A public fundraiser is opened for employee income
Two days after the flood, a public fundraiser is opened to support employee income rather than company losses.
On October 2, 2024, two days after the water, the company opened a public fundraiser. Its stated purpose was employee income, not company losses.
The distinction is the most substantive thing in the company’s record on the subject of how it treats the people who work for it. Its long-standing corporate line is that its purpose is the prosperity of all employees, and a claim of that kind is worth exactly nothing until something tests it. The first financial action taken after the facility was destroyed was to raise money for wages. Internal channels created in the same week show disaster coordination standing up within a day, finance within three, and equipment recovery within six weeks.