey ("Which of the following neglected or abandoned parks, lands, pavilions or rides did you find to be the most disgraceful ?") None of the top execs has either the common sense, the responsibility or the fiscal power to allocate $250k for a wrecking crew to bulldoze the site and plant trees over it. Besides which I suppose that they visit the parks very seldom, they get driven around by flunkies between meetings and photo ops, and never get on a bicycle to explore, or spend a lazy hour exploring WDW by satellite photos.
I'll bet that WDW employees actually visit River Country and spray it and treat the scummy water for mosquitoes every week! Because that has a corporate mandate and a person in charge. Filling in the scummy ponds and hauling away the junk ... not so much.
