Posted on 01/11/2018 7:42:50 AM PST by nwrep
You are the reason wages have decreased over the last 35 years!!!!! You are so damn ignorant that it is stunning you can even live.
They could have done nothing and spiffed the shareholders and screwed the employees.
They didn’t.
Not good enough for you I guess.
Walmart hires people who could not work anywhere else. McDonalds feeds people nobody else will feed.
And yet, they are still not doing enough. It is very, very difficult to run a business that size and do the right thing, when Uncle Sam is basically compelling you to screw over everybody you care about.
Not do enough? Huh! Not even on the board. The ones getting the bonus’ are management with 20 Years is the base line.
Winning!
I once made one cent a bale for hauling hay in the Midwest July/August heat. This was a beginning job. Most people that work at Walmart are either entry level workforce or retired people. Any others are simply workers that never developed a skill set. I think Walmart is a great company with the best customer service of any chain.
I mostly use the self check out.
Better than a poke in the eye. This is a company with more than 2 million people. What should it do? Spend all its revenue just to appease your sensibilities about these things?
Yes, good comment and I will never buy another thing from Amazon anyway because of the Bezos smell to the entire organization.
Maybe you’d like it better in Cambodia where everyone gets a bowl of rice a day. That’s equitable.
They were just given a 18 percent cut in their taxes. Please spare me your nonsense. They are saving billions that they didn’t have yesterday.
At least they eat. Some people here don’t even get that.
By increasing the starting wage, it will be easier for Walmart to hire new employees. I also wish they had increased the pay for longer term employees. I know an employee who could really use the increase.
Aren’t you Mr. (or Ms.) Moneybags with other people’s money. You should run for Congress.
Maybe now they can afford to hire a few more cashiers, so that there’ll be more than 2 or 3 lanes open.
* Forty-three percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
* Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
* The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
* Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 31 percent own two or more cars.
* Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.
Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player; 62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.
* Eighty-nine percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and more than a third have an automatic dishwasher.
I guess they didn’t have time to go grocery shopping for food in between all the other things “some people here” were buying.
**Amazon pays the least amount at 13 per hr.**
Interesting fact.
Who is keeping the Amazon money?
Just another reason for me not to shop at Amazon.
Yeah, try telling those homeless all over the country how great they have it. Oops.
Too funny.....
Yes, it’s a real problem - homelessness. That’s why my wife and I donated almost $10,000 to a local shelter this year so that they could upgrade their living space. Many of those who are homeless are mentally ill and not capable of working at a Wal-Mart or any other store.
So what is your point? You came here to rail on Wal-Mart as being cheapskates. Now you’re an advocate of the homeless? Are you saying many Wal-Mart employees are homeless?
When a company freely chooses to up their wages, that’s good news for their employees.
When the federal government unconstitutionally forces minimum wage on America, that is BAD NEWS for all of us.
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