This shoe website will share cool pictures of running shoes (including women's athletic shoes) people are wearing, shoe design and customization, and interesting info useful to shoe owners. The sneakers listed here will be primarily sports shoes. Floral wrappings are included as an added bonus!! ~Wongous Works shoe blog
I met a super nice gal today, wearing some pretty cool NB kicks. She bought them primarily for the comfort, but the fact they were colourful was an added bonus. Once she saw the pictures I took of her shoes, she became really giddy. She wanted my pics. She must've really like them. Patience Sheila. They'll be posted on here in due time.
The photos are not ready to be posted yet so I will tease you with this one in the meantime...
Can you tell what the model of these shoes is? Keep checking for an update on this post.
New Balance WX20v4 Minimus
This is a rush job so here some thumbnails to keep you amused until I am in better shape for time to post individual pics!!
Poses
I will post the pics shown in the thumbnails in sequence.
A lot of you probably don't realize that the Nanaimo Canadian Diabetes Association is in allegiance with the Nanaimo Value Village. This outlet often reaches out to random households, via cold calls (what a telemarketer does), to ask for donations of your gently used items. Initially, like many of you, I thought our donations would be to primarily assist in funding for a diabetic cure.
While this serves as a quick and convenient way to unload a lot of your space-hogging items at once, this organization is gathering your goods that you thought were going towards a needy cause, is actually mostly benefiting the Nanaimo Value Village. Only 1% of the Nanaimo Value Village proceedsare given back to the Nanaimo CDA. This is in accordance with the knowledge of a former employee who has worked in that very store in the not-too-distant past. That's why their selection of goods is so vast compared to other 2nd-hand stores. You are being "mislead" into thinking that your donations are being used the way you intended them to be. You are actually helping the rich get richer.
One other thing to note, who's to say that the 1% isn't fibbed? For example, let's say the payout to CDA on a given day is $500. Who's to say that it isn't really half a percent of the day's overall proceeds?? Does the store actually show the CDA its financial statements? I doubt it but it's a moot point now since their credibility is sketchy since they have supported slander.
The number one reason why I'm throwing this organization under the bus is because they harassed me this past Monday (Jun 20) & Tuesday (Jun 21). I had clearly told them of my disdain for that store and yet, they proceeded to phone me 2 more times!! When I tell them that the DM has banned me from all Vancouver area stores because of a slanderous remark, I'd expect the CDA to question its allegiance with VV, let alone to cease all calls directed my way. Why should I support a local organization that is in allegiance with my backstabber?? By disregarding my request, I'd have to consider that as disrespect and harassment. They make Marlene (store manager), and Brenda Beecroft (DM) become hypocrites. If they ban me from their stores for harassing both the employees & customers, albeit the claims were falsified, then for the store(s) within the company to retain credibility, VV's partner should also conduct themselves in a way that doesn't breach what Value Village "preaches".
Next time when you come across a red (it's blue now), metal CDA drop bin (in Nanaimo) that reads: "We really need your donations!" those donations are needed to fund the Nanaimo VV's profit margins. Think twice before dropping your good quality items in there, that can be used to serve a more appropriate function.
☼ Did you know...
Not all VV stores use the same partners to gather up your goods. For instance, the Victoria store partners up with the Big Brothers of Victoria to stock up its shelves. Be sure to find out each store's allegience(s) before you make your donations!!
I will incorporate this piece of evidence into part 2 of VV's slanderous support when everyone has had a chance to read this. I want you to refer to this posting: "This Place Sells Wide Shoes". Look in the comment section below:
Didn't I mention that March 10th & 11th were Jesse's days off after he got floor supervisor, Cathie after me?? If (Jesse) or whoever legitimately wanted to buy the shoes from me, wouldn't you think (s)he would contact me directly? Why post anonymously and why do it at a time when only 1 person with the same device checks my blog once every 2 hours until just before a place like Value Village opens on Saturday? This 2-hour trend stopped between 7:30 - 8:30 that morning. I never did hear back from (Jesse), by the way... My theory is that (Jesse) must've been scared-sh*t during his 2-days off and he wanted to test and see if I was still active on my blog, anticipating my next move on here. I wanted to do everything I can to handle this matter behind closed doors before posting publically. One of my supporters said I should've just posted without second thoughts. In hindsight, I would've saved myself the extra grief by doing just that.
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Over the years of dealing with Jesse St. Clair, I know that he's the least focused out of all of the clerks. He wanders and mingles with customers & staff members alike. I often notice his immediate supervisors needing to put a leash on him to get him to refocus on his task at hand, more recently, Cathie. Instead of focusing on his duties, he was more worried about getting back at me for calling him out for his bad attitude towards me the other night (Jan. 29th).
I should also remind you that Jesse knows more about my gym-shoe store-workplace situation than anyone, other than the fake pro.
On March 8th, there were lineups at multiple tills, and he could've alleviated some of the traffic by opening up another till in a timely fashion. Yet, he decided to walk far away from where he needed to be to check up me while I was photo-shooting this shoe:
Now, direct your attention to the upper left corner of this photo. Notice the red, size 11 shoe in the background? Those are the Hoka One One - Cliftons. Jesse bought those shortly after the January 50% sale. They were priced at $59.99 at full blast but he still got them at the sale price because of his staff discount...and yes, that is Jesse scrambling back to open up a till. In the next photo below, Jesse was in much better position to throw me under the bus.
This photo shoot was done on March 9th, just before noon. Just before I started this photo shoot, I sensed Jesse standing by Cathie at the front window, to the left of the change rooms. At time, I didn't know what he was doing, nor did I know why he was so "interested" as shown in the pic above. When I was taking this pic, I was down on the floor, and still in the midst of interacting with the customer, when Cathie stuck her ugly face underneath mine, claiming that the customers are complaining. You see where my copyright logo is? That's where she rudely intervened. I got up and turned towards Cathie: "So what exactly were they saying about me?" She replied: "It's just that customers are complaining." and walked away. Sounds like something that a vindictive Jesse would say because how come she couldn't tell me what the concern was about? I stared down towards where the two of them were initially standing, and not surprisingly, Jesse had already walked away.
My Due Diligence:
I came into the store the very next day to ask both the morning and evening crew if they've heard any complaints about me. The only person who has heard anything negative about me was Melissa, the other floor supervisor. There's no doubt those were instructions given by Cathie, who was strongly influenced by Jesse...and he knows that I don't think that highly of Cathie as a supervisor to begin with. The two employee responses that were the strongest indicators that Jesse was lying were:
"I didn't know that you were even doing such thing."
"If there were any customer complaints, we would've heard something about it by now."
Let me tell you something. I've been interacting with my fellow customers there for 3+ months since resuming my patronage after my 2-year boycott from that store. So how come the concern was brought to my attention shortly after my resentment towards Jesse? Surely, they're going to just lie and say the concerns were brought up much earlier than that...but I know that's what they're going to say if they read this and of course, I'm not going to buy into that.
March 10 & 11 were Jesse's days off. I have been very inactive with my posts leading up to that point and I have not networked with very many Canadians about my blog yet. My viewership was 0 for a few days. All of a sudden, I see a surge in Canadian viewership.
My primary audience is based in the U.S.. Therefore, the sudden spike in Canadian viewership was from Jesse and the VV management team, esp. Cathie. I also noticed a trend that was very disturbing to me. During Jesse's 2 days off, there was a lone Canadian, and no one else, viewing my blog once every two hours with the very same device. My suspicion was that he wanted to see if I would give him anything to prepare him for some fictitious excuses for his actions. I wouldn't give in. I wanted to leave it in the hands of management, and I've given them every chance to solve this slanderous situation but we all know how that turned out.
Refer to this post that strengthens my claim on Jesse's actions towards me.
Stay tuned for part 3, where I will talk about my scuffle with the store manager, the district manager, and head office.
