{"id":4649,"date":"2025-10-14T21:16:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/4649\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T21:16:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:16:33","slug":"anaheim-companys-sudden-closure-leaves-hundreds-without-a-job-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/4649\/","title":{"rendered":"Anaheim company\u2019s sudden closure leaves hundreds without a job \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people are without a job after an Orange County-based beverage bottling company suddenly announced its closure.<\/p>\n<p>Employees of Manna Beverages in Anaheim say they were blindsided when they were abruptly sent a text on Thursday notifying them of the shutdown. The workers were instructed to turn in their belongings on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of my life\u2019s been here. I know a lot of the people,\u201d said Chad Simpson, who was one of many employees affected. \u201cYou\u2019re not just losing a job, you\u2019re losing a family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/oc-layoffs.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Simpson said he was a maintenance technician at the company, where he worked for 20 years. He said he first was given a text message him telling him not to go in for his next scheduled shift. About two hours later, he got a second message.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLater on that night at about 12:33, they sent a notice of termination,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sal Salcedo, who was a lead supervisor, was also impacted by the sudden layoff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a family, they have families. We have bills to pay,\u201d Salcedo said. \u201cA warning would have helped.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the notice of termination, the company blames \u201cuncontrollable circumstances\u201d are forcing Manna Beverages to cease all operations on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>NBC4 has reached out to the company for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of people are without a job after an Orange County-based beverage bottling company suddenly announced its closure.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,387,611],"class_list":{"0":"post-4649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-orange-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}