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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

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To: eccentric

I’m not sure what bugs you about this.

It’s one of the big days of the year, so Walmart is obligated to the customer to ensure that there are adequate goods on the shelf. That does require extra efforts by staff to ensure this.

You can always eat your Thanksgiving dinner with family the day after.

I don’t really know what the big deal.


241 posted on 11/13/2011 1:28:11 PM PST by Jonty30
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To: digger48

>>I’ve worked more
Thanksgiving Days in my life than I have had Thanksgiving dinners with the fam.

And I have never gotten overtime, either.<<

Me too! AND when I was single, I would volunteer to work while the others had holidays with their kids.


242 posted on 11/13/2011 1:28:16 PM PST by netmilsmom (Happiness is a choice)
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To: mardi59

Bttt

Suits Say Wal-Mart Forces Workers to Toil Off the Clock

KANSAS CITY, Mo. After finishing her 10 p.m. to 8 a.m. shift, Verette Richardson clocked out and was heading to her car when a Wal-Mart manager ordered her to turn around and straighten up the store’s apparel department.

Eager not to get on her boss’s bad side, she said, she spent the next hour working unpaid, tidying racks of slacks and blouses and picking up hangers and clothes that had fallen to the floor. Other times after clocking out, she was ordered to round up shopping carts in the parking lot.
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Some days, as soon as she walked in a manager told her to rush to a cash register and start ringing up purchases, without clocking in. Sometimes, she said, she worked for three hours before clocking in.

“They wanted us to do a lot of work for no pay,” said Ms. Richardson, who worked from 1995 to 2000 at a Wal-Mart in southeast Kansas City. “A company that makes billions of dollars doesn’t have to do that.”


243 posted on 11/13/2011 1:28:43 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2
Are you trying to convince me China Mart has good paying, great jobs with great medical benefits?
"Great jobs"? Maybe not, but good ones, with benefits, yes. They attract a huge number of employees. See http://walmartstores.com/Careers/7750.aspx for their benefit package. And the best part? You do not have to either shop there or work there. Freedom. Try it sometime.
244 posted on 11/13/2011 1:29:02 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: dragnet2

Oooh a media report about a lawsuit. The media never lies and lawyers never take liars as clients, right?

See http://walmartstores.com/Careers/7750.aspx for the benefit package at Walmart.


245 posted on 11/13/2011 1:30:48 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: mardi59

Sad to hear they reduce your share of the profit due to the price matching concept.

Wal-Mart should set their prices as they see fit, as any retailer should. But it sounds like a bad way to boost profit by, in effect, taking the price matching from employees like that.


246 posted on 11/13/2011 1:31:47 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: mardi59
thx...
247 posted on 11/13/2011 1:31:53 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Jonty30
Walmart is obligated to the customer

I love this kind of BS...

They could care less about the customers their employees, Christmas, Thanksgiving etc... It's all about more profit man!

Show them the money!

248 posted on 11/13/2011 1:32:17 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: birddog

>>I just worked 4 12-13 hours days in a row for a software go live<<

My hubby is IT.
Last Christmas he installed new email software at work. It was glitchy.
He missed my kids Christmas Concert, the Nativity Play and part of Christmas Day working on it. He put in 2 80 hour weeks during the holidays.

We celebrated when we could.


249 posted on 11/13/2011 1:33:11 PM PST by netmilsmom (Happiness is a choice)
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To: dennisw
Oh.... your big bad bully act. I am not impressed.
Facts are a bully? What are you worried about? Dealing with your own unhappy, nasty and dishonest posts getting attention? Man up Dennis. Embrace FREEDOM.
250 posted on 11/13/2011 1:33:35 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: narses
Are you trying to convince me China Mart has good paying, great jobs with great medical benefits?

Great jobs"? Maybe not, but good ones, with benefits, yes

Wall Mart has good jobs! With benefits!?

Yep, you're a graduate of the Tokyo Rose school of Propaganda

251 posted on 11/13/2011 1:36:19 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

Post Office did it for years during the two weeks before Christmas. Not fun—especially for the graveyard shift—but, hey, it was a job!


252 posted on 11/13/2011 1:37:04 PM PST by milagro
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To: dragnet2
dragnet2 says:
Walmart is obligated to the customer

I love this kind of BS...

Really? So now you think the customer is NOT the boss?
It's all about more profit man!
No customers lead to maybe MORE profits? Only to the economic illiterati and the left wing idiot.
253 posted on 11/13/2011 1:37:06 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: DIRTYSECRET
It saddens me to see all this acrimony between us Freepers.

What acrimony? A Freeper is obviously unhappy with his working conditions. I suggested a solution.

254 posted on 11/13/2011 1:37:26 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Ah, the old Hope-a-Dope.)
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To: narses

Why not post the rest of my comment?

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Walmart is obligated to the customer

I love this kind of BS...

They could care less about the customers their employees, Christmas, Thanksgiving etc... It’s all about more profit man!

Show them the money!


255 posted on 11/13/2011 1:38:22 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2; Admin Moderator
dragnet2 says:
Yep, you're a graduate of the Tokyo Rose school of Propaganda
So personal attacks are your response? Why the incivility?
256 posted on 11/13/2011 1:38:50 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: mardi59

>>Apparently you overlooked me saying I work for Walmart<<

Yup, they don’t want you working over 40 hours because then they must by law pay you overtime. It’s not hard. They CAN pay you overtime but they don’t want to and that is their right. Get your work done in your shift, clock out on time and there is no problem.

Sorry, you knew it when you signed on. And if you don’t like it, go somewhere else. Target will hire for the holidays.


257 posted on 11/13/2011 1:38:59 PM PST by netmilsmom (Happiness is a choice)
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To: netmilsmom

I understand completely. My post was not meant to be anything negative toward work per se. Our own family has thrived on hard work. I was commenting more generally on how, as a society, we have lost that sense of sacred celebration, that stopping of the routine, everyday....to give something back to God together....as a family, as a nation of families.

We allowed ourselves to become far more material than spiritual. We began to shift our worship of the Creator/Giver to the worship of the gifts He gave us.


258 posted on 11/13/2011 1:40:36 PM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: narses
  1. you are projecting
  2. you are nuts
  3. but have a nice day anyway

259 posted on 11/13/2011 1:41:02 PM PST by dennisw (I heard the old man laughing. What good is a used up world and how could it be worth having-- Sting)
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To: is_is

“better yourself....learn.”


Uuum,tell that to my daughter with Bachelor and Master degrees who couldn’t find a decent job for 18 months.


260 posted on 11/13/2011 1:43:45 PM PST by Mears (I can't take anymore of this.)
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