That Bottom line is all that matters.
Posted on 06/12/2015 9:09:58 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Disney ABC Television Group reversed a decision to lay off about 35 tech workers this week, following recent reports that Disney laid off hundreds of tech workers in January after forcing them to train their replacements.
Two weeks ago, Disney ABC told a team of between 30 and 35 application developers they were being laid off, some at the end of July, and that their jobs were going to an IT contractor with large offshore operations, reported Computer World. But on Thursday, Disney ABC told the workers plans had changed and they would not be laid off.
Some of the workers were already in the process of training their replacements in “knowledge transfer” sessions — the same term used to describe how the hundreds of tech workers laid off in January trained their foreign replacements.
Disney ABC refused to confirm or comment on the reversal, but Computer World reports it was confirmed by another Disney ABC source. One of the tech workers who would have been laid off told Computer World the move is related to the recent negative press.
“They [Disney officials], want this to go away — right now,” the worker told Computer World.
The workers were told the foreign work force would take over maintenance and application development, which could allow some of them to fill more interesting positions.
The January Disney layoffs were cast similarly. The workers were told the department’s emphasis was shifting to innovation, and that the foreign workforce would take over the maintenance work. They were encouraged to apply for the new positions opening up.
One of the laid off workers told The Daily Caller News Foundation he was initially optimistic, but a few months into the “knowledge transfer” process, after getting zero responses to his applications for the new positions, he realized the jobs didn’t exist. He knows of just a few people who managed to stay on with Disney.
For its part, Disney says it fired 250 workers, but rehired 120 in some capacity.
Disney ABC’s decision not to lay off the 35 workers also follows news the Department of Labor is investigating Tata and Infosys, two outsourcing firms Southern California Edison used to layoff hundreds of American workers after forcing them to train their replacement.
Starting to feel the heat, are they?
Too late for me. I will never give them a dime of my money.
Pigs will fly before I spend another CENT at Disney. I know this is happening everywhere, but to happen at Disney ‘where dreams come true’ just sticks in my craw.
They’ll just find a way to do it so as to avoid bad publicity. And management wonders why their people aren’t loyal, self-sacrificing workers.
Disney/ABC will pay a price in terms of company morale for months to come.
Too late! Disney fired and trashed Americans workers, and they forced these workers to train their replacements. Disney used to be a great company. Now, it’s a bunch of greedy money grubbers who push leftist ideals. I can’t stand Disney.
I doubt it. If I were a betting man (and I am), I'd bet that Disney is only delaying the lay offs until the uproar dies down. Then the purge will continue, just at a slower pace.
After all, you cannot have American citizens on the job (you know, the ones whose fathers and grandfathers paid taxes and fought America's wars) when cheap foreign replacements are available.
That Bottom line is all that matters.
Disney should be boycotted until they fire the foreign replacements and re-hire Americans. We need zero tolerance for dissing American workers.
Yep. There is a saying that goes something like this. American bosses think about the next three months. Chinese bosses think about the next three decades.
And Disney's bosses are showing that saying to be true. I wonder, once the American middle class is totally destroyed, who will be going to Disneyland?
Soon after this story dies down, they will be given a severance package and laid off.
Disney didn't hire the foreign replacements. They aren't in the IT business anymore. They outsourced those position to a vendor and they hired the foreign workers.
Why the Chinese of Course!
Let’s rename all the Disney characters with Indian names.
lol
That's a false meme that you've been pushing on these threads.
Disney is very much "in the IT business." What they did is outsource the labor, but the IT remains.
It's still their computers, their networks, their datacenters, just not their people.
-PJ
Too little, too late. I was a disneyphile but won’t be going back.
Ha! Ya’ beat me to it.
Any media copamy functions very similarly to a curch fund raising. It is all about the charms. Thus they are not hampered by labor costs like any real industry in terms of production, but only by popularity gains. The labor costs are minuscule.
I find it appalling some Disney CEO up there would be so ruthless and greedy as to look for cheap lanor instead of paying decently labor no matter what. But this is the kind of gold digging ruthless mentality a democrat machine works like.
Knowing corporate stupidity, they'll keep Doc and Dopey, but outsource Grumpy, Sleepy, Happy, Bashful, and Sneezy as being too costly or underperforming.
-PJ
Any media company functions very similarly to a church fund raising. It is all about the charms. Thus they are not hampered by labor costs like any real industry in terms of production, but only by popularity gains. The labor costs are minuscule.
I find it appalling some Disney CEO up there would be so ruthless and greedy as to look for cheap lanor instead of paying decently labor no matter what. But this is the kind of gold digging ruthless mentality a democrat machine works like.
Maybe they’ll still have the homo support, too.
(Who knows...there may be LGBT folks whose jobs were displaced, too.)
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