Up until yesterday, it had been All Quiet on the Whole Foods Front. Then the following anonymous comment landed in my Inbox:
Anonymous said...
More bad news for Mr. Mackey. It seems that Whole Foods employees from the states who were sent to the new Kennsington store in London on assignment were instructed to misrepresent their status as visiting workers and instead claim observer status in order to avoid the hefty work permit required by UK immigration. The problem is not all workers claimed the same status, yet all filled the same niche as temporary workers. I don't know who is in charge of the London stores but it can't look good for corporate headquarters in Austin.
12:53 PM
More bad news for Mr. Mackey. It seems that Whole Foods employees from the states who were sent to the new Kennsington store in London on assignment were instructed to misrepresent their status as visiting workers and instead claim observer status in order to avoid the hefty work permit required by UK immigration. The problem is not all workers claimed the same status, yet all filled the same niche as temporary workers. I don't know who is in charge of the London stores but it can't look good for corporate headquarters in Austin.
12:53 PM
The allegations made in that comment sound wonderfully scandalous. However, there's one small problem: I can't find any corroboration. A half hour searching the news feeds, plus Google and even (gasp) Yahoo! Search has turned up nothing.
Is it true, or is someone anonymously trolling blogs and internet message boards spreading misinformation about WFMI? If the latter, the irony is too obvious to need mentioning.
So, the two questions I've got are: is the story true, and whose sockpuppet is Anonymous 12:53?
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