There's a gap here - Good fugging grief

[malaise]

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2200590,00.html
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Child workers, some as young as 10, have been found working in a textile factory in conditions close to slavery to produce clothes that appear destined for Gap Kids, one of the most successful arms of the high street giant.
Speaking to The Observer, the children described long hours of unwaged work, as well as threats and beatings.

Gap said it was unaware that clothing intended for the Christmas market had been improperly subcontracted to a sweatshop using child labour. It announced it had withdrawn the garments involved while it investigated breaches of the ethical code imposed by it three years ago.
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I don't believe them.

[fenriswolf]

1. i love all these companies

"oh WEEEEE didn't know that WWEEEEE employed child slave labor, WEEEE'REEE SO SORRY, we will NEEEVVEEERR EEVVVEEER do it again.

[NanceGreggs]

2. Neither do I. n/t

[angstlessk]

3. wasn't the same thing discovered just a couple months ago..and they

swore then it would never happen again???


edit: from 2004 even: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2004/may/13/7

google itself has 805,000 entries re :gap & child labor...'news to them'..sure it is :grr:

[Warpy]

4. Management always says

"Deliver my shit on time and at this price and I won't ask any questions because I don't want to know how you did it."

I believe Gap didn't know. I believe they didn't want to know.

[Vilis Veritas]

5. The sad fact is that they DO KNOW...

they just choose to look the other way when signing the contracts...

What THEY can not SEE, THEY choose to IGNORE...until such a time as THEY are caught.

[Initech]

6. Oh. Wont somebody please. Think of the children?

:grr:

That is what the people who think that way need to be shown. They'll think twice before uttering that statement again.

[stirlingsliver]

7. But...But....The Gap

But I thought The Gap was where all the cool kids bought their clothes.

Whatever shall the cool kids do if they can't get their clothes at The Gap??

:sarcasm:

[malaise]

8. Maybe they'll finally attempt to fill the gap

between their clueless ears - you know their not so cool brains.