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Originally posted by sasguru View PostAnd how should we have prevented that?
You're the biggest lefty of a left thing with left bits on it, which has been left behind by the other lefty's because you were seen as too soft.
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostFollowed by a boot up the arse.
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Originally posted by doodab View PostAnd that is the problem. They have the power to affect the lives of people and communities deeply, yet little in the way of obligations towards them. The moment one suggests they might have such an obligation they threaten to do a runner. If they were a parent or spouse they would be roundly condemned but because they are a faceless "legal" person they are venerated. This is ****ed up.
Let them walk. The short term pain will be worth the long term gain.
We should have never allowed so many companies to fall into foreign hands. Look at Cadbury's, Kraft said they'd look after the employees. Crap. Already a number of them are dependent on the state.
Once thing I respect about Germany businesses is exactly that, it remains in German hands.
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Originally posted by doodab View PostExactly. So why should we concern ourselves with enticing them to stay?
The world is a global place and presumably there would still be employment opportunities for people who wanted to live in HK
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostIt's a bit childish to get all het up about a company that does (or soon will do) most of its business in Asia to want to move there.
It's logical for them to do so and to want to avoid onerous European laws.
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostIt's a bit childish to get all het up about a company that does (or soon will do) most of its business in Asia to want to move there.
It's logical for them to do so and to want to avoid onerous European laws.
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It's a bit childish to get all het up about a company that does (or soon will do) most of its business in Asia to want to move there.
It's logical for them to do so and to want to avoid onerous European laws.
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Originally posted by bobspud View Post
I think maybe it's time to let them go...
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostCompanies have no obligation to anyone but their shareholders.
Let them walk. The short term pain will be worth the long term gain.
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