Read the story. Then come back and let’s talk about it.

Great timing Invista, right here at the holiday season.  Way to have respect for your employees and their families!

Aye, this is a shame.  Unfortunately, looks like we’ll be seeing more of these scenarios come to life as we head into the new year.  There’s just no room for the little guy these days… even if most of us ARE the little guys….

You’d have to be blind and deaf not to have seen this coming. An economy based on what is essentially a textile company simply hasn’t been sustainable for years, and Waynesboro was fortunate to have Invista here for as long as it has been.
Now, the city is even more overleveraged to its “growing” retail economy, which is nice until financially strapped companies pull their underperforming stores out. In just the last few months, the city has seen retailers like Sprint, Quiznos, and the Daily Grind pull out of stores they’d only operated for a year or so. How long before places like Home Depot, Lowes and virtually every retailer at the new town center pull the plug?
Meanwhile, you have city councilors like Lorie Smith eager to pile on to the ever-growing debt load to fund new and unnecessary projects that were “approved” by voters in a very different economic environment.

Actually, as depressing as it sounds, virtually any industry you can think of is suffering big time.  I just read a story how the recycling industry is taking a bath in the current economic situation—consumer spending is down, so in turn paper mills, etc. aren’t getting the production orders they’re used to, so that in turn means those factories don’t need old paper from the recycling business, etc, to make new product, and on and on it goes.  So, some places have all this recycled product that they now have to pay to have removed, instead of getting paid themselves to provide the once-wanted product….  What was once a profitable trade has now become a liability.  That, in and of itself, doesn’t sound far-fetched, but the recycling industry???  Jeez.  How far does it go?... It’s kinda scary.

throwthebumsout - 10 December 2008 01:47 PM

Meanwhile, you have city councilors like Lorie Smith eager to pile on to the ever-growing debt load to fund new and unnecessary projects that were “approved” by voters in a very different economic environment.

And let’s not forget Nancy Dowdy thinking we should finance half a day off for city workers.  Let’s face it they’ll probably have “office parties” that day instead of working.  And our new $big bucks downtown flag poles - yeah that was important and they really “show off downtown” like a regular flag pole wouldn’t have sufficed.

I’m sure the Invista workers would have happily worked a full day on Christmas Eve!

Nice

Nancy Dowdy needs to get her story straight for one thing on how they will be laying off, and as for not letting them know this was coming..  I appreciate for one that the Plant Manager will not apologize for not letting them know and letting the employees know first. ( Go back and see what else can be raised to get more money)

It is a sad day for the people who work for Invista and Mundy, to look at once was a thriving place to be and to see it now.  It will surely hurt the whole community with this happening, and my prayers go out to everyone that it will affect, and pray that it will get better…