Walmart ruining holidays for workers

vanity | November 13, 2011 | Linda Martine

[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.

[dragnet2]

Nonsense. Rather we believe that what you do matters. You want to work in retail, OK. Accept that wages are lower. You want to join a union, go ahead, just don't force anyone else to.

Retail sucks and much of the help have terrible attitudes because they paying them 1990 wages with little or zero benefits. These people work all day long for the price of a tank of gas...

Ya can't even afford a rental roof over your head on those wages.

BTW, there are now MORE unionized government employees than in the private sector, and the government worker wages are substantially higher.

[Hot Tabasco]

This is demanded by the Walmart head honchos in Bentonville, Arkansas. Please let THEM (not the local workers) know what you you think of this.

Is that the same address where I can send my resume' to? Think they're hiring?

[dennisw]

The normal freeper attitude is to hate all unions

You seriously dispute this? Just look at this thread.

[mardi59]

Just one last thing. O do not blame Walmart itself. We all know that what occurs in some stores are due to the people they hire to run it. Management is not perfect and we know that some are on a power trip and weild it when they have a chance. It’s to bad that those that have complained are no longer with us.

They say open door policy but that is not the casw. Maybe the CEO needs to do an Undercover Boss to find out how his employees are being treated.

[narses]

Retail sucks and much of the help have terrible attitudes because they paying them 1990 wages with little or zero benefits.

Walmart wages are far better than 1990 wages and they get benefits. Retail sucks because the sector deals with everyone, and jerks abound in some places. Sad to see them popping up here on the FREE Republic.

[dragnet2]

So why do you post here if you have such contempt for freedom

Freedom?

Working on Thanksgiving or Christmans at some Pro-Communist Chinese company now equates to freedom in America?

You graduated from the Tokyo Rose school of propaganda?

[dragnet2]

Christmas too!

[Hot Tabasco]

Walgreens job.

LOL! I do that all the time only I refer to Walgreen as Walmart........

[Captain Peter Blood]

Well I work for Walmart and this seems to be the case.
The Insane sales that now start at 10PM Thanksgiving night has pretty much ruined the Holiday.
We used to be able to work a half shift then go home to be with our families.
Now if your a 24 hour store it's your regular 8hr shift.
yes our overnight crews will be absolutely exhausted all in the name of the almighty retail dollar.
5AM id early enough. the average consumer is really tapped out and I just do not see holiday sales being that great.

[SaveTheChief]

Oh, the poor, poor babies.

I live in Texas. My family is in Illinois. I haven't seen any of them in nearly a year, and haven't spent a Thanksgiving with them in several. I miss them, but haven't spent even a second whining about it.

As in the past, I have a choice this Thanksgiving. I can either take the work that is offered to me, or I can go away and risk not having work when I return. To me, the choice is clear.

I don't feel the least bit sorry for people who have to work an extra hour or three, even if it is on Thanksgiving. Let them find new work, go on the dole, or on the streets.

This crybaby crap isn't going to win any sympathy with me.

[Truth29]

"If Obama is re-elected, Wal-Mart could be unionized in much of the country before his second term is out. The NLRB’s Boeing-South Carolina decision indicates a willingness to prohibit Wal-Mart’s standard defenses, and their response to successful votes, which has been to close the offending store or department."

If Obama is reelected, the US will end up like Hugo Chavez' Venezuela or the old East Germany. We will long for the days of Wal-Mart and full shelves.

[narses]

dennisw says:

The normal freeper attitude is to hate all unions

You seriously dispute this? Just look at this thread.

Which demonstrates his basic DISHONEST approach here. See what he cut that line from:

The normal freeper attitude is to hate all unions and that everyone (except them) should work for serf wages and kiss their arse if they are waiters or service or retail personnel.

I smell a troll!

[dragnet2]

Walmart wages are far better than 1990 wages and they get benefits.

Are you trying to convince me China Mart has good paying, great jobs with great medical benefits?

Are you joking???

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I never minded working holidays. It was actually fun most of the time. I drew the line at 11-7 with one exception. Christmas night.

When it was my turn to work Christmas, I would to volunteer to work 11-7 Christmas night. We were very short staffed on that shift. Our Nurse Manager was so happy not to have to be the bad guy, I would get Christmas Eve of as well.

I would have Christmas Eve, Christmas Day (the part that counts) as well as New Years off.

Lots of caffeine and a couple of well timed blasts of the cold CNY night air would keep me alert, but I could not do the 11-7 on a regular basis. I did it when I got out of school. My body could never adjust.

[Tammy8]

If they don’t like it they can quit and do something different. I worked retail for a while and knew holidays would be busy...worked at a bar for a while and knew weekends would be busy. If you don’t like the conditions do something different, don’t blame the company.

Many people work holidays; law enforcement, medical workers, and others in critical jobs. Are we going to complain about all of them working holidays? It is not a money issue either; people have a choice to get more education and or training to do different work.

I was always glad to have a job, and if I didn’t like the conditions I was happy to make changes and not blame my employer.

[narses]

Working is a choice FRiend, you can choose to work elsewhere if you want. Is the freedom of the marketplace your enemy? If so, why?

[netmilsmom]

Oh for heaven’s sake. From your link...

“I guess, basically, we are disappointed with the verdict. Wal-Mart has a strong policy of paying its associates for all the time they work,” said spokesman Bill Wertz. “We would emphasize that this ruling affects only approximately 350 workers out of 15,000 in Oregon.”

“It also said Wal-Mart reprimanded employees who claimed overtime. Workers felt forced to work after clocking out because managers assigned them more work than they could complete in a regular shift, the plaintiffs said.”

I’ve worked with these type of people, who are given a set amount of work, socialize half the day then want to claim overtime when their duties are not finished. Some lib judge ruled with them, big whoop.

[dennisw]

As a side note, at the Tier I manufacturing stamping plant where I used to work on Detroit's east side, there was an electrician who logged 4,000+ hours three years in a row..with many of those days working 12 - 16 hours........

I'll bet that job and factory have been gone for while. This plant means "made in America"
You are describing a good job at a good wage that you could buy a house with. Where in the 1970s your wife could stay at home and not have to work and some of the public schools were good. Quite a contrast with working overtime at a low wage WalMart job selling communist China made items

[dragnet2]

Are you trying to convince me China Mart has good paying, great jobs with great medical benefits?

Are you joking?

Ya forgot to answer the question.

[dennisw]

Oh.... your big bad bully act. I am not impressed.