Three cheers for Nashville!

Papa_Complex · 07-20-2011, 10:18 AM

The short strokes: A call centre company in Oshawa, Ontario, walks all the employees out, doesn't pay them (some people are owed 4 weeks pay, and slaps "bankruptcy" notices on the doors. They haven't filed a legal notice of bankruptcy with either the Province.

It is then found that they are moving operations to a new call centre, for a new client, to Nashville, Tennessee, where they've been told they'll receive a $1.6M 'job creation' grant. The mayor of Nashville finds out and the grant is cut, because obviously this company can't be trusted to stick around after they've received the money.

The Oshawa workers still haven't been paid, but the government is now getting involved.

@ 17:45

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TorontoNew...losure-110719/

Particle Man · 07-20-2011, 10:32 AM

shady shit. good on Nashville for yanking the dough

Papa_Complex · 07-20-2011, 10:36 AM

From the sound of things Bell Canada, which seems to have been their biggest (only?) client here, didn't know that they were moving out either. I expect that it'll be tough to get hold of someone if I have trouble with my cell phone now.

Particle Man · 07-20-2011, 10:38 AM

Can you hear me now?

Papa_Complex · 07-20-2011, 10:58 AM

....

askmrjesus · 07-20-2011, 01:53 PM

I'm not surprised they folded. Canada is a terrible place for a call center.

"Welcome to the Oshawa, Ontario call center. For English, please press one. For Canadian, please press two. For French Canadian, please die you fucking assholes."

JC

Papa_Complex · 07-20-2011, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by askmrjesus

I'm not surprised they folded. Canada is a terrible place for a call center.

"Welcome to the Oshawa, Ontario call center. For English, please press one. For Canadian, please press two. For French Canadian, please die you fucking assholes."

JC

They thought ahead, on that one. They had a call centre in Quebec too, to save a button press on getting to the "please die you fucking assholes" line.

RedRider2k2 · 07-20-2011, 08:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by askmrjesus

I'm not surprised they folded. Canada is a terrible place for a call center.

Actually it's kinda nice having them here. A lot of companies in Canada do the old "1 for English, 2 for French" but pressing 1 usually gets you, at best, broken english from another country. If you press 2 for french, odds are you will speak to a Canadian who is bilingual and probably speaks better english than french anyway.

KSGregman · 07-20-2011, 02:27 PM

/offtopic

The Quebec-ouis are such douche bags the French won't even claim them.

/ontopic

Amazing that they got caught....the amount of graft and corruption involved in States bribing companies to attract new business is staggering. It's usually right out in the open, too.....people just don't pay attention.

The company I work for (a tier one supplier of commercial airplane assemblies and components) just built a new plant in North Carolina....made all kinds of promises about new job creation in order to obtain the big incentives to come (bribes), the land (tax free for the land and all improvements...which will be substantial as we'll be building the A350 components there) and favorable tax treatment on revenue. And who benefits from all this largesse? The shareholders of this Company. Who gets stuck with the tab? The tax paying citizens of North Carolina.

All that money stolen right out from under their noses....and they are too busy arguing over how best to kill Casey Anthony....or whether or not J-Lo is really getting divorced to pay attention to how badly they are being fleeced.

Homeslice · 07-20-2011, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by KSGregman

The company I work for (a tier one supplier of commercial airplane assemblies and components) just built a new plant in North Carolina....made all kinds of promises about new job creation in order to obtain the big incentives to come (bribes), the land (tax free for the land and all improvements...which will be substantial as we'll be building the A350 components there) and favorable tax treatment on revenue. And who benefits from all this largesse? The shareholders of this Company. Who gets stuck with the tab? The tax paying citizens of North Carolina.

I'd image that over the long run, that company's income tax is going to more than make up for any bribes the government paid.

07-20-2011, 10:18 AM	#1
Papa_Complex Nomadic Tribesman Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Brampton, Canada Moto: '09 ER-6n Posts: 11,150	Three cheers for Nashville! The short strokes: A call centre company in Oshawa, Ontario, walks all the employees out, doesn't pay them (some people are owed 4 weeks pay, and slaps "bankruptcy" notices on the doors. They haven't filed a legal notice of bankruptcy with either the Province. It is then found that they are moving operations to a new call centre, for a new client, to Nashville, Tennessee, where they've been told they'll receive a $1.6M 'job creation' grant. The mayor of Nashville finds out and the grant is cut, because obviously this company can't be trusted to stick around after they've received the money. The Oshawa workers still haven't been paid, but the government is now getting involved. @ 17:45 http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TorontoNew...losure-110719/ __________________ "Everything's better with pirates." - Lodge, "Dorkness Rising" http://www.morallyambiguous.net/ Last edited by Papa_Complex; 07-20-2011 at 10:21 AM..

07-20-2011, 10:32 AM	#2
Particle Man Custom User Title Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Central NY Moto: 2003 SV650S Posts: 14,959	shady shit. good on Nashville for yanking the dough __________________ I'm not "fat." I'm "Enlarged to show texture." Handle every stressful situation like a DOG: If you can't eat it or hump it, pi$$ on it & walk away.

07-20-2011, 10:36 AM	#3
Papa_Complex Nomadic Tribesman Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Brampton, Canada Moto: '09 ER-6n Posts: 11,150	From the sound of things Bell Canada, which seems to have been their biggest (only?) client here, didn't know that they were moving out either. I expect that it'll be tough to get hold of someone if I have trouble with my cell phone now. __________________ "Everything's better with pirates." - Lodge, "Dorkness Rising" http://www.morallyambiguous.net/

07-20-2011, 10:38 AM	#4
Particle Man Custom User Title Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Central NY Moto: 2003 SV650S Posts: 14,959	Can you hear me now? __________________ I'm not "fat." I'm "Enlarged to show texture." Handle every stressful situation like a DOG: If you can't eat it or hump it, pi$$ on it & walk away.

07-20-2011, 10:58 AM	#5
Papa_Complex Nomadic Tribesman Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Brampton, Canada Moto: '09 ER-6n Posts: 11,150	.... __________________ "Everything's better with pirates." - Lodge, "Dorkness Rising" http://www.morallyambiguous.net/

07-20-2011, 01:53 PM	#6
askmrjesus Soul Man Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Everywhere, all the time. Moto: '0000 Custom Turbo Cross (with jet kit). Posts: 6,481	I'm not surprised they folded. Canada is a terrible place for a call center. "Welcome to the Oshawa, Ontario call center. For English, please press one. For Canadian, please press two. For French Canadian, please die you fucking assholes." JC __________________ The way things are going, they're gonna crucify me.

07-20-2011, 02:27 PM	#9
KSGregman Get Fit...or Get OUT Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: KS Moto: 07 M109-R Posts: 1,993	/offtopic The Quebec-ouis are such douche bags the French won't even claim them. /ontopic Amazing that they got caught....the amount of graft and corruption involved in States bribing companies to attract new business is staggering. It's usually right out in the open, too.....people just don't pay attention. The company I work for (a tier one supplier of commercial airplane assemblies and components) just built a new plant in North Carolina....made all kinds of promises about new job creation in order to obtain the big incentives to come (bribes), the land (tax free for the land and all improvements...which will be substantial as we'll be building the A350 components there) and favorable tax treatment on revenue. And who benefits from all this largesse? The shareholders of this Company. Who gets stuck with the tab? The tax paying citizens of North Carolina. All that money stolen right out from under their noses....and they are too busy arguing over how best to kill Casey Anthony....or whether or not J-Lo is really getting divorced to pay attention to how badly they are being fleeced.