Disney World fires hundreds of high-level IT workers, forcing them to train immigrant replacements

Hundreds of high-level Disney information technology employees lost their jobs at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida, after being told that they would be replaced by foreigners. A report written by a displaced Disney worker and published by Breitbart details one worker’s account of the layoff in which he describes how he and his colleagues were called by a “prominent Disney Executive” into a last minute meeting and told that they would be losing their jobs in 90 days.

Aside from the sudden firing, the IT workers were given more bad news: “Your jobs have been given over to a foreign workforce,” and you will be training your replacements in the mean time.

The Disney employees, some of whom had been with the company for more than a decade and received recognition for their excellence, were told that they’d lose their severance pay if they didn’t cooperate.

“Also, if we don’t feel confident that we have captured everything that you do we can, at our discretion, keep you longer than the 90 days until we have captured everything that you do with this job,” wrote the displaced cast member.

They were also told not to discuss the meeting with other Disney employees.

The office environment quickly changed as an influx of immigrants from South Asia flooded the hallways, changing the company’s dynamic as English was no longer the predominant language.

The displaced Disney worker wrote:

The first 30 days was focused on capturing all that I did with my job. We started getting mandatory meeting invitations for “KT” or “Knowledge Transfer” sessions showing on our calendars. The daily sessions involved us training our foreign replacements for several hours. We all felt humiliated when the foreign workers sat next to us and watched everything that we did.

Presumably at the direction of the Disney Executives, the foreign workers insisted that they record all the audio as well as everything that we did on our computer screens with recorded video during the training meetings. We were then astonished as everything that we did on our job was documented and read right back to us for further critiquing. By then, it was a slow and methodical process that went on day in and day out. In hopes of landing a new Disney job we watched the Disney internal job postings and noticed a number of the vague job descriptions. Our frustration started to grow as we applied for the jobs yet none of us were contacted in any fashion. Those of us losing our jobs started to wonder if these new job postings really even existed.

Additional sources:

Breitbart.com

ProtectUSWorkers.org