Saying the quiet part out loud again. This is the only honest sentence in that whole excretion of doublespeak.

Imagine veing the poor minimum wage employee that had to put that sign up before clocking out for the last time.

"Yeah, I made sure to lock up before I left, the fire alarm and security system were all running fine, and as nearby CCTV cameras will show I left the building and headed in the direction of home, I have no idea what could have caused the electrical issues that made them both stop functioning right before the store burned down. Of course since I lost my job, it's not really MY problem, now is it? click"

I want a Bluetooth physical phone so I can slam the receiver down and hang up with flair

It's very likely this is just bullshit. Sadly believable, but still bullshit.

Perhaps this former employee also wrote/edited and printed that sign themselves before hanging it up as a form of protest. Either way it exposes what‘s happening behind the corpo speech very well.

I don't actually think this is real because I don't think any evil lefty liberals have ever thought about Claire's in their entire lives.

If it was a list of companies that I wanted to see destroyed Claire's wouldn't even be in the top 500 mostly because they just sell plastic junk and other than being generally crap don't do anything overly objectionable.

It's those radical left private equity firms!

Yep, I'm here. Don't know at what point wanting healthcare for all made me a radical, but here we are. Guess I should go practice hating on minorities and denying science. :(

the mythical "radical left" of the democratic party.

And then asking those who still support them to buy online... where no one local will benefit.

Well, they weren't a co-op, or a non profit. They are a private company whose reason for existence is to make as much fucking money as possible. I'm a believer in "good" companies, decent, like many B corps, but the fact is that almost always, all investors care about is money.

That reddit post is the only source. It's in a mall. Even if those are real pieces of paper and a real picture of one of them, it would be elementary for some chode looking for internet points and lulz to stage it.

I'm curious to know the logic behind putting up three of these signs on the front of the same closed store, when you didn't have enough pieces of tape to hang them all and had to use a piece of tape from something else.

I had to scroll way too far to find someone questioning the legitimacy of this picture. I don't buy it.

I’m inclined to agree. I believe this is a parody of This but I can’t say 100% either way

It's so obvious that the funniest part has now become the outraged response!

There is a good chance of this, and internet detectives have already pulled up some evidence. I’ll see if I can find it.

There's a comment in this thread that explains it.

Why?

Oligarchs: What's a middle class? All I know is the working class and, us, the upper class.

They sell unsafe piercings by untrained staff with piercing guns and jewelry nobody should ever wear.

Thank you. Fuck people are so stupidly willing to accept any idiotic presentation as real as long as it aligns with their righteous anger.

It is taped to the outside of the glass. Anybody could have put it there

Impossible! Fake news. This comment thread is now closed due to radical leftist wokie terrorists. Thanks, Obama!

Domestic Economic Terrorism! Like, not buying our products! They will have to protect the shareholders and cut down on locations and staff.

They pierce ears and sell cosmetics to teenagers

they sell imitation jewelry to little girls.

Yeah. If it were legit it’d be on the other side of the gate.

Yeah there's absolutely no reason that they would post this. They would just shut down there's no need to print off an explanation, who cares

C'mon man. This was in last week's global in-person meeting. The cabal leadership sends the meeting minutes out to every level of the organization.

Check your spam folder.

Yeah this seems like it was written by a troll to me. The first paragraph calling out leftist "domestic economic terrorism", immediately followed by the second paragraph calling the workers "expendable" and admitting they're trying to "protect the stability of the shareholders", and then ending with "thank you for your attention to this matter", Trump's social media calling card. It all feels a little too on the nose, like when conservatives try to do sarcasm or irony.

Define "real"

I guarantee it's not an official message from the company. If for no other reason, they explicitly stated the employees are expendable. Companies are never that forthright about that language.

But it could be a laid off manager griping, a laid off employee, and since it's on the outside of the story, anyone could have taped it up so it doesn't have to be actually related to being employed by Claire's.

Of course it could be also purely for the Internet.

So no, it's not 'real', is it digitally faked? Possibly but why bother, it's a piece of paper printed out and taped to a storefront, easy enough to just do it. Is it a sincere rant from an employee or a customer? Possibly. Is it purely a joke? I think this is most likely.

It's /r/pics so it's 50/50.

So far I think it's real, this guy got fired from claire's and has been posting all their communications since:

https://www.instagram.com/donnyskipper/

I would like to know what the radical left did. I know of no campaign against them.

Ah yes, ear piercings, get your ears stabbed by an untrained teenager with a piercing tool.

Claire's was a chain of American jewelry stores focusing on the extremely-inexpensive end of the market. A common feature of malls back in the day, if you wanted a super cheap pair of clip-on earrings or something, that looked silver but probably wasn't, Claire's is where you went.

Their actual financial difficulties likely stem from the decline of malls, as foot traffic past their window was probably the main source of customers.

Sounds like Hobby Lobby for bikes. "Christian values" when they justify denying workers benefits or pay; "shareholder value" when they justify denying Christian charity.

It would seem their official position is on their knees, taking a load in the face from Trump's little mushroom, while the faint odor of filled diaper pervades their olfactory senses.

Not even, it's just mean words on the Internet.

Uh, that business model had done quite well since I was a teen in the 80s.

under new private equity ownership

That's all you need to know.

Even if not digitally faked, how hard would it be to print out a sheet of paper and scotch tape it to some glass?