Priorities at Disneyland

Your report on the Disneyland dress-code controversy struck a familiar chord. Last fall, I was referred to the park by a local “job shop” for a temporary structural-engineering position.

Toward the end of the interview, I was informed that shaving off my mustache would be a condition of employment. I expressed some surprise, inasmuch as I remembered that Walt Disney had one in every photo I had ever seen.

I learned that several employees whose joining the company predated the rule were “grandfathered,” but new employees, permanent or temporary, had to comply.

So the rule is not one that dates back to Walt Disney, but one instituted by someone promoted in recent years. It says something about the priorities of this newer management.

WILLIAM S. SECKLER

Costa Mesa