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Lowe's To Lay Off About 125 Workers, Move Jobs To India (go.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Home improvement retailer Lowe's says it's laying off approximately 125 information technology workers, the third round of job cuts this year. Chief Information Officer Paul Ramsay said in a memo that the affected workers were notified Wednesday. He said the Mooresville, North Carolina-based company has spent the last several years planning a strategic IT workforce team to respond better in what he called "this highly competitive 24/7 retail environment." Some of the jobs will be relocated to Bangalore, India.
Trump hasn't "made his move" yet, obviously. I'm sure he'll be all over this. He cares about American jobs after all.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
Founder of Lowes is a Hillary supporter and contributed money to her campaign.
Founder of Home Depot is a Trump supporter and contributed money to his campaign.
These two companies form a duopoly in the home improvement stores in the US, and the Republican/Democrat parties are a duopoly in government.
The President can't write checks, only Congress can do that. Obama started his term during the worst recession since the 1920s, and left the job with a stock market at record highs, unemployment numbers at near record low, and 20 million Americans on health insurance who couldn't previously get it. On top of that, he vastly improved relations with all our allies around the world, who were delighted to get to deal with a mature, respectful, and thoughtful President after #43's reign. Of course Americans then deiced that "No, our President should be an uninformed, loudmouthed, bragging buffoon!". So our allies are once again having to deal with an American government that can't be unpredictable, untrustworthy, and undiplomatic...
If more people were willing to pay a little bit extra and go to companies that treated their employees fairly and bought their goods from firms that did the same the world would be a better place.
They mostly don't exist.
I started driving 1.5 hrs to a HD after the local hardware store* would not sell me a replacement entry door for less than $459 and I found one at HD for $129, based on a co-worker's recommendation (HD did not have any websites then).
* the one of three that actually had doors
My God, it's Full of Source!
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