United Furniture emailed and texted employees late at night two days before Thanksgiving last week telling them to not report to work the following day. Then followed up that with another message advising that employees were being permanently laid off and that COBRA benefits would not be available. But...Happy Thanksgiving! (Not that last part.)Arrow Trucking shut down two days before Christmas in 2009, stranding about 900 drivers thousands of miles from home with no pay and canceled corporate gas credit cards. Employees found out when they couldn't pay for gas that they'd just pumped into their rig ($$$$), or heard about it through the media, on the Internet, or by word of mouth. Merry Christmas! (Not that last part either.)Andy discusses the culture of corporate America, which often treats employees as expendable and not worthy of even common courtesies, much less a livable wage and decent benefits, and why laws regulating businesses are necessary. Oh, and he also discusses a 1967 trip to buy furniture with his grandmother, and manages to fit that story into this topic, kind of.Sorry about that job loss, but Happy Holidays anyway, America!--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/federal-andy/message