It appears to be more of a gift shop.
http://seasonsofmackinaw.com
http://seasonsofmackinaw.com
Scott Gasparich Has Left the Building
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Good for him. He's doing what he loves and close to family, not much more you can ask for there.
Plus, I'm sure he still has a decent sized bank account to fund this project. Which is always nice I guess.
Plus, I'm sure he still has a decent sized bank account to fund this project. Which is always nice I guess.
Maybe one of the rooms in the new maze will just be an angry Scott throwing glitter at everyone.
I was hoping his gift shop (http://seasonsofmackinaw.com/about-us/) would be the end. I'm not sure whether to die a little inside with his potential connection or just laugh that its a Busch-related company XPLuke said:
Honestly this shouldn't really surprise anyone. Hiring people who you to work for a company that your company does business with is a pretty common strategy in many companies. The logic is two fold. One it gives you a person who you can go to and say what is this customer going to be looking for in a few months or years which in theory puts you ahead of the competition. And two that person presumably still has contacts in their old company that they can call up and say hey we have such and such you should buy it.
Also I personally find sentiment by some here distasteful. The guy had problems at Busch I am not denying that but please don't turn that into lets get angry that somebody else is giving him a job and a chance.
Also I personally find sentiment by some here distasteful. The guy had problems at Busch I am not denying that but please don't turn that into lets get angry that somebody else is giving him a job and a chance.
Some were style he had a very gliittery and flashy taste that didn't really fit in well with the atmosphere of BGW. He also was one from what I have heard that didn't take criticism or input well it was what he wanted or the highway.jornor said:
He was know to run off good talent due to his authoritarian management methods. He lacked talent and vision and it showed. He paid little to no attention to what his audience wanted and that proved to be disastrous. He was also know to plan fast and loose with his metrics. If you ever answered any of questioners for London Rocks it was easy to see how the park was manipulating the data gathering to put a happy face on a terrible show.
Zimmy said:
That wasn't the way my husband and I felt. We completed the London Rocks survey during its first year and indicated how much we LOVED the show. It was visually engaging, entertaining and had an intelligent storyline - much more interesting than some tired left-over-from-the-70s revue. We were then shocked to see how in its second year, the London Rocks storyline was horribly dummied down, with the "kids" completely removed. I'd hardly characterize that as putting a "happy face" on it.
Oh I don't doubt that many people liked the show. (I am a bad litmus, because as a rule I dislike all park shows and go out of my way to avoid them. Incidentally I did however see LR 4 times and loathed it.) My point is, that if you analyzed the question set from a pure data collection standpoint it was highly skewed. For example it left little room for "I did not come to the park for London Rocks."
It would have been one thing if the survey was just for London Rocks, and perhaps there was one that I never saw. I should have been a bit more clear in my previous tome. The survey I am speaking of was a general park survey that was seemingly trying to gauge why people came to the park (while leaving a heavy spot light on LR) It was my observation, and that of several of my friends that there was little room for much else. Further, and not to belabor the point, I do know that on several occasions park employees were asked to take the survey. This can invalidate the data as they are not neutral.
I posit, and this is of course conjecture and not to be taken as fact, that the surveys were being intentionally manipulated by Scott and company to pad his numbers. We do know that the show attendance was not what they had hoped. (you will recall the failed reservation system) I expect that Scott and Carl had some, as the expression goes, "explaining to do."
It would have been one thing if the survey was just for London Rocks, and perhaps there was one that I never saw. I should have been a bit more clear in my previous tome. The survey I am speaking of was a general park survey that was seemingly trying to gauge why people came to the park (while leaving a heavy spot light on LR) It was my observation, and that of several of my friends that there was little room for much else. Further, and not to belabor the point, I do know that on several occasions park employees were asked to take the survey. This can invalidate the data as they are not neutral.
I posit, and this is of course conjecture and not to be taken as fact, that the surveys were being intentionally manipulated by Scott and company to pad his numbers. We do know that the show attendance was not what they had hoped. (you will recall the failed reservation system) I expect that Scott and Carl had some, as the expression goes, "explaining to do."
Like I've said, I loved the first season of LR. But I think Zim makes a great point about the survey and the trumped-up figures... I've only taken a general survey about the park once and it mainly asked what improvements they could make (I suggested more drink options). And to be honest I have no idea who Scott or Carl really are apart from this forum, but no one who truly knows the park could miss the awful changes that happened over the last few years and so it reasons that at least some blame can fall squarely on Mr. Gasparich's shoulders. As ever we'll look to the future to see better entertainment, rides, events, atmosphere, etc in his absence.
I took the survey and I can confirm that the assumption that I had seen LR was built into the questions. There was no easy way for me to express my compete disinterest in LR (or any other park show for that matter). I was not given the option of explaining that I visited BGW for reasons other than seeing LR.
I have taken several SEAS surveys and that one seem much more biased than any of the others. I have no idea how, or even if, they used the data, but I am confident that they failed to gather any objective information.
I have taken several SEAS surveys and that one seem much more biased than any of the others. I have no idea how, or even if, they used the data, but I am confident that they failed to gather any objective information.
Watching how survey takers seem to be selected at BGW over the past 4-5 years, I wonder how "random" the selections are -- and therefore how fundamentally useful the results of even a perfectly crafted survey could possibly be.
It's one thing to admit that "we will never get surveys from (e.g.) the demographic that refuses to take surveys." Yep, got it. It's quite another thing to deliberately target and go after a selected survey demographic from within the crowd. I would be hard pressed to count how many times I have seen employees specifically approach the mother and wife who clearly is at the park with her entire family. Even if that's the demographic you want to go after, that's not how you go about it...! (Though it is a way to do it cheaply when you don't mind getting possibly very bogus results.)
It's one thing to admit that "we will never get surveys from (e.g.) the demographic that refuses to take surveys." Yep, got it. It's quite another thing to deliberately target and go after a selected survey demographic from within the crowd. I would be hard pressed to count how many times I have seen employees specifically approach the mother and wife who clearly is at the park with her entire family. Even if that's the demographic you want to go after, that's not how you go about it...! (Though it is a way to do it cheaply when you don't mind getting possibly very bogus results.)
The way to get 'everybody' in on the surveys is to give away free shit for participation. Also, set up your survey staging area/time somewhere other than the exit. I obviously can't speak for everyone, but when it's time to go, it's time to go. When they walk up to me on my way out and ask if I will participate, there's nothing that's going to change the fact that it is time to go. (Except for maybe free shit)....set up in the middle of the park somewhere and grab people coming off of a ride. Offer them a fresh baked pretzel coupon in exchange for 15 minutes of their day. The diversity will come in droves.
The pretzel sounds like a great idea! Having the surveys possibly located next to Mach Tower? That might alter some opinions.