Does Employee's Resignation Letter Turn You Off From Whole Foods?

Austin-based Whole Foods Market has enjoyed a very quick ascent to its current position as one of the nation's most health-conscious and socially responsible businesses, but not everyone is happy with the way they're running things.

A former employee, whose name is being protected, submitted a longwinded resignation letter to his Whole Foods employers at the Toronto branch, comparing his five years' experience with the company to a rocky tumble into a firy Nickleback concert.

We're not sure what that means, but it sounds awful.

Among other things, the employee criticizes Whole Foods for failing to follow its own "core values," particularly in terms of wastefulness and the environmental issues they supposedly champion.

He begins by accusing them of forcing him to wear latex gloves while handing out gummy bears, installing energy-wasting televisions throughout the store, wasting ink on "bureaucratic nonsense" and overstocking.

He also wrote, "Oh, you like to manage 'systems' instead of people? You don't hold critical thinking and discretion in high regard? You encourage blindly following rules? I.e., no recourse in challenging write ups. Employees given cold shoulder when they attempt anything like this."

We assume this means he was written up at some point, and was not happy about it.

But perhaps the former employee's most crippling blow was this comparison: "You're kind a faux hippy Wal-Mart [sic] now."

Ouch.

Click here to read the whole thing. It's long.