Mall Store Staff Quits, Leaves Abusive Boss Very Public Note
Fed up with their district manager's abusive mistreatment, employees at a Journeys footwear and apparel store inside Rochester's Marketplace Mall decided to storm out together in the middle of the day, during the busy Back to School season, locking up the store behind them.
Naturally, such a kickass move wouldn't be complete without an equally kickass letter of resignation, so Niki, Jess, and TJ made sure to leave a nice long one attached to the store's security bars for all potential customers to see.
As has been pointed out, malls typically subject store owners to a fine of up to $500 for each day of unannounced closure, which is really the cherry on top of this rich justice sundae.
http://gawker.com/mall-store-staff-quits-leaves-abusive-boss-very-public-1246233510
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I know precisely where that store is in the mall - pretty sure it's the same unit as my old job Dolcis (college summer time part time) -
Which means - seeing it's near the cross roads from three key anchor stores . . .
Good on them!
So, yes, I do think it takes away from - maybe not negates - the message.
... pedantry may be a better term (?)
*Sadly, I am probably being pedantic 
only that some are great fun to find!
For example:
DUCK FUCKER. The man who has the care of the poultry on board a ſhip of war. ("Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 1796)
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=fuck&allowed_in_frame=0
A lexicographer's library must be full of fun reads
I guess we can't take that post seriously either, huh? People who live in glass houses, yada yada.
I usually just ignore it, and I don't make comments. Unless it is so blatant that I cannot even follow the post, I figure that we should all be able to understand the point----and the point is what matters to me.
And I have also read over one of my posts and found an error, usually in typing....how many times I have typed "if" instead of "it" or some such typo. I am not perfect enough to criticize others, and I am grateful that no one makes fun of my errors.
But the post in question was begging to be called on it. 
I don't remember a post where the accuser posted without error!
Ai-yi-yi. Everyone can make a spelling or grammatical mistake, and some grate on me more greatly than most. However, since I'm not grading papers here I tend to let it slide -- with the EXception of trolls, in which case I join the chorus of "Spell Checker iz yur frend."
These three brave former employees made their point beautifully. It was poetic justice. I noticed "roll" too -- but I figured my role in this case was to roll with it.
Stop defending your snark and try to make a graceful recovery. 
the internet. Yea, they aren't having any effect at all.
That would be "except," professor.
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
I share your indignance!
I wish you'd kept a copy of the lesson-- I lurrrvv that kind of stuff.
Hey, have you ever read the Best Flame In The World?
It's a must! Its brilliant snark is unparalleled. You will lurrvv this: http://www.whitetreeaz.com/gibber/flame.htm
Enjoy! 
to point it out to you 
And I consider my ability at communication good enough to at least attempt to write fiction (nothing published as yet.)
and actually using it for anything was long enough that I forgot those "rules" and "spaced" as between words. Worked for me, and no teacher or instructor ever noticed, even the ones with Ph.D.'s
The computer automagically spaces words and sentences according to the shapes of the letters. You no longer have gaping holes in words because an 'i' uses the same amount of space as an 'm', as was the case with old-style typesetting. It also negates another effect of double-spacing after a period: "rivers of white." Compare a book written decades ago with the same book typeset today to see that they mean 
I was able to ignore all of that when we got a Commodore-64 and everything was computer fonts. I haven't typed on a manual since the 1970's.
Uphill both ways, too, right?
I hated typing class. I have no idea what brand the typewriters were, only that they were new when the school was the old high school in 1939. Hell, they may have even been old back then because they were the tall one with the huge well where the hammers lay. Long travel for the keys to make a dent in the paper.
I only "allowed" myself to touch-type in recent years, finally relaxing enough to watch the screen instead of the keys. I still watch my fingers, especially if I need to hit those less-used keys like the dash. It does make transcribing pages from books easier though 
that the signage doesn't make it clear as to what gender Jamie is. You have to assume it's a woman based on the spelling of the name, and even that's not a safe assumption. For example, Jamie Foxx
to you too, sincerely. Point well taken.
However, check Guss' reply to me. He said "yes". Still rather ambiguous because there are two widely differing directions that could go, as I pointed out to him. I'm still waiting to find out if he referred to spelling or if he has a gender attitude problem.
Come to think of it, if it's the latter, I hope he specifies if he means the employees' attitude or his own - or both.
I seldom bother to note others' spelling or grammar errors, but ambiguity drives me up the wall. At the same time I realize it's probably not their intent to mislead or waffle. It's just lazy thinking which opens the guilty to all sorts of other life problems. That's more important than the irritation it causes me.
It does need more detail. Or maybe he's explaining ambiguity with more ambiguity, like, by example?
I salute you.
And I shall now shut up. Thanks for a lovely romp.
but the uptight ones are being uptight with me and countering my posts! 
Only with your seeming defense of and untoward glory in carelessness across the board. Must we all grow unmindful in order to please you?
A relaxed life is a happy life
Well, other than the Satin thread
that wasn't the reason she lost the job, she lost it because she was gone too much. Yeah she was gone .... because she was undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatments. 
"part or character one takes," c.1600, from French rôle "part played by a person in life," literally "roll (of paper) on which an actor's part is written," from Old French rolle (see roll (n.)). Meaning "function performed characteristically by someone" is from 1875. In the social psychology sense from 1913. Role model first attested 1957.
roll (n.)
early 13c., "rolled-up piece of parchment or paper" (especially one inscribed with an official record), from Old French rolle "document, parchment scroll, decree" (12c.), from Medieval Latin rotulus "a roll of paper" (source also of Spanish rollo, Italian ruollo), from Latin rotula "small wheel," diminutive of rota "wheel" (see rotary).
Meaning "a register, list, catalogue" is from late 14c., common from c.1800. Meaning "dough which is rolled before baking" is first recorded mid-15c. Sense of "act of rolling" is from 1743. Meaning "quantity of material rolled up" is from late 14c.; meaning "quantity of paper money" is from 1846; sense of "quantity of (rolled) film" is from 1890. Meaning "act of sexual intercourse" is attested from 1942 (roll in the hay), from roll (v.). Dutch rol, German Rolle, Danish rulle, etc. are from French.
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"Words have meanings."
They also have histories.
"jus sayin...
Just. (T) Saying (G).
Just saying...
(insert distinction without a difference here...)
With an accent over the e, of course
That brings very disturbing images to my mind. 
so many threats that she has to be escorted to and from the store.
She claims the employees just wanted to publicly embarrass her because they had been reprimanded for violating company policy. She also claims that they had stolen merchandise and that none of them or their family members have cancer.
BUT if they had stolen merchandise, wouldn't they have been fired immediately when it was discovered that they had done so? (IOW, this sounds like Jamie is just trying to cover her ass, but couldn't stop herself from carrying the story one step too far and stretching plausibility too much.)
The chain's home office says it is investigating the situation.
(BTW, this info is all from "Business Insider."
People who appoint themselves as spelling/grammar police usually are the types, who for some reason, cannot see the bigger picture. Good for these people for standing up for themselves. 
True story: I was a court reporter for a civil district judge known for his random outbursts at court staff and attorneys appearing before him. He told a pregnant woman lawyer to "Not have that baby in his courtroom!"
Law firms always sent the senior partners down for even simple five minute hearings.
Anyway, I was working full time in a civil district court, typing transcripts on weekends, and going to law school at night four nights a week. Didn't need any more stress.
I got the job because his regular reporter went to probate court to do a daily copy (team of court reporters and typists, who produce a complete transcript by evening), which never happens in probate court, except that this was the probate of the estate of Howard Hughes, who was once the richest man in the world. Long time ago, about 1982. It took months to sort out all the people who came out of the bushes and claimed to be relatives.
I worked for this guy for about nine months. I am very patient, but got to where I couldn't tolerate his outbursts because they were random and nonsensical. I would cry every day after work at home, even if everyone was nice to me that day. He looked like a stern white haired old bastard out of Central Casting.
On Friday afternoons, after the judge left for the day, I often heard "BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!" That was the clerk kicking file cabinets in frustration in his office.
He was legendary for being randomly angry at staff and lawyers. Nobody could stand him.
He dropped hints. He said things like, "If you want to throw in the towel, just let me know." He was not specific. I was not on the county payroll.
I was a substitute reporter paid by the day. He thought women were supposed to stay home and be housewives, I guess.
One Friday morning after I had spent two days emptying my office, he signed my voucher to get paid weekly. I told him I wouldn't be back on Monday. He said, "That's not very much notice." I didn't tell him he was a mean old man.
For two or three months, he hung out at the docket clerk's office. She was the lady who assigned cases ready for trial to a judge to hear them.
He could not find a court reporter to replace me. Without a person to make a record of everything said in shorthand on a stenograph, you cannot hold court. No hearings and no trials. Nothing. Civil district court is the highest level trial court in Texas where they handle cases involving millions of dollars.
This was in Harris County TX (Houston) where they have 22 Civil District Courts, 24 Criminal District Courts, 10 Family District Courts, 3 Juvie District Courts, as well as a bunch of lower level trial courts, drug courts, impact courts etc.
The complex of courthouses is probably bigger than the governmental building groups in some state capitals. There are four million people living in Harris County. And there were probably 250 court reporters in town then.
He's been dead a while. When Art Lesher died, as my dad (an honest lawyer) said, "Every lawyer in town will show up at his funeral just to make sure he's dead."
I don't know why people love to be feared and cause misery by their very presence, but the legal and judicial professions attract a lot of them.
The courthouse is a madhouse and a snake pit. 
There was a woman criminal district judge who hated everybody who worked for her, clerks, deputies, assistant district attorneys, process servers, probation officers, court reporters, who until last year was the elected D.A. in Harris County. She left office new year's day of 2013, as she was beaten in the Republican primary earlier in the year.
She ran on a "law and order tough on drugs" platform, but the public had no idea she was an abusive alcoholic witch. She had an inferiority complex b/c she was a cop who went to night law school (same one I went to), got elected as a judge, and never technically practiced law.
I worked late for her one day and she hit me in the head with a rolled up piece of paper. I could tell lots of stories of narcissists and nuts.
A few thousand people are going to show up at her funeral too. I won't add the joke about standing in long lines. I've had nightmares about being in her presence.
<--for my wasted work life at the courthouse
A lot of people don't like court reporters with a biology degree and a law degree. I'm overqualified and might make a lawyer or judge look bad if I corrected their grammar or spelling. Lot of sexism and heightism there.
I outgrew my profession a long time ago and was never appreciated. Court reporting is a 2 year associates vocational degree and most of them never go to any regular undergraduate college.
I never had mentors like they talked about all the time in the 80s.
You were supposed to find an older person to give you advice and find you job leads. Nobody in court reporting would help anyone if you were not their buddy.
I couldn't find any paralegal jobs after I graduated. Couldn't get jobs out of any of the guys I went to law school with and I was cordial to everyone, except for the occasional short deposition. I had graduated from a rich kids' private undergrad college and my law school was an expensive private school. Didn't seem to help.
I had one guy tell me he just couldn't give me a job, despite being a partner in a law firm, which meant that he was taking home at least a million dollars a year in his share of the profits, besides his regular salary. 
I should have been helping to train trial lawyers. People go to college and grad school and are wasted and thrown away in this society.
Took the bar exam a couple of times. Third time, I went to the first morning session feeling bad. Left after the first three hours and went to bed sick. I think it was bronchitis. I never had exam panic and never found out what my problem was, in spite of spending a few thousand on the bar cram courses.
Fortunately I paid for my courses with my court reporting job and don't have any student debt --this was in the early 1980s before everyone was drowning in student debt.
However after spending about $25-30,000 in 1980 dollars on tuition, books and such, I wonder if I got anything out of it. I went because my father was a lawyer and my role model. It was a good broad education, unlike most grad schools, but it certainly didn't get me any jobs.
Response to HarveyDarkey (Original post)
How anyone who has had a horrible boss has wanted to leave them. Hanging!
and have been reading the posts: Not Always Working
Some good turnabout stories in there!