Remember when the idea of being picketed due to a labor dispute would terrify a business owner? The image of hundreds of angry people, marching around with signs and chanting hateful things about the owner, his business and basically his entire extended family splashed across the news and in the papers would keep him up at nights.

Well, apparently those days are over.

The Westin Hotel is being picketed as we speak. Here it is:

Yep, one large sign and two guys in lawn chairs just sitting there like they were watching a ball game. Usually they have 3 or 4 guys in yellow vests handing out print-outs too. Well, not really handing them out. More like they stand there with one in their hand and hope that somebody takes one. I’m guessing it was too cold for them today. I mean, it got down to 45 degrees.

Here’s the upside to this strategy- they can “protest” more than one site at a time. Here’s the riveting scene half a mile up Peachtree:

There’s a third “protest” going on an Hotel Indigo, literally within sight of the Westin. They weren’t out today. I guess it was their day off from being on the front lines of this grueling labor war waged on the mean streets of Atlanta.