Goofy and Daffy

I'm not a fan of fiction at all, and since everything Disney is a made-up world of ducks and mice that talk and Frozen princesses that wanna build snowmen and so on, I'm not interested in their Magic Kingdom with its rules and regulations. Old Walt Disney was notoriously illiberal, hated unions, colluded with the government during the Red Scare...yuck.

I wouldn't want to work there, but I understand people would, so, fine, but it's not part of any magic when you see things like this:

Two members of a Walt Disney Company product design team sued their employer on Tuesday, alleging that the company pressured them and several others to relocate from Southern California to Orlando to join a new office that was scuttled shortly after they bought new homes.

Disney asked employees Maria De La Cruz and George Fong in 2021 to relocate to Lake Nona, a planned community in Orlando, and courted them with the promise of affordable housing, strong schools and a new office with extensive amenities, according to the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Those who didn’t relocate would lose their jobs, managers allegedly told the team.

So here's the deal: move from LaLaLand to FlaLaLa, sell your old house, and buy a new one (probably in a place that looks like the set of The Truman Show) and then sit there with your thumb up your backyard because The Mouse fought with The Louse and you're the one who lost.

I like how Disney told these people to move on down there and wait! And like cruel second-graders playing Hide and Go Seek at a birthday party, they can wait until Walt thaws out, for all the company cares.

“Disney upended 250 families for no reason whatsoever, without fully compensating these individuals for the significant losses relating to the unnecessary move,” says Jason Lohr, an attorney for Fong and De La Cruz.

And after Disney scuttled the new project for which these families moved to Hell With An Amusement Park Florida, the Fong and De La Cruz families, among others, tried to move back to Cali, only to find it hard to sell their new houses (since the project tanked) and harder yet to find housing like what they sold in the first place.

“We truly regret the disruption you’ve all faced due to this initiative,” a Disney representative told Fong and De La Cruz in an email, according to the lawsuit.

Maybe they should offer the families free hats with big round ears.