Friend’s daughter worked for Disney. Did things like buy decor for restaurants. Traveled the world. Helped put things in Japan Disneyworld. But every six months they’d decide if they wanted to keep her. Just when she was making decent money they let her go. She didn’t do anything wrong, but at some point they could hire someone younger to do her job for less.
Exactly! That is how they do it.
I worked for Tokyo Disneyland, also. Ended up staying in Japan for another 10 years doing non-Disney work.
but at some point they could hire someone younger to do her job for less.
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they bring in armies of college kids as “interns” , put them in Disney owned condo’s to recapture the salary paid and use them to keep wages down for the other employees.
Companies always seem to find a way to practice de facto age discrimination, or at least slough off those who have accrued that extra week od vacation, etc.; Americans are learning some hard lessons about work. Younger people already offered crap compensation are just learning earlier than most of us did years ago. It is no wonder that so many people flock to any form of government job now.