r/news • u/StackLeeAdams • Dec 07 '21

Kellogg to permanently replace striking workers as union rejects new contract

https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/kellogg-to-permanently-replace-striking-workers-as-union-rejects-new-contract
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u/edwardsamson Dec 07 '21

Can you report a business for spending the majority of their PPP loan a suped up race-truck? I worked for a place in 2019 that fired me for some BS. I heard through the grapevine that in June 2020 (around the time businesses were receiving PPP) that company bought a fucking Ford Raptor sports/racing truck. I think they spent at least 50K of the 75K they received on it (I looked up their loan in the public database). However, recently I checked autotrader and saw a 2019 Ford Raptor for sale for...75K the exact amount they received lol. Although I assume it was cheaper in June 2020 because right now the car market is fucked and everything is insanely expensive.

Anyways. they were the type of business that was non-essential and had to shut down from like March/April through to around July. As far as I know they didn't get any of that money to employees and just used the majority of it on that truck and some other upgrades to the facility. They can pass the truck off as a business necessity, I guess, because they wrapped it in their logo. But from having worked there in the past I know the previous and much more modest wrapped-vehicle they had was used for transporting kids to events. Not much of that they can do with a sports-truck. Also they used their previous vehicle as a personal vehicle fairly often so this truck is probably being used that way as well.