Lauren WeinsteinMay 18, 2023

BREAKING: #Disney kills billion dollar development plan in Florida

Disney Imagineering move to Florida from L.A. area has apparently been canceled, and team members already moved or planning to move are being offered opportunity to return to L.A. This will be very good news to most of these employees.

Show threadMatt BlazeMay 18, 2023

@lauren Very interesting.

(Canceling the move probably makes sense even for reasons having nothing to do with DeSantis. Imagineering seems to draw heavily on the talent pool in LA/Hollywood, far more so than FL).

Show threadLauren WeinsteinMay 18, 2023
@mattblaze They were losing key employees who didn't want to go, as you'd expect.
Show threadChoong NgMay 18, 2023
@lauren @mattblaze Putting an office there more or less means they can't hire anyone trans or who has a trans member of their family, similar restriction on visiting vendors, and on top of that with the RTO push employees with a big tech spouse will be looking at sacrificing significant income when they get a local FL job. Seems like a lot of trouble with no payoff other than maybe better Cuban food.
Show threadBroken TrolandMay 18, 2023
@choong @lauren @mattblaze Every company operating or thinking of operating in these states should be doing that same calculus. You're cutting yourself off from an increasingly large talent pool - not just of trans people, but all LGBT, women and minorities.
Show threadquixoteMay 18, 2023

@brandonlivesin @choong @lauren @mattblaze Plus any male doctors who don't want to be in a situation where they can't help a dying female patient. Or who don't want to endanger their female relatives by moving to such a place.

Pretty soon, you're up to 80% of everybody!

Show threadThe Actual Brian

@quixote @brandonlivesin @choong @lauren @mattblaze
Doctors are already fleeing Texas.

The Dell Children's medical center in Austin is completely without doctors.
They all just left.

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