Since this thread garnered such interest, here is some accelerant -
First, the editors note from Dusty:
A round of layoffs has hit Team Disney Anaheim, the week before Christmas no less. Vice Presidents and senior management in several non-critical departments have been dismissed and walked out of the building in the last few days, as President Michael Colglazier is pressed to cut costs wherever he can. These layoffs are currently confined to Marketing, Finance and some of the fiefdoms in TDA that have no direct impact on theme park or hotel operations, so the departures shouldn't be felt by front line Cast Members or paying guests. But it's all due to Burbank mandates related to the troubled MagicBand rollout in Orlando. Christmas layoffs, putting Star Wars Land and other expansion on hold, and closing the Submarines with a fake "refurbishment" story likely won't be the end of the heartache for Anaheim, as more layoffs are set to hit TDA this winter. Not the warm holiday update we'd like to deliver.
And also the information in the thread mentioning the elimination of the local social media team in Anaheim:
Originally Posted by
Westsider
Next time you are up on the 4th floor at TDA, walk down Executive Row and see which Vice President name is missing on the doors there. (Hint: His entire Disney career was involved with I.T.) There's also a few missing names in the Safety Dept., and in the Old Admin building on floors 2 and 3.
I don't know who or how many in Marketing got the axe, but that department was also the rumor from managers lunching at the InnBetween this week. They may just be parroting what Miceage said, however. Marketing isn't respected in the parks, so the lunching managers were happy to gloat over that, so take that as you will.
And I've learned from Facebook that it's not just salaried suits that got the axe.
Come the first week of January there will be no one staffing the @DCAToday and @DisneylandToday twitter feeds. That team of hourly CM's in the Social Command Center was all let go, although they get to keep their jobs through January 4th. Facebook rumor is that a manager will do a skeleton update to those twitter feeds in January, as they figure out a way to shut it down or morph it into the Disney Parks Blog team in Celebration, Florida.
I think sometimes people lump the title "TDA" into any backstage, white collar role. But there are several other backstage offices besides TDA, and there were in fact a healthy round of layoffs in those various white collar offices quite suddenly last week.
@
pheneix - does this sound about right?
(glad you had a good trip though)
