Wow....just wow...I'm speechless...how old are you?
39, but I spent about half of my life consciously analyzing everyone I came into contact with, trying to pick up on word choice, facial expressions, eye movement, responses to various stimuli, etc. I long ago called it adding to "the library". I quit actively trying to fill up more volumes some years ago after I got married. I didn't care about it so much after that.
Anyway, in this case, it was rather easy figuring out the gist after finding a certain message board in Bowling Green, and watching a television interview. On that message board, all of the posts may or may not be true: I have no idea whether to believe most of them or not. However, if you consider possible motives for certain posts, and the intelligence level those posting there
appear to have, you will find this one person who is critical in piecing some of this together. Either this one guy posting there is a genius who is posing as a not-too-smart guy who wants you to conclude he works as a UAW employee at the BG plant without coming out and saying it, or he IS a UAW employee at the BG plant who, although is not dumb, is far from being a rocket scientist.
Anyway, this guy's statements imply he works at the factory, but he does not come out and say he works there (so, he probably really does work there). This individual's whole goal there on that thread isn't to take one side or the other, but rather to try to tell people to stay calm (which adds even more credibility). His posts are such that you can tell he isn't the sharpest tool in the shed, but he is not the dumbest, either. Therefore, he isn't going to be smart enough to concoct posts to erroneously lead someone like us to the conclusion we will eventually arrive at. On the other hand, he is smart enough to give the sage advice to essentially say, "Union brothers, don't say anything, let's not post about this here,
let's wait and see if "this is all true or not.". Bingo. QED. So, GM fired Eldon for a stated reason that this guy will agree with, "if it turns out to be true." Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. Data point #1. That says so much if you stop and think about all that implies (including, but not limited to, the fact that the "stated reason" for the firing is something he is not sure if Eldon really did or not). So, the reason for the firing could not be a post in the public domain where anyone could easily establish the fact it was written by just going and reading it.
The next point is someone who posted a rumor of what they said they heard was the reason Eldon was fired. It was outrageous. Yet, no one said, "Oh, that is not it! Stop the false rumors!" Our buddy above responded by essentially saying, "Stop this, we don't know if it is true or not." There is a big difference in someone saying, "Oh, stranger on the internet, stop spreading false rumors!" versus saying "We don't know if this is true or not, stop talking about it." That says our believable insider guy had ALREADY heard the same thing, probably from inside the plant, and wasn't denying that to be the big rumor. At any rate, the rumor isn't some simple little Facebook post about management.
Finally, there is a video of a local television station interviewing someone who works at the factory. This guy is not very intelligent at all based on how incoherent and illogical his statements are. That is fine, of course. He has something he wants to say, and he is entitled to that, if he can articulate it. Basically, he goes off on a tangent and does not stick to the topic at hand. Data point #2. (By the way, what does this say? It says a lot when he wants to talk about something else other than the subject). Anyway, after eventually finishing his tangent, he returns to the topic at hand and says something to the effect that he thinks GM should give Eldon a second chance because of how long Eldon had worked there (did he say 46 years?). Data point #3. You can bet your bottom dollar if Eldon had been fired for his Facebook comments, this guy would have been up in arms about wrongful termination and freedom of speech.
Okay, I am sure there are people who will read this post, think I am crazy, and not put all the pieces together. That is fine. I am crazy and have zero idea what I am talking about. There, I said it for you.
