How did the Pillowtex closing affect you and your family?

How is life different? Did the closing create new opportunities for your family? How did you cope with it?

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Streets are completly destroyed. No sense of pride in most middle class neighborhoods. Kannapolis has completly lost focus on areas that do not concern the Research Campus. It is a shame to ride down most streets and see what homes look like. No one follows up and we piss our taxes on who???? Look around it is not in Kannapolis. What has been built or what new business have we seen since closing of Pillowtex. Lynn and Wally Safrit have a new home. How does the man that owns the town have his mistress and her husband as the town appointed attorney????? Smeel what is cooking?????What will happen to the older displaced people that Murdock stole their retirement and then rubbed #### in their face and built the TAJ-MAHAL for them to look at…. SONS OF BITCHES like him are what communism is based on. The old ####### should not even be proud of what he has done. No one in my family worked for Pillowtex at time of closing but economically everyone in Kannapolis has struggled to find work and needs to have their vehicles relined due to all of the road conditions… WHY?????

Posted by Keith McLain on 07.14.2008 at 03:29 pm

It is such a shame about some of the former mill workers.

Posted by Billy Sims on 07.30.2008 at 06:22 am

The mill shut down on my birthday, 5 yrs ago. What a shock when i recieved a phone call telling me I no longer had a job. The closing affected my whole family. My husband and son both lost their jobs. The plant closing changed our lives forever. It took a long time for us to find jobs and now we are trying to get by. I miss the money i made at Pillowtex and i miss the friendships i shared there.
What a sad day in Kannapolis! Mr. Cannon probably rolled over in his grave.

Posted by vickie cline on 07.30.2008 at 12:42 pm

The closing affected our family in several ways. We loved to head to downtown Kannapolis and run through the small shops, talk to the locals there, hear the old folks talk of the glory days when Cannon Mills was at its peak.

It’s all gone now, thanks to our narrow-minded political leaders that approved NAFTA. Information Technology jobs have been taken oversees to foreign lands; to countries that literally hate the USA.

Do you feel good when you call for technical support and hear a foreign voice that can barely speak English? How about giving out your credit card or Social Security number to someone over there? Ever wonder where that information is stored? You would be surprised!!!

Posted by Tom Strader on 09.16.2008 at 12:43 pm

 

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