Posted on 04/30/2022 8:27:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Geoff Morrell, the chief corporate affairs officer who helped architect Disney’s public response to Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” legislation, has decided to leave the company.
“After three months in this new role, it has become clear to me that for a number of reasons it is not the right fit,” Morrell said in a letter to his team that CNBC has obtained. “After talking this over with [Disney CEO] Bob [Chapek], I have decided to leave the company to pursue other opportunities.”
Kristina Schake, who Disney hired earlier this month, will lead Disney’s communications efforts and report directly to Chapek. Schake will have “oversight for corporate and segment communications and continue to be our chief spokesperson,” Chapek said in a note to Disney staff obatined by CNBC.
Morrell’s three-month tenure has been rocky. He took the job after years as the chief spokesman for oil and energy giant BP. Prior to that, he was a White House correspondent at ABC News and chief spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Defense under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
According to people who worked with him, Morrell set out to be more transparent with Disney’s communication than his predecessor, Zenia Mucha, who was known to closely guard Disney’s image.
After starting his job Jan. 24, Morrell guided Disney and Chapek to publicly explain why it hadn’t taken a public stand on Florida’s controversial “Don’t Say Gay” legislation, which barred some elementary school instruction of sexual orientation and gender identity. Chapek wrote a letter to staff on March 7 explaining why Disney hadn’t publicly made a statement condemning the legislation.
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You can only guess how HOT the switchboard at Disney has been with a multitude of park hotel reservation cancellations.
The blowback is just beginning......
The company initially faced blowback from employees that were angry it did not take a public stand on the bill, but after reversing course and announcing that it opposed its passage, the company has been scrutinized by Florida legislators, including Gov. Ron DeSantis, who have used the company as a political punching bag.
Look at that leftist tilt!
You may want to reconsider your gloating, if you read posts 3 and 6.
Disney is dead.
Still gloating.
Hush Republican. Only a dimwit would read all 400 ConservativeInc. Articles posted daily.
Still gloating.
Disney will never die, but the Elite Disney Hate America thugs will not be gloating as they lose billions of $’s of woke business.
“Still gloating.”
Then you’re what’s known as a fool.
Looks that way.
We take our 7 yr old grandson on a vacation each year. He asked if next year we could take him to Disney? I talked him instead into Universal Orlando. Our other grand just turned 4. Not one birthday gift had Disney’s name attached to it. Hopefully other parents/grandparents are doing the same.
When I graduated college (many moons ago), I worked for an Fortune 150 American manufacturing company that made electronic connectors. That company reigned supreme in the world. It was the largest consumer of gold in the world because of gold plating. It was not just an manufacturing company, it was also an engineering company. The President of the company at the time was an engineer who personally held 17 patents.
The 1980's were heady days. Business was booming. Everything from computers, electronic devices, gaming systems (remember Atari?), communications, aerospace, automobiles and more. If you had a telephone (on of those land line things) you had components made by us. We made billions and billions of connectors per year (many sold on a per unit basis under a penny).
It was a manly man's company. No pussy unions. We treated workers right. We were smart. There was no room for idiots. If you screwed up, then you got fired. We were competitive on every level. We engineered, made the best tools to apply connectors, and of course we made connectors; American made connectors.
We went to work each day knowing that our jobs made American products that literally every American and most people throughout the world used every day.
What we did not have was:
Chief Corporate Affairs Officer (CCAO)
Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO)
Chief People Officer (CPO) or Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO)
Chief Diversity Officer (CDO)
Chief Legal Officer (CLO)
Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO)
When I read/see one of these c-level positions I immediately think woke, leftist, anti-capitalist, globalist, anti-America, inefficient, political, stupid shits that can't do a tangible job that benefits shareholders, employees, and America. They invent these positions because they are weak minded, educated in the wrong things and basically they don't know shit about business. Every single one of these positions works against the productivity and profitability of a business. They stifle invention and innovation, while promoting leftist drivel.
We see the same crap in government, military, and schools - everywhere people are employed, but not necessarily work for a living. Where you don't see it is in American small business because they have better things on their minds, like making a profit.
Profit is not a dirty word.
Of course, the goal of destroying Disney's business model from within was successful. Get woke, go broke.
So Chapek hired POLITICAL spokesmouths for his communications department? Whores gonna whore.... and both these “communications” people are political whores.
He was a perfect fit for ‘Woke’ Disney but not at all a good fit for ‘Broke’ Disney, because of it.
No worries, the human waste will continue to be well compensated by the promoters of our destruction.
Kristina Schake has also worked in the White House, and played key roles in Democratic presidential campaigns, working with Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.
Essentially, Disney won’t change, they’ll just fund and support the radical left, but do it quietly.
Than they should’ve fired there a$$es.🤔
The left will no longer allow neutrality. "Silence is violence."
Their stock was doing well until 2019, and now they are down on their 5 year trend.
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