Jenny, have you ever had to sign the layoff/no return paperwork for over 400 people?
I had to sign over 60 of those for my GM line.
(out of approx 4000 in plant)
(an equal number in town and state were affected)
No politicians were affected though (aka Mike Dukakis, John Kerry, Teddy the drunken Senator)
I have never been in the position to make the decision or do the paperwork, but I have been made to deliver the bad news in person. As distasteful as it was for me, I knew it was worse for the other person.
("This hurts me more than it does you" is almost always a crock.)
In retrospect, the money saved by sending that work elsewhere never came anywhere close to overcoming the money lost because of various other decisions made around the same time. It may have allowed a bit more short term cash for better drinks at the next couple of trade shows.
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That was a nice little "get Trump" party the GOP fixed up last night. Looks like the GOP hit their rent-a-mob stride with the Thad Cochran affair and have polished it since. One almost wonders if they hired someone from the DNC to plan it, since the GOP tends to trip over it's own flaccid trunk; apparently they actually can plot and accomplish something if they really want to, and what we formerly believed to be failures were actually what they wanted to achieve all along.
Mr. niteowl77