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Perhaps Emily if you actually spent more time WORKING and less time “ORGANIZING,” you might actually be able to move into a managerial position with better pay.
This is what's wrong with the whiners. They cry about their job, but they do nothing that would lead them to a better job and an improved economic situation. They think being a cashier or a stock room clerk should be their life’s work and they should be paid as much as the CEO.
Emily is not an employee of Walmart, she's a well paid organizer for the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.
If you ever watch daytime TV during the week (say, on Presidents Day), you see the commercials that people at home all day are bombarded with. If you aren’t being encouraged to sue somebody by some underemployed lawyer, you watch these job training commercials that are competing with each other to get you qualified for the best paycheck in the shortest amount of time (though they don’t go into price much). The message is that unskilled people can transform themselves into the middle class if they take a course for a month (and these aren’t computer programming courses - more like medical billing or dental assistants).
The grim reality is that this country has a lot less “good” jobs than it used to have, and many of them are being filled by foreigners trafficked here to fill them for less.