My mom died without me because Walmart would not let me leave work, paraphrasing.

[MoonRiver]

My mom died without me by her side because my boss at Walmart wouldn’t let me leave.

In 2015, my mom had a stroke, so I upended my life in North Carolina, and moved to Texas with my son to take care of her. A friend helped me get a job at Walmart, and when I was hired I explained that I was looking after my dying mom. But when I needed a flexible schedule to take care of her, they ignored me. And when I got the call that she was about to pass, my boss told me I’d be fired if I left. So she died without me there, as I listened on the phone and cried.

That’s how Walmart treats workers like me. That’s how Walmart respects the work I do for them, and the caregiving work I do for my family. Lots of people already speak out against Walmart’s unfair treatment of workers like me. But now Walmart has started buying up other companies, without making much noise about it. So you could be buying from Walmart without knowing it -- and if you shop at ModCloth, you are.

Walmart workers like me have come together with former ModCloth customers and our allies across the progressive movement to speak out.

Together, we’ve launched a letter to the Walmart CEO: we’re saying #ByeModCloth until workers like me get fair treatment. Click here to add your name.

It really stings when I hear people talk about ModCloth, and they don’t know it’s owned by Walmart. ModCloth pretends to be a woman-friendly company, creating designs for women of all sizes. But Walmart doesn’t work for all women: rich executives get paid leave, and ordinary workers like me get little or nothing.

ModCloth’s talk of being great for women is just that -- all talk. ModCloth is owned by Walmart, and Walmart’s policies of low pay, unfair schedules, and no paid leave are hurting hundreds of thousands of women like me.

It’s just not right for Walmart to hide behind the ModCloth brand while they treat women workers like me so badly -- and that’s the message we’ll be taking to ModCloth customers this Cyber Monday.

If you wouldn’t shop at Walmart because of how they treat women, don’t shop at ModCloth. Join Walmart workers and our allies: I won’t shop at ModCloth this Cyber Monday.

Walmart forced me to choose between the family I love and the job that I need. But no-one should have to make that choice, and that’s why we’re saying #ByeModCloth.

Thank you for supporting workers like me,

Tiffaney

EDIT: I am NOT Tiffaney. I got this in an email, and thought I should share. Sorry there are no hot links.

[BigmanPigman]

1. I have boycotted Walmart my entire life.

I DO NOT EVER SHOP THERE, even on-line. I did go there twice to protest how they made people work on Black Friday. I am pro union and hate that treatment. I would sign your "petition" but there is no link and I do not use social media. Do you have an option?

[Hekate]

2. MoonRiver: Are you Tiffaney? If not, please cite source; it's important. If you are Tiffaney...

I am deeply sorry for your loss and the way you were abused, and I support you in fighting back.

[MoonRiver]

4. No I'm not. I just got this email and thought it was worthy of sharing.

Somehow I thought there would be hot links in it.

[FakeNoose]

3. This is a heart-breaking story about how Walmart treats their employees

...and it's all too familiar. I've boycotted Walmart in the past, mainly because of how our local family-owned businesses all close whenever Walmart moves in. (I know, it happens everywhere.)

I wasn't aware of the ModCloth brand, but I'll be sure to boycott them as well. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

Walmart receives economic advantages in the form of bulk-buying contracts from China and other Asian countries. This advantage is used to make the owners extremely EXTREMELY wealthy. On top of that there are legal & political advantages plus huge tax breaks that Walmart gets and nobody else. It's anti-democratic and anti-competitive, in addition to being anti-labor.

I'm sure Walmart would love to layoff all their employees as soon as "retail robots" become viable.

[cwydro]

5. No job would keep me from my mothers side

at that point.

This is a very sad thing to read.

[TheFrenchRazor]

17. this, although there is still no excuse for walmart's actions. nt

[cwydro]

19. I dont believe this story.

I just don’t.

[RobinA]

22. I Dont Either

Fake news.

[liberalhistorian]

23. I have no trouble believing it at all.

This is what Wally World does to its employees, without a second thought. They do NOT care for their employees or the communities they claim to "serve." I have seen enough firsthand cases, and heard enough reliable secondhand cases, and read more than enough legal settlements against them for maltreatment of employees (for instance, having to pay out millions to employees they forced to work overtime without paying them).

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. Can you even imagine the sort of reptile stooge asshole that would

deny that woman that time off? Only in a place like a walmart in the south.

[MoonRiver]

7. No, I cannot even imagine that kind of scum.

[Kaleva]

8. I would be hesitant to accept this email as being truthful

[cwydro]

9. Me too. nt

[Kaleva]

12. For starters, what kind of person puts their job ahead of being with a dying mom?

Other then a link back to the OP, I can find nothing to substantiate this story via Google search. There is a tweet with 2 shares.

[Coventina]

10. I used to buy almost all my clothes from ModCloth, until the day they sold out to Walmart.

I went from huge fan/customer to boycotter in one second.

I'm never looking back.

ModCloth cut its own throat.

[Codeine]

11. Nobody who has an available alternative

should ever darken Walmart's door. There are folks for whom the only grocery or department store left is Walmart, and those people don't have the luxury of avoiding it. The rest of us do, and we have a responsibility to make sure that we aren't part of the problem.

[AllyCat]

13. I have never heard of Modcloth. Thank you for the heads up

If they come to my town, I won’t shop there.

[Coventina]

21. They are an online retailer.

I think they have one store in San Francisco, but I could be mistaken about that.

[gilligan]

14. Sorry about that.

But FUCK Walmart.

[Turbineguy]

15. There are others out there too.

Early in my career I was working for a company and while I was on leave, I got married. I asked for some extra time off. It was granted, but came with the admonition, "Don't let your marriage interfere with your job!" Now if I had said something like that to someone, I would have laughed and told him to enjoy himself and that would have been the end of it, because it's so obviously bass-ackwards. This manager was actually serious. I left the company a few months later.

The reason you work is not to make the company owners rich, but to take care of your family.

We used to be told in economics class that companies exist for the purpose of organizing production and distribution of goods in an efficient manner, for the greater good of society and civilization. Because people are willing to pay for the value that's added, profits are made.

This idea does not seem valid any more.

[perdita9]

16. I haven't shopped at a WalMart in over a decade

And I plan to keep on doing just that. Target has a lot of the same items, treats its workers better, doesn't sell guns, and isn't run by homophobic executives.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

18. I haven't shopped at WalMart in at least twenty years,

and I've never heard of ModCloth.

There's also something that feels just a bit off about this email. I like to think I'd have walked off the job to be with my dying mother.

But a lot of jobs, like retail, offer zero flexibility to their employees, and often only post work schedules a week at a time, making it impossible for the workers to plan for things like child care, and utterly impossible to take a second job.

It's also not clear if Tiffany still works for WalMart. I hope she doesn't.

[Neema]

20. I stopped shopping at ModCloth the minute I found out Walmart bought them. Every time

I find a brand I like, whether it's organic food, clothing, cleaning supplies or whatever, it's only a matter of time before some horrible company ends up buying them. I enjoy gardening and cooking and making things, but I work full-time and don't have time to make or grow everything. More and more I feel like I have to in order to not give money to companies like Walmart and Monsanto.