Not sure how to fact check this, but a BB employee on Facebook mentioned that the company has never laid off an employee in their 100+ year history. ****ty ****ing corporation, if true. Bastards.
So do I but not because i like it more than BB. I do it becuase it stops me from eating more Ice Cream than I should. BB is crack in those half gallons.
I've been hearing about all of this and went to the store and just now REALIZED my favorite ice cream is blue bell homemade vanilla and strawberries. listeria? try HYSTERIA NOW!!
I got the impression from your post that they've never fired a single employee which would obviously be false. To clarify they've never gone through lay-offs, firing a group of employees at once.
I specifically used the term "laid-off", not "fired". So, not my fault your impression didn't match what I actually typed.
No reason to be defensive. The ambiguity was from the "never laid off a single employee"--generally lay offs do not occur with a single employee. I was not correcting you, just trying to make sense of the nebulous claim.
It's not a nebulous claim when the term laid off was used over fired. Had I typed "never laid off a group of people", you would've come back with "well, did they lay-off any single person?"
Could this end up being a good thing for BB? Once it comes back on the shelves, people who missed it all this time will start buying it even more than they did before. Remember "New Coke?" And then returning to "Coca Cola Classic?"
Getting fired and being laid off are two things. I don't understand how there was any confusion. http://jobsearch.about.com/od/firedtermination/qt/fired-laid-off.htm
Having worked at Blue Bell with friends and family still working there I can say honestly say the pay is not the best, but they do have good benefits. And you are aloud to eat all you can and they sell the rest.
I think this threat is overblown. How bad can Listeria be? After all it is the main ingredient of the mouthwash Listerine. Millions of people use this product everyday.
I understand the distinction and I don't think there's any disagreement. Forgetting that--the reason Blue Bell made that statement is because the company looks awful right now. It's PR. I don't think that this fact about lay offs, if true, proves that BlueBell is an ethical company. I also don't get why people would never return to a brand for an issue they couldn't control. The company could avoid laying off groups of employees by not providing benefits or a living wage. Most of their 4000 employees likely work at packaging factories. I personally like Blue Bell and presume they treat their employees decently. I bought a bunch of ice cream before the recall and will eat it, risking potential death.
