Early Addition

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By Jen Chung in News on May 8, 2008 11:28 AM

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sensibile

Early addition? Is that like late subtraction or timely multiplication?

Early EDITION is a common phrase used in journalism.

Nick S

the less locals in the IKEA workforce the better. the employees at the target downtown are mostly local and look at that fucking mess.

pickles

60% of Ikea hires are from Red Hook? That is a made-up number from Ray Hall of Red Hook Rise, who has been a supporter of Ikea since the beginning. The company refuses to release any numbers.

Rather than agree to hire a certain number of local residents, Ikea gave residents a head-start on the application period... and then just waited a few weeks and put them in with the rest of the applicants.