I HAVE always wondered about this phenomenon that I have only seen here and nowhere else. These are the notices from businesses placed in broadsheets about ex-employees with their names and accompanying photos declaring that said individuals are no longer connected with the said business(es) and therefore, any dealing, contract and/or anything they have transacted with will not be honored by the business that puts out the notice.
To begin with, I feel it is probably unfair and unreasonable for notices like these to be disseminated to the general public. In general, most of the public has nothing to do with the business concerned and, therefore, is just the recipient of a negative, if not somewhat libelous, notice about persons they do not deal with. But because the notice has been given in such a defaming way, this unwary and unrelated public then begins to form a very negative opinion of the person concerned without experiencing or actually knowing what they are accused of doing. In other words, a dispute between two parties grows further with one party vilified.
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