Picture taken in a Walmart store:
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http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/1 ... ood-drive/ (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/11/18/2960371/walmart-food-drive/)
Wow, so even Walmart admits that it give its employees shitty pay and benefits. :lol:
Talk about an admission of being greedy bastards.
Here's another link that has more information on Walmart management's take on this:
http://www.cleveland.com/business/index ... socia.html (http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2013/11/is_walmarts_request_of_associa.html)
Walmart doesn't pay very much? Next you're going to tell me that eating at McDonalds is bad for my health or that tobacco companies actively try to get kids addicted to their products. Seriously I don't see how this is news.
Walmart has a program to accept donations for employees who have experienced unexpected hardships. I don't see how that's a bad thing nor do I see how its newsworthy.
The corporate powers that be and walmart is far from alone in this consider workers as expendable ESPECIALLY in economically depressed cities like Dayton, one of the cities slated to strike. I doubt it'll change until enough people get so feed up they become violent as in past strikes in the 1930's onward. The problem is people become fearful of violent retaliation because these corporation can hire armies we usually refer to as police.
Quote from: "Johan"Walmart doesn't pay very much? Next you're going to tell me that eating at McDonalds is bad for my health or that tobacco companies actively try to get kids addicted to their products. Seriously I don't see how this is news.
Walmart has a program to accept donations for employees who have experienced unexpected hardships. I don't see how that's a bad thing nor do I see how its newsworthy.
Yeah, after I posted the OP, I decided I should have researched a less biased site for more information before I posted. That's when I found the link to the local newspaper account. It may not be quite as "bad" as the initial story I read made it out to be, but there is a reason that having food drives for your own employees strikes people as unusual. I did find it interesting that Walmart management considers working 37 hours to be "full time".
Meh.. I have little to no use for Wallyworld. I get where they're coming from, but they're on the wrong side of history. But then again billionaires have the luxury of rewriting history at will, huh?
I remember several years ago it was all over the news how horrible it was that members of the military qualified for food stamps. The solution was to say that they aren't allowed to apply for them.
Quote from: "Johan"Walmart has a program to accept donations for employees who have experienced unexpected hardships. I don't see how that's a bad thing nor do I see how its newsworthy.
In light of the net worth of the Walton family, they can easily afford to help the employees themselves.
Quote from: "Atheon"In light of the net worth of the Walton family, they can easily afford to help the employees themselves.
The net worth of the Walton family has nothing to do with it. Walmart is as successful as it is because the business model works and employee salary is part of that model.
The hypocrisy of my countrymen always amazes me. Millions of people pass through Walmart's doors every day at least in part, because of the low prices. But tons of those same people bitch and moan about how Walmart should pay their people more. We don't want to pay more than a nickel for a 10-pack of tube socks, but we think its a crime that Walmart doesn't pay the stock clerks $20/hour.
My power company offered a winter program years back. You could pay them extra money, and they would supply free power to "those in need." At first I thought, "What a humanitarian gesture," until I realized the power company was not offering to help the needy at all. They just wanted others to help the needy, while they did nothing but sell more power.
Free power for the needy? Isn't that socialism? Well yes, I suppose, but it kind of bothered me that they would be all for others subsidizing socialism, while they subsidized the profit. Sneaky bastards.
You know that they are soliciting donations from employees, to help other employees, right?
Quote from: "Jmpty"You know that they are soliciting donations from employees, to help other employees, right?
Yeah, but that ruins a great Two Minute Hate.
Quote from: "Johan"Walmart doesn't pay very much? Next you're going to tell me that eating at McDonalds is bad for my health or that tobacco companies actively try to get kids addicted to their products. Seriously I don't see how this is news.
Walmart has a program to accept donations for employees who have experienced unexpected hardships. I don't see how that's a bad thing nor do I see how its newsworthy.
Speaking of McDonalds...
//http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2092071/Stacey-Irvine-17-collapses-eating-McDonalds-chicken-nuggets-age-2.html
Quote from: "Jason_Harvestdancer"Quote from: "Jmpty"You know that they are soliciting donations from employees, to help other employees, right?
Yeah, but that ruins a great Two Minute Hate.
I think that makes it worse, actually.
Quote from: "Jmpty"You know that they are soliciting donations from employees, to help other employees, right?
Well if you want to call putting a couple of plastic bins in a break room soliciting then yes, I am well aware of what they're doing. And again, I fail to see the big deal in it.
Walmart is a large chain and their stores are retail establishments. I know of no large chain retail establishments that pay non-management level employees north of $50k/yr. If it were common for other large chains to pay staff that much and Walmart didn't then yeah, this would be a news worthy thing. But as that's not the case, its just not a BFD for me.