90 Miles From Tyranny : Laid Off Disney Worker Breaks Down in Tears Before Senate Panel

Friday, February 26, 2016

Laid Off Disney Worker Breaks Down in Tears Before Senate Panel

A Disney IT worker who was laid off and replaced by foreign workers along with hundreds of his colleagues broke down in tears before a Senate panel Thursday while telling his story.

“During the holiday season of 2014, I was sent a meeting invitation by a prominent Disney executive. With an excellent review in hand along with company announcements of record profits my mind buzzed with thoughts of a promotion or a bonus,” Leo Perrero, the former Disney worker testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest. “I walked into a small conference room with about two dozen highly respected fellow IT workers. The Disney executive made a harsh announcement to us all.”

That harsh announcement, Perrero said, was that Disney was laying him and hundreds of others off. He would be without a job in 90 days.

“Your jobs have been given over to a foreign workforce,” Perrero recalled the executive saying. “In the meantime you will be training your replacements until your jobs are 100 percent transferred over to them and if you don’t cooperate you will....
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2 comments:

  1. If they had all walked and said screw the severance package Disney would have caved.

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  2. ...fuck disney...i boycotted those sonsabitches before it was cool, both my daughters, now in their mid twenties, hated me for it but it is what it is...

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