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In America in 2023, crime pays, and courage earns you a pink slip.
The latest proof of a nation's descent into madness comes out of Atlanta, where two employees of a Lululemon were fired for the offense of having a backbone.
Assistant manager Jennifer Ferguson and her colleague Rachel Rogers lost their jobs last month after chasing three masked thieves, who barged into the shop and ran off with armloads of high-end apparel.
Ferguson captured it all on video. You can hear her screaming, 'No, no, no, you can't march back out.' But it was pointless.
There wasn't a security guard or police officer to be seen. The women were helpless.
'Chill, bitch. Shut your ass up,' the thieves yelled back at her.
Apparently, this happens all the time. The store has been burglarized nearly a dozen times. Can you blame the women for hitting their limit?
And to add insult to injury, Lululemon CEO Calvin McDonald not only defended the company's decision to terminate the women's jobs, but he publicly chastised them for their actions.
'We have a zero-tolerance policy that we train our educators on around engaging during a theft,' McDonald told CNBC last week.
'Educators' is what Lululemon calls its workers. It sounds better than 'victims.'
'We put the safety of our team and of our guests front and center,' said McDonald, 'It's only merchandise…'
'Only merchandise'? What an utterly vapid thing to say.
Ferguson captured it all on video. You can hear her screaming, 'No, no, no, you can't march back out.' But it was pointless.
If it is 'only merchandise' then McDonald and Lululemon would just give it away instead of charging almost $100 dollars for one pair of leggings.
It's all a bunch of gibberish, nothing more than cynical virtue-signaling, and sadly, it's the cost of doing business in woke America.
As CEO, McDonald made a whopping $15.7 million last year, up 18% from 2021. Most of that compensation came from bonuses as the adult active apparel industry has boomed.
Good for you, Calvin. But what about your employees?
Where do they rate in a woke world which caters to rich elites stretching on $100 yoga mats and criminals wearing $3 ski masks?
The depressing truth is that brave, hard-working men and women don't fit in a country that is circling the drain.
Decent people are expected to bite their lips and look the other way in the face of wrongdoing.
Could it be that Ferguson and Rogers made too much of a fuss and ran the risk of attracting the woke mob?
After all, they've been instructed to sit back and take it.
'They're trained to step back, let the theft occur, know that there's technology and cameras and we're working with law enforcement,' McDonald explained to the business show
