My wife worked for this Ace hardware store location for about 4 months. 2 weeks ago on August 28th her grandfather passed away in the house. My wife then informed the Ace management about this and the people she told were Jeff Fabian and Michelle Peebler. Michelle told my wife she can have a couple weeks off and also proceeded to say take the whole month of September off so my wife can have time to revover after this tagedy. About a week later Michelle asks if my wife can work on a tuesday shortly after this incident. My wife respectfully and professionally replies she cannot and if they need to fill her spot then she will leave to allow the business to have the staff needed for opperating. All is well here and we put in what seems to be an unspoken "2 week notice". Today on September 12th 2018 my wife's sister who works at true value hardware in ramona was told by a manager that my wife was rude to staff, customers, always on her phone and was rude while texting about leaving Ace. None of these things are true and it is not what happened and we would love to take legal action because she was never fired, rumors that are untrue are being spread and this is a MAJOR case of harrasment outside of work because the rumor was spread to another company outside of ACE. I hope we can end this maltreatment of employees and employees that have left this place and have been plagued by the false words of horrible managers and that prevented them from getting a job elsewhere. Very unprofessional of this establishment to use feelings towards another individual as a drive to hurt them more. I hope this place shuts down and the owners feel the back burn or at least fire the management and bring in people who do not give extra cookies to family members who work for them. At this specific Ace hardware store in Ramona if you are not blood related to the family then you will be treated differently because family members have all the leiway in the world while everyone else is criticized.