90 Miles From Tyranny : Pink Slips at Disney. But First, Training Foreign Replacements.

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Friday, June 5, 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.

“I just couldn’t believe they could fly people in to sit at our desks and take over our jobs exactly,” said one former worker, an American in his 40s who remains unemployed since his last day at Disney on Jan. 30. “It was so humiliating to train somebody else to take over your job. I still can’t grasp it.”

Disney executives said that the layoffs were part of a reorganization, and that the company opened more positions than it eliminated.

But the layoffs at Disney and at other companies, including the Southern California Edison power utility, are raising new questions about how businesses and outsourcing companies are using the temporary visas, known as H-1B, to place immigrants in technology jobs in the United States. These visas are at the center of a fierce debate in...
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6 comments:

Doom said...

Just, urhm... how many of these people voted for what they are receiving? Oh, there might be some moderate conservative... republican... rino... hiding in there. Though, very possibly, even he was for Zero because RAcisss! I hope they like it black, even if it's looking a bit more pink... all the way around. You can only warn.

Anonymous said...

To Doom: We written. Agree.

Anonymous said...

Doom: Whoops. Meant well written.

edutcher said...

You got it.

Karma - it's what not for breakfast anymore until you can shoulder your way past all them furriners.

Gary said...

God bless you for posting this. Keep in mind that the open borders GOP wants to EXPAND the H-1B program for their Masters on Wall Street.

Gary said...

God bless you for posting this. Keep in mind that the open borders GOP wants to EXPAND the H-1B program for their Masters on Wall Street.