Posted on 11/07/2012 3:14:50 PM PST by publana
My friend who works at RIM in Irving, TX just called to tell me he, and 3000 others, were just laid off. The plant is closing. He says another employee told him it was because of the election.
It's a sad day for this man as he was already extremely depressed that Romney lost. Now to lose his job?
health insurance
either raise their and/or their employees benefit costs to cover all the mandates, or pay the fines instead, or just cancel all the health plan and send the employees into the government subsidized plan
so be a shnook and raise the employees costs, or be a shnook and throw them onto the government
or get out of the human resources rat race under Obamaccare altogether
I am curious because I have two family members who each own their businesses and wonder how the near future will affect them and if they may decide it's time to pack it in. Thanks for sharing your story.
RIM was already circling the drain, nothing to do with Obama.
I am personally familiar with a 5000 user organization that is in the process of dropping them.
My wife grew up in Ferndale.
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Off topic, but that jogged my old memories.
Wasn’t there a late night TV show of that name with a host that had a blond mustache and a sidekick who later became the guy that frequently appeared on Leno as a martini slurping drunk?
I think that was Fernwood Tonight and it starred Martin Mull and Fred Willard, I LOVED that show.
Blackberry? They still make those?
I’m guessing that they closed because blackberry’s experienced a drop in marketshare as a result of the dominance of the iphone AND growth of the android market.
However, closing the day after the election is brilliant marketing. Cheers
Good luck and God bless. The real tragedy are the people behind all these numbers...unemmployment, bank ruptcy , etc....
lol.... Thanks for the correction, and the two names I just couldn’t think of last night! That was a pretty funny show.
RIM was in trouble anyway, but I can see the election results being the final straw for any work here in the States (RIM is Candadian).
Yeah, it was. I wasn't happy when it got canceled.
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