Earl (08-18-2019)
It was 1.5 pay, too:
"Smith told Business Insider that on-site workers have a 56-hour workweek, which provides for 16 hours of overtime. As such, workers who didn't attend Trump's speech and took the PTO would not be eligible to receive that overtime"
"An anonymous union leader told the Post-Gazette that one day of work could amount to around $700 in pay, benefits, and a per diem payment for out-of-town workers."
Well NO WONDER the crowd was that big!
And so must have been the expense for the corporation to pay workers so much to do nothing productive. And they get to write this political expenditure off as a pre-tax expense? Looks to me like they probably violated tax law. I don't know. It doesn't look right.
Business Insider
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Earl (08-18-2019)
They've done this in the past for celebrities, so, they've been possibly violating tax laws in the past-oh dear....That being said....I can't find an article that says how many Shell empoyees attended this event. You say "no wonder the crowd was so big"...so I'm assuming you did find numbers? Please share
Earl (08-18-2019)
Hello TOP,
You're arguing that the crowd was small? That's surprising.
If Trump was there as an 'educational speaker,' why did he go into campaign speech?
That blows the whole claim from the corporation that this 'was treated as a training day.'
"Shell spokesperson Curtis Smith told Business Insider that "Tuesday was treated as a training (work) day with a guest speaker who happened to be the President."
That's pretty suspicious wording.
If it was a training day it was a training day.
This language: 'treated as?'
That's code.
Everybody knows this is not a training speech.
If it was a training speaker, then that's what it is.
'Treated as' is BS.
That's just so they can have a forced political rally and do it on pre-tax money.
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[QUOTE=PoliTalker;3211160]Hello TOP,
No problem. So you've got nothing Thanks
Last edited by TOP; 08-18-2019 at 07:46 AM.
Earl (08-18-2019)
Hello TOP,,
Oh, I've got plenty.
Here's the memo sent to the Shell workers:
The Actual Memo
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Earl (08-18-2019)
Hello TOP,
How diligently did you try? It didn't take much searching...
"About 5,000 workers attended the speech, according to Newsweek magazine. "
Trump’s speech at a Shell plant drew thousands of workers. They were paid overtime to be there.
Are you ready to congratulate me for being able to do what you couldn't?
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Earl (08-18-2019)
And signalless continues to lie by omission! Kind of forgot to say that it was overtime pay for attending not regular pay, that their coworkers would receive if they attended. Lying sack of shit.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...?noredirect=on
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