Don't Be A Job Hopper - Disney

This clever poster was designed by Walt Disney in 1944. A greedy grasshopper salivates, clutching his money and lunchpail as he hops from job to job in search of a higher salary. It is a stylistic reference to a 1934 Disney illustrated short, "The Grasshopper and the Ants", which many Americans of working age would recall with fondness from their childhoods. During WWII, American unemployment levels dropped to 1.4 percent due to the influx of production jobs for the war effort. Posters like this one sought to dissuade defense workers from using the labor shortage to "job hop." Walt Disney Studios was on the brink of financial ruin when WWII broke out. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Disney rented out their massive Burbank, CA lot to the US Army as barracks and signed a big Navy contract. They also created training videos and designed emblems at cost only. By 1943, almost 90% of Disney's work was related to the war effort, from films to posters such as this one. This is an Origi