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Wayfair employees found out company is selling beds to border camps, employees ask CEO to stop doing biz w/border companies, CEO says no. Walkout..... -- (link)

Posted by Remlik (aka Remlik) Jun 25 '19, 12:02

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Why don't we airdrop a million MyPillows on the southern Mexican border? Once they hit those pillows, they won't want to migrate anywhere else. -- nm - Max Jun 25, 12:12
Color me dumb: How is selling beds to a federal organization that requires beds a bad thing? -- nm - Mop Jun 25, 12:10 26
- -selling, +profiteering. -- nm - Super Daddy Princess Jun 25, 12:27
- I get it. We don't want to have anything to do with helping these camps in any way. But at the same time... - Cedric Diggory Jun 25, 12:12 20
  - You sure do have a lot to say for being a character that couldn’t bother to last a whole book, Cedric. -- nm - Qale Jun 25, 12:17 1
    - Good point. I should change my Slytherin handle. -- nm - Severus Snape Jun 25, 12:20
  - it's a tough situation. They need beds, someone has to pay for them. I'd donate them and make a big deal about it. -- nm - Remlik Jun 25, 12:17 12
    - We need to be very careful about always looking to the billionaires to swoop in and "save" us whenever there's a problem to be solved - con_carne Jun 25, 12:50
    - This is what I'm saying. You'd think by some of these posts, if Wayfair would just keep the beds, the camps would go away. -- nm - Cedric Diggory Jun 25, 12:18 10
      - they won't but this makes noise. you can't just do business with them like it's normal and expect anything to change. don't support it. wayfair has - Andie Jun 25, 12:20 9
        
        So, then the solution is for no one to supply the camps and this will make everything better? nm - Severus Snape Jun 25, 12:21 8
        
        pragmatism has its place but not in the service of immoral acts. -- nm - Reagen Jun 25, 12:26 2
        
        There's pragmatism, and then there's the very common knee jerk short sightedness. "No bed bad! Bed good! Problem solved!" - con_carne Jun 25, 12:53 1
        
        I'll be charitable and assume people aren't being knee jerk, just saying "well, if these camps exist, it's better for..." - Reagen Jun 25, 12:56
        
        and the government won't do it if no one is saying it's wrong. -- nm - Andie Jun 25, 12:22 4
        
        We must be watching a different government. They don't give a fuck if people think it's wrong. nm - Severus Snape Jun 25, 12:25 3
        
        and, the people who work at wayfair do not want their wages to come from this atrocity. i applaud that. (because they DO care.) -- nm* - Andie Jun 25, 12:26 2
        
        Actually, looks like they're calling for Wayfair to donate their profits to RAICES. nm - Severus Snape Jun 25, 12:31 1
        
        a podcast i listen to did one on the Japanese camps of WWII and the parallels and they said they didn't feel comfortable talking sponsor money for the - Andie Jun 25, 12:33
  - It's not nearly a black and white situation. We're arguing that the kids needs beds and toiletries, but we're angry at companies that sell them. -- nm - Mop Jun 25, 12:14 4
    - you're missing one or two steps. - Reagen Jun 25, 12:16 1
      - Catch and release should have never ended. Under Obama or Trump. -- nm - Qale Jun 25, 12:18
    - Right. I mean, I guess if they really cared about the kids at all, they could donate the beds instead of profiting off them. nm - Cedric Diggory Jun 25, 12:15 1
      - "Man, thanks for making it cheaper for us to build these concentration camps!" -- nm - Reagen Jun 25, 12:17
- Maybe they don't actually want to be involved in the ongoing existence of the camps? - Andie Jun 25, 12:12
- Don't profit off the suffering of others. -- nm - Reagen Jun 25, 12:11 2
  - Hey Jeff Bezos, don't you dare sell toothpaste and soap to detention camps! -- nm - Mop Jun 25, 12:13 1
    - i wouldn't. if i had a business no way would I take that contract. Nothing changes if no one objects. -- nm - Andie Jun 25, 12:14
Yeah! Make them sleep on the floor!... oh... wait a second. -- nm - Spawn Jun 25, 12:08 1
- Take 2: Yeah! Make them buy them form somewhere else!... -- nm - Spawn Jun 25, 12:08
Don't let the door hit you.... -- nm* - Wayfair CEO Jun 25, 12:06
I heard they're having a buy-one get-one-free sale on trampolines right now -- nm - decline Jun 25, 12:05
mother fuc.... -- nm - Shaun Jun 25, 12:04 1
- lol - - Pippy, full of poise & grace Jun 25, 12:09

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