Originally Posted By: Alex38
Originally Posted By: 2010_FX4
You know my choice and hating Ashland has nothing to do with it
Just curious, but why do you hate Ashland?
Because years ago they bought a shipyard, made massive improvements to it such as repaving all of the streets, changing all of the street signs, rebuilding all of the warehouses, installing all new machine shop equipment, and the like--they spent close to 2MM and this was back in the 1970s.
After the last improvement was made, they shut the shipyard down and terminated all of the workers (about 2000 of them). The whole purpose of doing all of the improvements was to write it all off--at the expense of the livelihood of all of the workers. All of the existing ship orders were transferred overseas. The area was highly dependent on the shipyard for income and thus started a downward spiral from which the area never recovered.
This directly impacted some of my family and since there were so many out of work at the time, one could not "buy" a job much less gain one. Thus, when I grew old enough to make decisions about which companies I would or would not support, Ashland was definitely not on my approved vendors list (and never will be). It is just a personal thing...
