♫♫Wayfair’s got just what refugees need♫♫
From a story on it:
“We were disheartened and concerned about Wayfair’s business” with BCFS, the employee said, and so employees decided to act. Within hours, a group of 50 employees began drafting a letter to the company’s executive leadership, with included cofounders Niraj Shah, Steve Conine, and the entire board, outlining their concerns. More than 547 employees signed the letter before it was handed off to the leadership team.
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The group sent it to the executives Friday and received a response from Wayfair’s executive leadership team Monday evening at 6 p.m.
In that unsigned letter, the executives said they appreciated the employee’s effort to bring the issue to their attention. But as business leaders, they said, “we also believe in the importance of respecting diversity of thought within our organization and across our customer base.”
“As a retailer, it is standard practice to fulfill orders for all customers and we believe it is our business to sell to any customer who is acting within the laws of the countries within which we operate,” the executives’ letter continued. “We believe all of our stakeholders, employees, customers, investors, and suppliers included are best served by our commitment to fulfill our orders.”
AKA, it’s all about the money. Those execs are really going to regret that reply.
rowe33
2853
It’s ok, the co-founder/CEO can handle it with grace and aplomb I’m sure. He’ll know how to take care of these unhappy employees.
Nesrie
2855
Oh my. This might be an entertaining PR mess considering how much they frequent FB. Nothing like a FB slaughter to remind a company to maybe try just a little harder to avoid one.
It took me a long time to notice the featured chairs look like cages. I wonder if an employee deliberately picked them for that reason.
WTAF?! Now they’re putting those kids (and even more of them) back into that horror show of a detention facility in Clint, TX, per Rachel Maddow’s show?
That letter basically boils down to, “Our primary responsibility is to make money and if that involves furnishing concentration camps, so long as there are no laws to prevent us, we will. Besides, refusing to do so would impede on the freedom of thought of those who support fascist ideology.”
So yeah, fuck them with a rusty chainsaw. I hope this is the end of them.
These detained kids mostly have relatives in the US that they could be staying with, but NO, this shitshow criminal Administration is intentionally committing child abuse with our tax dollars, in our name. I called my Congressman’s office and urge everyone to do the same.
Jon Lovett: “The Holocaust isn’t a fucking brand you need to protect.”
But of course. The whole point is to punish children and teens as cruelly as feasible for the “crime” of coming to the country without papers. Oh, and shoveling public money to private prison operations that will be appropriately generous with campaign contributions later.
Looking for some small comfort, I find it in the responses to this tweet from some National Review knob job.
He muses that people on the left will not admit that their preferred solution would be to let the asylum seekers “loose” and pretty much every response is from someone confirming that, indeed, they admit to preferring this solution.
What I find heartening in the responses is, in response to the administration’s policies, good people seem to be firming up their vews on the larger issues of immigration. Migrants, whether seeking work or looking to immigrate offer some thing valuable to our county. The process of screening should be streamlined and there should be a clear path to citizenship.
I mean, good people have always felt this way but I feel like the current situation is giving greater conviction and urgency to those views. The administration is forcing folks to take sides and all but the shitheels are saying, “Great — I side with immigrants and asylum seekers.”
Sharpe
2866
Stepping away from the immediate and terrible issue of horrible conditions at the camps on the border, the bigger picture is that the current surge in asylum seekers is a new angle on the decades-old problem of need for comprehensive immigration reform.
This surge in asylum seekers requires new solutions (expediting processing, streamlining the process, a massive upsurge in ability to handle the inflow, etc.) but it also emphasizes the need for long term comprehensive immigration reform b/c most of the problems ultimately flow from the same source: illegal employment, made laughably easy by our ridiculously lax labor law enforcement. (We don’t even require employers to verify legal eligibility to work.)
For example, the current stats show that around 85% of asylum seekers won’t satisfy the legal requirements and will be denied asylum. Why would people come to a country for that poor of a chance at permanent legal admission? Partly b/c their circumstances of origin are often quite terrible, but also b/c our own labor law enforcement is so poor that even after the 85% get denied, it is very easy for them to work illegally in the US.
Lax labor law enforcement, with its consequence of widespread illegal employment, is the underlying driver of almost all of the difficulties related to immigration in the US. Until we address that, all of the other problems will simply keep flowing.
And we can’t address that in a vacuum, b/c we have millions of people who have built entire lives on that shaky edifice, so we need a path to citizenship for them.
Any effort to address the current surge in asylum is just going to be a short term patch until we get comprehensive reform.
Timex
2867
I’ve been using Matthew 25:45 a lot lately, in response to so called christians talking crap about the immigrants.
“He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’"
This is what Christ was talking about. This exact thing.
Unfortunately I’ve seen a lot of responses to that image along the lines of “That’s so tragic, but the blame rests on the dad for risking their lives to come here illegally, and on liberals that encourage border weakness to entice illegals.”
Timex
2869
“Whatever you did not do for the least of these, is fine, because really it’s someone else’s fault.”
~Republican Jesus
“Oh man! Money, money, money! Ain’t no shame in this game, am I right? High five!”
