Would You Boycott?
By seren3
@seren3 (387)
Los Angeles, California
September 16, 2015 11:12am CST
Hewlett Packard has announced it will lay off 30,000 people soon. That will save them 3 Billion a year. I wonder how many jobs are going off shore.
For now I will not buy any HP products. It doesn't matter how much I may have spent but just that I won't spend it.
Have you ever boycotted a business?
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@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
16 Sep 15
That's sad about HP - I worked for them for about nine months a long time ago (it was always going to be temporary - I wasn't sacked!). I once got a raw deal from Kwik-Fit so I've never darkened their doors again. And I'll never do business with Barclays Bank thanks to their support for Apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s!
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@Rollo1 (16676)
• Boston, Massachusetts
16 Sep 15
I would have to know why they are reducing the number of employees. Is it that business is off? Will it be that or raise prices? I would have to know they had evil intent before I would boycott a business just because there were layoffs. I boycott Nestle because of their position on the ownership of water. If they are laying off workers because they are moving their operations to China, I might boycott. But if they are just trying to stay in business, I don't know that's enough reason to boycott. What we really need is to get the economy moving so that businesses can afford to do business here and keep jobs here in the US.
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@seren3 (387)
• Los Angeles, California
16 Sep 15
@AnjaP I just took a minute to check - HuffPost article says HP is "moving more of its workers to lower-cost locations" but doesn't say where. Meanwhile the co. expects "to report free cash flow of $2.0 billion to $2.2 billion in 2016" which I guess isn't enough to keep 30,000 jobs in a 'higher cost location'. Don't we love the corporate press release gibberish!
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@gregario888 (1276)
• Aurangabad, India
16 Sep 15
That's bad! looks like they are outsourcing to some sweatshop abroad. It is time their clientele took a second look at their activities.
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@seren3 (387)
• Los Angeles, California
16 Sep 15
@Mohd. Irfan Alam Their CEO Meg Whitman was booted from the California governor race because she had an illegal working for her household staff if I recall. Something to that effect. She got a "lower cost location" salary to pay in a "higher cost location".
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@gregario888 (1276)
• Aurangabad, India
16 Sep 15
@seren3 That's some news! Looks like they are used to having things done their way. I for one, will surely not buy an HP, which earlier on, I was contemplating.
