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Is Whole Foods Really Green? Read the Epic Resignation Letter Penned by a Former Employee

I’m sure there are many of us who have imagined an epic take-this-job-and-shove-it resignation to one or more of the employers we’ve worked for. Maybe some of you have followed through. The guy below did — in the form of a letter.

The Toronto man was upset with his employer, the yuppie, organic, and green food store called Whole Foods. So he penned an epic 2,343-word resignation letter that opens with an Edmund Burke quote, goes on to reference “fire” and “acid,” takes a detour to blast the company’s supposed hypocritical green practices, and then calls out individual coworkers by name.

For example:

“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.”

He later adds (in the form of multiple questions):

Oh, you don’t recycle properly? (Caring about our communities and our environment)

Oh, you throw out enough food to feed a lot of hungry university students. (Caring about our communities and our environment)

Oh, you’re asking me to put latex gloves on the sales floor so customers can throw a pair out for every handful of gummy bears they take? (Caring about our communities and our environment)

Oh, you’ve installed massive television screens all over the store, sucking up energy and polluting the environment with tacky advertisements. (Caring about our communities and our environment, Supporting team member happiness and excellence)

Yeah, get ready.

You can read the letter below. Gawker has redacted the names of the people the man specifically attacked, as well as “certain boring passages about wholesale prune purchasing,” it says (WARNING: there is some strong language):

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”

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. I was hired about five or six years ago. I appreciated and respected what the company said it’s philosophies were at that time. The “core values” essentially. However, it didn’t take long to realize what complete and utter bullshit they are:

Oh, you don’t recycle properly? (Caring about our communities and our environment)

Oh, you throw out enough food to feed a lot of hungry university students. (Caring about our communities and our environment)

Oh, you’re asking me to put latex gloves on the sales floor so customers can throw a pair out for every handful of gummy bears they take? (Caring about our communities and our environment)

Oh, you’ve installed massive television screens all over the store, sucking up energy and polluting the environment with tacky advertisements. (Caring about our communities and our environment, Supporting team member happiness and excellence)

Oh, you waste an absurd amount of energy, ink and paper in your offices for useless bureaucratic nonsense. (Caring about our communities and our environment, Supporting team member happiness and excellence, )

Oh, you just write off 10-20% of the product that you buy for your bulk department because the bins look nice. (Caring about our communities and our environment).

Oh, you sometimes intentionally order too much just to guarantee a full shelf, knowing full well the product will most likely be thrown out? (Caring about our communities and our environment)

Oh, you don’t actually audit or evaluate each product you sell? (Caring about our communities and our environment, We sell the highest quality natural and organic products available)

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 ([Redacted] once compared Whole Foods Market to religion… had to throw that in there. That was definitely a “Did she really just say that moment.”)? (Supporting team member happiness and excellence, Caring about our communities and our environment)/

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? (Supporting team member happiness and excellence, Caring about our communities and our environment)

Oh, the food here is really quite awful on average? Almost everything that prepared foods makes is terrible. The pizza used to be pretty good but the slices have shrunk, the toppings are sparser and it’s usually extremely overcooked. The sandwiches are the stuff of nightmares. (It’s amazing what advertising can make people think. It can even trick their senses.) (We sell the highest quality natural and organic products available)

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? (Supporting team member happiness and excellence)

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? (Supporting team member happiness and excellence)

Oh, you purchase products from Israel (Or any distant country) if they’re slightly cheaper than local alternatives? (Caring about our communities and our environment)

Oh, you‘ve somehow created the worst computer program I’ve ever used to run your entire buying system? IRMA is some Windows 95 era stuff, guys. 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. Was someone actually hired to create that thing? Was it the Realplayer dudes? Even Captain Picard couldn’t facepalm hard enough to express the amount of failure in that… that, thing… (Supporting team member happiness and excellence)

Oh, you push employees into greater responsibilities without compensation? Often having them essentially do all the work of a higher position without the pay? (Supporting team member happiness and excellence)

Oh, you ambush employee’s [sic] using two managers when you want to write someone up? No warning. No representation. All reasons and excuses fall on deaf ears. (Supporting team member happiness and excellence)

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? (Supporting team member happiness and excellence)

Oh, you like to manage “systems” instead of people? You don’t hold critical thinking and discretion in high regard? You encourage blindly following rules? I.e., no recourse in challenging write ups. Employees given cold shoulder when they attempt anything like this. (Supporting team member happiness and excellence)

Oh, you want us to politely call and let you know if we’ll be late… but you’ll still write us up when we arrive? Kind of a dick move, guys. (Supporting team member happiness and excellence)

Oh, you actually think being 20 minutes late matters? You know Whole Foods Market is just a grocery store, right? (Supporting team member happiness and excellence)

Oh, you don’t believe inflation exists? Cost of living raises aren’t given here? (Supporting team member happiness and excellence)

I notice a trend… Honestly, I could go on and on and fill out the details but since most people will just dismiss this email I should probably not put too much effort into it. I should have kept a blog…

Now the employees have lost a lot of their former power and the store is being sucked into some centralized monster. Quality is being thrown out in favour of the people at the top having to do a little less work. Competition is being destroyed and you’re not even pushing that many healthy products. Every second endcap is potato chips or pop or some sort of salt filled snack (Promoting the health of our stakeholders through healthy eating education). A lot of the stuff in Whole Body doesn’t even work or has absolutely no credible evidence to back any claims up. You’re kind a faux hippy Wal-Mart now. Great. Job.

Dear [REDACTED],
How you haven’t been fired by now is a massive mystery to, not just me, but many people. You probably belong in a psychiatric ward. If you didn’t have such a constant negative impact on everyone around you I might just feel sorry for you. BUT, you’ve hurt too many people. You create a hostile work environment with your flashes of insane anger and passive (I hesitate to use the word passive…) aggressive behavior. Please, just leave and piss all over the patio at [REDACTED]‘s again. Maybe [REDACTED] will help this time. Her childish, two-faced personality suits you quite well. The fact that you still have a job is also a massive failure by your department’s leaders as well. I’d be ashamed of being such push-overs who refuse to support good people if I were them. Quite ashamed.

Dear [REDACTED],
I don’t think you could calm down enough and become a happy, tolerable person if you were to do yoga in a hot spring while high on ecstasy. Daily. For the rest of your life. Just wouldn’t happen. I haven‘t met a single person working under you or who has worked under you who doesn’t loath the way you treat people. Your job doesn’t matter AT ALL. Get over it, relax and start treating people with a shred of respect. Chances are, you’ll improve a lot of lives. Possibly even your own. I do have a suspicion that you’re a sociopath though. Especially now, after seeing your reaction to you-know-who’s hospital visit. If that is the case, this was futile. May I suggest some acting classes? You’re not very good at pretending to be a complete, emotional, sincere human being.

Dear [REDACTED],
You win a lot of awards in my book. Best at being a chauvinist. Least likely to realize he’s about to walk into someone. Just another sign that shows how inconsiderate and egocentric you are. Or, if you do realize you’re plowing through people… well, I won’t get into that… Best at ruining the entire meat department vicinity by blasting terrible music. Do you ever think about the people around you? By the way, how did you manage to spit on the back hallway’s floor with your head so far up your ass? I guess I can at least forgive you for never learning employee’s names because of that. It’s probably difficult to hear up there.

For the love of god, learn to respect women. You have no idea how insulting and aggravating it is to be around someone who is so condescending to all the women you work with. Stop calling them “mamma” don’t refer to them as “beautiful”… for christs sake, just keep all pet names off the table. You are NOT complimenting women, you are being open about not knowing knowing their names, and lazy enough to not read a name-tag. Lazy, or you are just that self centered? You have no clue. Take notice of people around you. If you are dumping work on them without real communication we are going to think you are a dick. Take the holiday table for example. You have nothing to do with it, take credit for it and can barely remember the people who run it so smoothly. Who do you think you are?

Dear [REDACTED],
You confuse the hell out of me. Sometimes you seem like a reasonable person and then sometimes you refuse to support your employees and in some cases even treat them quite terribly. Unfortunately, you’ve been hanging out mostly in Terrible Person territory lately. You’re not welcome there! [REDACTED] owns it. You show little to no support for your team members and turn everything into a boy’s club. You rant and bitch and moan to the wrong people, because it always get back to the people you rant and bitch and moan about. Quit rolling your eyes and let people speak. You might actually like and understand more of your employees this way. Respect your employees and the precious time that they are giving up to work for you. Perhaps take some time yourself and relearn the core values you are supposed to hold so dear. Stop taking your personal life out on everyone and have some compassion for the team members you disregard so much.

Dear [REDACTED],
Your dot idea was a really, really stupid idea. Try to learn how an operation works before trying to “fix” it. All of your suggestions so far have been outdated, time consuming, poorly thought out nonsense. You aren’t impressing anyone or increasing your chances of moving up in the company with these terrible attempts at seeming proactive and full of “ideas.” You’re just frustrating to work with. Also, I think you should stand a little further back from people when you talk to them.

Dear [REDACTED],
We get it, we get it. You go to the gym. Nobody is impressed. In fact we all just laugh at your inferiority complex.

Dear [REDACTED],
Stop being such a cowardly weiner, hiding behind your emails and that awful hallway grin. Try communicating with people under you. Face to face when it’s possible. If you’re overworked you need help. Especially if your lack of time is affecting other people’s jobs and the store/company.

Dear [REDACTED]/[REDACTED]/Anyone else who visits our store,
Do you guys realize that the store NEVER looks as good as it does when you arrive? When word spreads that you’re coming to inspect the store almost every team leader begins running around like Brampton teens on PCP. They whip their employees into a frenzy. They sweep anything under the bed that they think you won’t like. They attempt to make the store look like nobody ever shops there. This stops us and them from doing actual productive work which in turn impacts sales and creates a lot of pointless stress. Then you arrive, hand out your almighty advice. The team leaders grovel at your feet and follow your advice. Then you leave and they put everything back the way it was. Undo a lot of what you suggested. Oh, I‘m sure there are things happening that I don’t see. But you really do waste a lot of time. Even making our efforts regressive sometimes. Meanwhile, if I’m awesomely efficient at my job and take a moment to chat with a fellow employee, I’m bitched at. Seems to me a costly double standard.

Consider checking some of the “stats” and “facts” used in your in store education. They’re often faulty logic, myths, misconceptions and lies used by so-called “environmentalists”. I agree we‘re currently destroying our environment and I’m quite liberal and all for natural living. But evidence and credible sources very often disagree with the propaganda spouted to us at Whole Foods. It’s just a little too extreme and biased sometimes which I believe just discredits the environmentalist movement in general, sadly.

Dear everyone else,
As I’ve said above a few times: you work at a grocery store. Go ahead and relax. Also, Whole Foods will try to make you feel like they are doing you a huge favour by employing you. It’s really a mutual agreement or transaction. Don’t fall for the guilt trips. Call in sick if you need to, etc.. There are laws in place to stop them from taking advantage of you. And if you’re thinking “This is just the way it is. Suck it up!”. You’re the biggest part of the problem. I‘m afraid we can’t be friends.

Just enjoy life. It’s pretty short, you know?

Good luck,
[REDACTED]

Considering the tone and the circumstances surrounding the letter, it‘s impossible to simply accept as fact what the disgruntled employee’s alleges. It’s also unclear what exactly some of them mean. For example, what does it mean to not “recycle properly?”

And as Gawker points out, there are some holes in his manifesto:

But for every compelling point our writer makes, there’s one that hurts his credibility. For example, on the subject of promptness, he writes, “Oh, you actually think being 20 minutes late matters?” Yes, actually, I do.

Still, the letter is entertaining. And some of you may find yourself slightly envious of his hutzpa.

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  • Thatsitivehadenough
    Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:54am

    Actually, they sound to me like someone who was sucked in for a long time and just swept each and every complaint under the rug so as not to make any waves. Then finally the last straw came and all this crap came spilling out. Typical of liberals. They are perfect until their humanity gets the better of them.

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    • VegasGuy
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 12:26pm

      Typical leftist drivel. I say he should start his own green grocery if he has such passion. Let’s see if he can live by his own standards.

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    • jds7171
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 12:33pm

      Yes, the writer of that letter is a complete idiot. Of course you are going to offer discounts on healthier employees (I assume it was for health insurance). The reason is because the premiums are cheaper. I am sure the store is paying the same for each employee, its just the employees who are healthier pay less.

      Yes of course you have to come in for training. The food store could have done it differently, but that is how they run things. Yes customers usually verbally abuse the employee, if you have to complain about it each time, then work someone else where. I pitty you in the real world, I hope you are going to be a teacher, anywhere else you are going to fail. WHy don’t you go to your store and offer to build them a new system. It is harder than he thinks.

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    • pault0001
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 1:16pm

      The guy who runs the outfit is in fact a true liberal. In my locality, Wholefoods bought up small stores just to put them out of business and stifle competition; one small chain I know of still has several of the buildings sitting empty after a year or two. Their biggest threat is Trader Joe’s and the rumor is that they would dearly love to put them out of business.

      Nasty outfit.

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    • Andrei Mincov
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 1:31pm

      Entitlement nation representative at its best…

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    • Dont-hate-on-me-2
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 1:35pm

      i could smell the liberal coming out of the computer screen reading that letter. I am now stupider for having read it. This is one person who has swallowed enviromently friendly hook line and sinker. I know his type and jee wiz they never stop complianing about this or that. This guy should take his own advice and live a little, maybe even find a tall cliff

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    • Progessives=Fail
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 2:38pm

      This guy sounds like a complete d-bag…..product of liberal education…..

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    • Zer0
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 5:07pm

      I make sure to brag, in front of my Leftists coworkers, about the grotesque amount of fossil fuels I burn and energy I consume. I really go the extra mile to search for styrofoam products!

      Cheers, to the Green Movement!

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    • ecurbyy
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 5:13pm

      That fellow needs a lot of organic cheese to go with all that whine! Only uninformed idiots shop at stores like that anyway. Organic food my a$$.

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    • BuckOfama
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 5:23pm

      I went to Whole Foods once…… To take a dump, then went grocery shopping at Safeway.

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    • Professional Infidel
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:37pm

      Wheres my check, Dingo Head.

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    • lemmsoil
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 7:59pm

      NOTE TO WRITER,

      What you are complaining about is called a job! You are not giving the company your time, they were compensating you with money to help serve their customers. You are indeed a sad display of current day liberalism!!

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    • I Love Howie Carr
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:47pm

      Best rant ever!

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    • Libertyluvnmomma
      Posted on July 26, 2011 at 10:17am

      as a vicarious management witness this person is very well right!
      Sure they need specific examples but geez the letter was long enough.
      Frankly, I enjoyed the personal attacks at the end.
      Oh, the overinflated management teams where they wish effort was redistributed.
      Working in management proves everyday what spineless, weenies our society is creating. They want to be exalted. McDonalds pays minimum wage because it takes so little skill. Remember that.

      …but we need ditch diggers too.

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  • White Ninja
    Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:48am

    This person honestly just sounds like a crappy employee that got tired of hearing how crappy they were instead of taking responsibility and fixing what they were crappy at like showing up to work on time. They’ll find more of the same anywhere else they work.

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  • victorincalifornia
    Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:47am

    This is news, he doesn’t like his job ?

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  • romadave
    Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:42am

    Maybe they weren’t giving him enough cabbage, and now he’s in a pickle. Kind of sounded like a loafer. Bet he didn’t meat their eggspectations. In the end, he wasn’t able to produce, so they canned him.

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    • AmeriCat
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:46am

      It’s really difficult to fire that kind of employee…

      That employee’s transgressions must have been egregious!

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 11:06am

      At least his frustrations didn’t turn him into a cereal killer.

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    • Brad Wesselmann
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 11:54am

      I think he is in the bag for the EPA, but if he is as lazy as he seems he’ll be sacked for sure when it comes to other employers…I wonder what his preference, paper or plastic or if he brings in his own bag and does it to himself? The good money is on the latter. ;-)

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    • Shellback
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 12:11pm

      RomaD, That was great.

      Sounds like he went past his shelf life and had be disposed on or after ….

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    • LostandFound
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 9:08pm

      Ba-dum-ta!

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  • Comeandtakeit
    Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:41am

    What a typical ungrateful young knowitall twit obviously lacking in work ethic. The company is very lucky the little idiot quit. Whole Foods is a fabulous company to work for. My daughter worked for them and the only reason she still isn’t is that she has chosen to be a stay- at -home mom while her kids are little ( good for her).

    She loved working there and had a great deal of admiration for the company and its founder and practices, but then my kid has a work ethic and was brought up by poor small business owners. She learned early on watching us what actual “work” and sacrifice is.

    I was thrilled with her working conditions, benefits, pay, and considered my visits to their store when we visited her city a trip into food wonderland. We were very impressed with what their founder has done with his wonderful company and the kid who wrote this letter is obviously clueless in the real world of business. The disgruntled quitter will obviously never be successful with an attitude like that.

    I considered my daughter‘s work experience there a fine opportunity and good learning experience and when the babies get older would be happy for her to return I suspect this kid’s prolific rant is proof positive he is not gainfully employed at any job any longer and has lots of useless time on his hands. NOT smart, either. Who will hire him next? Hint: it would not be ME, for sure. Any takers? I didn’t think so.

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    • jhaydeng
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 12:32pm

      I thought this was funny! Glad to know that young employees are so NOT interested in bettering themselves by utilizing hard work! Keeps me employed!

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    • lionshield
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 9:53pm

      i disagree with the being late thing,but i agree with almost everything the writer wrote. i thought i was reading a page out of my deiry book, i use too work at a food store and everything he/she said made
      perfect logic to me and the way i felt work at the food store many years ! ! wow ! as somebody been timetraveling for me and i not know it! just joking. keep speaking the true in love,but tone-down the f-words. always be brave to speak the true in love.

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  • cookcountypatriot
    Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:40am

    disgruntled people sound like progressives to me..liears and cheats…who cares what they think

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  • UBETHECHANGE
    Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:39am

    I like it! Truth is ugly and so are a majority of people and corporations. The Napolean complex is running rampant in this country.

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    • azuleserape
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:23pm

      Do some research about the company before opening your mouth. Excellent company to work for. There’s a reason so many corporations have a continue to study their business model, it works.

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  • AmeriCat
    Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:38am

    Why does Whole Foods keep hiring this type of person.
    It is the people who have kept me away from the store…
    not the excellent products, most which are priced about par.

    There are lots of people out of work now…
    Whole Foods needs to fire nearly ALL their employees,
    change the person in charge of hiring,
    change their formula for whom they hire,
    and start with a fresh group of employees!

    Oops. Can’t fire this type of employee….
    ALF-Cio, Seiu, NAAcp, Dem Caucuses…would bring the store down!

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    • azuleserape
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:25pm

      There isn’t a unionized store in the company. Do some research before opening your mouth.

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  • Bumr50
    Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:37am

    Whole Foods CEO John Mackey actually took a pretty courageous stand against Obamacare, given his customer base.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204251404574342170072865070.html

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    • AmeriCat
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:59am

      Yes! This is it! Thank you!
      CEO John Mackey stands up for business owners!
      God bless him!

      After that, he really had troubles from his Liberal shoppers and employees,
      which is a huge percentage.

      I went out of my way to shop at Whole Foods after his courageous words…
      but it was hard to swallow the ambiance of the Liberal arrogant staff!

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    • Comeandtakeit
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 3:02pm

      My daughter went out on her lunch hour when they were being picketed by customers after John Mackey’s courageous stand and picketed FOR him. She did it on her own, too; nobody from the company told her to do it. She was all for him. I think most of the employees at the store where she worked supported him, too. People like working at Whole Foods and it is considered a good place to work by her coworkers. I would certainly shop there if we had one located closer to where we live and I always loved the store when we went to visit her.

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    • UlyssesP
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 3:20pm

      Yes, but that doesn’t mean that some of the complaints in this letter are not valid. Some mid level management in these situations often has an inflated sense of their “power” and treats their groups like crap.
      Let him get another job. I still won‘t shop at whole foods unless I’m wearing my GWB 2004 Victory T-shirt just to piss them off.

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  • Hemingway in Cuba
    Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:35am

    They provide 40,000+ jobs
    Their founder and CEO is against unions
    They are consistently rated as a top place to work
    Their founder and CEO is a libertarian
    Their founder and CEO was vocal against Obamacare
    Did I mentioned Whole Food provides 40,000 jobs?

    Where do I apply?

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    • Jack2011
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 4:32pm

      I agree with you on most of your points but you are forgetting:

      They THROW out food that could be donated to homeless shelters.

      They FORCE people to come in on their DAY OFF to attend a 0700 meeting which is WRONG.

      The pair of plastic gloves for EACH customer to reach in and grab gummy bears is WRONG. What is WRONG with a stainless steel LARGE SCOOP that can be washed daily?

      etc. etc.

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    • notsofast
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 5:34pm

      I like Whole Foods. However, I like Trader Joes Better. And…wholefoods charges on the average of about 1.25-2.00 more for their products. What the heck…right.

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    • azuleserape
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:29pm

      @JACK, They throw most of their food out for a reason, liability. If someone gets sick off of day or two day old food, the company is responsible. Stop being stupid. And coming in on your day off for a 1 hour meeting, a meeting in which you get paid for? That’s what your are harping about? A paid meeting?

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    • Smoovious
      Posted on July 26, 2011 at 6:31am

      well, that meeting requirement is unreasonable…

      I’m sure the store is already well aware of the public transportation issues around that store, but they scheduled it then anyways…

      I used to work at a Meijer’s… none of our meetings required employees to come in on days off… they worked in several meeting sessions through out the day for 2 days, cycling employees through before or after or even during their shifts.

      Better system for, what always amounts to be nothing more than a pep talk…

      – Smoov

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    • Hemingway in Cuba
      Posted on July 27, 2011 at 10:15am

      OK. Fine. Those are valid points. I am with you there.

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  • last frontier
    Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:31am

    Capitalist bastard’s.

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  • AmeriCat
    Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:31am

    Fish and meat departments are excellent,
    the only place one can even find certain items,
    which are actually reasonably priced.

    Excellent vegetable and fruit departments.

    It is the pro-Obama staff, with their arrogance and attytuudes….
    that are annoying.

    Sounds like this employee was one of those!

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    • slainintheSpiritin82
      Posted on July 27, 2011 at 5:15am

      Changing plastic gloves for gummy bears in NOT wrong. It is a sanitary practice. People’s fingers touch parts of those scoops that always touch the food; it’s called “spoilers”, which transmit germs. Left winger Jack2011 belongs to the ilk who want to destroy freedoms by dictating what people can and cannot do. If the company wants to use gloves, it is THEIR RIGHT to do so! THEY ARE PAYING FOR THOSE GLOVES, not you, so it is none of your business. The “green” movement is another guise Woodrow Wilson progressives use to control the masses, while making biiiig money on all the dummies they can dupe. It’s nothing but a fear and power mongering farce!

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  • mustang201143
    Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:30am

    Making people happy in retail is a full time job, one mastake and your toast!

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  • harumph
    Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:30am

    Not the best career move. Hindsight is 20/20, it seems. Get used to saying “Do you want fries with that, sir?”

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  • sWampy
    Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:28am

    Man this seems like some of the rants dancers sent me when I fired them for turning tricks at my gentleman’s club.

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    • biggreenboo
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 12:10pm

      @swamp
      Yeah, how’d your mother take her termination anyway?

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    • Dont-hate-on-me-2
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 1:46pm

      lol

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    • sWampy
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 2:24pm

      That was my wife, mom still works there, even though I sold the place 15 years ago, I took a job working for the supreme court, and was scared there might be a conflict of interest.

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  • AmeriCat
    Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:27am

    Whole Foods is PRO-Business and against White House!
    He was among the first business leaders to speak openly against Regime!

    Of course, the employees…who totally support Obama….

    were furious against the CEO and initiated a boycott. Goofy!

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  • iyam
    Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:26am

    Seems as though this person is so wrapped up in what they did not like about everyone else that they do not see their obvious physiological issues

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  • James83940
    Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:25am

    I’ve never purchased anything at Whole Foods. The ‘green’, ‘organic’ mantra is enough to keep my money away from them.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:38am

      Actually, Whole Foods is quite a capitalist institution. More conservatives go to whole foods than liberals. I have celiac disease (no wheat, oats, barley or rye) and they carry a lot of gluten free products. The rest of the “normal” stuff is too high for me, so I guess mostly limosine liberals buy it. I wish I could shop there for everything, but I’m not totally convinced that organic is better. How can one not recycle properly? They put it in the wrong bin? This guy sounds like someone who wanted a company out to make money to be the ideal liberal tool and it wasn’t, so he’s upset.

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    • Smoovious
      Posted on July 26, 2011 at 6:34am

      probably just dumping stuff into the general waste, that {should|could} have been recycled.

      stores like that generate mad amounts of recycleable materials.

      – Smoov

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  • last frontier
    Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:24am

    They are as GREEN as a mercury filled light bulb.

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  • I.Gaspar
    Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:24am

    A disgruntled employee letter really doesn’t affect my shopping or not shopping at Whole Foods.
    I don’t shop there because their prices are ridiculously high and very few of their products are worth the price differential.
    Not that big of a deal.

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    • azuleserape
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:32pm

      Big difference in their products compared to any other grocery store chain, that’s just a fact. And if you shop for the right items, you will walk out paying less than you would at most conventional stores.

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  • NJTMATO
    Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:21am

    Sure worked there a long time….why did he/she wait so long to resign? Perhaps attitude has something to do with this person’s problem. The hutzpa is great, I don’t know that I would have made my resignation letter so personal to individual people. Interesting and entertaining but that’s about it. I don’t know both sides, I don’t shop at Whole Foods (I grow my own and support local farmers).

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    • TheBMT
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:38am

      its all about attitude. IF maybe they had taken the initiative to stop being a follower and instead became a leader.

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  • seemsew
    Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:18am

    I prefer Walmart…

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  • pro1822
    Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:16am

    firsties

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:13am

    They are too expensive and my garden has better food than they will ever have. It’s a clique store. I don’t go there.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:09am

    Nasty letters from disgruntled employees don’t carry a lot of weight. Every bad employee thinks he or she is better suited to running the company than working for it.

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    • Turks
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 10:53am

      Sure “Gonzo”, the store is innocent.

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    • P1gunslinger
      Posted on July 25, 2011 at 11:48am

      To me this was a garbage employee, he said something to the effect of “Being 20 minutes late really matters, its a grocery store”. Yes 20 minutes matters its job!

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    • Lord_Frostwind
      Posted on July 26, 2011 at 4:06am

      You do have a very good point, it can be very hard to determine what exactly are real grievances that exist in a company when it is written in the format of someone going off on how mean and not cool their job is. He kind of lost my sympathy when he started whining about being abused by customers, if you’ve ever worked at a grocery store you know that is just a fact of life. I can’t count the number of people who seemed to believe it was my personal responsibility to go and make more items magically appear when they were sold out.

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