Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Barbershop Talk
Living in or near Tinseltown (i.e., Hollywood) does have its advantages. Sometimes one gets to hear industry scuttlebutt (possibly) before it hits the newspapers.
This morning, my long-delayed visit to the barbershop finally came to pass (I couldn't stand it anymore) this morning. While getting myself a haircut, another customer came in and was seated at the chair next to mine.
He works in some capacity in the movie industry (I think he said he's a sculptor) and said that he has to scramble around for work. Then he dropped a bombshell.
He said that the Walt Disney Company is about to lay off 300 to 500 workers!
Ouch! That's a lot of people who will be out of work. I did see a June 6 news item about Disney laying off 250 workers globally, but what I heard this morning was local.
It seems that hope & change is not exactly working out for those in an industry who are predominantly liberal and are Democrat/Obama supporters.
Instead of "spreading the wealth," they're going so see "spreading the misery."
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