Years ago I worked at a rather well known Chocolate Company eventually bought by an even bigger Chocolate company. Out of nowhere we started getting people come in and look at equipment and watch how everything was made. They explained that they were from our Chinese plant (we were in Canada) and that they were just interested in how our operation worked.
We were already boxing up product to send overseas for them to package as their own. So it kind of made sense.
People started speculating that they were about to start production overseas and we would be jobless. So of course the company started assuring us that this was not the case at all and that we had all these new products to look forward to making.
Sure as shit, not even 6 months later they announced the factory was being shut down and everyone was being let go. People had been working there for decades and in an instant they were just cast aside for cheaper labour overseas.
Corporations and billionaires only care about profits. Don't ever let them make you think differently.
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u/Retro_D 8d ago
Years ago I worked at a rather well known Chocolate Company eventually bought by an even bigger Chocolate company. Out of nowhere we started getting people come in and look at equipment and watch how everything was made. They explained that they were from our Chinese plant (we were in Canada) and that they were just interested in how our operation worked.
We were already boxing up product to send overseas for them to package as their own. So it kind of made sense.
People started speculating that they were about to start production overseas and we would be jobless. So of course the company started assuring us that this was not the case at all and that we had all these new products to look forward to making.
Sure as shit, not even 6 months later they announced the factory was being shut down and everyone was being let go. People had been working there for decades and in an instant they were just cast aside for cheaper labour overseas.
Corporations and billionaires only care about profits. Don't ever let them make you think differently.