When the Plant Door Closes: Part Ii

sure, you heard rumors a few months ago that there might be a move to costa rica or mexico, with the foreknowledge that the company that resided in your very building in which you then currently worked, collapsed in on itself just a few years ago--- it promised the same kind of progress as your company did it spoke monthly of the surging profits & then it downsized, getting rid of everything but the first shift, and then subsequently jumped the border within a few months. when “the holiday season” is just around the bend, for some reason, you don’t think it will happen to you--- all the rumors of plants cutting jobs and closing in your area make you shiver for a couple of seconds, but then you assume that your company is the strongest (because that’s what they tell you in your monthly meetings)--- it doesn’t make sense that a company doing so well, pushing for so much overtime, grinding its workers to the bone, would ever in a million years, close, but that is exactly what happens. so during the coldest months of the winter, now you are unemployed & you take a place in line with the other 14+ million jobless individuals who walk the streets looking for work (braving the blistering cold) or sit at home (bundled up inside because you have to keep the thermostat down so as to keep the heating bill as low as possible), waiting for that utopic call which will make things make sense again.