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Monday, June 08, 2015

Pink Slips at Disney. But First, Training Foreign Replacements.

ORLANDO, Fla. — The employees who kept the data systems humming in the vast Walt Disney fantasy fief did not suspect trouble when they were suddenly summoned to meetings with their boss.

While families rode the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train and searched for Nemo on clamobiles in the theme parks, these workers monitored computers in industrial buildings nearby, making sure millions of Walt Disney World ticket sales, store purchases and hotel reservations went through without a hitch. Some were performing so well that they thought they had been called in for bonuses.

Instead, about 250 Disney employees were told in late October that they would be laid off. Many of their jobs were transferred to immigrants on temporary visas for highly skilled technical workers, who were brought in by an outsourcing firm based in India. Over the next three months, some Disney employees were required to train their replacements to do the jobs they had lost.

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Never will go again.

Anonymous said...

This should be Sooooo ILLEGAL!

The purpose of the foreign worker visa program is to make available workers that do not exist here.

This should cause all of Disney's foreign worker visas to be revoked.

I have only been to one of their parks - one time....it was overpriced for the entertainment value, parking, and lodging. Never been back - now I am discouraging everyone I know from ever going!

Anonymous said...

BOYCOTT !

lmclain said...

Anyone think there are any corporate exec's (don't be fooled by anyone's "image") who wouldn't cut their mothers throat if it meant THEY could rake in another couple of million???
They have NO loyalty (just like your "leaders") to ANYTHING --- not God, country, or fellow citizens - but MORE MONEY.
Being down to your last 600 million is a struggle that you just can't grasp.
Now shut up and
Keep cheering.

Anonymous said...

Got have more money for the stockholders. Always about what is best for the 1%.

Anonymous said...

Disney sucks -- it's stiil Walt's way.