“New Kia cars are not being released to Ontario dealerships — and reportedly many more across the country — to sell. Instead, they’re being stored on this compound, 30 kilometres south of Kitchener, Ont. and allegedly on other similar compounds across Canada.”
This doesn’t pass the smell test. If they’re telling dealers, they know it’ll leak. There’s no way they’d essentially publicize “we’re doing this to cheat headquarters” if they were doing that, unless they’re really fucking dumb, or expect overseas leadership to be completely disconnected to the point of missing a major news cycle.
Or whoever passed on the news was so upset about it to say “I quit” in the most creative and fuck-you way possible.
Hm, now that I read it again I wonder if the middle manager holding that conference might simply have been too stupid to realize that the explanation why they’re doing this wasn’t meant to be shared…