December 8, 2004
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Another Vile Corporate Enemy of the People Raises its Ugly Head!
This time, it is the Colgate-Palmolive Company. The soapmeister general decided to close 1/3 of its plants and can 4,400 of its workers. When I read this, I first thought, wow! They must be losing a LOT of money! Wrong, Lavoris-breath! The damned company is not losing money at all–they are just not making enough to sate the greed-heads at the helm.
So to pay for the corporate mis-management–experts say the product is grossly mis-marketed–the little guys will suffer, the folks who struggle to make ends meet, the people who have that slightly doughy look from eating a LOT of off-brand macaroni and cheese dinners. The people who send their sons and daughters off to die in a useless war, that benefits only the rich.
And what about the dudes at the top? Well, the top five fat cats split up $32 MILLION last year–$23 million in cash, $9 in stock options. The very fattest cat took home over TEN MILLION FUCKING DOLLARS. Where is Hannibal Lector when you need him?
For myself, I am going to boycott the bastards and tell them so. I used to buy Irish Spring soap. No more. I swear by all I hold dear, I will never ever knowingly purchase another Colgate product as long as I shall live. Fuck them, and fuck the horses they rode in on.
Comments (13)
They really laid off all those people? Wow. And I thought that they made so much money. And apparently they do, but they want to lay the people who’d worked for them for so long. Thats really terrible. *pouting I used to like their toothpaste and irish spring. I know for now on Im not buying. 80) Have a great Wednsday okay?
So – if you started a company and were the president and CEO.. how would you pay people? Based on hours? Based on Sales? Based on Salary.com? Wouldn’t you – being the guy who were in charge of it all, pay yourself the most? It’s not the company, it’s human nature…
/ Human nature isnt greed. Human nature is being human, and what they did, is not human.
Arms, this is the first post Ive read. And though I agree with your stance, look around. Every corporation would do the same thing. And if thats true, which it is, you’re not going to be very hygenic. And then the corporations win.
But I agree, fuck them. No wonder we never trust big business, because big business will skull fuck us to death just given the chance.
When I get rich and famous, theres gonna be a check for $100 dollars in the mail to ya. Expect it.
Kind of like when the US Postal Service hiked stamp prices 1 cent the last time. Their reason was that they needed that to make sure they met their annual target of a $1 billion profit! Excuse me?!
I wonder if there’s a big company who DOESN’T do that…. I don’t have any problem boycotting Colgate/Palmolive but I bet they produce alot more than just soap and toothpaste ..
Really sux.
Well put!
We should probably just start boycotting everything. And make the corporations prove they’re worthy before awarding them with business.
Greyfox, you and your commentors above reminded me of when I turned on, tuned in, and dropped out of the corrupt military-industrial complex. “Support the underground economy” was my motto. I did it every way I could. It was “back to the land” and “power to the people” and “off the pigs” for me. I found a little place on the edge of nowhere that nobody else wanted, I dug a garden, grew my crops and did without a lot of things. I wonder whatever happened to that life of mine. Oh, yeah, now I remember….
Good for you man. Makes me glad I dont brush ma teeth.
/falls off chair laughing
Just sad to think that is the kind of world we live in…A world where money dominates and where caring for your fellow person seems to be at the bottom of most people’s lists…
The “intellectuals” on the radio talk as if our whole civilization and the power of its production would fall if we put a cap on CEO’s pay. Everything, everything, is a lie that we make true by believing in it and this is our civilization. So long as social security holds up what’s to care about, since this is a picture of ourselves gathered together as a whole? Kind of looks like the “after” picture of Dorian Grey.
The rich corporations fuck the consumer it will always be that way.