High School Swim Mom

[monster]

Originally Posted by Pete Zicato

That reminds me. I'd love to hear the story of how you and Beest wound up in the states and Ann Arbor.

Car industry. He works for a parts manufacturer.

[Pete Zicato]

Originally Posted by monster

Car industry. He works for a parts manufacturer.

Ooookayyyyyy. That was a bit shorter than I expected.

[monster]

Originally Posted by Pete Zicato

Ooookayyyyyy. That was a bit shorter than I expected.

Sorry, it's really not all that exciting. Here, if you're an immigrant, you're either U of M or you're car industry.

Beest's company was bought by an American company. They also bought a German company, then they decided the two needed "consolidating" so the put the German company in charge of that operation. So the Germans closed the British operations down and fired everyone. Then the American company said "wait, we needed that section!" So those lucky dozen people or so and their machinery and their families got shipped over here. Everyone else lost their jobs.

Oh and then the American company went into chapter 11 because it bought too many companies with too many problems -most notably the British company....... and it stayed there until very recently.

Please can we get a payrise now?