Conference 7.286::digital

    I know that you can sign up onsite here at ZKO (which I'll admit is a
    little too far for you to just drop in) but if you send mail, I'm sure
    one of the ZKO EACSB members will help.
    
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                       GOING TO SEE MICKEY MOUSE?

The Employee Activities Committee of Spit Brook is now authorized to
issue Disney's Magic Kingdom Club Cards. 

These cards are free, but must be individually filled out and a stub
recorded - which the EAC volunteers do for you. The club benefits
include:

   o Reduced prices on selected admission media at Disney Theme Parks

   o Discounts on selected Walt Disney World hotel accomodations

   o A 10% discount at The Disney Store and through The Disney Catalog

Other benefits and further descriptions of the discounts are listed in
the Magic Kingdom Club Membership Guide.
        
ZKO employees can get a card and guide by visiting the following EACSB members:

         Ruth Lowell      (ZK2-2/N44) 
         Jo-Ellyn Crowley (ZK3-4/W17)
         Art Hebert       (ZK2-3/M06) [CASDOC::HEBERT]
         
You will get a card and brochure to take with you, and the info part of
the card will be filled out and forwarded to Disney.

Art Hebert 
EACSB Chairman
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    Also, before they were doing this onsite at ZKO, I sent mail with this
    info to SEIC::EAC_DISNEY and got my MKC card and info.
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Name:
DTN: 
Mailstop: 
Home address: 

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     This is from the EAC Newsletter from MKO:
    
     To receive a Disney Magic Kingdom Card send an electronic mail message
     to SEIC::EAC_DISNEY. Your request MUST contain your DTN, mailstop and
     home address. Your request will NOT be filled without this information.
     Unless specified otherwise, the Disney Magic Kingdom Card, Brochure,
     and Rate Sheet will be sent via interoffice mail.
    
     Since this service is provided on a volunteer basis, requests will be
     filled as soon as time permits.
    
     Phone orders will not be accepted.
    
     EAC of Merrimack thanks you for your cooperation.
    
     Disney Magic Kingdom Club Contact
     Matt Tancreti DTN: 264-4717
    
    
    
    

I think an understanding about Employee Activities Committees such as
EACSB (the SB is for Spit Brook) would be good. And, you should know the
spirit in which our EACSB announcement was entered for our ZKO coworkers. 

Corporate has chosen to reduce -to nonexistence in some cases-  actual
support of *people*, in favor of dealing with us as *resources*. I can
handle that. I work, they give a paycheck. Well, some of those PEOPLE
functions such as Disney Magic Kingdom Club cards have been picked up by
VOLUNTEERS.  We steal time from lunch periods and off days to pursue
non-business benefits for our coworkers, using the power of our numbers
as our leverage. 

The population at ZKO numbers about 2,300. When an EAC contacts an
organization such as Disney, that organization sees the potential for
increased sales without major advertising or overhead; the EAC will be
the distribution point for the product. So, in the case of Disney, they
grant a "Chapter" charter to the EAC, and send stacks of brochures,
membership card blanks and forms. 

So we add these cards - and the attendant time required to process each
card - to the discount movie tickets, Water Country tickets,
entertainment books, etc that we handle. Add to that the shirts we
occasionally design and have screen printed or embroidered, and hats,
pens, mousepads... the list goes on... of things we do to show pride in
what *we* do and possibly to improve the general mental attitude of those
we work with every day. I'd rather work around smilers than frowners.

Every member of the EACSB has a "real" job here, whether it's
administrative support or writing software or managing projects or
writing books or driving a forklift or whatever. With the outsourcing of
some functions and the termination of many workers, our individual
workloads have increased significantly. There simply isn't a deep well of
available time. 

If you're at a site where there is no EAC, form one. Write to me if you
want, and I'll give you the basics that you need to start an EAC so that
you can help your fellow workers with things like Disney Magic Kingdom
Club cards and so forth. But please don't think that each individual EAC
is a "corporate resource" with limitless time _or_ a mandate to support
57,000 DIGITAL employees.

Art

    Node 3D has been retired, so your conference is now WRKSYS::ACTIVITIES.
    It doesn't seem to be terribly active, though (nothing new since the
    end of January).
    
    /Charlotte

    .3   Nice message.
    
    I work in SHR.  We also have Employee Activities but it is pretty
    limited due to time, people and money, but we too try to bring a smile
    to everyone's faces.  We have combined our efforts with HLO to try and 
    bring a little more variety.
    
    OK, back off my soapbox...
    
    Nancy  

    I happened to be in ZKO for training yesterday, and Art was kind enough
    to help me out.  Thanks to all for your email.