President Harry Truman once reportedly quipped, “It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job. It’s a depression when you lose yours.”
If that’s true, a depression descended on Canton, North Carolina, on Monday afternoon, when workers at the local paper mill were called to a meeting, according to Smoky Mountain News.
There, company officials from Pactiv-Evergreen unexpectedly announced that the mill will be closing within the next few months after more than 100 years in operation, eliminating 1,100 jobs.
Aside from an audible gasp from the audience, the News reported, workers received the announcement in “stunned silence.”
Afterward, the news began to sink in.
Canton Mayor Zeb Smathers told WPDE-TV of the heartbreaking scene after the meeting.
“I was downtown and I saw grown men with tears in their eyes,” he told the TV station. “No one was prepared on this dark Monday to deal with that.”
Thank you obiden
Crybabies thought their high paying jobs at the mill would last forever? Maybe they should have gotten an education that would let them adjust to changing environments instead of just jumping at the chance to suck at the company teat. There are no guarantees in life. Move along.
Yeah, there will be no more living wage Mill Jobs. Try Starbucks and Unionize.
Please get rid of this destructive POS!!
This is just plain awful! These are families we are talking about here! Biden doesn’t give a rats ass what happens to poor working people. He is a great example of “Let them eat cake”.! As long as he and his crooked family are living high on the hog from dirty money from China and Ukraine and anywhere else he and sonny boy, Hunter, get crooked money from., all is well with him. He has just got to be gotten rid of. He has destroyed our country and the American people. He takes pretty good care of the illegals , for votes, and the communist countries he kisses the behind of for more money. There is a special place in hell for this despicable POS!