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Carter's executive faces federal charges

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Wednesday, October 5. 2011
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An executive of the William Carter Company, which abandoned Barnesville after the city had spent millions upgrading its water supply specifically for the company, faces multiple federal indictments.

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#1 Anonymous on 10/05/11 at 06:37 AM
"which abandoned Barnesville"? maybe they left barnesville because the people they employed wouldn't show up for work on time,not lay out 3 or 4 days a month,actually do their jobs and not think they had a RIGHT to a job!a company is not going to keep their business somewhere they are not producing a quality product!!!the business is there to make money not to provide jobs to the comunity.look how Carters has grown since it restructured and got rid of all the lazy bums it had in plants all across the US.the last 3 to 4 years have been some of the best years for cartes in the past 50 years.wake up America!!you sit around complianing about no jobs and you wonder why?get off your lazy butt and go to work every day .quit looking for every excuse you can think of to lay out.
#1.1 chuck b on 10/05/11 at 12:14 PM
Why don't you put your name on your statement? The people of Barnesville and Needam Heights Mass, made Carters.I think it would be correct to assume you're not American,but here to help yourself to the benefits of living here.
Carters was forced to sell out because of cheap foriegn labor,like yourself,just as almost every other textile co in the US.I know this because I worked in textile management twenty five years.Now all you can by is cheap low quality fabric made by people that make a few dollars a day.
And now a few foriegn crooks,ignorant,much like yourself,are raping the company.
#1.2 Anonymous on 10/05/11 at 12:33 PM
And after you get off your soap box you may want to go dust off that old English book and spend a little time reviewing grammar & spelling. It's hard to take your post seriously when I had to decode it to read it.
#1.2.1 Anonymous on 10/05/11 at 09:09 PM
You should really understand business and have the facts before making statements about hardworking people.It's obvious you didn't decode,or understand my soapbox.
But that's understandable,I determined that by your grammar/english lesson response,that had nothing to do with the conversation.
It's difficult to carry on an intellegent conversation with someone less versed in the subject.
#1.2.1.1 GM on 10/06/11 at 06:58 AM
It's even more diffcult to have a dialog with someone too afraid to identify themself.
#1.3 Anonymous on 10/05/11 at 01:25 PM
My grandmother worked for Carters for 31 years and did not miss a days work! She gets 92.00 from retirement from them! How in the Hell can you sit here and say this! They had plenty of hard working people that they mistreated!
#1.4 Redneckbabe on 10/05/11 at 01:48 PM
I have to say I LOVE your comment
#1.5 Anonymous on 10/05/11 at 01:55 PM
My parent's and family members worked for carters, they worked hard everyday. And many of them were shafted left with nothing, that is how they were paid for their dedicated labor. They have old, busted bodies now.
They weren't lazy somebody was just plain greeedy and self-serving! You sound like one of the supervisor who did nothing but order people around and sat in the office all day drinking coffee and eating dounuts.
#1.6 Anonymous on 10/05/11 at 02:54 PM
You need to look at the difference in quality. Carter's used to make a quality, long lasting garment. Now it is just junk.
#1.6.1 GM on 10/06/11 at 07:05 AM
But Americans still buy it. Therefore, it is the consumers fault. If they wouldn't purchase substandard products, companies that exported their labor would get the message and look for a cure at home, or close up shop all together. Either way the homefront benefits.
#1.6.1.1 1.6 on 10/06/11 at 03:07 PM
I usually do try yo buy American. The point I was making was with cheap labor, you usually get a cheap product. (price and quality) Which is the only reason Carter's left in the first place was for the cheap labor.
#1.7 tired of American Companies outsourcing American Jobs on 10/05/11 at 04:25 PM
#1 - Businesses like Carters closed up their operations in the United States and moved to foreign countries so that they could pay their workers sub-sub-sub poverty level wages and no benefits.

It is because we have lost our manufacturing base due to nothing but pure greed on the part of the manufacturers that we have such high unemployment.
#1.8 Sherry Hollis on 10/05/11 at 11:17 PM
comment #1 is right. I worked at carters for almost 10 yrs right before they shut down. It was horrible, how a lot of the employees would not do a thing, laid out all the time, would not have a thing said to them to make them do better. In fact, these same people would cheat and put on their production papers that they did a whole lot more work than they really did. And, the honest people who REALLY worked didn't. One day, there was a meeting. The manager at the time, Shirley (?) held up these sorry lying people as an example to the honest working people who had been working there for YEARS and doing honest work!
#1.8.1 wally tolbert on 10/06/11 at 06:28 AM
wow!!for once someone with the guts to tell the truth.i couldnt agree more.way to go Sherry Hollis.proud of you
#1.8.1.1 Anonymous on 10/06/11 at 07:51 AM
STOP TELLING LIES! Y'all assess probably were the ones stealing and doing the crazy stuff. I worked at carters from 1969 to 2000 and I did not see some of the things you are talking about.
#1.9 carey fogartry on 10/06/11 at 09:46 AM
It seems to me that YOU never worked there. There were a bunch of really good people who worked there and spent most of their life in the place. For you to get on here and bash people is not right. My father worked there 34 years and only got $1700 dollars severance pay when the plant shut down. My Aunt worked there 42 years and only drew $425 dollars when she retired.The plant walked out on the people so get your facts straight before you start bashing the people.
#2 Canis Rufus on 10/05/11 at 11:33 AM
That's right 8 year old Chinese girls do a much better job than our Barnesvillians. I heard they have to hire seamstresses here to fix half the stuff they import. I know a lot of former workers from there, from local work and also serviced some of their equipment, and most of them were very good workers. It's greed; just look at the greedy Bas##$$ard that runs the place now.
#3 Anonymous on 10/05/11 at 08:29 PM
it's all Bushes fault
#3.1 Anonymous on 10/06/11 at 09:55 AM
Sure is! He missed us up. Three different wars, Dead Soldiers, and on top of that no one likes white people because of him! I don't even eat bushes baked beans anymore! TIRED OF THE BUSH'S!
#3.2 Anonymous on 10/09/11 at 04:20 PM
Nope this all started with Jimmy Carter! Go back and relearn history.
#4 Anonymous on 10/06/11 at 01:09 PM
Both, Bush and Obama fault.

If you don't have a job and you're not rich or not poor. Blame yourself. Don't blame Wall St. Don't blame the big banks. Herman Cain for President in 2012.

If you don't have a job. Need a jobs??? What is your favorite job? "Doctor or teacher, police officer, firefighter, EMT, nurse and more". Your dream job?. Mitt Romney for President in 2012.
#5 Anonymous on 10/06/11 at 03:42 PM
The main problem is a small town with 1 or 2 major employers. That's about as vulnerable as you can get.The companies will do whatever they need to do to maximize profits. That's just how it works.

You have to train for something and take care of yourself. That's not easy and I'm not being dismissive of people's suffering.
#6 Sherry Hollis on 10/06/11 at 11:21 PM
I'm lying? I'm bashing? Let me give you a few names and you ask them yourself- Debbie Smith, Kenneth Davis, Mary Gibbs, I wish I could remember the older ladies last names. Now, they DID work and were good people, there many many years. You might know them yourself. Ms. Betty, Ms. Janie, Ms. Lynn , Ms. Margie.
THEY will all tell you about the sorry people there. Especially after they shut down the sewinng part and moved the warehouse in there.
#6.1 Anonymous on 10/08/11 at 11:24 AM
With all that you have said... the problem was with management in your department. I worked for Carter's at a different plant and the management there had no problem firing sorry a$$es.
#7 Anonymous on 10/07/11 at 08:57 AM
I worked at Carter's for 7 years. And I liked my job because I made good money doing it. It is because of people who think they don't have to earn their money by working they think that they should be on the clock and expect that they should be paid top dollar. There were and still are a lot of hard working people who do their job. It is because of affirmative action that many manufacturing jobs were sent overseas because of the minorities thinking they should get paid to goof off. I also worked at Cooper Standard which closed it's doors because there were a lot of minorities who were paid to do the work but they goofed off most of the time. WORK SMARTER NOT HARDER was their saying which to them was to make the honest worker do all the work while they stood around talking, taking smoke breaks or just plain being lazy.
#8 iggle on 10/07/11 at 09:34 AM
This has been the pattern for 25+ years. A long-established brand is bought, drained of its assets, then moved overseas for cheaper labor/regulation costs. Happened to Scott Paper, Carter's, Rubbermaid, Zenith, Schwinn, and dozens of others. All in the service of corporate profits: working people and communities suffer. And when folks try to protest or form a union or ask the corporate fat-cats to stop finding loopholes and pay their fair share of taxes, they're called raving liberals and un-American the media and the Tea Party.
#9 Anonymous on 10/07/11 at 11:06 AM
So help me understand this - if you knew people were not doing their jobs, did you report them? Did you tell them to do right? If you didn't you are as much to blame as they are for the plant closing.

I think people think that businesses have infinite resources and that is simply not true. If I have to pay twice the cost due to lazy employees not doing the job correctly it eventually takes it's toll on my bank account. I own a small business in this county and I will tell you my number 1 complaint is the mentality of the work force here. I am tired of paying people to work and watching them sneak around to text on their cellphones or update their facebook.

People need to return to the thinking of “A good day’s pay for a hard day’s work.” Letting folks be lazy and cut corners just hurts us all in the long run.
#10 Anonymous on 10/09/11 at 09:19 AM
Yes I knew it but I also knew it wouldn't do any good to report this because they would label me as being a tattle tale. and not to worry about what someone else is doing to worry about my own job. Because of the Minorities our jobs are being sent overseas. Companies get bonus and rewards to hire minorities and that is why our jobs are being outsourced. Because their work ethic stinks!!!
#11 Anonymous on 10/09/11 at 09:34 AM
Thank goodness some here know I am telling the truth. As for #9 comment.. report them? The supervisors themselves were openly complaining and would not do a thing about it. People who haven't worked in these situations (which I can't believe no one ever has, it happens everywhere) don't know what it's like.
Everyone knows the reason no one would say anything to them and make them stop is because they didn't want the NAACP on their butts.
#12 SHERRY HOLLIS on 10/09/11 at 11:55 AM
I forgot to add my name to #11 - Sherry Hollis

#10 is right - companies have to meet
their 'quotas' for hiring minorities, no matter if they can't or WON"T do their job! When I was first hired at carters, all the new hires had a meeting with our supervisor. She told us that they have to hire according to the race living in a 25 mile radius of the area. She also said it's 70% black, 30% white. And I SWEAR I said this - so you mean to say they don't hire according who can do the job anymore? She made a weird face and changed the subject right quick.


#9, on your comment here, first you say if we don't report these people, it's our own fault? Then you turn right around and say that you have your own business and you are tired of paying them for doing nothing. What, do you mean YOU don't report them and/or get rid of them?
Sounds like YOU are 'letting folks be lazy'.

And people wonder why products in USA are made so bad. The heads of the companies ALLOW the minorities to be this way. And then wonder why people stop buying their products and their companies shut down. DUH!!!
#12.1 Anonymous on 10/09/11 at 07:41 PM
I get rid of them - thanks for asking!
#12.1.1 SHERRY HOLLIS on 10/10/11 at 03:42 PM
You're welcome. I was just asking because of what you wrote -- I am tired of paying people to work and watching them sneak around to text on their cellphones or update their facebook.

That sounds like you don't get rid of them and still pay them.
#12.2 Anonymous on 10/09/11 at 08:02 PM
After reading these last couple blogs I know "yall crazy" you have lost your minds....its just gone...!
The article says that an Executive was caught basically lying and cheating and you all are turning this into a lazy, black, people issue.
#12.2.1 Anonymous on 10/10/11 at 07:38 PM
I agree with you number 12 either they are crazy are just plain racist against anyone that is not white. Further more if you worked at Carters and you were white, Chinese, or any other race other than Black that made you the minority because they were the majority, so point the finger at yourselves. In reality Carter's left to do what they thought best for their company, blame the government. I mean 18 wheeler shipping and receiving in a residential area and having to drive an extra 15- 20 mins to get to I-75 in this day in age is ridiculous. Yes they did do the city of Barnesville wrong and they should have to pay them.
#12.2.2 Anonymous on 11/08/11 at 11:47 AM
THANK YOU this sherrie dont have a clue every one that worked at carters at the time it closed had a chance to stay with Carters but choose not to for there own reason's not carters
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