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Last Task After Layoff at Disney: Train Foreign Replacements [This New York Times article from 2015 proves that Tucker Carlson's recent claim about foreigners replacing Americans is true]
New York Times ^ | JUNE 3, 2015 | JULIA PRESTON

Posted on 04/09/2021 3:48:45 PM PDT by grundle

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.”

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1 posted on 04/09/2021 3:48:45 PM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

The Mouse is a Nazi.


2 posted on 04/09/2021 3:50:28 PM PDT by Lockbar (Vlad the Impailer had all the answers.)
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To: grundle

“American “ corporate predators..turning the systems Americans built and support back upon them


3 posted on 04/09/2021 3:51:11 PM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: grundle

Yes, I remember helping some with referrals and all when they were left to find new jobs after Disney dumped them. ADP, among others, was doing the same.


4 posted on 04/09/2021 3:52:00 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Wo)
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To: Reno89519

Not just at Disney, Microsoft and Amazon (at least the engineering divisions) are more than 1/2 foreign born.


5 posted on 04/09/2021 3:55:39 PM PDT by algore
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To: grundle

6 posted on 04/09/2021 3:56:47 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: grundle

Abbott Labs did it in the Dallas area, exactly like that. Quite a few years back.. no one cared or spoke out. I feel your pain..


7 posted on 04/09/2021 4:01:28 PM PDT by Cottonpatch
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To: grundle

Anybody with an important job in IT who would stay to train their replacement has no self worth - no matter what bait the company holds in front of them.
I would have been out of there the same day the announcement was made.


8 posted on 04/09/2021 4:10:30 PM PDT by politicket (Don't remove a Bernie Sanders bumper sticker. It's the only thing holding the car together!)
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To: grundle

You want financial security?
Get good at killing and taking, without getting caught.
That is the new economy.
The most fertile fields are wherever redistribution spigots are open. Get some heroin/fentanyl and sell it. Or pot, liquor, smokes, fast food, etc. If you are not sucking the life out of others, you are getting the life sucked out of you. Red pill.


9 posted on 04/09/2021 4:15:29 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: grundle

And how many liberals in the tech industry voted for CornPop?

How many were able to find and keep jobs because of President Trump’s policies on reducing H1- B visas?

How many not only were able to find and keep their jobs, but we’re getting higher pay because of President Trump’s policies?

My SIL ran a tech oriented company for those wanting contract work. She’s as Conservative as they, BTW. Right around the time of the election her family sold the business. Perfect timing. Although she chuckles at all their clients that voted for CornPop and also voted themselves out of jobs.

CornPop has said that foreign workers have a right to compete with Americans for jobs and has stated that the numbers of visas will go up.

I guess all those liberal tech folks will invent some new app that they can then sell to Google, Gates or Facebook


10 posted on 04/09/2021 4:20:43 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: grundle

The Grand Replacement has many facets.


11 posted on 04/09/2021 5:05:42 PM PDT by I want the USA back (I fear my government many times more than I fear the chinese kungfu virus.)
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To: algore

When I left Microsoft in 1999, the halls were just beginning to reek of truly rancid curry farts.


12 posted on 04/09/2021 5:21:07 PM PDT by Noumenon (The Second Amendment exists primarily to deal with those who just won't take no for an answer. KTF)
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To: grundle

bookmark


13 posted on 04/09/2021 5:27:52 PM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: grundle

this has been going on since BJClinton signed the H1-b visa bill in oct 2000.

plenty of stories back then of Americans being forced to train their replacements.

today, once an indian gets into a management position, ALL new hires are indian and mostly men.


14 posted on 04/09/2021 6:05:10 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style )
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To: grundle
R's and D's with their amnesties, allowing for the reset to speed up.


15 posted on 04/09/2021 6:27:32 PM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: grundle

Next will be the blue collar takeover with illegals given a fast track with the new budget proposal by the poser president.


16 posted on 04/09/2021 6:34:09 PM PDT by grcuster
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To: sten

today, once an indian gets into a management position, ALL new hires are indian and mostly men.


And if you know much about Indians, you’ll also find that they are from the same region and the remnants of castes.


17 posted on 04/09/2021 6:59:24 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: politicket

Anybody with an important job in IT who would stay to train their replacement has no self worth - no matter what bait the company holds in front of them.

I would have explained that everyday they need to start their computer systems clean. So every night when you go home you need to clean the system by entering Delete C:*.* I’d leave all kinds of booby traps. Huge supply orders set to arrive the day after you are separated. Call in a huge pizza order in the bosses name. Dead fish in my locker. etc. etc. (I admit it. I can be a vengeful bass turd.)

What is management going to do, fire you?


18 posted on 04/09/2021 6:59:29 PM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food. )
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