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sneezymeanderings · 4 years

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Someone put red paint on the "Serve and Protect" sculpture at the Salt Lake City police building and it is such a powerful statement.

"Good art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed." -C.A.C.

#blm #police brutality

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sneezymeanderings · 6 years

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Things Judaism values, in order

remaining alive

learning

being a fighty bitch

spite

being kind, when you can

being nice to ghosts

#about me #accurate #I barely even go here but....

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sneezymeanderings · 6 years

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#here. for. this.#fuckin finally #movies

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sneezymeanderings · 6 years

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The entirely unnecessary demise of Barnes & Noble

“Whether the Andrea Gail rolls, pitch-poles, or gets driven down, she winds up, one way or another, in a position from which she cannot recover. Among marine architects this is known as the zero-moment point – the point of no return.” –Sebastian Junger, “The Perfect Storm”

Posts like this aren’t my usual fare, but there’s a lot of readers on Tumblr. So y’all might be interested – or, if not, you really should be.

On Monday, this went down:

That’s the bloodless, matter-of-fact, ho-hum business event way of describing it. Let me paint you a different picture.

On Monday morning, every single Barnes & Noble location – that’s 781 stores – told their full-time employees to pack up and leave. The eliminated positions were as follows: the head cashiers (those are the people responsible for handling the money), the receiving managers (the people responsible for bringing in product and making sure it goes where it should), the digital leads (the people responsible for solving Nook problems), the newsstand leads (the people responsible for distributing the magazines), and the bargain leads (the people responsible for keeping up the massive discount sections). A few of the larger stores were able to spare their head cashiers and their receiving managers, but not many.

Just about everyone lost between 3 and 7 employees. The unofficial numbers put the total around 1,800 people.

People.

We’re not talking post-holiday culling of seasonal workers. This was the Red Wedding. Every person laid off was a full-time employee. These were people for whom Barnes & Noble was a career. Most of them had given 5, 10, 20 years to the company. In most cases it was their sole source of income.

There was no warning.

But it gets worse.

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#so yeah.#must read #anyone who’s interested in the book industry or American retail #here's the actual truth #fuck this absurdly shortsighted selfish greed #incomprehensibly stupid and cruel #you can read about how private equity is destroying american companies #so is public #small groups of people out to squeeze as much cash for themselves as possible as quickly as possible #and the idiot middle management that blindly follows (y'all are oft lovely no offense but also complicit in your own demise so....)#v exhausting hearing customers bitching about the lack of staff #my break was supposed to be two hours ago but please explain to me how i should be requesting back up asshole i diDN"T NOTICE #i could continue at length #can't even begin to discuss how fundamentally disgusting their behavior this week was #anywho if anyone's got some good part-time job recs

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sneezymeanderings · 6 years

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