I guess axing their animation people wasn't enough, now Disney - the "wholesome" "American" "family oriented" company is outsourcing large numbers of their American Information Technology (IT) staff. People with years and even decades of loyalty to the company are getting kicked to the curb as unceremoniously as someone brushing lint off their shoulder.
But hey, they can save some money by outsourcing to, well, you can probably guess. Meanwhile, many of the foreign replacements have been fired for being unable to perform their jobs because of lack experience to replace employees with 5 and 10+ years of experience. Some for being unable to effectively communicate with business partners and domestic employees. Others for just being purely incapable of doing the work in a timely fashion.
Better yet, one of the big wigs in charge of outsourcing jobs is himself from the outsourcing country, no conflict of interest there!
Sure, it's good for these other people who are getting jobs. Many of them are probably perfectly nice people. They are getting paid even less than people who were already underpaid.. But I guess with currency conversion rates it's a good deal for them..
But what makes me angry is these people aren't being replaced or let go because they are bad workers. It's simply because they can pay other people less to do it. Not a new thing, I know. But it just sickens and infuriates me that they so eagerly boot people with families, years of experience, and even relocating across the country to work with almost no notice at all. While they spend their final days working, they are babysitting and training the people who took their jobs. People who aren't ready to handle it on their own. People who do 1/4 the workload of the existing employees who themselves have been grossly overworked (just like that deal with Electronic Arts) and underpaid for years.
Maybe it's a blessing in disguise. Disney is a horrible company to work for. Hard long work for inadequate pay and managers who don't care about you and schedule you at weird non-standard work hours to cheat you out of overtime, sometimes by minutes.
But hey they can save even more money by replacing the underpaid employees. You know that 50 billion a year is hard to live on. I would be wary if I was a shareholder. Sure they are going to save money by selling out their fellow countrymen, but quality and productivity is taking a rather hard nose dive.
Most of you probably don't care but it felt good to vent. It hit home this time.. So you can imagine how I feel.
It a terrible thing that The American Dream is starting to no longer be available to, you know, Americans. Hard work and dedication to your craft doesn't mean a fucking thing.
But hey, they can save some money by outsourcing to, well, you can probably guess. Meanwhile, many of the foreign replacements have been fired for being unable to perform their jobs because of lack experience to replace employees with 5 and 10+ years of experience. Some for being unable to effectively communicate with business partners and domestic employees. Others for just being purely incapable of doing the work in a timely fashion.
Better yet, one of the big wigs in charge of outsourcing jobs is himself from the outsourcing country, no conflict of interest there!
Sure, it's good for these other people who are getting jobs. Many of them are probably perfectly nice people. They are getting paid even less than people who were already underpaid.. But I guess with currency conversion rates it's a good deal for them..
But what makes me angry is these people aren't being replaced or let go because they are bad workers. It's simply because they can pay other people less to do it. Not a new thing, I know. But it just sickens and infuriates me that they so eagerly boot people with families, years of experience, and even relocating across the country to work with almost no notice at all. While they spend their final days working, they are babysitting and training the people who took their jobs. People who aren't ready to handle it on their own. People who do 1/4 the workload of the existing employees who themselves have been grossly overworked (just like that deal with Electronic Arts) and underpaid for years.
Maybe it's a blessing in disguise. Disney is a horrible company to work for. Hard long work for inadequate pay and managers who don't care about you and schedule you at weird non-standard work hours to cheat you out of overtime, sometimes by minutes.
But hey they can save even more money by replacing the underpaid employees. You know that 50 billion a year is hard to live on. I would be wary if I was a shareholder. Sure they are going to save money by selling out their fellow countrymen, but quality and productivity is taking a rather hard nose dive.
Most of you probably don't care but it felt good to vent. It hit home this time.. So you can imagine how I feel.
It a terrible thing that The American Dream is starting to no longer be available to, you know, Americans. Hard work and dedication to your craft doesn't mean a fucking thing.
