They already did that, I've been smelling the smoke for over a week.

I don't understand why you would go through all this trouble to make the cheapest animal protein available. They should have done lobster or blue-fin tuna instead.

Technically they are extorting New Jersey's citizens as much as their own.

Google looking to reduce headcount without paying severance. The golden age of the FAANGs is drawing to a close. Probably be a while before the replacements show up.

Still has a higher standard of living than half the people in this country.

Or they could be like Rhode Island which was on the hook for a 75M loan guarantee for Curt Schilling's video game company. But people don't complain when a state government flushes 100M down the drain as long as it was for "cool" tech jobs.

The only reason Manchin supported it was to get his pipeline built. And now the pipeline still won't be built. He comes off looking more like an idiot than a genius.

I'm sure it isn't cheap to lug a bunch of these batteries to the plant for recycling. Who pays for that? I doubt it will be the manufacturers or the car owners.

Plenty of jobs for them assuming they are willing to work for 10% of what they were making before.

It is always a smart play by a manager to grow his team. If the team is at 25 and you grow it to 50 then you can turn around and ask for a raise because you are supervising twice as many people. When layoffs hit a few years later then you can get rid of the 25 unneeded workers and ask for another raise since your team is doing the same work with half as many people. You've doubled productivity.

I hope you were on a VPN when you posted this.

I've had it and the taste was fine. The bigger problems are that it is more expensive than real meat and not any better for you. Unless you are choosing food with an ideological mindset then there is no reason to eat it.

What an embarrassment that hearing was. Politicians pretending to be outraged over something that doesn't affect them personally. Gotta love all those Taylor Swift lyrics thrown in (aren't they clever!).

No, this is worse than a layoff. Typically if they were laying people off the regular way the WARN act would send them on their way with 60 days of severance pay. They could use that time to search for a new job full time. What IBM is doing is making them work their normal jobs and let them apply for internal positions (which are likely to be few and far between) during working hours.

After 60 more working days then they get formally laid off if they haven't found an internal position. Then they can look for a job full time while they are not getting paid.

If you're smart you plan for it to happen every year at least. I've been doing that for decades now and the mindset has forced me to save for many rainy days. I could withstand a long period of unemployment but the insecurity about employment also has pushed me to develop my skills to be a senior level employee so I can find another job if the worst happens.