Potecting the stability of its shareholders was prioritized and this store -and its workforce- were deemed expendable.
Holy shit that’s cold. Ignoring the whole radical left bs, that’s insane callousness. Imagine veing the poor minimum wage employee that had to put that sign up before clocking out for the last time.
Saying the quiet part out loud again. This is the only honest sentence in that whole excretion of doublespeak.
it’s such an insane own goal that i thought it had to be satire, but the rest of it really does track with bailout-seeking behavior from private equity ghouls
i wouldve left the store unlocked, and allow it to burglarized.
No then you get blamed for not locking the door. Anyway they don’t have anything in there worth stealing, the most valuable thing in there is probably the carpet squares.
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
“And no, I don’t know the last location of the red Swingline stapler.”
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.
It’s very likely this is just bullshit. Sadly believable, but still bullshit.
Well they’re halfway correct. Having your company bought by private equity and sold for parts is domestic economic terrorism, but that’s not left wing. It’s right wing.
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.
You’re probably right.
-Capitalists buy your company and gut it to line their pockets
“How could the radical left do this to us?”
Lmao. Is the radical left in the room with us?
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. :(
Psssst, here’s a little tip. The ultra wealthy are a minority. Go hate with a clear conscience.
Wait am I doing this right?
Gasp! It’s the president of antifa!
the mythical “radical left” of the democratic party.
All while admitting that shareholders were their top priority.
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.
I call shenanigans on this picture.
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.
Also the “thank you for your attention on this matter” feels too on the nose
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?
A lot of it is just way too out there but this part in particular is just too… I don’t know. Unbelievable that it would come from any corporate entity (even today), and almost identical to satirical criticisms of capitalism.
Potecting the stability of its shareholders was prioritized and this store -and its workforce- were deemed expendable.
Claire’s is a company that is entirely dependent on a strong middle class.
When people are struggling, the very first budget item that gets cut in every family are overpriced rhinestones and lip gloss.
Oligarchs: What’s a middle class? All I know is the working class and, us, the upper class.
If anything, the idea of a “middle class” benefits oligarchs as a buffer between them and everyone else who has to work for a living.
I have no idea what they sold…
Thank you for your attention to this matter
…And now I don’t care.
They sell unsafe piercings by untrained staff with piercing guns and jewelry nobody should ever wear.
Ah. Seems like an obvious place for regulatory oversight, but since the US doesn’t have that I suppose the free market will have to do. For once, that actually worked as intended.
Yeah I hate the state of politics in the US as much as the next leftist right now but this is very fake. Not “doctored photo” fake, but “someone fabricated this document for clout” fake
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!
“THE RADICAL LEFT IS MAKING FUN OF OUR DECISION TO SPEND 78% OF OUR FISCAL BUDGET ON NOVELTY HATS! BECAUSE OF THIS TERRORISM WE HAVE TO SHUT OUR DOORS!”
Domestic Economic Terrorism! Like, not buying our products! They will have to protect the shareholders and cut down on locations and staff.
‘Rest assured, the C suite and board of directors will continue to funnel most of the profits generated by the company to themselves, and this inconvenience will not interrupt their revenue stream. This is the fault of radical leftists and their inability to regulate us…’
Lol there’s so much wrong with this.
The ridiculousness of the phrase “domestic economic terrorism” especially when it’s being attributed to “ridicule by radical left agitators”. And then the actual reason they’re closing is because of private equity and shareholders, but obviously they can’t place any blame on the sacred capitalists.
Also, ”rooted in values of family and community"? You’re the place where 10 year old girls get their ears pierced by untrained 16 year olds. It’s a business rooted in the American value of offering the cheapest possible products created for the purpose of breaking and being thrown into a landfill so you can go buy another.
All around a complete lack of self awareness. Get woke asshole, then you might not go broke.
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They pierce ears and sell cosmetics to teenagers
Piece ears badly. They’re famous for using piecing guns with untrained/poorly trained high schoolers doing it. And all of their product are temu level junk since before temu ever existed.
Yeah you want to go to a reputable tattoo shop and get them to do it with a needle instead
Yeah you want to go to a reputable
tattoopiercing shop and get them to do it with a needle insteadI don’t think there is a piercing shop around that isn’t also a tattoo shop. Maybe if I looked to the most urban area in my local area, I could find one that is part of a shop like this claire’s that sells jewelry, but I think we started off this whole comment chain by pointing out those shops do it poorly.
The target age of Claire’s is lower than teenager. 10-15 mostly. There’s a Claire’s in my local mall that has prepubescent girls plastered on the walls as advertisement.
13,14,15 are teenagers…?
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they sell imitation jewelry to little girls.
That’s a shit ton of words just to say “we suck”
anyone could have taped up that piece of paper.
Yeah. If it were legit it’d be on the other side of the gate.
