Scrooge Sighted In North Carolina!

Company hands out pink slips to layoff workers

12/7/2004 2:12 PM
By: Debbie Tanna & Web Staff

A Fayetteville (NC) based humvee repair shop is handing out pink slips to dozens of workers at its plant.

Just months after opening, Lear Seigler Services Incorporated is cutting its workforce in half.

The news came as a surprise to those who are now unemployed.

Envelopes stuffed with letters announcing a layoff wasn't what employees at Lear Seigler were expecting to get for a Christmas bonus this year. They were handed out just hours before the cutbacks began.

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However, that's one side of the story. News 14 Carolina did try to talk to some of the higher-ups, but they made us leave the property, and gave us no explanation for the layoffs.

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Lear Seigler is contracted by the government to repair battle worn military humvees.

The starting salary for an experienced mechanic is about $17 an hour. Most were told before signing on that their jobs were secure for at least a year.

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Some of those who weren't part of the layoff were demoted and their hourly wages reduced. LINK

Those handed pink slips probably voted for George W.

Let's ask our favorite businessman if he plans to help the families of the unemployed this Christmas...




WWSS?
(What Would Scrooge Say?)

‘Are there no prisons?’ asked Scrooge.

‘Plenty of prisons,’ said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.

‘And the Union workhouses?’ demanded Scrooge. ‘Are they still in operation?’

‘They are. Still,’ returned the gentleman, ‘I wish I could say they were not.’

‘The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?’ said Scrooge.

‘Both very busy, sir.’

‘Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course,’ said Scrooge. ‘I am very glad to hear it.’

‘Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude,’ returned the gentleman, ‘a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?’

‘Nothing!’ Scrooge replied.

‘You wish to be anonymous?’

‘I wish to be left alone,’ said Scrooge. ‘Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don’t make merry myself at Christmas, and I can’t afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned — they cost enough: and those who are badly off must go there.’

‘Many can’t go there; and many would rather die.’

‘If they would rather die,’ said Scrooge, ‘they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. Besides — excuse me — I don’t know that.’

‘But you might know it,’ observed the gentleman.

‘It’s not my business,’ Scrooge returned. ‘It’s enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people’s. Mine occupies me constantly. Good-afternoon, gentlemen!’ LINK

Maybe George W. will fly down to Fayetteville and help out.

And maybe Tiny Tim will walk again without medical attention.