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Originally Posted by Pete Zicato
Ooookayyyyyy. That was a bit shorter than I expected.
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Sorry, it's really not all that exciting. Here, if you're an immigrant, you're either U of M or you're car industry.
Beest's company was bought by an American company. They also bought a German company, then they decided the two needed "consolidating" so the put the German company in charge of that operation. So the Germans closed the British operations down and fired everyone. Then the American company said "wait, we needed that section!" So those lucky dozen people or so and their machinery and their families got shipped over here. Everyone else lost their jobs.
Oh and then the American company went into chapter 11 because it bought too many companies with too many problems -most notably the British company....... and it stayed there until very recently.
Please can we get a payrise now?