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Unregistered_CowardJul 25, 2011
"Oh, you actually think being 20 minutes late matters? You know Whole Foods Market is just a grocery store, right?"
I think this sums this douchebags attitude up quite nicely.
bookantJul 25, 2011
I have the exact same thing on my clipboard at this very moment. More than any other sentence, it sums up the fact that this guy's just an idiot child with no concept of responsibility. Hope mom and dad weren't planning to use that basement for anything else any time soon.
thefraudJul 26, 2011
It is extraordinary how you have pinpointed one single weak point in his letter and exploited it to serve your own moral ethic. If everything else he said was even partially true, his complaints would be justified. The fact that you have ignored that completely shows that you are most likely one of the "types" he talks about and your name will probably be redacted from a future employees resignation/hate letter. That is assuming you run a business which I sincerely hope you do not.
raiderduckJul 26, 2011
Good grief. Even Consumerist.com (hardly a bastion of pro-corporation propaganda) said:
".. if in your resignation letter you try to argue that being 20 minutes late doesn't matter, that's a pretty good sign you shouldn't be working there."
That one ridiculous whine makes the rest of the letter less credible.
bookantJul 26, 2011
No problem -
"Oh, you force team members to come in to work, on their day off, once a month, at 7 in the morning, knowing a lot of them live an hour away and the TTC isn't completely running that early in the morning and then force feed them useless updates on the company and embarrassingly artificial pep talks "
Whine-English translation: "waa, they made me work when they needed me to instead of just when I wanted to."
"Oh, you buy poorly made, ugly t-shirts for your employees that will just be thrown in the trash and pretend they're gifts when they're really just advertising tools?"
Whine-English translation: "waa, they didn't buy me presents."
"Oh, you let some customers abuse your employees and then actually reward the customers for their behaviour and then trample on the integrity and honour of your abused employees?"
Whine-English translation: "waa, you didn't indulge my fantasies of telling off the customers I don't like and actually ran the place like a business."
"Oh, you practice discrimination by offering "healthier" employees better discounts? And you think having different rules for new smoker employees versus old smoker employees is a good idea?"
Translation: "waa, you were a good enough employer to give existing employees a 'grandfather clause' on a new policy, but I'm pissed because I wasn't one of them."
"Oh, you'd rather attempt to create some sort of fake "culture" with signs and forced meeting than let it happen naturally by letting employees socialize lightly as they work?"
Translation: "waa, you expect me to actually WORK when I'm on the clock instead of hangin' with my friends."
"The fact that you have ignored that completely shows that you are most likely one of the "types" he talks about and your name will probably be redacted from a future employees resignation/hate letter."
Of course. Have been and will be again. And they're the employees who, like this idiot, were useless wastes of space who every single other employee - including their peers - were f**king exstatic to be rid of. Those who actually have a clue, a shred of responsibilty and enough simple pride to actually make an effort to do their best have always been entirely happy under my leadership.
ahalligan81Jul 26, 2011
f**k yeah
GodlessInfidelsJul 26, 2011
+1 - Thank you for saying it all and saving me the typing.
jagostoniJul 26, 2011
+20 - Logged in for the first time in months to digg you up. Commented for the first time in years for this perfect dissection.
thefraudJul 28, 2011
Here's the thing: I have worked for real asshats in my life as have we ALL at one point or another. s**thead employers: They're out there. They do exist.
The fact that you claim to have happy employees says absolutely nothing about the quality of employer that you are. It's easy to hire people who are like minded (whether jerks or not) and get along with them.
Someone who simply disagrees with corporate policies or doesn't see eye to eye with a manager is by no means a slacker or worthless. Just because someone is an hourly wage earner does not mean that you can discount their griefs as nonsense. If those same grievances were rewritten and instituted by a CEO into a company policy, everyone would be aflutter about "Oh how progressive he is!"
It's all about perspective my good man. Can you see someone with a personality like Zuckerberg or Sergey Brin being content with the status quo? Of course not! However, if an intelligent, free thinker were to come across your threshold, you'd probably discount him/her the same way you've done to this gentleman.
Believe me, I've owned a small business with a few employees and some of them sucked! s**tty employees: They exist! BUT, just because they have their own way of doing things or disagree with useless bureaucracy doesn't put them in that category.
raiderduckJul 26, 2011
While some of the letter is legitimate, it's mostly just whining.
Yes, in the real world, being 20 minutes late DOES matter. It especially matters to the people stretching themselves thinner to do YOUR work because you were too damn lazy to show up on time.
ahalligan81Jul 26, 2011
It's like you are reading my mind
rotfoxJul 26, 2011
Being employed in a retail position is almost always a thankless job. This guy was living in a dream world to think differently. From my 5 year experience working multiple jobs hoping that the next one would be better and always being disappointing.
On a side note I do agree that there are a few people that take their job way to seriously and can't have fun with it.
berkanaJul 26, 2011
I do agree that this particular point is not a justifiable basis for his outrage, but a lot of his other complaints were. Workers should have some sort of recourse against accusations that result in disciplinary action, and should not be made to take on more responsibilities without corresponding increases in compensation.
generalhysteriaJul 25, 2011
Most of the rant is unfounded and in general terms. They are the same vague complaints any employee could make about any business.
rhdesignsJul 25, 2011
This could make a good resignation letter template then
thickapeJul 26, 2011
human beings are funny. "Pay me for my ideals!!" Best of luck with that.
emfkJul 25, 2011
This is from earlier: http://bit.ly/nGQsZg
This is taking a "resignation letter" to a whole new level. Although, I liked the resignation done with Cheez Whiz the best!
blackjackjesterJul 25, 2011
Sounds like complaining about working near minimum wage job with assh**e bosses who make only slightly more whom have big superiority complexes.
Try an education next time
Closed AccountJul 26, 2011
"I could design a significantly better interface in 30 minutes on a pad of paper. I know several students who could create a superior program in their spare time."
THEN DO IT IF IT'S SO EASY!
That's right... because it isn't....
agmlauncherJul 25, 2011
The entire concept of "whole foods" grocery stores is hypocritical in and of itself.
The modern vegetarian hippie agenda to make us eat 300g worth of carbs in place of the animal fats our bodies NEED to survive, is most strongly present at "health" stores like these.
Fact: eliminating animal fats, and limiting your overall fat intake to 10% of your caloric intake, and replacing it all with carbs, will make you a depressed unhealthy fat ass, no matter how "wholesome" the carbs are.
But hey, feel free to stuff your face with expensive vegetarian carbs :)
raiderduckJul 26, 2011
Don't forget that your average vegetarian dish tastes like warmed-over compost (which it basically is).
StoiczJul 26, 2011
"The modern vegetarian hippie agenda to make us eat 300g worth of carbs in place of the animal fats our bodies NEED to survive, is most strongly present at "health" stores like these. "
Untrue. A vegetarian can get all their FATS from a plant based diet. Fats that are in every way better than your common CORN fed beef(grass fed beef is a different story). In fact there's only one nutrient that a vegetarian generally has to supplement; Vitamin B12, which can be produced by bacteria.
There is NO vegetarian diet that would ever suggest you eat carbs instead of fats. It plainly shows your ignorance on the subject. Maybe you meant proteins, which is a more complicated subject and the more certainly more complicated issue for vegetarians vs meat eaters, but quite simply solved by a bit of knowledge of the foods that you eat.
Also, just for the sake of mentioning it; Whole Foods is not a bacteria.
vegetarian market.
StoiczJul 26, 2011
*not a vegetarian market.
Closed AccountJul 26, 2011
want b12? drink bottle conditioned beer (pretty much any craft brew)
yeast is vitamin b
generalhysteriaJul 26, 2011
I guess you have never been in a Whole Foods. There is nothing "hippie" about it. I love the butchers at my local Whole Foods. They have fabulous grass fed steaks, Buffalo even. I don't know why people hate on WF so much. They are not that expensive if you are not buying all finished deli items. Then guess what, you have to pay for labour and utilities. The cost goes up. If your buying butter, milk, tuna and yes Steaks? It's not that much more money for very high quality food. Why would you cut corners on you know, food? The stuff you put in your body. I can't understand the guy driving a "pre-owned" Mercedes that eats at McDonalds ever day in order to make the payments. The they wonder why he dropped dead in the drive though a diabetic with a coronary at 37.
Closed AccountJul 26, 2011
high quality is just a label, food is food for the most part
raiderduckJul 26, 2011
You mean most "natural" products are pure overpriced crap? SHOCKING!
mbraynardJul 26, 2011
"Almost everything that prepared foods makes is terrible."
He got that right.
Otherwise, he sounds like some kid who just learned Santa wasn't real and wrote his parents a 2,000 word letter.
austineusJul 26, 2011
Soooo funny. Corporate monsters!
cupofkonaJul 26, 2011
Sounds like my last job site...real company hacks running the show and everyone was miserable, everyday...
berkanaJul 26, 2011
Quote from the resignation letter:
_____________________________________
Dear Whole Foods Market,
My experience at Whole Foods was like an increasingly sped up fall down a really long hill. That got rockier with every metre. And eventually, just really spiky ... With fire, acid and Nickleback music.
_____________________________________
Damn. Nickelback music? Are they so bad that they are now compared to spikes, fire, and acid?
boner79Jul 26, 2011
Wegmans FTW!
jmcgowanJul 26, 2011
Whole Foods locations in Maine (2) have security, and sometimes rented Police Officers... I'm in Maine, I feel like I'm going into a fortress just to buy food, I'll stick with Trader Joes.
dollar0dot02Jul 25, 2011
Oh, you write too much.