Community Chat

[Peaches McPhee]

I think they "expected" to stay afloat financially.  

How can people can expect businesses to be closed indefinitely, and then re-open like nothing happened?

[Pearlee]

@ellaphant
As you post on so many threads: who cares?

[sharlee]

Well, there are reason the employees years ago nicknamed Disney "Mousewitz."

[Mersha]

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@sharlee wrote:

Well, there are reason the employees years ago nicknamed Disney "Mousewitz."

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I do not understand your reply.

Can you clarify, please?

[stevieb]

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@Nancy Drew wrote:

I am not sure what you mean by what did they expect? They just like any business made plans to expect the worse, hope for the best. They were figuring it out in real time just like everyone else who never had to deal with this ever before.

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Exactly... Like many, they might also have been hoping for a miracle or at least for the highly vaunted 'science' to have come up with something other than social distancing to abate the impact of this virus by now...

[Pearlee]

@Mersha
I never heard that before but assume it's being compared to Auschwitz.

[Mindy D]

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@Mersha wrote:

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@sharlee wrote:

Well, there are reason the employees years ago nicknamed Disney "Mousewitz."

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I do not understand your reply.

Can you clarify, please?

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@Mersha @Pearlee @At first reading, I thought the poster was making some kind of anti Semitic remark so I looked into this. I found the post was just the opposite of this. It seems that working conditions at Disney have been so disliked by some of the workers that they have likened it to Auschwitz, so they nicknamed the place Mousewitz. They have also nicknamed it Duckau. 

[Porcelain]

I think Disney expected customers to trust them to keep them safe. Which they did. But people don't trust Florida to keep them safe. Which also makes perfect sense.

Disney has Covid rules. Florida doesn't.

Florida is making a big point that anything goes and you're on your own when it comes to Covid in their state. Visit at your own risk. Okay good rock on with your bad selves thanks for letting us know.

[violann]

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@CelticCrafter wrote:

I know for a fact, some employees that were put on furlough were not asked back.

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I know TWO, very talented kids with impeccable training in their skill areas. Both were furloughed early in the pandemic.

[Johnnyeager]

The inability to open Disneyland has led to the bulk of the fiscal stress.

Disney has been covering health benefits for most furloughed employees but can no longer do that financially. 

The demand to visit the Florida operations, at reduced capacity, exists.  Florida is not the primary financial problem.