Last Task After Layoff at Disney: Train Foreign Replacements

[mfcorey1]

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.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/last-task-after-layoff-at-disney-train-foreign-replacements/ar-BBkE3Ud?ocid=mailsignout

[Wellstone ruled]

1. And another Ring-Wing Leaning American Corporation that

supports the Jack Welch System of improving Corporate Profits. Thank you NAFTA and other so called worker improvement jokes.

[hollysmom]

11. OH, please, I worked for a subsidiary of GE and got to see how Jack Welch worked

Every time someone holds him up as a good businessman I want to puke, he destroyed everything that would profit this country, first thing he did on take over, was close down R&D and an unnecessary expense. then he went after people near retirement age to steal their pensions

[Wellstone ruled]

12. Seen it first hand.

Last career thingee for me was in B to B. Watched GE and affiliated Companies get stripped. Once old Welch came back from India,the shit hit the fan. Never totaled the Sales amount we lost with the demise of various offices and other entities that went bye bye. As you mentioned,first it was the senior employees and finally everyone. When Welch and his Bud from Home Depot engineered Bush's vote count in Florida,that I am sure nailed his fate as a human.

[global1]

2. You Know It's Getting Harder And Harder To Maintain And Improve Profits And Something Has Got To....

give. In this case it was 250 Disney employees. Got to keep those stockholders happy - you know!!!!

It's either laying off employees and outsourcing for less money or raising the ticket prices that are already too high.

Happy 60th Disney - at some point you will price yourself out of the realm or affordability of the people that supported your business all these years.

The very people that you rely on to keep you in the green won't be able to afford you any more and they won't have jobs either.

I just don't understand the mentality of the corporations that rely on the very people that they are screwing.

[joeybee12]

3. That's why we need more H1B visas...clearly we don't have enough

skilled workers of our own!

Oh...wait.

[historylovr]

5. Perfect response.

At some point they're going to have to come up with a different excuse.

[joeybee12]

6. More stories like this one will punch holes in their excuses...

and even the media will start questioning them.

[historylovr]

8. Let's hope so.

[msongs]

4. thanks congress and Obama! nt

[Pooka Fey]

7. Absolutely disgraceful to treat their employees like this

So basically, employing Americans who work in America for an multi-gazillion dollar American company isn't "cost effective" in our Brave NEW (NAFTA - TPP - TPIP - HB-1) World!

What's worse is that I know some newly-minted MBA Duer will come on this thread to explain to me why this is REALLY a great thing for everybody, that it's WIN-WIN!

[KamaAina]

9. Dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026772411

[CrispyQ]

10. This has happened twice in our family.

Once to me. Once to my husband. His screwing was just last year. Train your replacements or sacrifice your severance package.

[jeff47]

13. About the only positive is you don't have to train your replacements well.

"Oh yeah, you totally have to reinstall the operating system every two weeks."