Public Relations IV
Guy Masse, 47, worked at a Zellers department store in St. Hyacinthe, Que., Canada, for just a couple of months — it got him off of welfare. One day at work just before Christmas, he noticed a pile of chocolate bars had been thrown into a trash dumpster. He hadn’t had time to save anything for Christmas gifts, so he dug out several chocolate bars for his children. A supervisor discovered Masse had taken the garbage and fired him. “It’s very upsetting that one bad employee tarnished the reputation of everybody else,” said Hillary Stauth, spokeswoman for Hudson’s Bay Co., which owns the store chain. “Unfortunately, this associate breached the trust of his supervisors by removing merchandise from the store, and as a result, he was let go from his position.” (Canadian Press) ...So there you go: according to an official spokeswoman, Zellers merchandise is garbage.
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