I invite you to do the needful, and have a most joyous day, isn't it?
Posted on 06/03/2015 8:32:49 AM PDT by Theoria
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.”
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 Congress over whether they complement American workers or displace them.
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Republican Party either.
ROTFL!
Nothing says anti-American better than firing the American staff and replacing them with cheap foreign labor. Boycott!
It’s a hard lesson, but it’s one that needs to be learned. Like will cater to like, blood to blood. It’s an almost irresistible force. Cruz’s outlook on immigration could be nothing less, given his background. It doesn’t matter what affiliation he has. Cruz’s parents did a wonderful job of educating him on the greatness of America. But he’s human and looks at it from their perspective as immigrants.
Consider Obama and his Communist/Marxist parents and see how that effected his Presidency.
America can’t continue to gather and support masses who aren’t in complete understanding that true freedom isn’t free, nor so easy to attain as crossing a border. It’s even harder to keep. Most bona-fide, natural born Americans have lost sight of those facts. That’s why there’s no will to save what we’ve lost. Most Americans don’t even know it’s gone.
but we need the rest of the story,
the unionistas keep making runs at Disney. Disney is protecting themselves and the shareholders.
And that’s why, at this point, I prefer Walker (not that I trust him either).
“I wouldn’t go there now if you paid me.”
Everyone needs to consider what the ramifications of this means in terms of the safety and well being of their children and families. I’m calling it “Never Ever Land” for me and mine also.
I had to do that once at IBM. I won’t do it again. I’ll walk instead.
the next lesson will be when the robots can replace even more people.
I grew up in a Democrat family. My Dad taught me that the Democrat Party was for the working man.
As I grew up, I saw that the Republican Party liked to see people making lots of money. The Democrat Party liked to see their leaders making lots of money.
The Republicans like to see people making lots of money. The Democrat leaders like to see themselves making lots of money.
That makes the Democrat leaders a bunch of liars.
At least the Republicans are honest about their motives.
Medical records are kept on “cloud” servers which are maintained or manned by who knows.
Larger law firms have now outsourced (overseas) document preparation.
Even home loan approvals.
There is no way to escape this until it becomes 100% automated with AI and the like.
The GOP cares about the average person about as much as the Democrats do. And both lie about it.
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Can you name a single IT shop that was unionized for me please? Disney or otherwise?
I will no longer buy Disney
Walt Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger’s compensation shot up 35% last fiscal year, to a total of $46.5 million
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That’s nearly $1 million a week! As Bill Clinton would say “it helps pay the bills”.
The American worker is not important to the Democrat Party.
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Nor is it important to the Republican Party. It only serves the interests of the chamber of commerce.
Don’t trust Slickey Mickey.
At least the Republicans are honest about their motives.
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Sorry, not true. They claim to be conservative but they spend, support big government and erode our individual freedoms just like the Democrats. Pubbies are all talk and no walk.
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