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Us vs Them Donating Member (725 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-11-04 10:19 PM
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1. So when I was in high school I had a job at Banana Republic.
It was no secret that all clothes came from third world countries who forced labourors under harsh conditions to make the products we were schlepping to the happy consumers. We openly talked about it when the managers were not around. If it sounds like we were callous to the situation, the answer is yes, we were. Until one day, unpacking a shipment of cashmere holiday sweaters, ripping them out of their protective, sealed, plastic bags one by one, I came across a colour not scheduled in the most recent shipment list. Canary yellow.

They're not kidding when they tell you these people are not afforded such human decencies as bathroom breaks.
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