<br /><br />I thought a store closing would be good news to allow the "mom and pop" stores to come back. <br /><br />Ken
Yea the mom and pop stores with say errrrrrrrrr, maybe 3 or 4 employees.<br />Yea, that sounds about right.Originally posted by KenImpZoom:<br /> I thought WalMart was evil and it would be good riddance.
.. so its reflected in their point of sale price to you, the consumer. .. its respective - lopsided but, respective.
I was wronge walmart doesn't repect there workers at ALL!<br />after working for walmart for 3 years I can tell you if you feel to good abouht your self go work at walmart they will knock you down a peg.<br />To save money they will not hire replacements for people that quit.<br />They won't buy the equpment required to do the job.<br />They make 4 people do the job of 12 and then tell theam they are not doing enought.<br />They actally made us sighn a paper that said they could FIRE us at any time for no reason.<br />and if you didn't sighn they would punish you.<br />wlmart was a good company but when sam walton died it started going to h@#$.<br />they don't care abouht the employees at all they make us work past our shifts and then won't pay the over time the make us cut hours to avoid over time.<br />and If you get overtime you get in trouble.<br />I wonld not recommend walmart for anyone not even my worst enemy if I could make this much any where else I would quit in a min but I'm stuck here so if walmart doesn't start treating the workers better soon there won't be any left to work there.<br />not every one will put up with this cr%^.<br />In closing walmart sucks.
<br />Sounds like 97% of the other jobs out there that aren't union or government.<br />I'm talking about mom and pop stores, fast food, hardware stores, resturaunts and most other service jobs that don't require above average skills and education. <br /><br />Here's my advice.<br />Suck it up, since you have a paycheck. Go back to school, learn a useful trade or get a meaningful education. <br /><br />Loose the attitude, it's a cancer to your workmates. <br />Pull yourself up and quit expecting your employer to babysit your life.That is a pretty self-righteous attitude there Skinnywater. Not everyone has had or can have the same priveledges you obviously have. And I didn't read any expectation of a babysitter. If decency and integrity were still important values in todays society, we wouldn't be having this thread. Whereas I agree that one has control over their lives, unions came about for a reason. It was greed. Not the workers greed, it was the employers greed. Employees had no say, no control and no protections. Unions were a way to level the playing field. They were a way to force the employer to treat their employees like the human beings they were. Unions helped to make workplaces safer. Unions have lost their way, but that does not change the good they have done. <br /><br />When you can express a position with facts and reason, not just self-righteous demeaning of others you can elevate yourself above the pond scum that currently inhabits big-business. Then you can rejoin the human race.<br /><br />Whereas all Walmart employees can be thankful to have a job, don't forget the facts Chris Myers quoted. I read the report that excerpt is from, so I know it is from a credible source. Is it fair to me (a taxpayer) that Walmart is making huge profits by forcing the true cost of living for it's employees on the government social assistance plans? I think not. And forcing employees to work and not be paid, or not paid for overtime hours worked is not only unfair, it's unlawful, and unethical. But then again ethics are lost on today's business executives and managers.Originally posted by Skinnywater:<br />
