therestlesswitch:

laylawolfwind:

This is your annual reminder not to support Green Earth, an ontario based store that happens to sell metaphysical type goods like sage and crystals.

1. I am a former employee. I was mistreated for my mental illness by the district and store manager, called a ‘crazy’ and a ‘fucking druggie’ for being seen taking medication in the back room during my shift. It was my birth control. 
2. I was worked to the point of an anxiety attack and rushed to the ER for fainting and being unresponsive AT WORK. I was given two weeks to be cleared by doctors or lose my job. I simply quit.
3. If you don’t make your sales goal a given month, you are fired. These goals are unrealistic and only able to be met a few months a year. We went through 15 part time staff members in my 8 months of employment.
4. When a store manager is replaced, so is all of the part time staff.
5. I walked into a store in ottawa and had an associate ask me, while we talked about cleansing practices “are you wiccan?”. All I said was ‘no’ and she laughed and said “oh good we get so many of those weirdos in here”. This is common in staff, especially among management. I had both managers at my location mock wiccans and pagans in general. If you looked goth or punk, oh you were the butt of jokes for weeks.
6. The ramblings about products they give you are bullshit. Yes the taxidermy bugs are from a breeding program, but they are NOT collected humanely they are bred and killed on a 50/50 basis. Half become display pieces, half are released. Employees will tell you this creates jobs in their native country… this is unconfirmed. We were told to ‘just say that’ but we had no reliable information based on that. Only one brand of dream catchers are made by actual indigenous people and she is paid poorly. Many of the gemstone jewelry is glass or coloured quartz. We are told to lie.
7. The owner of the company is a drunk who sits at home and watches cameras and calls the stores randomly to harass and swear at us based on behavior he saw on camera.

That is all!!! I keep seeing ads for them, and they were one of the few shops in my town you could buy witchy stuff at. Lots of people shopped there based on ease. Try not to. You will be made fun of the second you leave, it happened all the time in the back room. Just constant mockery of culture unless you were a white yoga instructor. 

I gosh i had no idea… this is horrid.