I'm pretty sure it was 1992; it was an intranet that was a couple of pages of pretty pictures and not much else, which over several years I made into a database-interactive business tool. But I could be wrong about the date. I'm bad with dates--have to carefully look everything up as to date, and struggle to tell people when something in my personal life happened.
Thanks for adding the info about H1-b workers being employees of a subcontractor. I was aware of that, but didn't make the distinction in the article.
I didn't even get much of a severance for training my replacement. Two weeks of pay and a free low-cost training course, if I remember correctly. So, Disney and IBM--two of a kind.