Bike to work week @ Disney
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bananaphone at 05.12.08 - 10:33 am
I could win $50 and free pizza for doing what I always do.
Yay!
Is anyone else's work doing anything to encourage commuting by bike?
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Damn, the board hates pics that have special characters I guess?
bananaphone05.12.08 - 10:34 am
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Damn, if only I got that type of treatment in these parts.
bentstrider05.12.08 - 10:35 am
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Actually, I like Jeronimo's comment elsewhere on many levels:
"I bike to work every day. Why the fuck would I need to celebrate a bunch of dickheads who only do it once a year?"
toweliesbong05.12.08 - 11:16 am
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Heh, indeed.
I just kinda dig the irony in my employer giving me swag and holding a raffle and shit just for riding my bike to work. Suckers.
bananaphone05.12.08 - 11:22 am
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OK you are missing the point. It ain't really about you.
If you do it all the time you are a special human being and I applaud you.
But the rest the world needs the help support and incentive to do it.
So how about pitchin in and working to get your co-workers on bikes instead of telling us all how cool you are and bitching about how your bosses are suckers.
Drew05.12.08 - 12:44 pm
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Well, with the weather conditions up here, among other things, it's like telling a little brat to eat their vegetables.
It's also hurting matters due to the fact that 60-70% of everyone in the desert works in either the IE, or the LA Basin.
Cajon Pass could kiss my ass for all I care.
It's the death of us all.
bentstrider05.12.08 - 12:52 pm
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I just passed this on to my HR Dept.
I don't think we should glorify something that makes sense, but I do think we need to bring it people's attention. And it's the same people who get excited about some stupid free pizza and a raffle that need the most convincing.
BICYKILLER05.12.08 - 12:59 pm
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"So how about pitchin in and working to get your co-workers on bikes..."
I do every day of the year.
toweliesbong05.12.08 - 1:06 pm
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Then I thank and applaud you.
Really every day? even on quanazachuannamas? Sweet!!!
Drew05.12.08 - 1:22 pm
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this is actually AWESOME. I cant believe Disney would be part of this.
Roadblock05.12.08 - 1:36 pm
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@ Drew,
I guess I deserved that, but there's good reason for my initial tone. I've actually only been riding to work for about 3 months now, but when I started everyone except for one person in my department thought I was crazy. Turns out the one other person is a former LA Wheelman and began riding to work again once they saw I was.
Disney's Commuter Program is actually pretty damn nice, and one of the only real perks for working for a company this large. And while I do encourage coworkers to ride their bikes almost daily, it mostly falls on deaf ears, and even events like this one are largely ignored. Hence my cynicism.
Apologies if I came off like a bike snob/insenstive clod/etc. Wouldn't be the first time.
bananaphone05.12.08 - 1:59 pm
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