In September 2017, Asplundh Tree Service got bent with a $95,000,000 fine for hiring illegals.
That’s pretty serious stuff, and in my opinion long overdue with that company. Schadenfreude does not quite fulfill the feeling I had when I read that headline some months ago.
I have had at least three dealings with Asplundh back in Ohio on my property. They had a contract with AEP keeping ROWs cleared...one of those being an 800’ ROW on my place.
The last event...well, quite the language barrier going on with the four crew when I busted them the first morning for not doing what I had agreed to with the area supervisor. I got the confusion cleared up after the one “lead guy” understood me enough to hand a card with the supervisor’s phone number.
They then proceeded in the course of the next day to drop two trees on a couple of young-ish sugar maples I had rescued from the briars and grape vines many years ago which by then had turned into some very handsome contributors to the landscape.
When I saw that happen I went running and screaming at them. I told them I was calling the supervisor to get them run off. The lead hombre understood just enough that he was willing to barter some work if I did not call.
I pointed to a real big “leaner” of a ash tree that was going to be real byotch to handle myself. I got through to them enough to make it clear if they would drop that ash, I would not call.
What did those most colorful Kentucky ironworkers I used to work around call incompetents like that? Oh yeah...SHEEPKILLERS.
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In September 2017, Asplundh Tree Service got bent with a $95,000,000 fine for hiring illegals.
That’s pretty serious stuff, and in my opinion long overdue with that company. Schadenfreude does not quite fulfill the feeling I had when I read that headline some months ago.
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Great. *Maybe* they learned their lesson, maybe not. I didn’t find where the fine was PIF...Didn’t note, either, where they lost the municipal contracts a/o prohibited from bidding. All too often, we’ve seen these types of ‘fines’ on a biz....that easily absorbs the costs w/o detriment.
Yet, my point still stands: Not *ONE* govt employee/officer/agent/etc. even FIRED. Illegals remain 1) our Rights are violated via govt (aka ‘welfare’) 2) Govt ITSELF violates its own laws/endeavors (IRS [illegally] allows TIN for EITC, small border/ICE force, ‘catch-n-release’ vs. high flight-risk, in-state costs for illegals, etc....)
Dry up the pipeline by jailing those in GOVT. Biz can’t keep the flood-gates open like govt.