Nike keeps hoping you won’t pay attention...

I guess you are supposed to see the ads, not the facts...

Constant layoffs, whether they call it that or not, but now we don’t even get warnings or targets... https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2021/03/nike-lays-off-more-workers-but-says-shoe-market-remains-strong.html

No VP accountability... https://www.inputmag.com/style/nike-reselling-scandal-sneakers-vp-ann-hebert-son-joe-employee-family-discount

Gaslighting women athletes... https://sports.yahoo.com/nikes-new-ad-celebrating-pregnant-athletes-falls-flat-given-its-own-history-of-mistreating-them-225310014.html and https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a35877784/alysia-montano-nike-maternity-ad/

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Google "Nike pregnancy" and right at the top of the results are two New York Times op-eds that the corporation seems to believe don't exist. Or we've forgotten. Or will ignore because they made a glossy 60-second video.

Less than two years ago, Nike faced severe backlash after multiple of its sponsored track and field athletes — first World Championships medalist Alysia Montaño and Olympian Kara Goucher, and then Allyson Felix, the most decorated American track athlete ever — revealed in the New York Times that the company penalized them financially for becoming pregnant, stopping payments while they were unable to compete.

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One of the fascinating things about how some entities behave is their utter disregard for their previous actions, or their inability to realize a few clicks or a short search can call them up quickly.

Case in point: Nike.

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Customers never cared about generations of people making shoes in Korea, then China, then Bangladesh, you think they'll care about some overpaid first world employees who were living the high life on kids' sweat? Hah!

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