Thursday, October 01, 2020

Disney to lay off 28,000 workers, citing COVID slowdown and California’s ‘unwillingness’ to lift restrictions

The whole time through this COVID bullshit, I have been figuring this would go on as long as Disney was willing to put up with it.

I guess I overestimated Disney's power:

Josh D'Amaro, chair of Disney Parks, made the announcement Wednesday in a memo to employees obtained by CNBC in which he said the company has been "forced to reduce the size of our team. 
"As you can imagine, a decision of this magnitude is not easy," D'Amaro wrote in the memo. "For the last several months, our management team has worked tirelessly to avoid having to separate anyone from the company. We've cut expenses, suspended capital projects, furloughed our cast members while still paying benefits, and modified our operations to run as efficiently as possible, however, we simply cannot responsibly stay fully staffed while operating at such limited capacity." 
"As heartbreaking as it is to take this action, this is the only feasible option we have in light of the prolonged impact of COVID-19 on our business, including limited capacity due to physical distancing requirements and the continued uncertainty regarding the duration of the pandemic," he continued.

GRTWT.

2 comments:

revereridesagain said...

It will be interesting to see what happens after the election. Until then I don't see any likelihood of change at least from the Dems. It will also be interesting to see whether there is a "second stimulus" or not.

thelastenglishprince said...

American Airlines will furlough 19,000 employees with the process beginning today.

Throw BigPharma in with running ad campaigns for flu vaccines, and all AA employees will be vaccinated and unemployed.

I have never been an anti-vaccine individual, but am slowly joining the "V" ranks against excessive vaccination of children. Pharma sees gold.