Thread 514060996

Walmart (Bentonville, AR) - Announced layoffs of approximately 1,500 corporate employees in May 2025, primarily in technology and advertising teams, following price hikes and operational pressures from tariffs on imported goods. The company was directly criticized by President Trump for blaming tariffs on rising costs, leading to restructuring.

Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, MI) - Halted production at key U.S. plants (including Chicago and Michigan) on May 17, 2025, sending thousands of workers home in temporary layoffs or furloughs due to a $1.5 billion earnings hit from 25% tariffs on imported parts and vehicles. This also affected suppliers and led to broader Midwest job impacts

>>514061024
General Motors (GM) (Detroit, MI) - Began layoffs in 2025, including 200 workers at Detroit's Factory ZERO plant and 750 at its Oshawa Assembly in Canada (impacting U.S. operations), with a production halt putting up to 50,000 jobs at risk across North America. The company attributed this to over $1 billion in quarterly losses from tariffs on trading partners like Canada and Mexico

>>514061069
United Parcel Service (UPS) (Atlanta, GA) - Announced plans to lay off about 20,000 operational workers (in sorting, transport, and delivery) in 2025, citing reduced shipping volumes from customers deterred by Trump's tariffs and global trade policy changes, alongside macroeconomic uncertainty.

John Deere (Deere & Company) (Moline, IL) - Laid off over 2,000 employees since late 2024, with 2025-specific cuts including 238 workers across three Midwestern plants (71 in Waterloo, IA; 115 in East Moline, IL; 52 in Moline, IL) due to $600 million in projected tariff costs on steel, aluminum, Europe, and India, exacerbating depressed farm equipment sales

>>514060996 (OP)
Cincinnati-based grocery giant Kroger Co. on Aug. 26 announced a reorganization that will see the elimination of 1,000 corporate positions, which its interim CEO said would lead to reinvestment in its stores.
Kroger laid off coporate peoples today too, what's the deal?

Reminder that Walmart at the corporate level has been an India visa mill for years.

>>514061109
No shit sherlock, thats exactly why they want to hire an actual fucking brain

>>514060996 (OP)
>primarily in technology and advertising teams
Walmart kikes lying. This is thanks to flooding H1Bs, not tariffs. Still orange man bad, different reason.

>>514060996 (OP)
>the average miga faggot voted for their own economic destruction
LOL, LMAO even

>corporate jobs
Oh no

Anyway

>>514062554
Now handwave the 4 other examples

>>514060996 (OP)
day of the nigger soon for boomers

>>514060996 (OP)
> Walmart - Chinese-fueled company who will suffer the most from tariffs. They can't cut anymore people on the floor, so they have to cut the corporate office excess baggage
> Ford: the story is a known fake story, according to snopes
> GM: tried to go ultra-forward by announcing an 'all electric' product line, now having to repurpose after a collapse in electric car sales
> UPS... don't know anything about this
> Deere: have been trying to figure out how to outsource to China without the farmers realizing they're outsourcing to China

>>514062730
>muh China

Corporations built up extreme bureaucratic bloat in the 2010s when interest rates were low. Interest rates are now high and debt is expensive. The low interest rates of the 10s is why so many girlbosses and Indians gained power in corporations.
Corporate layoffs are good.

>>514062782
No, US companies can no longer have it both ways. They can either have their cheap foreign manufacturing, or they can have sales in the US. Very soon, they won't be able to have both.

Meanwhile, meme flags like you seem to be OK with selling your grandchildren into slavery, if that means you'll be able to get tube socks 10 for $12

>>514062616
What’s to handwave?
>50,000 jobs at GM, 200 of which are actual US plant workers
>2,000 jobs at John Deere, 238 of which are actual US plant workers
>1,000 corporate jobs at Kroger

The only legitimate one is UPS, but I think it’s to be expected that pushing the economy to be more local would do harm to international shipping businesses. That’s an unavoidable cost of the procesd really. The rest is jew daycare bullshit jobs finally being culled because, surprise surprise, the market WON’T bear “passing on the cost to the consumer” and you can’t actually provide the goods and services without the front-line wagies.

Boo hoo, now the company will only have 6 Category Directors of Internal Brand Awareness making $175k/yr, instead of 14. How will we cope with this crippling loss.

>>514060996 (OP)
Fuck the wagie shit jobs.
Trump is bringing back manufacturing to the US and those are actual careers.

@grok is this thread real?

>>514062554
>What is cause and effect
If you think it ends at corporate jobs, you're a retarded nigger

>>514062380
>Walmart kikes lying. This is thanks to flooding H1Bs, not tariffs.
This.

>>514062915
Corporations are the biggest welfare queens. Honestly a lot of these low productivity zombie corps need to be put down, IBM especially. They can only exist because of government subsidized cheap labor. Capital needs to be freed up so it can be reallocated more efficiently.

>>514062730
>>514060996 (OP)
Walmart = Chinamart, billionaires Waltons hit with tariffs.

Ford - low auto sales
GM - low auto sales
Both companies have CRAZY new car prices in around $75 K, that's the reason sales are collapsing.
They priced themselves out of the market.

UPS and Fedex have been mass firing .
UPS prices are waaaaay too high and their salaries of their drivers are crazy.
Both UPS and Fedex are package delivery companies ,
Their sales have been collapsed due to retail / people in houses running out of cash and stopping deliveries.
And due to the other half of their deliveries, small businesses, being dead from covid .

>>514063558
>Their sales have been collapsed due to retail / people in houses running out of cash and stopping deliveries.

Retail, people, are now not only living paycheck to paycheck but actually running credit card debt just to survive.
So naturally they aren't ordering packages online.
So, naturally, Fedex and UPS deliveries collapsed.

This has been triggered by Bidenflation.

>>514063009
Trump is strangling US manufacturing by making raw materials too expensive

>>514062944
>>514062944
>>50,000 jobs at GM, 200 of which are actual US plant workers
How is GM losing loads of money and laying off workers meant to be good? Trump said the tariffs would help manufacturing, not hurt it.

>>2,000 jobs at John Deere, 238 of which are actual US plant workers
Yes. How is that good?

>>1,000 corporate jobs at Kroger
See above

>hurr these are all just jew daycare jobs
I knew it would be some drivel like this to handwave it.
You've just looked at 5 examples of tariffs hurting jobs in the US, the direct opposite of what orange man promised it would do, and basically said 'ah well those don't matter because they're not these mythological 'real jobs''.

>>514060996 (OP)
>(((walmart))) the kikes that destroyed american small businesses with cheap chinese shit
>(((ford))) (((GM))) companies that destroyed the economy of the state its in and poisoned the ground water
>(((UPS))) hiding behind tarriffs for layoffs they want to help kill their labor union
>(((john deere))) company that sues farmers for doing basic maintenance on the tractor they bought

>east india co.
>lol

>>514064324
>>(((john deere))) company that sues farmers for doing basic maintenance on the tractor they bought
Yes this one is the most hillarious one.
Boomers at John Deere are retarded.
They think they are going to make tractors into a software / hardware , block farmers from repairing their own tractors,
and beam updates via wifi and force farmers to pay tractor subscriptions.
>while charging arm and legg
>average tractor $750K and you don't own it

The dumbest group at the board of directors that one have ever seen.
No wonder their sales collapsed.

>>514063782
>Bidenflation
Reminder that Trump signed 2 out of the 3 stimulus payments and that both parties hate you.

>>514060996 (OP)
>layoffs of approximately 1,500 corporate employees in May 2025, primarily in technology and advertising teams
Good. If you're in advertising: kill yourself.

>>514060996 (OP)
Walmart got caught hiring Indians over Americans. It's as simple as that.

https://www.businesstoday.in/nri/visa/story/walmart-denies-visa-fraud-link-says-terminations-not-tied-to-h-1b-workers-491049-2025-08-26

>>514064324
>>514064687
>John Deere
Rajesh is CIO , of course.
>how to make customers hate us the most.

https://about.deere.com/en-us/explore-john-deere/leadership

The other Rajesh is Adobe, company that makes Photoshop.
Literally 2nd Rajesh and the company that is most hated by their customers, once they made their Customers pay monthly subscriptions .

>temporarily more money
>rajesh happy
>customers are pissed off
>cheaper and more honest competitors rise
>you lost the market and start firings

>>514064920
No its Bidenflation.

>>514063782
>Biden Derangement Syndrome

>>514065080
>No. I'm literal retard.
ok

>>514060996 (OP)
The only one on that list I really sympathize with are UPS employees getting fucked. Those are good jobs.
"Corporate employees" means white collar layabout faggots.
Ford GM and JD are all greedy price gouging cunts and can get fucked.

>>514060996 (OP)
I'm surprised that economic policy is where Trump is the weakest. I figured he'd fuck up immigration to a greater extent.

I guess he just has wacky, incorrect ideas about how the economy works - and no GOP Establishment to tard wrangle those instincts like the first term. Judging by the bond market and the 600k Chinese students thing, he fucked up so badly the Century of American humiliation is written in the cards. For essentially no reason whatsoever.