Thread regarding Wells Fargo & Co. layoffs

A traitor is a person who betrays a country. Let’s talk about Offshoring.

What kind of man is a CEO who intentionally betrays his own country by sending American jobs overseas in the search for profits??? A shameless egotist with a broken moral compass is the answer. A man who puts profits above loyalty, a man who puts his career above respect for others, a man who cannot be expected to behave in an ethical manner.

Charlie Scharf enjoys all the privileges and rights of an American citizen, and yet has so little respect for the country which has granted him and his family such exceptional advantages and extraordinary wealth.

Charlie likes to boast publicly about Wells Fargo’s Program for Militant Veterans. Do these brave veterans, who have so selflessly put their lives on the line for their country, know that Charlie is aggressively sending their brothers and sisters jobs overseas?

A man who so easily betrays his own country (and his own employees and their families) is not likely draw a line before betraying the trust of his bank’s customers, bank regulators, the US economy, the communities in which we do business, third party affiliates, and shareholders.

Businesses that implement a management philosophy that relies heavily on ethics are proven to be more successful than those who operate in an unethical manner. (Ethical businesses don’t need to pad profits by offshoring jobs and spending Billions to pad their stock price.)

Let’s bring in a CEO with integrity who can be the excellent role model this bank so desperately needs, a CEO who will set the tone from the top by promoting and rewarding ethical behavior.

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@3hqq+1n5Dts7o

100%!!! Well said!

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Post ID: @3hzy+1n5Dts7o

OP has confused "patriotism" and "capitalism". LOL.

This is the hard pill that lots of far right folks are going to find hard to swallow.

You can't be America First AND a Capitalist, because Capitalism only cares about ROI.

Capitalism doesn't have borders and the "invisible hand of the market" doesn't salute the flag.

So you need to bend one or the other a little bit.

I love my country, and I'm a fan of well regulated Capitalism, but regulating employment using country borders is a recipe for a never-ending recession.

America was built on cheap labor. Everyone knows what that means.

It took more than pioneers and homesteaders to create this much wealth. Having oceans on either side and friends to the North and South means that the USA doesn't get blown up every few years in some European war.

That helps, too.

The best way to prevent your job from being offshored is to add more value than other options or to find a type of work that you can't easily send overseas.

USA! USA! USA!

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Post ID: @3hqq+1n5Dts7o

@1inr+1n5Dts7o is right on.

Some of you think this is a new thing. This has been going on with companies for decades.

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Post ID: @1rhq+1n5Dts7o

Charlie is a puppet of the Board of Directors. That’s not to say he’s free of blame. But let’s get real. What’s going on is larger than Charlie. Wells is a sinking ship with zero life boats.

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Post ID: @1ynz+1n5Dts7o

So in today’s definition Offshoring US jobs implies the job was done by an American citizen and now was moved to another country and the American lost their job. What if the job is now originally posted in another country, is that no longer offshoring? What if the job is moved to a lower pay scale state? Is that not a form of offshoring? WF can just post the jobs in another country and then what will folks complain about?

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Post ID: @1inr+1n5Dts7o

Are you suggesting “it must be okay because others are doing it”? Because I can point out many scenarios where there were multiple “bad actor” companies who were taken down or suffered negative consequences for all getting on the same nefarious bandwagon.

We could talk about the subprime mortgage crisis, Big Tech companies abusing users’ data, companies firing Whistleblowers, dr-g companies overcharging, tobacco companies, companies dumping toxic waste….

Modern law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else. The common belief that corporate directors have a legal duty to maximize shareholder value - even if this means skirting ethical rules, damaging the environment, or hurting employees- is false.

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Post ID: @1xli+1n5Dts7o

Remind me, are there any Fortune 500 companies that don’t do the same?

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Post ID: @1xdm+1n5Dts7o

Sure! Let’s have Charlie be transparent to the news media and the shareholders about how many Wells Fargo US employees have lost their jobs to offshoring since he became CEO. And let’s have Charlie speak publicly about how many more US jobs he plans to
offshore in the next 5 years. I’m comfortable with the public and our shareholders making up their own minds once they know all the facts. He never goes there, though, right? That is because he knows it’s a bad look.

And while he’s being honest and transparent, he can also answer questions about sending our customers’ sensitive financial information to India - a third world country.

I can’t help but wonder how many employees John Stumpf told to Grow up! If “growing up” means selling my soul for the big bucks, I will proudly pass.

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Post ID: @1hch+1n5Dts7o

You realize that as CEO of a public company, he is beholden to shareholders, who want profit and growth. So, yes, it is all about profits but it's not personal and it's not treason. Grow up!

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Post ID: @dtp+1n5Dts7o

You’re right. I’m sorry. I didn’t see the first response.

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Post ID: @qka+1n5Dts7o

Yes, someone has used the word “treason.”

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Post ID: @cye+1n5Dts7o

No one here has used the word treason.

The dictionary defines Traitor as “a person who betrays a friend, a country, a principle.”

Offshoring jobs betrays American citizens and undermines the US economy.

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Post ID: @wsa+1n5Dts7o

Hopefully we don’t ever have to worry about Charlie needing to commit to the sacrifice and honor necessary to defend this country. It might ruin his mani/pedi.

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Post ID: @uum+1n5Dts7o

Let’s be careful how we use language here. A person commits treason if they try to overthrow the government. They betray their country if they steal and disseminate classified information. Offshoring jobs is nowhere close to being in the same category.

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Post ID: @cye+1n5Dts7o

Charlie’s Aggressive Offshoring Policy needs to be made public, loudly and truthfully, across all social platforms.

Publicly, he makes a big splash about “Committing $1 Billion over 10 Years aimed at creating communities for people of all income levels.” Quietly, he is ruthlessly slashing American jobs in these same communities.

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Post ID: @spv+1n5Dts7o

Creating prosperity in other countries while causing misery in your own sue sounds like treason to me.🤷🏻

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