Sally Mullihan of Coral Springs, FL decided to take one of the jobs that most Americans are not willing to do.
Sally applied for a job at a Florida lemon grove and seemed to be far too qualified for the job. She had a liberal arts degree from the University of Michigan and had worked as a social worker and as a school teacher.
The foreman frowned and said, “I have to ask you, have you had any actual experience in picking lemons?”
“Well, as a matter of fact, I have,” she said: “I’ve been divorced 3 times, owned 2 Chrysler’s and I voted twice for Obama.”
Anonymous
January 29, 2016 8:57 am
Disney costumes have been reported to have lice and smell.
Administrator
Author
January 29, 2016 9:00 am
by Karl Denninger
How Disney Makes Money
Very nice Disney….
Between 200 and 300 Disney IT workers were laid off in January 2015. Some of the workers had to train their foreign replacements — workers on H-1B visas — as a condition of severance.
They sued, alleging violations of RICO.
IMHO, good.
To obtain an employee under H1B the company has to show that US employees will not be “adversely affected.”
How do you do that when you’re not going to only fire people you demand that as a condition of severance they train the H1b replacement?
Good luck Disney… you’re going to need it, I suspect, on this one.
PS: Disney isn’t the only company doing this. In fact, it’s part and parcel of how firms have “beat earnings expectations” over the last number of years and incidentally, it’s also a position (massive increases in H1b Visas) that is linked directly and indirectly to firms like Facebook, media companies like Fox News and others.
Indeed, you might reasonably conclude that this is where a lot of animosity by those firms and media outlets towards Donald Trump is coming from, as he is the only candidate that has said he will put a stop to this crap and instead protect American jobs.
SpecOpsAlpha
January 29, 2016 9:27 am
If importing workers cause unemployment, then how do the unemployed people buy what the foreign workers produce?
But yes, there is more to this than simple logic: Americans shouldn’t be displaced by aliens in our own land. The imported workers are treated like coolies and many of the Americans are older and nearly unemployable.
It truly is an evil demonic world and causing Americans to lose homes and take their kids out of college is one thing we can make right legally.
Tucci78
January 29, 2016 9:54 am
Claims that Trump “isn’t conservative enough” come in here.
Many have argued that modern American conservatism hews to a version of “capitalism” which is, in fact, not free-market at all but rather *corporatist* in very much the sense that Mussolini had called his Italian fascism “corporatism.”
I’m inclined to use the term “mercantilism,” as we seem to be facing a Red Faction up-sucking to the same forces in the U.S. political economy as had been inveighed against by Adam Smith and Cobden and Bright and Bastiat and all the Austrian School economists more recently. \
Granted that the Republican establishment fits the “Rotarian Socialists” description so eloquently applied to their predecessors by Frank Chodarov back in the ’50s (a sort of “Three cheers for free enterprise, and keep them subsidies, tax credits, set-asides, quotas, no-bid contracts, sweetheart deals, competition-killing regulations, and zero-interest loans a-coming!” sentiment), The Donald may genuinely be playing the Death Star to their Alderaan.
Stubb
January 29, 2016 10:21 am
Disney Co. has become like that lying whore, Minnie Mouse. They are screwing mickey and fuckin’ goofy
Billy
January 29, 2016 12:17 pm
Disney started out as something wholesome.
A great many of their animated features – both movie-length and shorts – used European folk tales, legends and/or histories as their source materials. A great deal from Grimm’s compiling.
What most of those tales, legends, stories, histories did, was teach. Either directly, as they were and still are products of their times.
And for a time, they stayed true to those stories. Well, within reason. Often, those original stories had something harsh going on that they niced down, glossed over or omitted for younger audiences and make them suitable. But still, pretty close, all things considered.
Then they shifted. They still used those stories as source material, but corrupted them – substituting others or turning the story 180 degrees.
What changed?
The ownership.
Here’s a list of past Disney CEO’s.
1923–1966: Walt Disney
1966–1971: Roy O. Disney
1971–1972: Donn Tatum
1972–1977: E. Cardon Walker
1977–1984: Ron W. Miller
1984–1994: Frank Wells
1994–1997: Michael Ovitz
1997–2000: Michael Eisner
2000–2012: Robert Iger
Ron Miller was Walt Disney’s son-in-law.
His predecessor, Wells, conspired with certain individuals named Roy E. Disney and Stanley Gold. They recruited Wells to become Disney’s President and Chief Operating Officer (1984–1994), along with Michael Eisner.
Roy Disney was Walt’s nephew. Apparently, he is also a scheming, conniving shit weasel.
I find it not-a-coincidence that Disney’s changeover into something gross and slimy and unwholesome occurred in the middle 90’s, right when a certain bunch of Eskimos got directly involved… but, not without the help of conniving shit weasels… it is very, very far from Walt’s original vision. Pretty much all he wanted to do was make kids happy…
What it is now is… disgusting.
I have never set foot in a Disney theme park. Ever. And God willing, I will go to my grave the same way.
Billy
January 29, 2016 12:19 pm
Sorry.. a mistake.
Wells was not his predecessor.
He was his successor.
Sorry for the screwup.
starfcker
January 29, 2016 1:43 pm
Billy, all I can say is bravo, and ditto on your last sentence. To my grave.
Thinker
January 29, 2016 1:55 pm
Agree, Billy. I’ve hated Disney since the 80’s, when it was clear they were changing the fables and tales to suit a political / social agenda. What they’ve done since the 90s to workers, the public, etc. is beyond disbelief.
Always hated them. Always will.
Westcoaster
January 29, 2016 2:52 pm
I once worked for a software company owned by a Bulgarian couple who had emigrated to the U.S. They used the H1B law to populate their 10 or 12 coders, even going so far as to “lend” them a couple of vehicles and “rent” them a house or two. They produced a shit product that was error-laden and substandard. Any applicants who were U.S. citizens weren’t interviewed. I was caught in between the poor clients who were trapped by this software, and the owners, who could give a shit. So I eventually left.
nkit
January 30, 2016 9:55 am
Disney….before it became polluted
hardscrabble farmer
January 30, 2016 10:47 am
Scarecrow was one of my fondest memories as a child.
nkit
January 30, 2016 11:10 am
Indeed, HF. One of mine also. I believe it came out in 1963. We had just gotten a color TV and Disney, Bonanza and the MLB Saturday game of the week were the only shows in color.
EL Coyote
January 30, 2016 1:36 pm
Thinker says: Agree, Billy. I’ve hated Disney since the 80’s, when it was clear they were changing the fables and tales to suit a political / social agenda.
It took me another decade to realize what was going on. When they began gay nights, I resolved to stop going. 20 years later I forgot all about it, my daughter wanted me to meet her there. I asked and found I could take a bag full of water and soda, soda water, pop, whatever. A 2×2 cooler bag I got at Costco, it had black and white cow patterns on it. I guess it could look like a purse. I slung it over my shoulder and twice, a couple of women knocked it off my shoulder rudely, like they thought I was some queer fucking faggot out in broad daylight. If I could pull off fey, I would have said, your just jealous, honey.
Unfathomable
January 30, 2016 3:46 pm
Bizarre. I just thought I saw two Mexicans with cow pattern purses on TV. But it was just Cruz & Rubio campaigning on a dairy farm in Iowa. The farmer hosting the event was very rude. He looked right at them both, and said: “Smell my derriere”.
Unfathomable
January 30, 2016 3:51 pm
And, everyone smiled like they were going to Disneyland…
This is a great example of why people want Trump
just another reason to say “Fuq Disney”
Sally Mullihan of Coral Springs, FL decided to take one of the jobs that most Americans are not willing to do.
Sally applied for a job at a Florida lemon grove and seemed to be far too qualified for the job. She had a liberal arts degree from the University of Michigan and had worked as a social worker and as a school teacher.
The foreman frowned and said, “I have to ask you, have you had any actual experience in picking lemons?”
“Well, as a matter of fact, I have,” she said: “I’ve been divorced 3 times, owned 2 Chrysler’s and I voted twice for Obama.”
Disney costumes have been reported to have lice and smell.
by Karl Denninger
How Disney Makes Money
Very nice Disney….
Between 200 and 300 Disney IT workers were laid off in January 2015. Some of the workers had to train their foreign replacements — workers on H-1B visas — as a condition of severance.
They sued, alleging violations of RICO.
IMHO, good.
To obtain an employee under H1B the company has to show that US employees will not be “adversely affected.”
How do you do that when you’re not going to only fire people you demand that as a condition of severance they train the H1b replacement?
Good luck Disney… you’re going to need it, I suspect, on this one.
PS: Disney isn’t the only company doing this. In fact, it’s part and parcel of how firms have “beat earnings expectations” over the last number of years and incidentally, it’s also a position (massive increases in H1b Visas) that is linked directly and indirectly to firms like Facebook, media companies like Fox News and others.
Indeed, you might reasonably conclude that this is where a lot of animosity by those firms and media outlets towards Donald Trump is coming from, as he is the only candidate that has said he will put a stop to this crap and instead protect American jobs.
If importing workers cause unemployment, then how do the unemployed people buy what the foreign workers produce?
But yes, there is more to this than simple logic: Americans shouldn’t be displaced by aliens in our own land. The imported workers are treated like coolies and many of the Americans are older and nearly unemployable.
It truly is an evil demonic world and causing Americans to lose homes and take their kids out of college is one thing we can make right legally.
Claims that Trump “isn’t conservative enough” come in here.
Many have argued that modern American conservatism hews to a version of “capitalism” which is, in fact, not free-market at all but rather *corporatist* in very much the sense that Mussolini had called his Italian fascism “corporatism.”
I’m inclined to use the term “mercantilism,” as we seem to be facing a Red Faction up-sucking to the same forces in the U.S. political economy as had been inveighed against by Adam Smith and Cobden and Bright and Bastiat and all the Austrian School economists more recently. \
Granted that the Republican establishment fits the “Rotarian Socialists” description so eloquently applied to their predecessors by Frank Chodarov back in the ’50s (a sort of “Three cheers for free enterprise, and keep them subsidies, tax credits, set-asides, quotas, no-bid contracts, sweetheart deals, competition-killing regulations, and zero-interest loans a-coming!” sentiment), The Donald may genuinely be playing the Death Star to their Alderaan.
Disney Co. has become like that lying whore, Minnie Mouse. They are screwing mickey and fuckin’ goofy
Disney started out as something wholesome.
A great many of their animated features – both movie-length and shorts – used European folk tales, legends and/or histories as their source materials. A great deal from Grimm’s compiling.
What most of those tales, legends, stories, histories did, was teach. Either directly, as they were and still are products of their times.
And for a time, they stayed true to those stories. Well, within reason. Often, those original stories had something harsh going on that they niced down, glossed over or omitted for younger audiences and make them suitable. But still, pretty close, all things considered.
Then they shifted. They still used those stories as source material, but corrupted them – substituting others or turning the story 180 degrees.
What changed?
The ownership.
Here’s a list of past Disney CEO’s.
1923–1966: Walt Disney
1966–1971: Roy O. Disney
1971–1972: Donn Tatum
1972–1977: E. Cardon Walker
1977–1984: Ron W. Miller
1984–1994: Frank Wells
1994–1997: Michael Ovitz
1997–2000: Michael Eisner
2000–2012: Robert Iger
Ron Miller was Walt Disney’s son-in-law.
His predecessor, Wells, conspired with certain individuals named Roy E. Disney and Stanley Gold. They recruited Wells to become Disney’s President and Chief Operating Officer (1984–1994), along with Michael Eisner.
Roy Disney was Walt’s nephew. Apparently, he is also a scheming, conniving shit weasel.
I find it not-a-coincidence that Disney’s changeover into something gross and slimy and unwholesome occurred in the middle 90’s, right when a certain bunch of Eskimos got directly involved… but, not without the help of conniving shit weasels… it is very, very far from Walt’s original vision. Pretty much all he wanted to do was make kids happy…
What it is now is… disgusting.
I have never set foot in a Disney theme park. Ever. And God willing, I will go to my grave the same way.
Sorry.. a mistake.
Wells was not his predecessor.
He was his successor.
Sorry for the screwup.
Billy, all I can say is bravo, and ditto on your last sentence. To my grave.
Agree, Billy. I’ve hated Disney since the 80’s, when it was clear they were changing the fables and tales to suit a political / social agenda. What they’ve done since the 90s to workers, the public, etc. is beyond disbelief.
Always hated them. Always will.
I once worked for a software company owned by a Bulgarian couple who had emigrated to the U.S. They used the H1B law to populate their 10 or 12 coders, even going so far as to “lend” them a couple of vehicles and “rent” them a house or two. They produced a shit product that was error-laden and substandard. Any applicants who were U.S. citizens weren’t interviewed. I was caught in between the poor clients who were trapped by this software, and the owners, who could give a shit. So I eventually left.
Disney….before it became polluted
Scarecrow was one of my fondest memories as a child.
Indeed, HF. One of mine also. I believe it came out in 1963. We had just gotten a color TV and Disney, Bonanza and the MLB Saturday game of the week were the only shows in color.
Thinker says: Agree, Billy. I’ve hated Disney since the 80’s, when it was clear they were changing the fables and tales to suit a political / social agenda.
It took me another decade to realize what was going on. When they began gay nights, I resolved to stop going. 20 years later I forgot all about it, my daughter wanted me to meet her there. I asked and found I could take a bag full of water and soda, soda water, pop, whatever. A 2×2 cooler bag I got at Costco, it had black and white cow patterns on it. I guess it could look like a purse. I slung it over my shoulder and twice, a couple of women knocked it off my shoulder rudely, like they thought I was some queer fucking faggot out in broad daylight. If I could pull off fey, I would have said, your just jealous, honey.
Bizarre. I just thought I saw two Mexicans with cow pattern purses on TV. But it was just Cruz & Rubio campaigning on a dairy farm in Iowa. The farmer hosting the event was very rude. He looked right at them both, and said: “Smell my derriere”.
And, everyone smiled like they were going to Disneyland…