Reply #26: No shit, they shut down my F-i-L's company for no damn reason but...

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... to put money in the board's pockets. By ceasing to order, after demanding for years that company make parts only for CAT, machining everything for and to CAT's specs and suddenly they pull up stakes and get that stuff somewhere else. And poof! My F-i-L doesn't have a job anymore.

CAT sucks, and they're just whining because the CEO want's another solid gold bathtub.

But I believe them when they say they'll bolt from IL in a New York minute. They are mercenaries to the core and would sell their mothers if they could turn a profit on it.