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To: Sub-Driver

I can't imagine why, given the pathetic HEALTH CARE program they offer.


4 posted on 06/13/2006 8:48:33 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant
I can't imagine why, given the pathetic HEALTH CARE program they offer.

It's pretty standard.

The statistic that so many Wal-Mart employees receive public health benefits is a half-truth: it is standard for employees to go through a probationary period before receiving full benefits. Since Wal-Mart is the largest employer in many states, it is only logical that they would also have the most employees on probation.

You prefer half-truths, don't you?

10 posted on 06/13/2006 8:54:37 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam Factoid:After forcing young girls to watch his men execute their fathers, Muhammad raped them.)
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To: Brilliant

You're right, if this is the job that people want to work as a lifetime job. However, if you look at it as a stepping stone for something more, ie, time to work on a degree, a job as a teenager, an additional income, or a retiree wanting to get out of the house, it's great. I think people are missing the big picture here. Wal-Mart isn't a career- take care of your family kind of job, and those who look at it that way are near-sighted. It's a low-paying job because it doesn't require a large amount of skill.


12 posted on 06/13/2006 8:57:06 AM PDT by Millicent_Hornswaggle (Retired US Marine wife)
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To: Brilliant

I smell a tad of sarcasm?


15 posted on 06/13/2006 9:01:08 AM PDT by Ron in Acreage (Liberal Democrats-Party before country, surrender before victory, generous with other peoples money.)
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To: Brilliant
I can't imagine why, given the pathetic HEALTH CARE program they offer.

8000 people decided that what WM offered was better than what they currently had, so 8000 people say to hell with you and your liberal opinion. Tell me do you think minimum wages are a good thing too?

28 posted on 06/13/2006 10:24:03 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government)
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To: Brilliant

I can't imagine why, given the pathetic HEALTH CARE program they offer.""

Pray, tell your details, please.


57 posted on 06/13/2006 1:21:59 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Brilliant

I can't imagine why, given the pathetic HEALTH CARE program they offer.

Some of us have our own or are on social security


81 posted on 06/13/2006 3:17:12 PM PDT by Joan Kerrey
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To: Brilliant

Yeah, the old "health care" canard. What I would like to know is the health plan that those much balleyhooed "Mom and Pop" shops are offering up. With all the bellyaching and yip-yapping about how the big evil Wal-Mart is driving the mom-and-pop shops out of business, you'd think the mom-and-pops are paying their employees $80,000 a year to stock shelves with full benefits, stock options and company cars.


112 posted on 06/13/2006 7:13:54 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (I think Randy Travis must be paying his bills on home computer by now)
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