In the year since Bill the Butcher CEO J’Amy Owens absconded with workers’ paychecks as the six stores shut down, including one in downtown Edmonds, employees of the tiny, always-unprofitable public company have learned some hard lessons, according to our online news partner The Seattle Times.
“Maybe I should have asked a few more questions, should have known what I was getting into,” says Andy Shaw, who joined the company as interim operations manager just three months before it finally collapsed one Friday last October. “While the ship was sinking, I was the guy telling the staff everything was going to be all right.”
Of course it wasn’t all right. The 53-year-old Owens, once a well-regarded retail consultant who founded Bill the Butcher in 2009, dropped out of sight in October 2014 after diverting a $108,000 state tax-refund check that should have covered her employees’ overdue paychecks.
The Edmonds store opening was delayed more than two years after it was first announced in 2010. Then, in October 2014, a sign in the window announced it was closed ….until further notice.
You can read more in the Times story here.
The woman in this picture does not look like Jamy Owens the CEO……unless she has gained bout 100 lbs…..just doesnt look like her
She’s on the lam(b)?!
+1
I had an employer do this to me once — I managed to track down senior management in Buenos Aires after the company shut its doors. They were apparently so distraught about the company going under that they all chose to take an expensive vacation together. I never did get the money they owed me.
It’s a shame when people make a conscious decision to behave like cartoon caricatures of greedy capitalists.