Whole Foods Employees Are Applauding This Defiant Company Email

An internal email between a Whole Foods employee and executive management, recently leaked to Reddit. In the screenshot of the email, it appears the note was written to Executive Vice President of Operations, Christina Minardi, and President of Whole Foods' North Atlantic Region, Rick Bonin (via Linkedin and Whole Foods). The person who wrote the email that was posted to Reddit, said they were upset because they believed they were being put under extra stress with an executive visit, while employees already have been struggling. According to the email, employees have been dealing with an ongoing pandemic, the holiday season and a snowstorm that recently hit. If the visit continued, the email promised that workers would call off "to show we are tired of being used as dispensable pawns."

The worst aspect of these visits is that it would likely involve interstate travel. As CNN reports, almost all the states in the North Atlantic Region, which include Central and Eastern Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine, enforce some kind of quarantine on anyone travelling from infected states. A similar point not made is that among the steps to keep their team members safe during COVID-19, Whole Foods notes on its site a point about travel: "We have asked team members to cancel nonessential business travel (both domestic and international)." 

The responses to the leaked email, were unanimous in their praise. They considered the person who wrote the email a hero, agreed the visit was a dangerous waste of time and hoped he would not be fired for leaking the email. "My thoughts exactly," one user wrote on Reddit. "Hope this dude doesn't get canned for standing up for himself and his store."