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Aug 1, 2021Liked by Eoin Higgins

YES IT IS TRUE!!!!! I WORK THERE.

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Capitalism requires slaves. Always has. Always will.

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I currently work there this is false news!

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Test

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Leave it to Kansas. Russell Stover is off my list. Prison Labor?? This is how far they will go to avoid paying a decent wage.

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You know this how?? Speaking from experience working in the food industry trying to hire hundreds of workers and get them to show up each day?

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Just may as well let all the"to big to fail corporations", fall! I've been burnt out of all of the mega corporations for decades. Let the mom and pop shops do their competitive work. I rather be small and profitable that too be to over see. Hands on ownership is the best formula for sustainable success. Allow the employees to become interested, invested co owners. Owners need to work right along with their employees instead of sitting in their offices, pretending to be the all wise or making deals on the golf course.

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Problem is, Russell Stover isn't failing, they're thriving. They didn't do this to stay profitable, they were profitable. They did it to squeeze out MORE profits.

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How do you know this? Do you work there? Have you ever tried to hire hundreds of workers and get them to show up to work a line?? Guessing the answer is NO

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They are a public company and are among the most profitable candy makers in the world. This is a matter of public record.

As for my experience, I was in a senior position at a Fortune 500 manufacturing corporation, I'm now on Social Security.

I know how corporations work. The one I worked for, despite being the number ONE in its industry, closed profitable plants in the US and shifted to Chinese PRISON labor. In addition those execs above me risk the lives of customers to avoid bad press that would have hurt their stock options that were about to mature. That's when I decided to leave.

I DO know how Corporate America works.

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Good for you. That does not make you the expert in this situation! You read an article quoting disgruntled supposed employees and take it as fact…fake news!

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"fake news"

There's the tip off - the regurgitation of programmed response. You don't even think for yourself. You just repeat what your masters have told you to say.

"baaaa! Baaaaa!"

Don't you have a rally to attend?

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lol, and you're a fake human.

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