I was at a conference put on by the church I attended at the time, and afterwards, one of the speakers mentioned to me privately that he had just been laid off - and rather brutally, IMO - by the Koch's operation he had been with for some time. This gent was a very solid guy, and he warned me that the Koch's were wolves in sheep's clothing. From that point, I have found his warning to be valid.
The Kochs have their tentacles everywhere. Below is just a sample:
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I'm no expert on the Koch operations (or anything else) but I have read the book written by Charles Koch. And I've talked with maybe 50 people who have worked for Koch businesses.
Of the 50 employees - managers and hourly - 48 of them had negative things to say about Koch operations - and the other two struggled to find something positive to say.
The Kochs have a vision of strong, efficient, privately planned economies. Nothing wrong with that. But they believe that can be accomplished without strong families or strong cultures.
That kind of system is not sustainable, even if widgets are flying off the production line in record numbers.
In the Koch culture, generosity is sending each employee a Christmas card with Charles Koch's photograph - and without mentioning the word “Christmas.”