Mickey Mouse when I ask him why he’s increasing my house rent by $100 dollars every month (he’s my landlord)
The underpaid disney employees on their way to evict me and my family
disney literally tried to do this ages ago. please watch defunctland explain it. im losing my mind. why
I would like to let people know that is a reality for many of the underpaid Disney employees as they can’t afford housing on their salaries
So Disney has apartment buildings it buys to rent cheaply to their employees
And I’m sure you can imagine the level of control Disney has over you when they control your employment and your housing
Originally it was just for the college program employees (like me) but got expanded to being available to all employees
Now I don’t know how it is with the full time employees, but if you were a college employee and you got “termed?” (Disney loves alternative language to control their employees, see being a ‘cast member on stage’ vs an employee at work). After being termed you had 24 hours to move out
Now, guess how well that worked for 19 year olds from Ohio who have nowhere to sleep and no way to get home
I knew a guy who had two “strikes” against him (calling out of work gets points against you, 3 points get you a strike) that had been waved as he had good reasons to miss those days. He then made a comment his supervisor didn’t like so she reversed the strikes being waved and gave him the third one for his comment. He then had to call his parents at 2 am to tell them he was now homeless in Orlando. Imagine if your boss could evict you for talking back
Now imagine you’re one of the many semi retired employees trying to stay afloat through their 70s, or the many employees who are recent immigrants, or who are parents of kids, or anyone else without a lot of work or housing options
Think of the shit they’d be able to do to you if losing your job meant immediately losing housing because your boss owns your home
Think of how much leverage that gives against the unions when your workers aren’t even secure from their employer in their home, where union dues paying for you to not work can’t save you from eviction because your boss decides if you get to live there
Any fucked up thing Disney does is almost always worse for their employees, and likely tested on them first
Bobby Driscoll as Josh in When I Grow Up (1951). Bob was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and had 53 acting credits from an unbilled 1943 bit to a 1965 Andy Warhol short, Dirt, as a nun in a bathtub.
After ten minor or bit parts, Bob was cast in Walt Disney’s first three live action features, Song of the South (1946), So Dear To My Heart (1949), and Treasure Island (1950). He was also the voice of Disney’s animated Peter Pan (1953). His entry among my best 1,001 movies is The Window (1949) and his other honorable mention is The Happy Time (1952). After The Happy Time, he was mostly limited to tv guest shots until 1957. He also had an uncredited bit in Lilies of the Field (1962) as a Mexican.
Not able to sustain an acting career despite his talent and determination, he had troubles with the law and with drugs, eventually being convicted, incarcerated, and labeled a drug addict. In 1962 he was successfully rehabbed, but he could not land any acting gigs in Hollywood or New York, effectively vanishing in 1965 after his brief encounter with Andy Warhol, until he was discovered dead at the age of 31 on Mar 30, 1968 by two children in an abandoned New York East Village slum.
