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Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Nike Tanjuns Right in Front of Kawhi Leonard


I'm just tuning in to the Raptors game where Kawhi will be receiving his championship ring. As he's doing his warmups, one of the arena's floor staff member walked into frame appearing to be wearing either the Nike Tanjuns or the Roches. You be the judge.


Screen capture courtesy of TSN


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Wednesday, November 27, 2019

"The New Kid" - DICK'S Sporting Goods Holiday 2019





The main character of this ad is the Nike Air 270 React.



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Thursday, November 21, 2019

This Blog is Still About Shoes


Despite my neverending struggle with my employer, my main focus is still on talking about shoes.  It's too bad my co-worker used my hobby to threaten my career just to satisfy her own personal agenda.  My health has worsened since my last post because of the way my employer has imposed its will against me for standing up for myself.

For those who want to take a better look at the shoes that were posed in this article, take a look at the white Nike LunarGlide 4s below.



These poses were done for me at the Nanaimo Running Room on March 31, 2015.  Cheryl D. from Frontrunners used to work with her.  The 2nd setup attempt came a couple of days later.  Refer to this article to refresh your memories.

As for the shoes themselves, I quite like them.  As far as the shoe poser goes, her poses didn't do these shoes justice.  If I were a bit more experienced in assessing posing talent back then, I would not have even bothered with her.

Pfff...to think this was the psychiatric nurse I thought supported my hobby...I thought wrong!!!

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Friday, October 25, 2019

Adidas Modern Warfare Shoes


Adidas and Activision has gotten together to design a Modern Warfare themed shoes.  Lisa Doan, one of the hosts for the SQUAD show, aired on the Ginx channel gave this dull design a 3/10.  She expected more flare and creativity, especially for a game of such popularity.  I agree.

Screen capture courtesy of Superchannel

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Friday, October 11, 2019

What to Call the Death-Threat Accomplice...


Oct. 16 Additional Notes:  
In other words, if the DTA gets a slap-on-the-wrist talking to for all of the havoc she has created, then I want the same treatment for the way I stood up to my harassers.  I want to be compensated as though I didn't miss any time at work.  Next time, Save-on-Foods labour relations, take what store managers tell you with a grain of salt.  They may not disclose everything about a given situation just to save their own skin.  Let the defendant speak!!

So you guys suspended me for revealing her true name.  Now you're nagging on me about an anonymous pronoun - DTA?  On top of that, you're saying that I'm fixated on her?  Reading your letter, I get the sense you are making all these warnings about taking legal action and firing me seem like you don't believe I was victimized at all.  Either that or you don't want to deal with the root of the problem.  You really don't care about my medical condition that YOU'VE created.  Aren't you going to ask me how I'm feeling and find a solution to help me feel better?

I'll tell you what?  I'm not going to worry about how you handle the DTA anymore.  The police asked me (on your behalf) what I want.  Let me tell you then.  I want you to acknowledge that you guys made an error in judgment on my actions.  I want to claim the 1-week suspension pay lost in Nov 2018 + the one-day suspension pay that I lost in 2014, minimum.  Your 2018 951 store manager's lack of support (comments to fire me) caused me to reduce my hours due to high stress from my harassers, and the L.R. lady suspended me one month before the new sick leave contract kicked in.  As a result, I was not able to average a high enough of average hours to qualify for sick leave benefits through the company.  I was coping with my stress without the support of anyone to the best of my ability.

On top of that, the union rep wouldn't do anything to argue this point to you on my behalf, and that's what made me snap.  I felt like you guys were imposing a double standard on me.  It was YOUR idea that I was sick and yet you guys were unwilling to help me out financially.  I had to suffer interest and balance transfer fees just to be able to live off of my credit cards.  Not to mention, the president of our local union canceled our over-the-phone meeting that we had planned earlier.  That was the last straw!!

Do you understand why I took it out on your company publically??  If just one of the above-mentioned things did or didn't take place, I wouldn't have thrown you all under the bus like that.  I had no one who would listen to me and believe me.  Now the territorial union rep tells me that I have to "be fit" to work in order for him to be willing to help me out financially??  Are you kidding me??  How long is that going to take?  I'm not even close to being ready to return to the Save-on-Foods working environment.

Now, I have some health complications and you've worsened it by threatening to take legal action against me by sending the police and bailiffs after me.  If you take legal action against my blog comments, I will countersue for your part in contributing to my current bad health.  Please understand how much crap and how long I had to endure it all before passing judgment onto me like this.

I only want what's fair.  You be fair to me and I will stop criticizing you publically.  Quit sending people after me and start listening to what you can do to help me out.  If you still consider me to be one of your employees, then you need to protect me by protecting my health, not just the identity of the DTA.  I'm simply just finding a way to keep my stress level under control so it doesn't further damage my health.
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Thursday, October 10, 2019

Save-on-Foods Didn't Fire Me...Yet


Well folks, apparently I'm still a Save-on-Foods employee.  One person asked a clerk inside the store about why he hasn't seen me for so long.  The clerk told him I got fired.  Another person who is familiar with the labour procedures of the company said that once I'm able to return to Save-on as a working employee, they are waiting to fire me.  I had two other people read the bailiff's letter from the company, and all of them agreed (with me), that I'm going to be fired if I try to return to work with them.

Now knowing that I'm still a Save-on-Foods employee, I can't be as outspoken about my displeasure with how they've handled my situation as I have been.  I'm unclear as to whether I'll make it back there as a working employee (under my own free will) but I would like to keep my options open just in case they are willing to acknowledge that I'm the victim and this was the only way that I was going to be able to fully explain my side of the story to my punishers.

This blog is supposed to be about shoes.  It's too bad a bad group of people used my employment with the company to ruin my career and to have almost ruin my shoe passion.  It's too bad I had to create this blog in hopes the DTA would stop harassing me.  It's too bad that Save-on-Foods punished me when all I was really doing was to fend off any future harassment behaviour and death threat attempts directed at me.  Can Save-on-Foods H.O. tell me that I had any other option when the 2018 manager would fire me if I kept complaining about my harassers and that labour relations refused to let me explain my actions before treating me like a psychotic delusionist?  And a territorial union rep who I can't trust?
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Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Save-On-Foods Doesn't Like the Word: "Bitch"


Okay, so I get it now.  It's been three times that Save-on-Foods & the death threat accomplice has called the cops on me now and each time, I've called her a bitch.  Just for calling her a bitch, they make it like I'm this violent male tormenting this defenseless female.  I guess just because I called her a bitch, my accusations towards her hold no merit and she can take joy in the fact that she's gotten away with getting me suspended & "fired" with her death-threat plot.

Speaking of which, she's about to get another person in trouble.  This DTA has been working very hard to become *besties* with the person who happened to receive the death-threat phone call directed at me.  This happened around the time she felt my blog was going to get her in trouble.  He was also one of the witnesses to have heard what the 2014 manager said to me.  All I can say is, she can get this person in a lot of trouble for getting him to conceal important information from the police for the sake of maintaining her "strong" friendship with him.  She is NOT his best friend and she never had the intention to be.  Last year, a co-worker of ours also noticed that at every opportunity she gets, she corners him (for hugs) constantly, as though she had a crush on him.

Also, I did not appreciate the way she celebrated her "besties" friendship with him after she had fled accountability from just a mere slap-on-the-wrist talking to.  She should at the very least, be forced to go on medical leave to treat her uncontrollable desire to get people in trouble all the time and for excess attention.

By the way, if someone addressed me as an effin prick, would the H.R. department call the cops on my behalf and fear for my safety on my behalf?  I don't think they would.  They are obviously favouring the DTA.  After all, the 2014 manager said he would threaten to kill me too if I had asked his wife for e-mail pics of her shoes the same way that the pineapple gal baited me into asking for hers.  The reason why they always have to call the cops on me is because she IS guilty of her bad acts.  If she hasn't done anything wrong, what does she (and Save-on-Foods) have to be afraid of??  Save-on-Foods surely treats me like a criminal!!
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Death-Threat Accomplice's Previous Job


For those who haven't read this, I will be making reference to this article.

Two days ago, I talked to a former co-worker of hers who used to work with her at Quality Foods, another grocery store.  Most of the points I've alluded to in the article link about the death-threat accomplice is exactly what she saw in her behaviour during their work time together.

She reinforced my thoughts about her by pointing out that she definitely knows how to manipulate people.  Once her co-workers see her true colours, they eventually fall away from her.  She also told me that once the managers can no longer be manipulated by her, she quit right away.  If her managers gave her a task that required her to actually work, she always found a way to wiggle her way out of it, at first.  

By the way, her ex-co-worker said she is the reason why she doesn't shop at the Country Club Save-on-Foods location.  The death-threat accomplice likes to hang around her neck when she sees her come into the store.  She didn't like the DTA when she worked with her at QF.  That's what I mean by the DTA leaving her front-end area to walk around the store all the time.  She also thinks that based her behaviour at QF, the DTA has her sights set on her next target, now that she's gotten me fired from Save-on-Foods.

Save-on-Foods should put this death-threat accomplice on the till for 40 hrs/wk instead of the "comfy" service desk.  She looks very uncomfortable on the cash register.  I wonder how long she'll last if she knows she can't manipulate the store managers to let her wander off around the store to dig up dirt on people.

Seniority means you'll have at least the same amount of hours as the people hired later than you.  If you are in Grid A, the group under the old contract, you aren't required to work later than 6 p.m..  Why does the death-threat accomplice have to work the 7am-3:30pm service shift all the time?  She's being overpaid at $26/hr just to float her fat ass around, causing trouble for innocent employees.  Make her work for it!!

I've got more dirt to reveal on this bitch.  Part the dirt entails potentially getting yet another person in trouble.  Stay tuned!!  You won't want to miss this.
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Friday, October 4, 2019

Save-on-Foods Doesn't Have My Back


Apparently, the death-threat accomplice just got a slap on the wrist for what she did to me.  She keeps on forming affinities anyone with politcal pull power within the company.  For future shit disturbers that want a job a Save-on-Foods, this is how you can get away with whatever you want and get the people you're jealous of in trouble.  I will no longer address my blog directly to head office and I will just continue to reveal the company's flaws to the general audience.  I'm tired of not being able to stand up for myself without gettting penalized for it and the UFCW 1518 Nanaimo union rep supports all of her antics by appointing her the store's shop steward w/o letting the store members vote.

I really hope this death-threat accomplice does something that will get you all in trouble further down the road.  Because of her, she almost lost the store its cigarette license, gets the 2018 store manager transferred out to an undesirable location, and gets the fake private investigator and I suspended indefinitely.  Why is she, the instigator of all of this, the last one standing, and gets a slap-on-the-wrist talking to?  A written warning is not going to teach her a lesson.  Unless the company is willing to back pay for the entire time I've missed work since late November of 2018, she should also be suspended indefinitely.

By the way, this woman works behind the service desk at the Country Club Save-on-Foods, in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada from 7 a.m. to 3:30 in the afternoon, 5 days a week.  She also makes around $26/hr, which explains the disposable income she has to hire all these people to harass me at work (ie:  taking pictures of me, trying to bait me into getting myself in trouble again, hiring young girls to seduce me, etc.).  I suppose head office thinks even more of me as a psychotic delusionist.
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Monday, September 23, 2019

Death-Threat Accomplice Hides - Key Points


For the full details, read this.
  • I've gotten along with the death-threat accomplice at first but one day, she slowly increased her resentment towards me day by day.
  • Sometime in April 2013, I asked her to give my doctor's letter regarding my work availability to the assistant store manager.  She didn't because she failed to open the envelope without wrecking it so she decided to lose it to avoid being accused of tampering with my personal belongings.  Plus, she didn't want me to return to work.
  • She confirmed my suspicions about her for not wanting me as a co-worker by exhibiting two obvious instances of resentment towards me.
  • When you work harder than her, she feels insecure about her job.  When you do something she likes better than she does, she gets jealous.  "When she decides she doesn't like you, you're in trouble!" as one of our former co-workers would say about her.
  • She finds several different ways to avoid doing as much work that she's being paid for as possible by mingling with people in other parts of the store that could be far away from where she's supposed to be.
  • She has been getting away with her antics since 2005 by brown-nosing people who has political pull in the store, putting down people who do better work than she does so she can have all the attention & accolades to herself, and tattletaling.
  • She acted as the eyes for the 2014 store manager by using a death-threat setup attempt to give herself something to tattletale on me about.
  • She'll brown-nose those who she thinks are your friends so they won't speak up against her antics.
  • I, the victim am being punished for standing up for myself, while she gets away with all of her antics, leaving me to feel unappreciated as a worker, despite my dedication.

Additional thoughts:
Remember what our former co-worker said?  "If she decides she doesn't like you, you're in trouble!"  What if she decides to not like a supervisor or a manager, or another legit worker in the store?  Will she use her brown-nosing ways to get them fired?  I told the 2018 manager that if the fake P.I. can get me fired in 2016, he could get him fired too.  Low and behold, that manager didn't get fired, but he did get transferred to an undesirable store, despite the speculation of there being his hometown.  If you still can't see who the bad egg is here, then you don't deserve my grocery job experience and dedication to your store and you will continue to have an intoxicated work environment.  Save-on-Foods shall continue to be perceived as an undesirable job destination.

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Monday, September 16, 2019

Death-Threat Accomplice Hides Her Deficiencies


Sept. 21 additional notes:  
When I say the death-threat accomplice "sacrifices" a lot of her free time for the store, I mean to say she over-volunteers at a lot of store charity events to hide her trouble-making lazy ways at work.  She also tends to befriend people who have political pull in the store.  For example:  She's trying to develop a strong bond with an 18-19 year old kid who is the son of a former supervisor.  She has also developed a so-called bond with two fairly-recently promoted department managers who are both in their early 20's.  This death-threat accomplice is over 55 years old.  The fake private investigator hits up on young kids in our store for his personal agenda too.  He is 62+ years old.  *head shake*

Pre-requisite reads:  

When you are confident in your abilities (as an employee), you just keep doing what you do best, without tooting your own horn by drawing attention to yourself (like a certain someone would).  You don't have to strain yourself to be who you're not (brown-nosing) and you don't have to put people down just to tread water.  However and unfortunately, my death-threat accomplice co-worker needed to do all of those things for those exact reasons.

When I first came to the Country Club store location in 2009, I never could have suspected her to be as vile as she has shown me to be.  Superficially, she's a social butterfly with a really bubbly personality and we've always gotten along (at first).  One day, I noticed a gloomy change in her attitude towards me.  Day by day that aura that a jealous person would radiate was becoming more and more prevalent.

In 2013, when I was returning to work from knee surgery, I gave her my doctor's letter stating what I can do and how many hours I should work.  My knee was still weak, so to save myself from walking up a whole flight of stairs, I was hoping she would submit the letter on my behalf.  I told her everything in the letter that the asst. store manager would see, so there should be no reason for her to open it.  However, she never gave him that letter and it almost cost me work hours.  

When she took the envelope from me, she had this evil look in her eyes and a malicious grin on her face as she pinched her index finger and her thumb together, onto the edge of the envelope and ran them back and forth from one end to the other.  Someone had suggested to me that people do that to warm up the glue to open the envelope (w/o wrecking it).  I always kept that in the back of my mind that she was out to ruin (my career) but I didn't want to react too soon so I'm not perceived as being too sensitive.  However, I ended up approaching her after I was notified by the asst. store manager that he didn't receive my doctor's report.  Her reaction?  Playing dumb, of course:  "Oh gee umm..."

After plotting her death-threat against me, I noticed 2 instances where she showed resentment (jealousy) towards me.  Firstly, I wrapped a big bouquet with a little more passion than usual.  As the lady walked past the service desk with it on her way out the door, the death-threat accomplice gave me this jealous, dirty look.  Secondly, a young kid and I came back in from doing a full round of shopping carts.  The kid was complimenting me on how fast we got it done because of the number of carts I can push at a time.  She then mumbled in resentment:  "Or nothing", meaning we could've faked like we didn't push any carts, which she knew was not true.

I watched this lady work and she has a hard time being productive.  Even when she does work hard, she looks really uncomfortable when she needs to sustain her diligence over a period of time.  When you work harder than her, she feels insecure about her job.  When you do something she likes better than she does, she gets jealous.  "When she decides she doesn't like you, you're in trouble", as one of our former co-workers would say about her.  All she does is make herself look busy when she really is neither doing nor accomplishing much.  She overuses the need to run stuff back to the store shelves to leave the self-serve checkouts and the service desk to dig dirt up on other people around the store who she doesn't even work with (that much).  She'll pretend she needs to provide customer service as a way to leave her duties and talk to people (employees and customers alike).

So how has she been able to hide her antics & deficiencies since 2005?  Brown-nosing, putting people down, and tattletaling is how.  When she brown-noses, she does things for the company out of her own time, more so than anyone in the store.  She acquiesces too much and pretends to agree with everything the managers say.  She'll notify security of as many people as she thinks can be labeled as shoplifters, even though a lot of those people are obviously not shoplifters.  She'll get people into trouble, like she did with me, to make herself look like she's being the extension of managers' orders (bossy).  She does all these things so she doesn't have to improve her productivity level.  

Also, if she knows you don't like her or if you've got something on her, she'll befriend everyone she sees you talking to and will go as far as to invite them over to her place for dinner.  She doesn't want people to see her other side, making her the classic two-facer.  Heck, she even tried brown-nosing me when she found out what had happened to me at Value Village.  Making sure I could hear her loud and clear, she said to another cashier that she would never support that company for the way it runs its operations.  Unless people need to have their emotional void in their asses fulfilled, they should realize that brown-nosers are usually up to no good.

I'm not going to speak for what managers think of me as their employee, but one thing's for certain.  The company values the death-threat accomplice's troublemaking contribution over a genuinely dedicated grocer who puts in just as much care into his job at work as he does towards his blog.  Perhaps I should brown-nose, tattletale, and commit a death-threat crime so the next time there's a conflict in the Save-on Foods workplace involving me, I'll be given the benefit of the doubt and I can automatically be appointed as the store's next shop steward.

Suggested Read:  Company Transparency Turned Brown



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Untangling the Death-Threat Allegiance


Don't let my hard work all go to waste.  The edited illustration should make it even more clear that I'm the victim and not the dangerous psychotic delusionist that the Save-on Foods head office made me out to be.  It sounds complicated when explained verbally but it's actually quite simple when you look at it.  Holy shit!  She tried to go 5 people layers deep to harass me without being caught!  Five layers, man!




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Sunday, September 8, 2019

Depicting the Death-Threat Allegiance


Pre-requiste articles:



Most of my readers seem to get it.  I was told I write really well, and yet, one person (the L.R. lady) said she couldn't correlate with my claims about my harassers and sent me to see a doctor, leaving me to feel like some sort of psychotic delusionist.  At first, I believed and still do believe that she wouldn't correlate with me because she didn't want to deal with the real problem and suspending me was the easiest fix.  However, my situation is very complicated and long-winded, so I will clarify things with an illustration below.



As you can see, my death-threat accomplice co-worker hid behind several different layers of people to make things as hard for me to support my claims of her involvement as she possibly could.  Too bad for her and her allies that they weren't expecting a well-versed blog like mine.

In 2014, I complained about C.K.'s claims to Jane Moxam (Nield).  She asked me where I worked.  Dave ended our conversation by freezing my gym membership and said to me:  "You can be killed for your hobby."

Next, Jane used H.A. to get through to the death-threat accomplice via her boyfriend, D.P., who happens to be her adopted son.  The pineapple gal (who looked a lot like one of Cindy's 2nd niece) tricked me into trouble and got her so-called "boyfriend" to phone in threatening to come into the store to kill me.  You all know what happened after that.

I took a break from photographing shoes.  When I resumed, I've gotten consent from a Running Room staff member to shoe pose for me.  It was during my day off from work.  On my first day back at work from my days off, I was approached by the mango gal, who looked like the pineapple gal's relative.  She used the same set-up tactic on me.

A year and a half later, after the death-threat group had been made aware of my blog, I noticed an implied admission of guilt from several of its party members.  First, the death-threat accomplice, D.P., and H.A. were all huddled up in front of the service desk.  I was wheeling my dolly through the walkway aisle, and approaching the wet table.  All of a sudden, no matter how hard I tried to break eye contact with him, D.P. stared straight at me, shuddering, as though he was going to break out in cold sweat.  We know of each other but we've never been acquainted.  Was he the one who made that death-threat phone call?

Secondly, on a different day, Cheryl D. came in with her friend trying to intercept me in the walkway aisle.  She tried to say something to me with this sheepish smile on her face but I turned into one of the aisles to avoid them both.  Did you not have enough courage to plead your innocence to me by yourself?  Also, why would I give your camp a chance to set me up again?  Quit coming into the store to harass me.  I'm trying to work.  She came into the store to hover around me several times after that.

Well, there you have it L.R. lady.  You can no longer say you "can't correlate" with my claims.  Also, a psychotic delusionist cannot and would not write & illustrate something like this in such detail with this kind of logic and with such consistency.  I hope by reading this post, you would have come to understand you've punished the wrong person.  If you suspended me because you "can't correlate", then why didn't you just ask for clarification??


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Friday, August 30, 2019

SoF Treats Me Like a Criminal - Key Points


August 31 Update:
When I tried to get the Nanaimo union rep to appeal my suspension for me, he said:  "It is the duty of the company to protect its staff."  Say-whaaat??  Now he's saying I'm the one who's the threat to my workplace??  Fight for me, damnit!!  Don't justify my employer's discipline on its staff members like you always do!!


Please click here for the full version of the story.

Related articles:
- Save-on Foods Supports Criminal Activity
- I Got Framed - The Full Story 
- Another Set-Up Attempt 

  • Save-on Foods sent a policeman and 2 bailiffs after me

  • My dear death-threat accomplice.  You are now "known to the police".

  • You attempted to have the mall administrator ban me from the entire mall and you wouldn't even tell him why you were making such a request.

  • The labour relations lady "tricked" the doctor into putting me on long-term stress leave

  • The 2 H.R. members worsened my stress level by treating me like a criminal!!

  • Don't twist the situation around.  I'm the victim here and NOT the troublemaker.

  • The current Nanaimo union rep appointed the death-threat accomplice as one of the store's shop stewards

  • If my co-worker had this very same union rep back then, his job would have been in just as much of jeopardy as mine

  • The current union rep is siding with these death-threat supporters

  • The company just doesn't want to take responsibility for the death-threat accomplice's antics

  • Do you want taxpayers to fund my prison cell just because you want to side with this death-threat accomplice??

  • If I completely cut ties with Save-on Foods, these blog posts will stay up here permanently!!


It's time for the Save-on Foods human resources department to eliminate the root of the problem - not the dandelion that persistently stems from it.  I'm not going away anytime soon.  I'm just going to continue producing seeds for my blog's exposure.

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Another Set-Up Attempt


Originally Posted on October 23, 2018


Dear readers:

Before I resume my blog postings, I've got some loose ends I need to tie up.  Have a look at these shoes below.  They are the women's 

K-Swiss Tubes Run 100


For my new readers, you might want to read:  "I Got Framed - The Full Story" to get caught up to speed.

On September 11, 2018, I started my shift at 1:30 p.m. in the magazine aisle.  Before I even had a chance to settle in, a middle-aged couple entered in the aisle right behind me.  The woman was wearing these exact pair of runners.  Though well-worn, they were still worthy of admiration.  Before I could take my eyes off of these shoes, this fat-ass, death-threat accomplice came waltzing in right after them.  Yes, the same bitch that facilitated the death against me 3 years ago that got me suspended and emotionally/mentally traumatized.

She uses the knowledge of team members' scheduled shifts to plot her harassment schemes.  During the last 8 months since my last post, she had been timing her breaks whenever possible to coincide with mine.  She would also leave her front-end duties to circle around the store just to find something in any of the employees to tattle-tale on.  She is the dirtiest brown-noser in our store.  She would shop around the store during her off-duty hours and on her days off just to see what dirt she can dig up.  She will put people down so she wouldn't have to levitate her game to improve as an employee because she's too fat-assed of an intellect to even get off the floor.

This bitch works a lot behind the service desk and sometimes on self-scan.  She likes to talk a lot and horseplay with employees and customers.  This criminal of a bitch is none other than [you know who].  She is so consumed in her obsession to sabotage co-workers and possesses such a guilt-ridden conscience that it cost her her marriage and a 2-time fine, totaling $1150 for neglecting to ID minors for cigarette purchases.

Let me tell you something, [my dear death-threat accomplice].  Initially, I was going to keep your name anonymous as long as we were co-workers.  Do you really think getting me fired is going to discourage me from revealing your name??  You put me through a lot of hell and you knew you got away with one, and yet, you're doing everything you can to make my decision to reveal your name as easy as possible.  If this is what you've wanted all along, you win.  Felicitations!!!

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Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Save-on Foods Treats Me Like a Criminal


For those who are wondering how I've been doing lately, I've been struggling emotionally.  Some days are worse than others.  That's why I have not been very active overall, let alone working on this blog.  

At the beginning of May of 2019, Save-on Foods sent a policeman and 2 bailiffs after me.  The death-threat accomplice made things out to the police as though I was going to harm her physically.  That was just her feeble attempt to dodge public embarrassment for using crime to jeopardize my career.  

The 2 bailiffs were sent after me to deliver a letter that wrongfully accused me of slandering the company for supporting criminal activity.  Refer to the bottom half of this article to see why I'm still standing strongly behind my claims.

Let me tell you something, my dear death-threat accomplice.  You are now "known to the police".  I was very surprised that you went to the police knowing that I'd have to disclose your death-threat antics.  Your guilt conscience must really be weighing heavily on you if you would risk having your antics disclosed to the police by making yourself the victim.

As for the two H.R. members of Save-on Foods, I was pleading for some desperately needed support from you because I was wrongfully suspended and the Nanaimo union rep is lazy.  (More on this later in this article).   I wouldn't have revealed your company name but you decided to accuse me of being the trouble maker and you banned me from all of your B.C. stores instead.  (Not that I wanted to do business with you anyway).  On top of that, you attempted to have the mall administrator ban me from the entire mall and you wouldn't even tell him why you were making such a request.

Listen.  Your L.R. person formed a questionnaire in such a way that even "tricked" the doctor into putting me on long-term stress leave.  I was able to emotionally manage 4.5 years of drama up to that point, despite of it all.  Was this her way of prolonging my suspension??  Now, I don't know if or when I'll return to Save-on Foods as a working employee.

Save-on Foods is supposed to be a huge advocate for supporting mental health.  Not only did "tricking" my doctor caused my stress, but you worsened it by treating me like a criminal!!  If you won't discipline the death-threat accomplice, then I have to vent publically to help me manage my stress level.  If you won't even let me vent, then you are contributing to the deterioration of my health by forcing me to bottle up my emotions, which can lead to Type C cancer.

Lest you forget, Save-on Foods H.R., that I'm the victim here and NOT the troublemaker.  How would you have coped if you had to endure 4.5 years of harassment that included multiple set-up attempts to get me fired?  On top of that, the 2018 store manager looked to fire me for seeking help to avert my harassers.  Lastly, instead of properly hearing my side of the story, you sent me on medical leave, making feel like a psychotic delusionist.

As for the union rep, I cannot move forward with my grievance filing until I'm able to deal with another union rep.  The current Nanaimo union rep appointed the death-threat accomplice as one of the store's shop stewards.  I told him 4 years ago that she was involved in the death-threat plot and yet, it fell on deaf's ears.  Yes, she put in for the shop steward position soon after a Frontrunners customer showed my blog to them.  Store members are supposed to be able to vote on who becomes our shop stewards.  This tells me that this union rep is not only lazy, but he is exhibiting an act of favourtism, and possibly corruption.

I was told by a former co-worker that he tends to appoint shop stewards who don't question his "methodology" (lack of action taken to support the union members).  Another co-worker told me that he had a problem with a co-worker doing everything it took to get him fired 10+ years ago.  If he had this very same union rep back then, his job would have been as much in jeopardy as mine.  

This union rep always tries to justify managers' (wrongful) discipline towards their subordinates.  Even after I told this union rep that (the manager of the Country Club Centre 5+ years ago) used a death threat tactic as a reason to suspend me, this union rep said:  "[He] actually isn't a bad guy."  That's why I can't deal with this current union rep.  Not only is he really passive when it comes to fighting for union members' rights, but he's siding with these death-threat supporters.  He also said the fact that I was asking that pineapple gal to e-mail me pics of her pink Nikes, that:  "I sure asked for it (meaning the death threat)" and proceeded to chuckle.  A death threat is no joking matter.  It can traumatize anyone emotionally (who takes it the wrong way).

What I'm trying to say is the fact that Save-on Foods is threatening to take legal action against me for slander that is not slander, shows me that they just don't want to take responsibility for the death-threat accomplice's antics, and used a warning letter to dissuade me from disclosing any more of their wrongful acts.  I also want to say that it cost taxpayers' money to keep someone in jail.  Do you want taxpayers to fund my prison cell just because you want to side with this death-threat accomplice??  I don't think Jimmy Pattison would be very happy with you since he wants to leave a legacy as a do-gooder when he passes away.

If Save-on Foods wants me to "cease and desist", then it should either punish the death-threat accomplice or provide me with recourse to help me recover emotionally and to recoup my financial losses.  The company can start by letting me vent until I have relieved my stress completely so that I don't have the desire to publically rant about this company.  UFCW 1518 can help out by finding me another union rep who I can trust to make a concerted effort to help me fight for my rights as a union member.  If I completely cut ties with Save-on Foods, these blog posts will stay up here permanently.  By the way, I feel much better for venting my side of the story fully.  Maybe I can "finally" start to heal - NOT!
Keds CA

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Saturday, June 15, 2019

Not Feeling Sorry for the Wolf Crier


As many of you know now, I've been back-stabbed by who I thought I was able to trust - the fake private investigator.  He knew who imposed the death threat unto me but continued to drag it on for months with excuse after excuse, telling me not to talk about our relationship and the death-threat incident.  That way, by nobody knowing about this, he could tell me all sorts of lies, including what another co-worker said about me.  This co-worker was also taken advantage by him prior to me being his next victim.  He told him that he ran a car shop and was a dealer of car parts.  He got him all riled up just to tell him that he had been playing him all along.  It turns out he was NOT in the auto business at all.

When he was done with him, he moved on to the next mentally fragile mind - mine.  He told me that this co-worker said that I was a cancer to our store since he had already brainwashed me into thinking he was a private investigator.  Imagine that.  I paid this phony $200 because I thought he was legit.  By telling me this, he would eliminate any chance I would converse with my co-worker about his situation and that I was also being victimized.

Wouldn't you know it, when his information and excuses didn't jive, I proactively found out the truth for myself after he kept flaking on promises he had made to me about fixing my car.  He was NOT a P.I. after all.  He had been playing me for a 6-month stretch.  I was already emotionally distressed after what had happened with the death-threat setup and I didn't need to be put down any more.  What made me the most upset was that it was too late to file a complaint about how the former management/owner group of the Nanaimo Athletic Club treated me.  This fake P.I. was trying to get free rides home from work and free coffees from me.  He knew I had the managers' respect and used me to manipulate them for his own mischievous cause.

When he knew that I had found him out, he got really scared because he knew I could get him into a lot of trouble by disclosing his bad act to management.  After a year of purposefully harassing me by making multiple attempts to make physical contact with me, I chastised him on May 29, 2016.  He really thought I was going to tell management and took matters into his own hands.  He faked sickness the next day and helped a young co-worker to write a letter that falsely accused me of sexual intent towards her, relating to my shoe hobby.  He knew how C.K. & C.D. of Frontrunners Nanaimo have gotten me trouble and used a very similar tactic in an attempt to get me fired.  If I had been fired, I wouldn't have been able to get him in trouble, or so he thought.  He got written up for his antics afterward.

He held a grudge towards me since and made multiple efforts to slander me so that the people in the deli would work against me and not with me.  He also continued to walk really close behind my back like he was going to make physical contact with me.  The store manager threatened to fire us both if I complained about him (or anyone else) one more time.  That's when I disclosed the death-threat accomplice's name even though I really didn't want to.  Those 2 people were constantly harassing me in several attempts to get me fired...but I digress.

I'm sure Save-on Foods' H.R. dept. has had a deeper look into my complaints about the fake P.I. since they've imposed the chain-wide ban on me on May 2, 2019.  Just a little over a month later, I was informed that he's currently not working at that store because he had come down with colon cancer.  He told me he had cancer 4.5 years ago while serving as my fake P.I..  Everytime when management gets tough on him or if he needs to divert the attention away from the truth, he cries wolf (lies).  

My info source tells me that he seems to be telling the truth this time (he also knows he's a compulsive liar), but I'll believe it when I see it.  If he has cancer, he should be at home getting some rest and seeking chemo and not walking around in public, telling people his condition.  I neither believe him nor do I care.  

I'm not going to speculate that his current absence from work is due to management punishing him for his inability to behave appropriately.  All I know is if management doesn't punish him for his antics, karma will (in the form of cancer).  Either he's suspended from work indefinitely or he really does have cancer.  Has that $200 you've gypped me out of paid dividends for you now??  Also, be careful of how you apply cancer onto yourself all the time.  You just might get it.

Related article:  "Fake P.I. Got Himself Fired"

Keds CA

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Thursday, May 9, 2019

Now You Know How You Made Me Feel


The police officer told me you were genuinely scared when I was tempted to disclose the names of those who were involved in your death-threat plot.  Never did I once mentioned that I was going to do any harm to you, nor did I intend to.  Not everyone is as vile as you.  However, if that was how you actually felt, I`m sure you can now empathize with how you made me feel.

I think she faked her scared state of mind just to manipulate the police against me.

I didn`t like how after you`ve successfully gotten me in trouble 4+ years ago, you continued to hire people to harass me in and outside of work, with the intention of making me lose my cool to get myself in trouble.  I also didn`t appreciate the fact that you set up a plot several times to make it like people were shaming me for my hobby.  One of your co-workers also told me that you were happy to have gotten me fired.  That really tells me how vile of a person you are and that you are the victimizer and NOT the victim.  Do you realize what you can do to a weaker-minded person??  Would you feel glad as a troublemaker if you`ve caused your victims to commit suicide?

How many other people`s lives have you ruined besides mine?  If you know you`re eventually going to pay the price but still can`t stop, then I suggest seeking some help.  One of the pre-requisite questions a mental institution would ask is if you feel the need to draw attention to yourself.  There were other questions on that sheet that describes you perfectly.  Perhaps you are ill but you just don`t know it.  Perhaps if you can get yourself turned around, I might even forgive you, not for what you`ve done to me, but the fact that I know you wouldn`t meddle in other people`s lives again.  Let people enjoy their own successes in life.  Keep out!!!
Keds CA

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Sunday, May 5, 2019

Trespassing is Tresspassing


For those who don`t know what I`m talking about, read this article.

May 9th Update:  

Save-on Foods had a bailiff hidden around the dark corner on my block, waiting for me to come home at 11 p.m. on Sunday night of May 5th.  (Was he going wait all night for me??  That`s pretty creepy and just reinforces my claim on how sketchy this company performs its business practices).

This bailiff disregarded this post, entered my property anyway, and flinged a letter from head office at me anyway.  The police told me bailiffs are allowed to serve letters of notices but they CAN`T enter your property to do so.

Listen, Save-on Foods head office!  I respect your decision on banning me from setting foot in your stores.  Now, I`d appreciate it if you`d do the same the next time you are to serve me such letters.

If I'm banned from all BC Save-on Foods then I'm going forbid any Save-On Foods people from entering my property to knock on my door.  Save-on Foods did exactly what Value Village did to me.  As long as you say you have something on them, they`d both take that as a "threat" and banish you.

I also want you to look at the following.  Even God approves seeking justice to wrong-doers.




Keds CA

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My Mental Health is Priority


I'm venting about Save-Save-On Food's criminal activity because my Mental condition doesn't allow me to hold in 4 years of unfair treatment and to be able to manage my anger.  If you want me to take down "Save-On Foods Supports Criminal Activity" post, you will offer reimburse all of the pay that you've made me lose so far and fund me for as long as my doctor deems me ill.  You created this tussle between us and I'll put the onus on you undo this.
Keds CA

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Saturday, May 4, 2019

Save-On Foods Sending People After Me


Dear readers..

Save on is trying to get me to take down this most recent post about their criminal activity, I'm wagering to guess.  Better screen cap that while you have the chance.

To Save-on Foods:

If my dad asks you who you are, you tell him.  Otherwise, we will report you to the police for harassment and trespassing.  My doctor told me to stay away from Save on because of the medical condition you've created for me.  You're presence makes my condition worse.  You've been informed.  Please stay away.

I have very little in the way of assets.  You can take on my debt if you're looking to sue me.  I'm not legally obligated to remove any posts that don't exhibit threats.
Keds CA

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Friday, May 3, 2019

What Really Scared Save-on Foods


Save-on Foods' head office thought I was going into their BC stores to use this information against them.  I didn't get any of this information by going into their stores.  If you don't want me to spread this piece of information, then simply don't infuriate me than I already am.  I gave you lots of warnings - not threats.  You guys aren't the sharpest tools in the head (office) when it comes to making judgment calls.  You all are just a tool.
Keds CA

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P*ss Reminder


Please read the post directly below this one and refer to this:  https://wongousworks.blogspot.com/2017/07/pss-adds-flavour-to-my-blog-final-edit.html

At Save-On Foods, we as employees are taught to "Go the Extra Mile", which includes diffusing hot-headed customers.  However, the same cannot be said for disgruntled employees.  I tried to stand up against bully & harassment at the workplace and I get treated like some psychotic delusionist.  If the company doesn't want to punish the perpetrators, then it shouldn't punish me for doing what any victim in my situation would do - defend oneself!!

The company was only "protecting" its people against my harmless warnings - not threats.  Yet, it failed to protect this one employee who has been patiently tolerating 4 year's worth of bullying & harassment in the store.  As a result, I'm now out of a job.  An average unhappy customer will p*ss if left undiffused, and so will this disgruntled employee.  Epic fail, Save-on Foods.  This is why harassers will always harass because they know they won't get punished.

When someone who's been wronged is issuing warning, it's a way for him to say there's a chance we can make amends.  With this company I would suggest exhausting all your alternatives first and then take the next step without telling anyone within.  This company does NOT deserve a chance at redemption.
Keds CA

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Thursday, May 2, 2019

Save-On-Foods Supports Criminal Activity


As I mentioned, there are 3 forms of illegal activity that took place at the Nanaimo Country Club Save-on Foods location.

  1. Uttering a death threat:  A former manager supports death threat conducted by a customer.  He claimed that if I treated his gal the same way, he would react the same.  Please refer to this posting.
  2. Sexual assault & battery:  A former supervisor gave a forceful upward thrust to the testicles of a then 16-year old boy, doesn't get fired, gets transferred to a different store, and then gets promoted to become an assistant manager at another store across the strait shortly after.
  3. Age discrimination:  A former employee of this store was turned down a department management position because he was told he wasn't one of the young kids.
This employer essentially fired me w/o actually saying:  "You're fired" because they didn't like the fact that I'm standing up to my harassers at work.  Save-on Foods was so scared that I was going to publish this piece of info, that they accused me of threatening the people within and sent a policeman after me in regards to this blog.  How come a person can phone in and threaten my life but I can't write in to warn them about me taking (legal) action if they don't resolve my problem??

As you can see, there is no threat here.  I'm simply trying to protect my life and my right to work free from harassment here and they have the audacity to twist things around and say I'm threatening them?  I haven't even reported the people who conspired a death threat against me yet, continued to harass me at work for the next 4 years.  How dare this company send a policeman after me??  It's just another corporation trying to sweep accountability under the rug.

I guess I can't say:  "If Save-on Foods doesn't resolve my job situation, I will take further legal action.  Oops.  I guess I'll be expecting another door knock from the police."  I am scarred emotionally and financially to this day.  I am deemed by the L.R. head to be unhealthy and keeps suspending me for complaining about my harassers too much.

May 9th Update:
A member of the H.R. dept. said that the title of this posting is untrue.  This individual employee might not support it but the manager of this store 4+ years ago certainly does.  "The boyfriend of the girl you were talking to last night wanted to KILL YOU...If you did that to my wife I would react the same."  He is a manager who represents Save-on Foods and he's supposed to lead by example.  If he supports killing me then Save-on Foods supports criminal activity.  That's not slander.  I know and remember what he said to me.  Had my union rep called him on his death threat utterance towards me like I`ve asked him to, my co-worker wouldn`t have continued to harass me, which would have prevented this day from taking place.


Suggested Read:  "Company Transparency Turned Brown"
Keds CA

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Wednesday, May 1, 2019

A Shoe Made of Hair


It's no secret that the stress level of all the bullying & harassment at my workplace has taken it's toll on me.  When I just turned 40, I noticed some grey hairs.  I did not notice any white hairs on my dad when he was 50, and his job was a lot more stressful overall than my situation at present.  



These are the white hairs I've plucked from my head area to better observe the overall stress effect I have endured.  I came up with a spontaneous idea to make use of this on my blog...


It took 45 minutes of frustration to form this figure.  The hairs kept sticking to my fingers and they snapped away as I pinch them.  I almost gave up but in the end, it was worth it!!



Growing grey is inevitable but my enthusiasm for shoes will never grow old.  I taped it down and kept it as a momento for my achievement.


Keds CA

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Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Why Some Suggest I Quit


In talking to people who have my best interest, they say I should move on to something else.  When the union president and the head of labour relations aren't on my side, who's to say that they couldn't do something worse to me if I resume work with the company.  They could set me up for something way worse and can use what they've fabricated to blackmail me.  They could continue to give me a hard time to force me to quit anyway.  The relationship between the company and I have been fractured because of my insistence to stand up for myself.

However, if I quit, all names will be revealed and you will have to deal with the general public in and outside of work.  Chances of me quitting are not that bad at all, which is leading to a cause for concern for my harassers.  I've held it all in long enough.

By the way, in talking with the former co-worker, he said that the current union president is as much of a fence sitter and our current union rep and is also known as a back-stabber.  Your decision to block our e-mails are starting to plant the seed that shows the accuracy of his claim.  The recently retired union rep was a lot more apt stand up for the union members.
Keds CA

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Monday, April 29, 2019

Frontrunners is Worse Than the Old Future Shop


Click here for reference purposes.

About 20+ years ago, Future Shop was located in a plaza across the Old Island Hwy from Woodgroove Centre.  They were also a commission-based store.  Because they were so aggressive for sales, they would have staff members flood the A&B Sound parking lot with their cars so the customers wouldn't shop there.  Frontrunners upped the ante and used a death threat to brainwash me into thinking that I was perverted taking pictures of shoes.
Keds CA

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Real Reason Why Nanaimo FR Crew Wanted Me Dead


For my new readers, refer to this posting.

So this fake private investigator had been drilling into my head that the reason why a certain group of people would kill me to stop me from taking pictures of shoes because they were jealous of the attention I was taking away from them.  Though it was somewhat true, it didn't answer the underlying motive for her to feel this.  If he was a real private investigator, he would've been at least able to dig up the fact she and the rest of the Frontrunners crew were preparing for their first annual women's fashion show.  Take a look at this newsletter sent out on October 24, 2018.

YOU'RE INVITED!
Frontrunners 3rd Annual Ladies Night!
Featuring fabulous food, fashion, prizes, sales, and of course loads of fun!

WHEN: Thursday, November 15
WHERE: Frontrunners Nanaimo
WHAT TIME: 7-9pm (Doors open 7pm, Fashion Show 7:15pm)
Please RSVP!
(Space is Limited- Please RSVP Before November 10 to Guarantee Your Spot)
Door Prizes!
Loads of Fun!
Snacks!
Sales!
(select items)
— Frontrunners 3rd Annual Ladies Night —
Frontrunners
101-1825 Bowen Rd
Nanaimo BC, V9S 1H1





Four years ago, they were preparing for their inaugural event.  One of my fellow shoppers immediately suspected that they must've thought I was competing with them on something.  It turns out he was exactly right, as well as the fake P.I. to some degree.  The attention I was accused of taking away from her was in the form of her customers, which was absolutely not true.  On Nov. 7, 2015, I posted the following:



On top of that, I was even thinking about getting together with their staff to form a partnership.  The idea was they would help me find more shoe posers, which would serve as advertisements to help them sell their shoes in return.  Now, their real competition isn't me, like C.K. first thought.  It's her criminal perception by the community (and soon to be even more widespread than that) that she'll needing to avert.  Let this teach her a lesson to not jump to conclusions and to stay out of other people's business.

Suggested read:  "FR is Worse than the Old Future Shop"
Keds CA

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