Trump layoff tracker (economic, money, government, programs)

[don1945]

Originally Posted by Yuptag

It's unfortunate that there are layoffs.

Unlike Obama, with Trump, I actually feel that the fate of the workers matters. Obama seemed to be resigned to losing good jobs and adding on McJobs and gloating. Trump seems to actually understand the issue.

What !!! Trump has the empathy of a gnat, when it comes to what happens to others. How anyone can sit there and make such a statement is ridiculous. The man cares about one person, and it isn't you or me.

[chucksnee]

Originally Posted by James Bond 007

Dictionaries are your friend. They even have them online!

And now you have to describe what the verb is in this instance, without object (yet we are talking about an object):

noun

a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
a movable cover, slide, etc., for an opening.
a person or thing that shuts.





verb (used with object)

to close or provide with shutters: She shuttered the windows.
to close (a store or business operations) for the day or permanently.

verb (used without object)

to close or close down: The factory has shuttered temporarily.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/shuttering


Can you? Or are you going to have to use that online dictionary, that you mentioned?

[James Bond 007]

I have no idea why you are having such a hard time with such a common English word.

Here is the sentence:

The company said the closure is part of a $110.5 million plan to streamline manufacturing that includes shuttering a second plant in Santiago, Chile and upgrading a facility in Springfield, Tennessee.

A simple substitution of the definitions you found above lead us to this:

The company said the closure is part of a $110.5 million plan to streamline manufacturing that includes [clos[ing]] a second plant in Santiago, Chile and upgrading a facility in Springfield, Tennessee.

If, for some strange reason, you are objecting to that particular use of "shuttering," don't blame me - CNN wrote the article, not I. But I have no idea why anyone would object to it, because using the word "shuttering" is a common way of saying "closing."

[chucksnee]

If you're responding to me (because you FAILED to provide the quote you were responding to), you have failed to answer my question. (And yes, I did not "quote" the post above to show how stupid the post above is, by not posting that particular quote).....

[James Bond 007]

You said:

Originally Posted by chucksnee

What is shuttering?

If you were asking what was being shuttered, rather than asking what the word "shuttering" meant (which is what I assumed), then your own quote provided you the answer:

a second plant in Santiago, Chile

But again, I have no idea why you brought that to anybody's attention. Do you think the article was about the closing of a plant in Chile, and not Memphis? Because if that's what you were trying to bring to my attention, you seem to not have noticed the following bolded word:

a second plant in Santiago, Chile

The first plant being, of course, the one in Memphis. This is so plainly obvious it did not even occur to me that you were doing anything other than asking what the word "shuttering" meant.

This surely has to rank as one of the most bizarre exchanges I've had on this forum.

[momonkey]

Originally Posted by James Bond 007

That excerpt was soooooo 2017.

No comment on the net gain of 730 jobs?

[James Bond 007]

Originally Posted by momonkey

No comment on the net gain of 730 jobs?

The article says:

The Wall Street Journal reports that the company plans to eliminate or relocate about a quarter of its workforce in October.

So that net gain is only between those two facilities. There are obviously other facilities, and taken all together, the net will be a loss.

[chucksnee]

Originally Posted by James Bond 007

You said:

If you were asking what was being shuttered, rather than asking what the word "shuttering" meant (which is what I assumed), then your own quote provided you the answer:

But again, I have no idea why you brought that to anybody's attention. Do you think the article was about the closing of a plant in Chile, and not Memphis? Because if that's what you were trying to bring to my attention, you seem to not have noticed the following bolded word:

The first plant being, of course, the one in Memphis. This is so plainly obvious it did not even occur to me that you were doing anything other than asking what the word "shuttering" meant.

This surely has to rank as one of the most bizarre exchanges I've had on this forum.

And you obviously have no clue what "temporally" means, as a verb (in the link I provided)....


Which brings me back to my initial question. Which you have failed to answer.

[James Bond 007]

Once again, chucksnee is simply not reading something correctly, and/or making up stuff. Note the bolded:

Originally Posted by James Bond 007

Electrolux plant in Memphis to shut down

It says absolutely nothing about it being temporary. The word "temporary" or "temporarily" does not even occur in the article.

[James Bond 007]

Your definition also includes this, since you don't seem to have noticed:

to close (a store or business operations) for the day or permanently.

So yes, "shuttering" can mean a permanent closure. Which is what the CNN article said it would be.