Subj : Re: Computer Kits
To   : Arelor
From : Jeff
Date : Sun Jan 30 2022 19:37:53

On 30 Jan 2022, Arelor said the following...
 Ar> Honestly, I don't know what Nosolorol could have done to regain trust
 Ar> thay they didn't attempt. The Union that took the case to court pretty
 Ar> much said the issues were solved for good (and took a lot of pride in
 Ar> it).

Perhaps, then, there was nothing they could do to avoid the consequences of
their actions.

 Ar> Besides, I suspect a lot of employees were taking black money under the
 Ar> table, which is very common in Spain. A lot of professionals prefer to
 Ar> work with no legal contract and be paid in illegal money because then
 Ar> they can apply for government handouts and unamployment funds. I have
 Ar> the strong suspicion that this was the case with Nosolorol, that some
 Ar> employee got angry at them for some reason and got some Union to sue
 Ar> them, and that there was no way Nosolorol could demonstrate any payment
 Ar> because all transactions had been off-the-record.

That's a possibility, but this would also be a consequence of their actions.

 Ar> In any case, if the Union which took the case said the problem had been
 Ar> cleared, and knowing how extremely bitchy this particular union was, I
 Ar> find it hard to understand which issue the lynching mob was trying to
 Ar> solve by campaigning. I guess this people thinks that if you catch a
 Ar> thief stealing bread in the market, you should hang him in the public
 Ar> square, because rehabilitation is not possible and no amount of penance
 Ar> imposed by court will clear his debt to society :-(

Not paying employees is a bit more serious than stealing bread, and a boycott
is a bit less serious than a hanging.

 Ar> On the other hand, it was delicious to see the firm decimated by the very
 Ar> audience of politically active people they had been pandering to for
 Ar> decades. Guilty pleasure of mine. I don't think it was right but I do
 Ar> think it was fun.

No one is above criticism, apparently.

 Ar> The bad news is the friendly local game store I used to buy games from
 Ar> had to remove his RPG section due to the pressure. He had lots of orders
 Ar> cancelled, which was specially bad for this guy because he owns the sort
 Ar> of local business that struggles to pay its own costs every single
 Ar> month. But well, I guess the lynching mob does not care for collateral
 Ar> damages :-P

Many businesses haveto deal with circumstances beyond their control, and many
fail due to no fault of their own. We seem to have this idea that if one works
hard success is all but guaranteed, but that is far from the case.

Far more disastrous to businesses than boycotts has been the COVID-19
pandemic. It is not their fault that it happened and admirably many have
attempted to adjust to the new reality. But many, through absolutely no fault
of their own, did not make it.

Jeff.

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