A year ago, she was a store manager at Toys R Us. Today, Anne Marie Reinhart Smith has become a minor online celebrity. Not to say that everyone knows her name, but shes become the lede for many a story (and now this one, as well) written about the stores recent bankruptcy and all of the employees they left high and dry (33,000, to be exact). Her history with the companyas well as the way it unceremoniously dropped her and thousands of othershints at a larger narrative about how the intersection of business and labor have changed over the years.
I worked there for 29 years, Smith tells me. She had been at the toy store through good times and bad, rising from human resources manager to store manager. When word cam…
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