Comments on: Pressuring Big Business to Start Rehiring http://dirtdiggersdigest.org/archives/843 chronicling corporate misbehavior (and how to research it) Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:30:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Phil Mattera http://dirtdiggersdigest.org/archives/843/comment-page-1#comment-2333 Phil Mattera Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:11:30 +0000 http://dirtdiggersdigest.org/?p=843#comment-2333 Fortunately, North Carolina did not pay out the whole $300 million up front. Unfortunately, state and local officials may not be able to recoup all of what was spent to lure the ill-fated plant: http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/10/09/business-technology-hardware-amp-equipment-nc-dell-plant-closure_6987096.html Fortunately, North Carolina did not pay out the whole $300 million up front. Unfortunately, state and local officials may not be able to recoup all of what was spent to lure the ill-fated plant: http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/10/09/business-technology-hardware-amp-equipment-nc-dell-plant-closure_6987096.html

]]> By: Thurman James http://dirtdiggersdigest.org/archives/843/comment-page-1#comment-2332 Thurman James Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:54:57 +0000 http://dirtdiggersdigest.org/?p=843#comment-2332 Poor Michael Dell, after bilking the good people of my state and hometown out of $300 million, he's going to have to cough up a big portion of that cash to make amends for not upholding his end of the agreement. It will be interesting to watch him try to worm his way out of the repayment. Maybe when Mikey was in college he should have spent a bit more time taking a few ethics classes and less time in his dorm room building computers. Not to mention the genius it took to sink all that money into a plant for building desktops when any village idiot could have seen the end was in sight for desktop computers as laptops and even smaller devices gained ascendancy in the market. That whole endeavour seemed suspect from the beginning. Poor Michael Dell, after bilking the good people of my state and hometown out of $300 million, he’s going to have to cough up a big portion of that cash to make amends for not upholding his end of the agreement. It will be interesting to watch him try to worm his way out of the repayment. Maybe when Mikey was in college he should have spent a bit more time taking a few ethics classes and less time in his dorm room building computers.

Not to mention the genius it took to sink all that money into a plant for building desktops when any village idiot could have seen the end was in sight for desktop computers as laptops and even smaller devices gained ascendancy in the market. That whole endeavour seemed suspect from the beginning.

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