Freeps caught posting on Borders Books Union forum

[kskiska]

There was a post the other day on FR regarding posts on Borders Union forum by "employees" deliberately hiding books from the public (Unfit for Command) or damaging same. Turns out that Freepers made those posts, and also responded to their own posts to create the impression that the book is being suppressed.

Here is Borders response:

Dear visitors from the blogosphere:

Thank you for your interest in the Borders Union web site. Please be aware that it is not the policy of Borders Books, or of any of the Unions that represent its employees, to "hide" or refuse to sell a book based on political content. Borders management can be expected to take appropriate disciplinary measures if they catch employees interfering with sales.

Some people who post on our bulletin board do not work at Borders. We do not verify employment. According to IP Address records, the person who posted the "let's hide the book" message was also posting under another name, responding to the messages he posted under his first name. This suggests to us that this was a troll who was trying to manufacture controversy. His account(s) have been deleted. We are temporarily ending user registration to prevent further incidents of trolling. Accounts created on September 15th have been deactivated.

We have temporarily blocked access to a portion of the site in order to protect our webserver from crashing due to high traffic. Please be patient.

Since Borders, like many corporations, refuses to pay a Living Wage, Borders local customers have the option of speaking to an underpaid manager if they feel an underpaid floor employee is pursuing an agenda different from the sales agenda of the corporation.

Have a nice day.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1217977/posts

[AlCzervik]

1. Well thats probably the closest any freeper has come to a bookstore. n/t

[Eloriel]

8. ROTFL. Ba-da-Boom!

Nice one.

[ObaMania]

10. ZING!

That's a good'un!

[Richardo]

2. I don't get that last part about the living wage...tacked on by ??

DUer?
Freeper?
Borders? (Doesn't seem likely.) :shrug:

[ET Awful]

3. It's a union forum

They said why the accounts were deleted, and voiced some labor issues at the same time.

[Richardo]

4. D'oh! Thanks for pointing that out...

;-)

[Ducks In A Row]

5. odd that living wage comment on a freeper post

Remember their bush leader hates living wages.

that post and the poster should be banned because you don't want to criticize bush at freeperland.

[Bridget Burke]

9. "Living Wage" is well known to be a radical, far-Left concept.

They forgot to add "Power to the People" & "Off the Pigs".

[proud patriot]

6. What ? You mean the people who CNN would interview as experts

would do a dis-honorable thing like that ? (sarcasm)

I think CNN should do a Story on this right
here .

It's called "Manufacturing Consent" and it
has got to stop .

[Logansquare]

7. Yes, I read that exchange

And the person claiming to be hiding the books had registered only a few days earlier. Also, he/she was really unclear on what a leftie would actually sound like. He came off sort of Ann Coulter channeling Castro. I suspect the folks at Regnery Press (the publishers of UFC), since they were being scathingly criticized by the real Borders employees for producing a too-small press run, thus causing angry dittoheads to throw tantrums when the book ran out.