Morale and trust within the Walt Disney World government has deteriorated since allies of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took it over earlier this year, according to many employees who have departed in recent months saying the governing district has been politicized and cronyism now permeates the organization.

More than 40 out of about 370 employees have left the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District since it was taken over in February, raising concerns that decades of institutional knowledge is departing with them, along with a reputation for a well-run government.

“When I first joined the District, I found an organization that strived to be the very best at serving our community, sought the very best employees and valued those employees above all else,” a former facilities manager with three years of experience said in an employee exit survey last week. “I find myself leaving a completely different District. A District that prioritizes politics above all else and will gladly sacrifice its employees, its community and its work if there’s an opportunity to score political points.”

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    Not to mention all of Disney’s “support” for the lgbt community isn’t exactly…sincere.

    For most companies being “woke” is just marketing to get more people buying their products. To wit: Pride Month for several companies.

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      Which makes “Go Woke, Go Broke” that much more laughable. If “going woke” was so unprofitable, no major corporation would be “woke.” If being “anti-woke” was profitable, Target would stock anti-Trans clothing, Disney would have movies where the only LGBTQ characters are the villains, and all movies would only feature straight, white, Christian men as the leads perhaps with a “dumb but sexy blonde” love interest.

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      I find it so funny and sad that Republicans call this “virtue signaling” as if it’s a new thing and that companies haven’t been pandering to the public to increase sales since they’ve existed.

      And conservatives have always had a problem with it when it supports progressive ideals.