A&G Gambling Cost Employees

**imported_neutral** · July 28th, 2006, 09:56 PM

A & G Coal co. may end up laying off several hundred employees, after a gamble in their coal hauling operations fell through.
Still highly profitable even after the tragic death of a child in the Inman area of Appalachia.
Owners gambled on a coal haul that the government susposedly helped fund.
Now hundreds of employees may lose their jobs.
Layoffs may come as early as this Saturday. And continue until approximately 200 employees are laid off or until A & G can revamp their hauling process.
The company has not had or released a statement.
Confirming or denying the layoffs.

**imported_Sportsman** · July 28th, 2006, 10:12 PM

Where did you get your info?

**imported_neutral** · July 29th, 2006, 12:46 AM

Heard it a week or so ago. A & G sent a memo supposedly to employees, then begin layoffs today.
50 today and maybe several hundred before it is over.
Making money hand over foot and laying people off.
Yet they had to hire another accountant just to help keep the books.
Got to love how some justify things.
Must follow after the oil industry. We have the coal and are making money, just not enough.
And we screw up, so lay off people and make more money, because we gambled and messed up, forget those we have to lay off. Esp. due to our ignorance.
Forget about the people and area. We have to make our money for us poor owners... [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

July 29th, 2006, 03:25 AM

A&G's management sucks. Check their safety record.

**TheBeast** · July 29th, 2006, 08:17 AM

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I agree 100%, how often do you hear anything positive about them. One of my best friends works for them and doing everything he can to find another job. He is very upset with not having gotten any promised pay raises since he has been there. Yet he questioned his boss about it when they it was supposed to be on the pay cycle and wasn't the boss told him that they didn't have the money and no raises were given at all, later in the shift he hears 2 other guys talking about the raise they go on their check, during a break he asks the boss about this and he just tells him that at least he can go home and sleep knowing he is an honest person and just walked off and left him standing there with knowing he was a bold faced liar. 2-3 months later he still hasn't gotten a raise because "they don't have the money" but last month everyone got all new trucks to drive around the job in and not just any trucks loaded up most expensive new Silverado's that they could get. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]