Originally Posted by Axey
I wasn't aware that someone needed to get permission from their employer for doing something on their free time that describes their job without mentioning their employer. Well, ok, in the case of a top secret job, yes, however, if a waitress decided to play a waitress in a movie there surely wouldn't need to be any notification to her current employer??
If, in fact, there were scenes shot on UA property (the hotel in Hawaii that UA supposedly owns), then I'd disagree. From a broader perspective, I'd say that given the relationship between Ms. Tree's employment and the subject of her film, letting someone at WHQ know what was going on probably would have been the right thing to do to make sure "office politics" weren't affected. If I had an employee making a widely-viewed film loosely based on the employee's observations of what goes on in our workplace (for better or worse), I'd probably resent it when I found out.