Herseth Sandlin acting as Raven mouthpiece for mass firing

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Well, that’s one way to stay in the news:

Earlier this year, Raven had about 1,180 employees, including 113 acquired when the company bought Madison-based Integra Plastics. Some vacancies since then have gone unfilled, and the company will have about 1,000 employees by the time the restructuring is over.

 “We are one of the larger employers in Sioux Falls, but we’re by no means such a large company that we don’t know our employees on a personal level,” said Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, Raven’s general counsel and vice president of corporate development. “No company wants to do this, but it’s appropriate and necessary for the long-term future of the company.”

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12 thoughts on “Herseth Sandlin acting as Raven mouthpiece for mass firing”

  1. Not surprising, given the hits they took in ag last quarter. Plus, the efficiency they likely added in Madison made many jobs there unnecessary. It sucks, but they have a duty to shareholders.

  2. Wait a minute why does she need to be paid $600k while someone else loses their $50k job? Seems to me if they got rid of her they could hire 12 people for the greater good.

    1. I don’t think her last name is worth $600k to Raven, either, and regardless of her experience or expertise, I bet they could find someone else to provide the same service for a lot less. Sometimes you can’t buy your way into prosperity, something the Dems think is always a solution.

    2. Perhaps Raven is in a better position to assess her worth to their organization than you are.

  4. Wow, the invisible hand adherents on this blog are showing their true colors, this is the way capitalism works clowns.

    1. An employer responding to market pressures and looking forward to best ensure it stays afloat? Yeah, pretty much how capitalism works.

  5. And this is the way that demonizing the capitalists works as you probably also know.

  6. I’m not exactly sure why Ms. Herseth-Sandlin doing her job for Raven Industries is a particularly noteworthy news item.

    If she intends to get back into politics at some point, though, it does remove the typical Democrat smear of business and business owners will be difficult for her to use and potential opponents should keep this in their file, but from my own (limited) observations of her campaigns, that was never a key talking point for her anyway.

  7. While I will not comment on the layoff notice in question, it does say quite a bit about how truly crowded the political talent market is in this country that a former congresswoman who served seven years has to accept employment at a local company that, at most, does $400 million in revenue sales each year. I don’t care if SHS is biding her time, waiting for the next political opportunity in SoDak; she can do, and has done, a LOT better than mere corporate counsel at Raven.

    SHS simply needs to find a way to market her skills better than this. If she can.

    1. She gets paid $600k a year in a state with some of the lowest cost of living in the nation. Is that what we call slumming it now?

      Good lord, people on this site levy some ridiculous criticisms.

    2. or maybe the peter principle is at work. sometimes a feathered quacking object is a duck.

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