Something entertaining

In my first post I wrote about the Walt Disney Family Museum blog which I follow. Today, in honor of Labor Day, the blog has put up for free download, in its entirety, the Walt Disney Company Employee Manual from 1943.

This manual can be found by going here , then in the second to last line, click on the phrase "The Ropes at Disney" and it will give you the option to download the manual. Its quite fun to compare an employee manual from 1943, to say the ones we have all seen in our more recent lives. And some of the policies.

For example : Women were allowed 10 sick days a year, up to 5 consecutively. Men were allowed just 5 sick days a year, up to 3 consecutively. Anyway, hope it gives some enjoyment to someone.

Being able to have instant access to an artifact such as this, which is normally stored in San Francisco (a good 15 hour drive from me) is all thanks to the internet and Web 2.0. I don't think a museum would have thought before to share artifacts, either partial or in their entirety, through such a medium as the internet, where, with the click of a button I have been given the opportunity to see a glimpse of life as it was in 1943.