Anyone own a sweatshop?

“I have a fantobuloso idea for a thebackpacker.com hat, unfortunately it is fairly labor intensive. I need someone to do some custom sewing. So if anyone owns a sweatshop and wants to have 9 year olds make hats, contact me.”

“Uh, oh! you should have posted this under fuego!”

“I know some illegal immigrants who need work but then would Ewker buy one?

LMAO!



I kill me!”

“If I admit to owning one will the resident liberals flog me?”

“LOL dh! You betcha! Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Maybe someone should start a fuego thread:

"Sweatshops vs. Illegal immigrant shops"?”

“Nope! I want a cut of the action, though!”

“You can actually have things made in Mexico via the internet, but you have to have huge quantities made.”

“TB - does that make you a closet Republican?”

“matt - can't you steal some hats and alter them? Then charge us like you're REI to cover any costs?

Actually, you could do that and not need a sweatshop


Note - This is a joke. I love you REI. Please don't revoke my membership. I need you!”

“okay, where is our matt and what have u done with him??”

“I think Matt is a troll for Kathy Lee Gifford!”

“No, DH. Just a greedy bastard. But, it makes me a good, red blooded American, too! :)”

“As long as we don't have to feed the coolies, I'm in!!

No toilet breaks, either.

Labor intense?

"I need someone to do some custom sewing."
So pay for it.
Whatsa matta, you want a hand-out?”

“TB - I thought you and MarkO felt that Republican and greedy bastard were synonomous? 8)”

“Sure, "greed is good", non?
And don't forget, "selfishness is a virtue".

I don't want to insult anyone, now >8^]
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“matt - if you hire young asian women can I be foreman..........

I mean, I think you get the biggest bang for your buck...........uh..............

I think asian women tend to be the hardes, most loyal workers on the planet but they need guidance.”

“Hmmmmmmm, hands-on, Mr. Bear?”

“Matt probably got hauled off to Guantanamo by John A$$wipe's Justice Department.

Or has Alberto Gonzalez taken over already?
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“Is there any other kind?”

“So, I take it if we want to join the republicans and vote that way, the answer is, "by all means! Welcome!" But, keep our little paws off the money, eh? :)

Is there a fuego icon on here????”

“What is this?

Posted a fuego topic under chatter, then disappeared?

Has matt been taken over by the spirit of a troll?”

“Am I the only teacher/coach on TT?

We get stuff done all the time and we have it done locally. The major expense is the template - silk screen (cheap), or embroidery (one eye).

If you don't find anyone, I could set you up, but it would mean importing the stuff from here.

I'm sure a teacher can set you up with something local.

Doug”

“So, do I makes a good repugnican?”

“Nice typo TB.

Matt - I know of a embroidery place close to my in-laws that does this sort of thing. When my wife was in there she noticed that they were making hats for the Florida branch of an profesional group I'm in. Let me know if you'd like me to try and find the info on them.

With computers this isn't as big a deal as you might think. My mother in law has a machine with a card reader. She downloads pictures over the internet, uploads to the machine and it stitches away. She embroiders all sorts of things for her grandkids. An embroidery place would definitely have this.”

“Matt, you funny dude! I guess you're not really the total a-hole everyone on here (except me) says you are.
:-D”

“Dang lyra, can't I tell you anything in confidence?”

“that's assuming it was a joke...”

“Has matt been taken over by the spirit of a troll?”
Bison

As I said, Matt is Kathy Lee Gifford.”

“Have you contacted some of your local high schools? Maybe they have a home economics program, or a fashion design program that would be willing to help as a learning experience? (probably would do it for relatively cheap as well!)”

“Matt - here you go. This is the place I was thinking of: http://www.stitchesindesign.com/main.htm”

“That was no typo! :)”

“There ya go lyra, assuming!!

Well, there goes Bearmagnet!

Off with his head!!”

“I know it wasn't!”

“Matt you have mail and no it is not a request to ban stikmon.
LOL”

“Thanks for the support everyone. I was hoping to find a Latin American sweatshop. You know, I'm tring to maintain the Isolationist Platform by keeping the work in our same hemisphere.

I tried a local embroidery store today, but they didn't have a straight line sewing machine. So I tried an alterations shop, and they were going to charge an arm and a leg. I am hoping to find a B2B type company so I can get a wholesale discount.






... and lyra, your banned”

“I looked into having a bunch of sil tarps made one time and most of the south of the border places had minimum orders over 1000, if memory serves.”

“Hey, BowlderSon is 9. Why not just set him up with a sewing machine. I'll stand guard with the whip.”

“Do you have a whip?

I have a cat-o-nine tails. That's why I should be foreman over any asian sweatshop.”

“so did Lyra really just get banned?”

“She has not posted here since. I guess she joined the Tarpster.”

“Actually.. I have a good contact, Matt.

I didn't scan the thread to see what responses you had -- but ya.. West Tennessee is KNOWN for sewing sweatshops..

Some of them are friends of mine, and one or two are actually related.. so ya.. let me know if you want me to carry your idea over and get it quoted for you.”

“get in line you brown noser!


lol”

“Matt just wishes he could "ban" me...the pervert.”

“Mapes has a bunch of scouts lined up.”

“I some communities there are "sheltered workshops" for people who are physically/mentally/socially challenged who love projects like this. The quality of work is good, cost is cheap. Anything like this in your neighborhood?”

“When I was in the Navy we had a local shop in VA Beach that embroidered our hats for us. I forgot the name of it but I've looked them up in the past to see if they could make a couple for me since my squadron decommissioned. The hats went for $10 so they couldn't have been charging too much. They do have places online that I came across to do custom hats when I was looking for some of the ships I had been on. I'll search later and see if I can come across anything again.”

“ok between Matt and earthnsky, I am not sure who needs to get laid more.
Matt for wanting to have thebackpacker logo on every piece of clothing and ENS wanting and planning on going on a hiking trip every weekend!

men!

j/k”

“One is South of Matt in Huntsville AL, Name of the company is Pheonix Industries....”

“9 y/o's?

WTF? Everyone else is using labor from south of the border at the same price.”

“I was so surprized to see Matt had created this thread. With THAT title, I was certain it was started by Spirit coyot.”