With Borders closing stores nationwide, their employees may have lost their jobs, but they haven’t lost that sense of humor. Or bitterness.
Reality is a bummer. The former Borders employees feel your pain, I'm sure.
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At least it's justified bitterness manifesting in the form of some awesome passive aggression. Since filing for bankruptcy, Borders Books has been shutting down stores like they're going out of business style. Not all the employees are taking it well. But when you've got nothing to lose, humor and irony reign supreme.
When your company has been made obsolete because of online competition, and you're soon to be out of a job… it tends to make you a little bitter. And Borders employees have no problem showing it.
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