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2023-03-20 Economy

'Woke' Disney to lay off thousands, orders managers to compile list of employees to cut

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Posted by Fred 2023-03-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Disney also has a history of laying off people who are close to retiring. They sometimes offer a small severance package which includes lifetime passes to the parks.

Very generous of them.

/sarc

Posted by EMS Artifact 2023-03-20 10:17|| 2023-03-20 10:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Just what I would want in a severance package, to get to go back and spend a shit ton of money at their parks.

Posted by Chris 2023-03-20 11:30|| 2023-03-20 11:30|| Front Page Top

#3 I can't wait until all Hollyweird product is totally generated by AI. It will be fun to watch the suits freak out when the product reflects what amuses the AI rather than the paying rubes.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-03-20 11:40|| 2023-03-20 11:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Note employees - not middle or senior management.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-03-20 12:33|| 2023-03-20 12:33|| Front Page Top

#5 save $5.5B by reducing work force by 7k

hmmm

almost $900k per worker

Posted by lord garth 2023-03-20 12:37|| 2023-03-20 12:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Seems like there will be some whistle blowers in the cadre that is about to get deported from the Happiest Woke Ripoff on Earth.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-03-20 14:30|| 2023-03-20 14:30|| Front Page Top

#7 save $5.5B by reducing work force by 7k

I imagine the layoffs are only part of the savings, lord garth. In addition to costs associated with the employments — costumes, etc for those who are customer-facing, office space or whatever if they’re in support functions, labs, etc for those in research projects — there probably are other spend reductions planned.

If they’re getting rid of all known/suspected pedophiles on staff to reduce liability risks, now that the governor of Florida has shown he is taking that problem seriously, that would be a major spending reduction, though it will probably leave them critically short-staffed in the Florida park.

/just spitballing possibilities

Posted by trailing wife 2023-03-20 14:41|| 2023-03-20 14:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Bob Iger said Wednesday that the Burbank company will shed 7,000 jobs

Out of 80,000 Florida employees.

Posted by Mad Eye Omeretch7959 2023-03-20 16:38|| 2023-03-20 16:38|| Front Page Top

#9 ^^^,,, Not counting other locations.

Posted by Mad Eye Omeretch7959 2023-03-20 16:40|| 2023-03-20 16:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Thinking through this, the $900k saving per employee fired (or not hired) must be a multiyear figure.

Which assumes they won't rehire people.

Posted by lord garth 2023-03-20 16:50|| 2023-03-20 16:50|| Front Page Top

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