Yeah.....Right before Christmas.
It's like Ebenezer Scrooge running these companies.......You can't tell me that the decision to shut down wasn't an immediate thing.....They probably knew the inevitable for..months. Just wanted to maximize their profit sheet,...to make their mansion payment,..and Mercedes payment,...and a few trinkets and baubles from the jewelry store for the wife,..(..and mistress..)..
They'll have a good Christmas......at the expense of their stranded drivers
any company from any industry when they want to shut down, or HAVE to shut down, they do it before the end of the year, as to not carry over into the new year (taxes and inventory reasons i was told) and one would think that by at least December 31st, would be a better time to do this, but many do not, and shut down from between Thanksgiving Day and Christmas day.
makes for hardships on the employee's and thier families, but in the reality of it all, they really do not care, it's all about themselves.
i went thru a shut down, decades ago, when i turned wrenches. it was too, before Christmas, and as a result i did not get my yearly x-mass bonus. i got into the face of the owner, whom i had worked for him for nearly 10 years, and i was his "go to man" in running the shop.
i asked him out right if i was still going to get that yearly bonus and he said no. he also took away my weekly gas allowance ($20 weekly as one of my benefits, as he never had any health benefits) and he said, "you don't work for me any more"
i left my tools there, went and got another job that day.
that night, i moved all my stuff out, locked up the building and took off.
the new employer must have called for a reference, cuz a few days later, he shows up at the new employer, and hands me over an envelope with my bonus, only to say then that he "was going to give me that bonus".......like hell, leaving him in the lurch, as he did me, made him feel guilty for how he treated me.
i make no bones about it, you treat me like dog crap, you're gonna get the same from me.
