From The Daily Mail UK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2018504/Youre-faux-hippy-Wal-Mart-Whole-Foods-Market-worker-quits-epic-resignation-email.html
By Lee Moran
<em”>25 July 2011
A Whole Foods Market employee has launched an hilarious attack on the firm with an extraordinary letter of resignation.
Fed up with what he described as the fakery of the store – which he claims is more of a ‘faux hippy Wal-Mart than an ‘earth-and-body-friendly organic foods paradise’ – he sets about righting some of those perceived wrongs in a 2,343-word essay to former bosses.
In his outburst he says the firm mistreats and underpays employees, flouts its environmental responsibilities, and allows customers to abuse staff.
He also labels the food, the portion sizes of which he says are shrinking, as ‘really quite awful on average’ and not as healthy as advertised.
If his intention was to go out in a blaze of glory then it has certainly worked as the email, which was sent to every employee in the entire company, has now become an internet sensation.
In his parting shot picked up by Gawker website, the disgruntled Toronto bulk buyer, who has not been named, starts out noting point-by-point how the chain does not live up to its corporate ideals.
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