This Virus Has Shown How Important Corporations Are To The People

[Half-Life]

With all the people losing their jobs now, they now realize just how important these big businesses are for their survival. Tons of people are out of work wondering how they are going to make money. But when they are employed, they have nothing but bad words for these companies.

I hopefully never want to hear leftists or progressives complaining about big businesses ever again. You see what happens when they shut down. Millions of people become stressed and scared for money.

What say you guys?

 

[Patooka]

Get help.

 

[Keith&Co.]

With all the people losing their jobs now, they now realize just how important these big businesses are for their survival.

actually, it's showing the failure of trickle-down economics. Many wealth owners see no reason to help or invest in the workers and even use the crisis to further exploit them.

Tons of people are out of work wondering how they are going to make money. But when they are employed, they have nothing but bad words for these companies.

tons of people are NOT out of work because Specific corporate people are going without their salary to keep the company afloat.
Which just makes one cast a side-eye at the corporations, and universities, and wealthy who are not sacrificing shit for anyone else's benefit.
Jared Kushner, for example, his company is not allowing any tenant any slack on their rent, but the company IS asking their creditors for leniency in this time of disruption.

I hopefully never want to hear leftists or progressives complaining about big businesses ever again.

you're not paying attention, then.
The company in Austin tgat wants to find out what $s their employees are ggetting from the stimulus bill SONTHRRY CAN DOCK THEIR PAY THAT MUCH?
i can see talking bad about them for a while....

You see what happens when they shut down. Millions of people become stressed and scared for money.

dude, even when corporations are running, people become stressed and scared for money. And healthcare. Safety. Security. .

What say you guys?

Get help.

 

[fromderinside]

With all the people losing their jobs now, they now realize just how important these big businesses are for their survival. Tons of people are out of work wondering how they are going to make money. But when they are employed, they have nothing but bad words for these companies.

I hopefully never want to hear leftists or progressives complaining about big businesses ever again. You see what happens when they shut down. Millions of people become stressed and scared for money.

What say you guys?

If corporations were responsible they would have planned to avoid hiccups like SARS cov - 2 by developing safe workplaces for their employees so production wouldn't stop nor sales diminish when something like that came along. They probably should have planned for supporting their employees' children with safe schooling too, Hell. Henry Ford pioneered such back in the early 20th century.

 

[Patooka]

If anything, this pandemic shows how little corporations give a shit about people. News Limited is a huge company with influence that rivals most nations. Their message during this pandemic? It's okay for you to die so long as there is a bump in the stock market.

I remember when movies like Repomen and Robocop were considered to be satire and not disturbingly prescient.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I'm grateful to work for a company that does care-ish about its workers. And it is trying to cope with the situation to not get rid of workers. We are an 'essential' company (no we don't make porn) so we still can work, but there are potential issues regarding projects remaining open.

One thing that bothers me is that outdoor construction is still a thing. Until the White House makes with a couple critical exec orders regarding consent decrees (though I'm not certain if even that can adjust things) or funding mechanisms (ie some projects need to be completed by some date to be qualified for Federal funding (and everything is funded federally, kind of sad really)) the work almost has to continue. Granted, it helps from laying people off as the US has refused to lift the economy on its back and instead is playing shell games.

But still, work for a company that is trying to make things work, which is hard because its own funding is based on revolving credit which requires the checks and revenue to keep coming in. That isn't going to be easy... for the entire public works engineering industry.

 

[ZiprHead]

This virus has shown how important the little people that Halfie spits on are to the nation's well-being.

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

With all the people losing their jobs now, they now realize just how important these big businesses are for their survival. Tons of people are out of work wondering how they are going to make money. But when they are employed, they have nothing but bad words for these companies.

I hopefully never want to hear leftists or progressives complaining about big businesses ever again. You see what happens when they shut down. Millions of people become stressed and scared for money.

What say you guys?

Let us know who's going to buy all the shit produced by these "important corporations" when everyone's out of a job.

The fuckwittery is epic.

 

[ideologyhunter]

Say Damn. That OP really set me back a step. Then I got all misty-eyed. Thank you, OP, for a teachable moment. I really have been a smartass, superficial, unappreciative liberal socialist communist tard. But I can do better. I salute you, Monsanto! Bravo, DowDuPont!! Kudos, kudos, kudos, Philip Morris!! I will be better from this point forward. Today's agenda: thank you notes with gift vouchers to CinnaBon to the CEOs of the top 20 Fortune 500 companies. But first I've promised to watch a movie marathon with an on-line friend...Silkwood (1983), Roger and Me (1989), The Insider (1999), Super Size Me (2004), Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005), Food Inc. (2008), and something called Dark Waters (2019)...I wonder if that's about surfing.

 

[Elixir]

Small businesses make up:99.7 percent of U.S. employer firms, 64 percent of net new private-sector jobs,49.2 percent of private-sector employment,42.9 percent of private-sector payroll,46 percent of private-sector output,43 percent of high-tech employment,98 percent of firms exporting goods, and33 percent of exporting value.

Teh stoopid runs really deep in conservotard circles.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Just spitballin', here, but i gotta think if you're a millionaire, or billionaire, and you're laying people off before you go broke, it's in your fucking hands. Not your skybeast's.

 

[Half-Life]

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Just spitballin', here, but i gotta think if you're a millionaire, or billionaire, and you're laying people off before you go broke, it's in your fucking hands. Not your skybeast's.

Keith,

It means the companies do not have enough of a profit to stay open. If they do not have enough profit, how can they afford to pay their workers?

It means nothing if a company makes a billion dollars in profit, but has hundreds of millions of dollars in expenses and payroll. Just from damaged products in the store alone, they probably lose millions of dollars.

Also look at food stores. They throw out mass quantities of food at the expiration date. They lose all that profit. Millions of dollars thrown away. And you're wondering why they lay people off?

"Pay me with the money you don't have! Stay open with the money you can't afford to pay rent to stay open!" doesn't sound too smart, does it?

 

[Half-Life]

actually, it's showing the failure of trickle-down economics. Many wealth owners see no reason to help or invest in the workers and even use the crisis to further exploit them. tons of people are NOT out of work because Specific corporate people are going without their salary to keep the company afloat.
Which just makes one cast a side-eye at the corporations, and universities, and wealthy who are not sacrificing shit for anyone else's benefit.
Jared Kushner, for example, his company is not allowing any tenant any slack on their rent, but the company IS asking their creditors for leniency in this time of disruption.

I hopefully never want to hear leftists or progressives complaining about big businesses ever again.

you're not paying attention, then.
The company in Austin tgat wants to find out what $s their employees are ggetting from the stimulus bill SONTHRRY CAN DOCK THEIR PAY THAT MUCH?
i can see talking bad about them for a while....

You see what happens when they shut down. Millions of people become stressed and scared for money.

dude, even when corporations are running, people become stressed and scared for money. And healthcare. Safety. Security. .

What say you guys?

Get help.

Keith,

it's been pointed out many times that if a company does not make a lot of profit, they can not afford to pay healthcare to their workers. Let's start with a basic question. If someone is hired at a job and works 25 hours a week, you are saying they should get free healthcare no questions asked for any type of illness or disease? What about the employee who only works 10 hours at a week at the job?

 

[Half-Life]

And it's been pointed out that if we took the 19.2 million that the CEO of Starbucks makes and distributed it to all their 291,000 employees evenly, they would each get a whopping....get ready for it....$65.98!!!! Poverty solved, Keith???

Boy, that CEO is really screwing those workers!!

 

[ZiprHead]

And it's been pointed out that if we took the 19.2 million that the CEO of Starbucks makes and distributed it to all their 291,000 employees evenly, they would each get a whopping....get ready for it....$65.98!!!! Poverty solved, Keith???

Boy, that CEO is really screwing those workers!!

For every CEO making multiple millions there are dozens of executives under them that are also making millions.

 

[Toni]

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Just spitballin', here, but i gotta think if you're a millionaire, or billionaire, and you're laying people off before you go broke, it's in your fucking hands. Not your skybeast's.

Keith,

It means the companies do not have enough of a profit to stay open. If they do not have enough profit, how can they afford to pay their workers?

It means nothing if a company makes a billion dollars in profit, but has hundreds of millions of dollars in expenses and payroll. Just from damaged products in the store alone, they probably lose millions of dollars.

Also look at food stores. They throw out mass quantities of food at the expiration date. They lose all that profit. Millions of dollars thrown away. And you're wondering why they lay people off?

"Pay me with the money you don't have! Stay open with the money you can't afford to pay rent to stay open!" doesn't sound too smart, does it?

Halfie:

Profit is the amount of money remaining after revenue is collected and all bills and payroll are paid. BTW, I'm pretty sure that Hobby Lobby's CEO and Board of Directors got paid.

For Hobby Lobby to maintain a profit while firing its entire workforce tells you everything you need to know about Hobby Lobby.

 

[Half-Life]

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Just spitballin', here, but i gotta think if you're a millionaire, or billionaire, and you're laying people off before you go broke, it's in your fucking hands. Not your skybeast's.

Keith,

It means the companies do not have enough of a profit to stay open. If they do not have enough profit, how can they afford to pay their workers?

It means nothing if a company makes a billion dollars in profit, but has hundreds of millions of dollars in expenses and payroll. Just from damaged products in the store alone, they probably lose millions of dollars.

Also look at food stores. They throw out mass quantities of food at the expiration date. They lose all that profit. Millions of dollars thrown away. And you're wondering why they lay people off?

"Pay me with the money you don't have! Stay open with the money you can't afford to pay rent to stay open!" doesn't sound too smart, does it?

Halfie:

Profit is the amount of money remaining after revenue is collected and all bills and payroll are paid. BTW, I'm pretty sure that Hobby Lobby's CEO and Board of Directors got paid.

For Hobby Lobby to maintain a profit while firing its entire workforce tells you everything you need to know about Hobby Lobby.

But logically, the workers can not all get paid millions of dollars in salary to stock shelves and punch a cash register. Do you know what that would do to inflation? Prices would skyrocket. The company would also have no profits.

I used to joke around that if we got paid 8 million dollars an hour, a can of soda would be 1 million dollars.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Keith,

It means the companies do not have enough of a profit to stay open. If they do not have enough profit, how can they afford to pay their workers?

as explained elsewhere in this thread.
SOME of the rich bastards at the top are using their personal funds to keep the company afloat.
Some are granting big severance packages.
Who owns Hobby Lobby, and wgat are they worth?
And have they EVER read anything Jesus said about how to treat the poor?

It means nothing if a company makes a billion dollars in profit, but has hundreds of millions of dollars in expenses and payroll. Just from damaged products in the store alone, they probably lose millions of dollars.

we have a discrete approach to the problem, here.
I, the atheist, think the people are more important than the corporate returns to investors.
You, the alleged Xian, value wealth more than workers.

Also look at food stores. They throw out mass quantities of food at the expiration date.

you mean, they obey the law? Weird.

They lose all that profit. Millions of dollars thrown away. And you're wondering why they lay people off?

the supermarkets here are bending over backwards to keep everyone employed.
Hobby ket tgem go without two weeks notice. So, like, fuck corporate.

"Pay me with the money you don't have!

but thry DO have the money. That's the whole point.

Stay open with the money you can't afford to pay rent to stay open!" doesn't sound too smart, does it?

no, but it does sound humble, generous, empathetic...you know, what i was told Christains should be, back when i was one.

 

[Keith&Co.]

actually, it's showing the failure of trickle-down economics. Many wealth owners see no reason to help or invest in the workers and even use the crisis to further exploit them. tons of people are NOT out of work because Specific corporate people are going without their salary to keep the company afloat.
Which just makes one cast a side-eye at the corporations, and universities, and wealthy who are not sacrificing shit for anyone else's benefit.
Jared Kushner, for example, his company is not allowing any tenant any slack on their rent, but the company IS asking their creditors for leniency in this time of disruption.
you're not paying attention, then.
The company in Austin tgat wants to find out what $s their employees are ggetting from the stimulus bill SONTHRRY CAN DOCK THEIR PAY THAT MUCH?
i can see talking bad about them for a while.... dude, even when corporations are running, people become stressed and scared for money. And healthcare. Safety. Security. .

What say you guys?

Get help.

Keith,

it's been pointed out many times that if a company does not make a lot of profit, they can not afford to pay healthcare to their workers. Let's start with a basic question. If someone is hired at a job and works 25 hours a week, you are saying they should get free healthcare no questions asked for any type of illness or disease? What about the employee who only works 10 hours at a week at the job?

Jesus fucking Christ and His silk-lined glory hole.
Respond to the contents of tge post, or don't even bother.

 

[Patooka]

Halfie:

Profit is the amount of money remaining after revenue is collected and all bills and payroll are paid. BTW, I'm pretty sure that Hobby Lobby's CEO and Board of Directors got paid.

For Hobby Lobby to maintain a profit while firing its entire workforce tells you everything you need to know about Hobby Lobby.

But logically, the workers can not all get paid millions of dollars in salary to stock shelves and punch a cash register. Do you know what that would do to inflation? Prices would skyrocket. The company would also have no profits.

I used to joke around that if we got paid 8 million dollars an hour, a can of soda would be 1 million dollars.

This is why the assertion could be made that you don't argue in good faith and are a troll. Nobody was talking about increasing wages. All Keith pointed out was a corporation firing people whilst still making nine figure profits really doesn't give a fuck about people. Considering the stimulus package the US government is handing out, Hobby Lobby has no excuse to fire its workers, it's just a cunt move.

"We need to fire our workers because our EBIT is only half a billion dollars". That's your argument? That's pathetic.