i am terribly sorry to help you cut through the lies and deception.
the first time i heard of this, i was floored.
who would sell things as organic, but lie?
well. i might wait a few days, until i am far from town, but i am just so sorry about every corporate deception.
i am also ashamed that as a low level low-pay worker, i kept a part of the conspiracy, because i needed my pay check. but investigate.
ask to see the box.
it's not organic.
and the paychecks bounced.
the managers said creepy harassing things, and the more experienced women were kept out of management.
keep going, sure. it's better than macdonalds.
but they violate the labor law too, just like le pain quotidien or whoever.
organic fair trade face, hides the slavery in the kitchen, the crudity, the insults, the broken laws.
realrawlive is a cute little place in hollywood.
the owner said i look like i have tourette's syndrome. i guess that was his way of being mean. or say the times he almost fired me for knowing the labor law, or complaining about customers who sexually harassed.
the wild voice mail berating a coworker was one of the wildest examples of self-incrimination i can imagine. if you are going to verbally abuse someone, don't record it!
in my nihilism i can hardly find the energy to tell you: the fruit is not organic. hasn't been for years. i worked there for two years, and was terminated for getting the flu.
that is pretty illegal.
and pretty mean.
rick, the manager who always says gross stuff behind the counter, joked about a worker being a stripper. and ryan hogrefe made off-color comments about pole dancing, to employees, while on the clock, as "manager," while getting paid double what the normal slaves were paid.
i just thought you might want to look into it. ask them to go organic, or stop false advertising. its nice to try to do the eco thing, but when its fake, or involves labor abuse practices, it is pretty lame.
i worked there and loved the many wonderful customers. but overall, it is pretty sad that a company would swing so much behind the scenes drama.
weird stuff like not paying overtime, or people who work off the clock. or people getting fired because the office wasn't locked and the store got robbed. punishing the lowest level for a security breach was not fair.
bounced paychecks, and hours left off paychecks week after week of underpay.
because i asked for lunch breaks i got my schedule trimmed down to four and five hour shifts.
so my income took a hit, because i dared attempt to defend my california labor law rights. so lame.
just check it. if you are running in for your awesome drink . . . i hope things are going better . . . . but i had to get this off my chest . . .
