Excessive people, excessive sweating: Celebrity Sweating

What was once known as The Gap and now known simply as GAP, sweat their latest episode of unforgivably irresponsible globalism. It’s one thing for a giant corporation to be forced to save face by closing sweatshops after news spread of using child labor, sometimes child slave labor for the first time, but it’s a whole other beast when the same giant celebrity endorsed corporation gets caught a second time…. It makes you wonder if GAP really cared the first time around, or if they just broke a sweat because they had to. Now really, if they just took all of those annoying GAP welcomers and shipped them to India or where ever else they make clothes, to do a little investigative work on how their products get made, children wouldn’t be forced into sewing little GAP logos for 15 hours at a time for very little to no wages.

The above photo is the manipulated GAP logo over the picture of child slave laborers being rescued from one of their so-called “subcontracted” sweatshops.

From the 2004 Guardian Unlimited article on the GAP child labor and sweatshop police:

The Gap said it has a team of more than 90 compliance officers who conducted about 8,500 factory visits last year. The company produces garments in 3,000 factories located in 50 countries.

The Gap said it cancelled supply deals with 136 plants last year because of various violations. Contracts were terminated with 42 plants in China, another 42 in south-east Asia, 31 on the Indian subcontinent and nine in Europe.

So like, what happened to those 90 sweatshop compliance officers? Do they all work for FEMA now, doing things such orchestrating fake news conferences and sweating over their gross, unfathomable incompetence? Whatever GAP’s excuses may be, their clothes have sucked at all levels for the last decade or so, we just didn’t think they could actually suck more.

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