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Post by gakaren on Oct 7, 2015 9:35:38 GMT -5
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Post by desertwoman on Oct 7, 2015 17:07:00 GMT -5
well well well Isn't this a great piece of news!
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Post by octave1 on Oct 7, 2015 20:26:14 GMT -5
I did not read the article, but I suspect that the job cuts are not going to affect those on top. I would be curious to know what departments they are streamlining.
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Post by desertwoman on Oct 7, 2015 22:38:05 GMT -5
I suspect you are right octave. But it shows they are feeling an effect from a shift in peoples' and countries' awareness. It's a start.
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Post by octave1 on Oct 8, 2015 8:22:36 GMT -5
desertwoman As much as I despise Monsanto I hate to think that many families will go broke. What will that 12% of people do: those who work in the offices, take care of the administration, etc.. These decision are only made to keep Monsanto profitable to its shareholders. Actually, just as profitable, regardless of the market slump. Appalling.
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Post by lilolpeapicker on Oct 8, 2015 9:42:26 GMT -5
As any big company would do. Unfortunate as that is hopefully the sales continue to fall with regard to the company poisoning all of us with their practices and products. I found out that one of the first GMO products produced was insulin in the 1970s. Boy was that a shocker!
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Post by brownrexx on Oct 8, 2015 10:26:57 GMT -5
Millions of lives have been saved with GMO insulin and if I were to need it, I think that I would prefer to have that type as opposed to one produced from ground up cow or pig pancreas. Not only that, but those animals probably ate GMO corn so wouldn't you be ingesting GMO's anyway?
As for Monsanto jobs - I also feel bad for anyone losing their livelihood but that's capitalism, aka the law of supply and demand. If less people are buying a product then jobs are not needed to produce that product. Sad for those people but true.
The job market is constantly changing. For example, what about all of the people who used to work for companies like Kodak making film and film cameras? Times change and so do jobs. We can't blame it on the companies for cutting unneeded jobs.
I feel fortunate not to have worked for a company like those.
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Post by binnylou on Oct 8, 2015 10:30:18 GMT -5
I feel fortunate not to have worked for a company like those. Hubby worked for Maytag for 39+ years. Then one day in April, he and 79 others didn't. We found there is life after Maytag, but the town of Newton has had it's struggles. Still does.
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Post by brownrexx on Oct 8, 2015 10:37:10 GMT -5
Actually I worked for Big Pharma for 20 years (Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson) and in 2008 they cut a huge amount of jobs but I was lucky. I was 56 years old and able to take the early retirement package deal and was happy to do it. Sadly quite a few others were laid off and were too young to retire. I felt bad for them.
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Post by lilolpeapicker on Oct 8, 2015 18:46:58 GMT -5
I have been on insulin(but am not presently) though I don't know whether it was gmo or not. I don't know if all insulin is gmo but I differ in that regard, brown, as far as that as opposed to animal insulin. It grosses me out to think it may have been gmo that I used And it is my understanding that gm foods(feeds) weren't around until mid 1990s though I don't know how true that is.
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Post by lilolpeapicker on Oct 9, 2015 9:25:49 GMT -5
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Post by restless on Oct 27, 2015 5:59:51 GMT -5
Younger people, if they are smart, do not plan on working with one employer for their entire career. It just doesn't happen much anymore. My resume is always up to date. My last employer, a huge corporation, much larger than Monsanto, used to ask for volunteers to be laid off first. People near retirement often chose to take the package. People who weren't near retirement, but were not satisfied with their jobs often volunteered...but their boss may not have let them take it.
It is harsh to say, but the next people laid off were the dead weight. Under performers. People who didn't get much work done. People who did work that needed to be fixed by someone else later. People with poor communication skills. People who argued their point with management too vigorously. People who didn't like to toe the line.
Only after the volunteers, the dead weight, and the feisty employees were laid off did the good employees start to get laid off. And it was tough to see them go. Even big evil corporations don't like to see good employees go.
An exception, of course, is when entire departments are no longer needed because products don't sell, technologies are no longer used, etc.
I was one of those that volunteered to be laid off, no where near retirement age. Boss wouldn't release me. So the job hunt started in earnest and I quit when I got a new job a few weeks later.
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