When I saw your recent posts all I could say was "he's back"....

Dylan, enough please. Get on with your life and stop beating this dead horse. You've lost any sympathy on this forum. The more you talk, the more I am sure Borders was right in firing you.

I sold more books and Cd then both of you and both of you have no idea what new orleans is like. You say I was crazy why because I was wearing something the was New Orleans. If I recal I got Ryko to come back to new orleans and they were very happy with the fact that New orleans wanted them back. Duckbooks are you to scared to give your real name, I'm the one that got Anderson Cooper to coime and do a signing in our store which happened to do very very well. My style is very well known. Do any of you have work in the Rock and Roll Hall of fame? So it true if your not like you get rid of him. Y'all will never make it in New Orleans.

Dylan, how did you manager to travel to Vegas if things are sooooooo bad?

I was paid to get a photo of mine of Little Richard to Bob Dylan at the Hard Rock Casino. Remember a Lot of people like my work. They also purchased it for their collection. Also I was negotioning a showing of some of my photo work. And also finding out that what HR said was a lie. I checked out the concept store too. Funny the employee seemed to like talking to a Dave Carpenter winner.

"Crap" could be a mild way of putting it! I did wonder a few months ago if there was some possibility of a spoof: either someone just playing with the computer, or someone mimicking a co-worker who is none the wiser. (I still work with persons who consciously reject the 'web). At one point there was the thread where I suggested posting on "livejournal", because it reaches many more people, and the reply stated that yes, Dylan had followed up with a visit to the "iworkatborders" forum and found George Jones' comments of particular interest. Precisely what could he have meant?
So is there actually a "Dylan" and if so, is it he (I'm merely assuming male) who is doing the various posts to these forums?
If the posts are real, then certainly, at least some of Dylan's coworkers had what amounts to a Federal case against him. Therefore it's a potentially better situation if the posts are fake.
Still it seems to me that the posts have versimilitude. (I'm just not sure from whence it comes). Persons who have some commitment to organising for better economic conditions at work could do worse than take notice.
Making a union possible is about more than getting a majority of persons to vote against the status quo. You've got to reach individuals, including persons whom you might not see as monsters, but whom you believe genuinely do not deserve to be doing a job comparable to yours.
(Please pardon my English here, Veteran: I'm using the second person because it is easy).
Why is this? Well, look no further than Dylan's writings on this site. Dylan's situation had to really mean something to him, or he would have not permitted himself to believe that there was any possibility of being reinstated in it. We're capable to varying degrees of neglecting our principles, but one cannot accuse Dylan of not being conscious of representing his employer to the public, to persons he wouldn't otherwise have known.
Still not a few are not buying it now as, perhaps (once the post by an attendee at a conference who possibly saw Dylan in person is taken into account), then: the reason for that is I think pretty obvious. It meant so much to Dylan to have a Fortune 500 company behind him. He equated greatness [I can't find the right word, "excellence" is glib] at what he was doing with working where he worked. Only that could account for the sense of loss that he experienced in recent weeks.
That's why I say "vraisimilitude". The book superstore in reality has a way of sucking in persons who have expectations of their employer that many would consider nothing less than abnormal. Their attrition from higher education extends back a very long way and could well be permanent. They may lack the life experience that is necessary to successfully retrain for a career. Persons that are part of my generation, that put so much effort into becoming less judgemental than our elders were, might not become uneasy around such individuals until the realization sets in that the job satisfaction of a co-worker like Dylan hangs as it were by a thread.
Let me elaborate. According to Dylan, he was riding high from anything to three to ten years (I fear, maltreating a lot of persons along the way because of the colour of their skin without being punished for doing, too). He won a prestigious award and received it at a conference presided over by MDs and attended by middle management. This was accomplished by molding the "superstore" to the community where it was located. It seems to me that according to Dylan's adversaries, that is to say the authors of the termination form which was posted here, Dylan did absolutely anything he wished for a long time. When they call him on punching in on the quiet, he comes out and he says that his outlook on his job is that of a salaried worker and not of an hourly one.
All that means to me is that Dylan is looking for the kind of situation where one takes something one has -- in some lands, that's a PhD -- and puts it to work. The job and what one is putting into it ultimately amount to one and the same because of one's background. It's easy for some to attain that, not so easy for others; and some have to try several times, in the course of decades. But there is nothing like a book "superstore" job to impart the illusion of such an attainment!* The store's very inventory may be part, even a substantial part, of the key. All one's got to do with it is the same thing that customers presumably do consequent on their purchases. And if the years pass, and one can't, or doesn't do? That's precisely where the dissatisfaction takes hold and the tragic figures begin to emerge, as one has seen Dylan emerge since June in the various posts that I simply hope weren't really true.
"Dylan" isn't unique; I don't think he's even aberrant. He's just a possibility that one is extremely unlikely to find in a library or down the antiquarian's. Be assured that there are organising scenarios where the ability to understanding the needs (excluding the need for a workplace where minorities are viewed, at best, as fodder for the entertainment industry, and then only if their abilities are held to be exceptional) of co-workers like Dylan will prove a factor (if a small factor) in the bargaining unit's chances of succeeding and of staying successful.

*an attainment that, certainly in some lands and as far as I know, in America, is the norm amongst persons who reap the rewards of being middle class for at least part of their lifespans