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Walmart ruining holidays for workers
vanity | November 13, 2011 | Linda Martine

Posted on 11/13/2011 11:06:23 AM PST by eccentric

Around the country, night workers at Walmart stores are being told to come in five hours early ON Thanksgiving. After having work until 7am that morning, they must get whatever sleep they can and then reutrn to work at 5pm for a 12 hour shift. How much time does this leave for them to spend the holiday with their family?

Walmart wants to call their employees associates. No, they are just workers.


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: blackfriday; collapse; prepare; retailers; shtf; teotwawki; walmart
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To: Balding_Eagle

http://threehegemons.tripod.com/threehegemonsblog/id57.html

http://www.new-york-employment-lawyer.com/tag/off-the-clock/

No grudge, just the truth


161 posted on 11/13/2011 12:22:50 PM PST by mardi59 (Time to turn off the tv so I don't break it..)
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To: paulist
If you don’t like it, find another job. Stop crying

Silly yankee...haha..you listen to walmart investor...he tell truth....you work at walmart...it good for yankee...make you proud...haha...You make money...buy poon jab doggy yum yums and something for little woman...You go now...shop shop, work work at walmart...bye bye yankee

162 posted on 11/13/2011 12:22:55 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: eccentric
Being at freight loader at Walmart is hardly as important as being a nurse.

Geez, uppity much????

163 posted on 11/13/2011 12:23:20 PM PST by rockabyebaby (We are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo screwed!)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
No employer should ever have the "right" to compel a person to work twelve hours per day seven days a week.

I worked a government job, and was often compelled (forced or you can quit) to work long shifts, sometimes 36 hour long shifts without sleep. That's right, my expertise was required non-stop for 36 hours until a critical procedure was completed. No right to strike, could not complain. And at times thousands of miles away from home for several days. And I was always on call on holidays and often did work on holidays. You do whatever it takes to bring the money home to care for your family.

164 posted on 11/13/2011 12:23:39 PM PST by roadcat
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To: eccentric
Yeah it sucks and I have to do the same thing, so I told the family to count me out of Thanksgiving dinner. But, after 2 years of spotty employment I thank God I have a job. It also motivates me to try out for a higher position.

Bottom line: If you don't like the bad economy, start putting true (as opposed to compassionate) conservatives into office and never vote for anyone who has "community organizer" on his resume.

165 posted on 11/13/2011 12:23:55 PM PST by YankeeReb (Even in front of 3rd graders, 0bama is still the least qualified person in the room.)
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To: linn37

Thank you so much. :)


166 posted on 11/13/2011 12:24:06 PM PST by mardi59 (Time to turn off the tv so I don't break it..)
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To: eccentric

It’s a job. Black Friday’s huge and makes the profit that helps keep the store open.


167 posted on 11/13/2011 12:27:02 PM PST by hocndoc (WingRight.org Have mustard seed: Will use. Cut spending, cut spending, cut spending, now,now,now!)
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To: GunPkrBkr

Navy blue shirts are impossible to find? That and black are the usual colors I favor and I have had no difficulties finding such.


168 posted on 11/13/2011 12:27:30 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: eccentric

Have worked many holiday including several Christmas days. Always did what it took to support the family. Free country, anyone can simply quit if they are unwilling to support their employer.


169 posted on 11/13/2011 12:28:44 PM PST by ontap
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To: mardi59

****27 registers and only 8 covered by cashiers with long lines full of angry impatient customers. ****

I’m not afraid to find a manager and yell..”HEY! WRE NEED SOME MORE REGISTERS OPEN!”


170 posted on 11/13/2011 12:30:30 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: eccentric

I work in the medical field..
Where I work, you can either work 8 hours on Thanksgiving and have Christmas off, or the other way around.
You can also choose to work 4 hours on both holidays if you prefer, so that you can have most of either day off.

In the Nursing field, nobody pays us to purchase our scrubs, and they never have.
We do get a discount at some uniform outlets.

It is not fun to have to work these Holidays, but it’s even worse for the patients who are stuck and cannot be home.
So, I put on a happy face for them, I thank God I have a job, and it’s all good!


171 posted on 11/13/2011 12:30:44 PM PST by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history)
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To: eccentric

They should be thankful that they have a job when so many others can’t find work.


172 posted on 11/13/2011 12:31:16 PM PST by jrcats (Justice is blind & deaf in Florida.)
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To: Timber Rattler

It’s really against the law for any employer to do what you said (not saying that they don’t but they can get in trouble if they are found out). If someone works overtime they HAVE to be paid for that overtime in THAT pay period not the next. At least that’s how it works in Texas. When I worked there, we could not get overtime BUT if supers anticipated it, they could authorize it (rarely happened) When I started I told them I had to have off the two weeks at Christmas - we were going on a ski trip. They said okie doke. Come time for me to get off, no deal they say. I quit. We had fun in the snow. ;)


173 posted on 11/13/2011 12:33:12 PM PST by gopheraj
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To: eccentric
One of my Aunts used to work for the phone company. On Christmas Day, my cousins usually woke up at the crack of dawn, and from 5am to 6:30, she'd be with them, opening gifts, then she'd put the ham or turkey into the oven. Then she'd go to the first half of her split shift, working 7am to 11am. She'd come home, fix the rest of the Christmas dinner, enjoy time with the family, then go back and work 3pm -7pm. She got double time and a half working on Thanksgiving and Christmas. She didn't mind that one bit, and she was still able to be with her family on that day.

Now I'm not saying that Wal-Mart is crucial, like the phone company, and it would be nice if they gave their workers the day off, but if they have to work, I sure hope they're getting at least time and a half for working on the holiday!

174 posted on 11/13/2011 12:33:21 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

People do yell and I feel so sorry for them because even I hate to stand in line, but they make excuses and nothing changes but we do the best we can.

Believe me when I say we care but there isn’t much we can do except apologize and move the line as fast as we can.


175 posted on 11/13/2011 12:33:27 PM PST by mardi59 (Time to turn off the tv so I don't break it..)
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To: eccentric

Yes, nursing is important.
But your employer makes the most money on Thansgiving, more than anytime of the year.
Your employer, if closed over the holidays, would have to layoff employees.Your employer may go out business. That is the fact.
If you feel that your employer needs to make less profit- then find another job.
You are not doing your employer any favor by continuing your employment with them.


176 posted on 11/13/2011 12:34:15 PM PST by kaila
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To: neverbluffer
I had to buy my uniform at my first job back in 1982 when I worked for Burger King making onlu 3:15 per hour.

My first job was in 1967, we didn't have to buy our aprons, but we did have to pay for the cleaning of them.

177 posted on 11/13/2011 12:34:28 PM PST by DejaJude (Honestly, I had a really great tagline, but I lost it somewhere!)
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To: YankeeReb
But, after 2 years of spotty employment I thank God I have a job. It also motivates me to try out for a higher position.
Too true. Good for you!
Bottom line: If you don't like the bad economy, start putting true (as opposed to compassionate) conservatives into office and never vote for anyone who has "community organizer" on his resume.
More truth, thanks!
178 posted on 11/13/2011 12:35:05 PM PST by narses (what you bind upon earth, shall be bound also in heaven; and what you loose upon earth, shall be ..)
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To: kaila

Maybe if business cut their prices throughout the year instead of on just one day, it wouldn’t come to this.


179 posted on 11/13/2011 12:35:13 PM PST by dfwgator (I stand with Herman Cain.)
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To: GunPkrBkr
They have to be navy blue in color, which is impossible to find.

WalMart also requires navy blue shirts, and I got two for my son at J.C. Penney. Lands' End also sells them, and even though they're a little more expensive, they wear like iron!

180 posted on 11/13/2011 12:36:17 PM PST by SuziQ
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