Last NC county furniture company closing (Lexington): Prepare for WHINING about jobs, Sen. McCain

[Bluebear]

"5000 furniture jobs (lost) in the past 7 1/2 years" . . . hmmm, the past 7 1/2 years.

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Davidson County's battered furniture industry received another major blow yesterday with Stanley Furniture Co. Inc.'s decision to close its Lexington plant and cut 350 jobs by mid-October.

The announcement is particularly stinging, local officials said, because the plant at 802 W. Center St. represents the last major operation left in a county that has been at the epicenter of a collapse of domestic furniture making since January 2000.

Counting the Stanley closing, Davidson will have lost almost 5,000 furniture jobs in the past 71/2 years. Stanley will keep about 20 jobs at a separate warehouse in Lexington.

http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2008/jul/09/lexington-furniture-plant-will-be-closed/

[TwilightGardener]

1. It's a mental plant closing--part of the mental recession. Those people won't feel a thing.

[elehhhhna]

2. THAT PINK SLIP IS ALL IN YOUR HEAD.

...or perhaps they were layed off due to their mass mental depression and whining.

[fasttense]

3. Whining Americans, can't they take a little abject poverty?

Just because they have no jobs and the jobs they can get are cleaning the idle rich's toilets for pennies, they have no excuse to whine like the starving masses that they soon will be. :sarcasm:

[hisownpetard]

4. What will I do when I need to order more mental furniture?

[The Blue Flower]

5. I hear Second Life has some lovely stuff

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[hisownpetard]

6. Oh, goodie. Let me sit down and make a list of the fantasy furniture I want.