Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 21:23:57 -0400
Subject: Re: PUPT: Disney Job


Why should that be a requirement?
I'm sorry, I'm not apparently disabled, but I wouldn't be able to do walk around work 6-8 hrs straight.  There are many people I know in this profession that have asthma, epilepsy, sleeping disorders, diabetes, AD/HD, etc, etc. who would be unable to fulfill this duty. 

I have had students, clients who have done this type of work & I thought it was pretty standard for a high schooler, kids ages 16 through 20, who did walkaround work for $7 an hour, not a professional puppeteer. So why is this on the job description? Combining 2 or more jobs together?  I have had interviews at other places that seem to cobble several jobs together.  I have a hard time understanding how driving a truck or doing hard labor has anything to do with being a puppeteer, recreational therapist or art therapist. (in graduate school we learned about art techniques and how to deal with countertransferance, not how to drive a mack truck) I have had to turn jobs down for this reason.  

Is it possible that Danny could fight this, perhaps contacting a disabilities rights organisation?  I bet the media would have a hey day with this information- being that Disney is a major corporation, if nothing gets resolved.

Wayong 


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