By Guest Blogger - Pharma Giles
Phoni UK’s adverse effect upon the local environment isn’t just confined to its wildlife. It’s about to devastate the local human community as well.
Now this devastation isn’t going to happen as a deliberate result of Phoni’s activities. It isn’t going to force the local population to take its toxic medicines in doses over and above what they are already absorbing from the local water table.
So you can’t really blame its senior leadership for anything other than the industry-wide greed and incompetence that is leading to the collapse of Phoni in the first place. In this case, it’s nothing personal. But the collapse of any large employer is bound to cause a lot of hardship in the local area.
It’s an exercise in social dynamics that countless communities worldwide have gone through before. It’s just sad to see it happening to places that I know and like. Again.
Most people can see that the Phoni gravy train is coming to a grinding halt.
Phoni employees know things aren’t right in the company, and the locals know that as well.
But no-one in charge of the local infrastructure seems to be planning for the day when Phoni UK closes its gates for good and the seagulls are left to nest on the vast empty buildings in peace.
Hey, Phoni has been here for fifty years, nothing will change. Oh yeah? Look at all of the industrial wastelands, the deserted pit villages and the ghost-towns of former dockyards that dot the UK. Things do change, and seldom for the better.
The dependency of the local community has grown in proportion to the size of the Phoni site.
In the pretty little village down the road from the Phoni UK site, hundreds of ugly box homes have just sprung up, just to accommodate people that now work at the Phoni site.
None of the local villagers who might want them can afford them, needless to say, unless they happen to be Phoni employees.
And we grand Phoni people don’t like to shop at the little local shops.
Being largely urbanite outsiders, we much prefer to do our shopping at the big supermarkets and designer outlets ten or twenty miles away. As a result, many of the colourful little local shops, some of which have been in the village for years, are closing.
What used to be a thriving local community is rapidly turning into a Phoni dormitory, with lights out at 9 p.m. At least it will soon be easy to get to. As the surrounding area gets gridlocked in the morning with all the thousand of workers trying to get to the Phoni site, the local authority has decided to put millions into driving new roads through the once-pleasant local countryside so that people can get to work on time. A few isolated cottages have had to be demolished, and many others now have dual carriageways in their back gardens inside of quiet country tracks, but hey, that’s progress.
But of course, it’s all worthwhile because of all of the jobs that the Phoni UK site brings to the local area. Except that the vast majority of workers have only moved into the area, like intellectual locusts, because of Phoni. And will move away to feed on greener pastures when Phoni UK inevitably closes, leaving behind a community stripped bare of anything that could sustain it.
I really feel sorry for the people who live in the local area near the Phoni UK site. It’s a pretty bleak place even now. I fear that things will get a lot worse a lot quicker come the inevitable day when Phoni UK close its gates for good. Phoni is in the middle of nowhere, the last oasis of large-scale employment in an industrial desert.
Still, I guess at least the wildlife will return when all is quiet and dark again and the vast, empty, decaying buildings of Phoni sink slowly into the mud from whence they sprang...
(The views expressed here, do not necessarily represent the views of Thinking Pharma or the Thoughtware Group)
(Tomorrow's Post: Phoni Pharmarrogance)
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