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To all concerned
My attention was recently directed to a news story about your shameful treatment of a former employee, Nancy Bevilacqua.
Your actions concerning Ms. Bevilacqua are typical of the corporate thinking that is currently killing the businesses in this country. You forget that your company is only as good as the people you employ, and in order to keep good people, to promote loyalty, you have to treat them fairly. What you have done may make monetary sense, but your action will damage your bottom line more than you realize.
When a corporation fires an employee in a way as heartless and ill-advised as this, it makes people angry. After reading the story, I went to your website and got this far into it before closing the page in complete disgust:
The philosophy at Christopher & Banks is to create a great team atmosphere and promote qualified employees from within the company whenever possible.
Do you achieve this by firing a woman who donates a kidney to save her mother's life?
The people in this country are sick of corporate mistreatment. While your policy of exceptional personal service is laudable and something every corporation should aspire to, it starts with taking care of your people. Following policy is a vital part of running a corporation, but every once in a while, exceptions must and should be made. Showing compassion for Ms. Bevilacqua's situation may have inconvenienced your company, but it would have gained you an immeasurable amount goodwill with the buying public. As it is, however, all you've accomplished earning a reputation as a heartless, uncaring corporation more concerned with profit than the well being of your employees, and that is shameful.
Nicholas D'Amico
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