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To: paulist; Truth29; Delta 21; rjsclassics; E. Pluribus Unum; dfwgator; UriÂ’el-2012; ...
After all your encouragemnet, I was just about to quit --- and then I remembered "I'm not talking about my job. I was referring to freinds of mine." Yes, those pathetic uneducated losers who got a job at Wal-Mart years ago when it was more 'family-friendly.' They started at minimum wage, often moving to the night shift just for an extra dollar an hour. Now that they have worked themselves up to a living wage, Walmart changes it policy and and all the old rules. I guess these workers deserve to be told to work 16 hours on a hoilday by corporate bosses. The better educated people know that a worker will be very reluctant to leave a job after years of steady employment and start over somwhere else at minimum wage.

Working Black Thursday doesn't bother me, my idea of Thanksgiving dinner is a pizza, but these poor schlubs from the Walmart backroom had plans and I thought I would speak up for them. I'll just tell them to 'put some ice on it." In the meantime, I cannot be proud of a company that treats its workers this way and I wouldn't encourage anyone to get a job there --- well, except for you unemployed guys. Yes, Walmart is hiring and if you can't get a job there, you must really be losers! You gotta study harder for those drug tests.

413 posted on 11/14/2011 7:19:01 AM PST by eccentric (a.k.a. baldwidow)
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To: eccentric
After all your encouragemnet, I was just about to quit --- and then I remembered "I'm not talking about my job. I was referring to freinds of mine."

Why, of course.

You aren't worried about yourself.

You are worried about all those other people.

You lying, narcissistic union goon.

414 posted on 11/14/2011 7:27:05 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The enemy of my enemy is my candidate.<sup>®</sup>)
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To: eccentric
Whether or not it was your job is irrelevant, working a holiday is practiced by millions of people every holiday and everyone of them can quit if they don't like it. Only an idiot would get a job in retail and think they wouldn't be working on one of the biggest retail sales day of the year.You do know Wal-mart closes on Christmas day. unlike thousands of other retailers!! Oh! and by the way genius I'm sixty four years old and retired and worked numerous holidays including Christmas day and never complained about it!!
415 posted on 11/14/2011 7:28:08 AM PST by ontap
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To: eccentric

With that attitude, it is a wonder that you post here at all. I see troll codewords. Living wage? for unskilled labor? Stockboy is not a winning career choice unless you have your sights on being stockroom manager and beyond.


416 posted on 11/14/2011 7:30:29 AM PST by NonValueAdded (At 4 AM, it is a test; at 2 PM, it is a demonstration)
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To: eccentric

It’s a shame your friends’ careers in retail didn’t work out as hoped.


418 posted on 11/14/2011 7:38:18 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Ah, the old Hope-a-Dope.)
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To: eccentric

“living wage”: Language right out of the union handbook. WalMart is not hiring in most markets. They are doing what any company who is gonna survive the current Depression is doing: More with less. You ever run a business (a successful one)? Please provide proof that Walmart is making someone work a 16 hour shift. You can’t, because their scheduling computer will not allow them to schedule anyone for more than a standard pre-scheduled shift.
You sound like an idealistic little progressive union organizer attacking the evil corporation.


419 posted on 11/14/2011 7:39:16 AM PST by ExpatGator (I hate Illinois Nazis!)
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To: eccentric

hardly, companies will pay higher for workers with a record of dependable service, work and skills. Again, they are not slaves, so why aren’t they bettering themselves and moving on up?

Wake up to reality bub - you will find very few companies that ‘treat’ their workers after the fashion you apparently design. Walmart is in the retail sector of the economy and if the ‘workers’ can’t figure that as such it will require additional WORK during the holiday period, then it is no surprise they haven’t found better jobs.

Or perhaps you are just some union-wonk who is stirring up the pot, wanting them to get something for nothing just like the OWS bums.


421 posted on 11/14/2011 7:42:57 AM PST by Godzilla (3/7/77)
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To: eccentric

Why don’t you go join an Occupy protest. You sound just like those people.


422 posted on 11/14/2011 7:50:10 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: eccentric

A hostile, Obama, union-thug friendly, government makes for a very difficult corporate environment. The health of the company is important. Black Friday is important to the bottom line. Companies can afford to be more “family-friendly” in an environment that is free from Union Thugs.

I see no problem here. If the workers are compensated and it is good for the company, there is no down side.


423 posted on 11/14/2011 7:52:44 AM PST by Steamburg (The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
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To: eccentric
Be careful of the Honchos


424 posted on 11/14/2011 8:09:38 AM PST by deport
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To: eccentric

LOL!
That’s some pretty funny satire right there. Hats off..!


425 posted on 11/14/2011 8:11:17 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: eccentric
"You gotta study harder for those drug tests."


426 posted on 11/14/2011 8:14:41 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: eccentric

“be told to work 16 hours on a hoilday by corporate bosses”

I’m sure those “corporate bosses” never worked a 16 hour day. /s

I’m not a corporate anything but I sure as hell have worked more than a 16 hr. day since we work for ourselves. Try that and then get back to me.


428 posted on 11/14/2011 8:37:25 AM PST by kcvl
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To: eccentric
Waaahhhh! For crying out loud. I've been working 7 days a week for months. Most days are 10 to 12 hours. Not just a little spike in holiday retail activity. Month after month building a very complex information system for a customer on a hard deadline. I'm doing it 925 miles from home. Paying $1200 per month for the privilege of being employed and not seeing my family most of 2011. I've been home for two visits this calendar year. One for my 33rd wedding anniversary. One for my son's wedding. Lots of whining for a few extra peak hours is falling on deaf ears here.
429 posted on 11/14/2011 8:42:46 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: eccentric

You still don’t get it.
Many of us have been there, some of us still are.

We didn’t complain, we made do. I’ve worked Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, AND New Years. In fact, I worked some of them totally alone in the building processing warranties, at .50 over minimum wage. At least you have some friends to work with.

So instead of telling them to ‘put some ice on it.’, how about you tell them to give thanks for the job they have and the great people they get to work with. If they don’t want to repeat it next year, try something else. How about waitressing or busing tables? Can’t tell you how many of those I worked, lifting three foot trays and pouring coffee EVERY HOLIDAY! At least you’ll have time to grab a piece of Turkey. We started at 5am and went until the last customer walked out.

(Let’s not even talk about the number of UNEMPLOYED FReepers you have chosen to offend)

Personally, I don’t do Black Friday. When Meijer is open on Thanksgiving, I don’t go there because if all of us skipped it, they wouldn’t stay open.

Perhaps instead of b!tching about Wal-Mart, you b!tch about the customers who WILL be there to service. Because if they weren’t, you wouldn’t be open. Understand?


430 posted on 11/14/2011 8:46:27 AM PST by netmilsmom (Happiness is a choice)
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To: eccentric

As has been pointed out, you’re nothing more than a union troll, not worthy of FR.


431 posted on 11/14/2011 8:52:31 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (Overproduction, one of the top five worries of the American Farmer each and every year..)
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To: eccentric; All

“I guess these workers deserve to be told to work 16 hours on a hoilday by corporate bosses.”

Yep. If they don’t like it, they can quit. Bottom line.

Again, let me remind you: Our troops are working this Thanksgiving. So are first responders. So are ER docs and nurses. So are pharmacists.


435 posted on 11/14/2011 9:44:46 AM PST by Absolutely Nobama (Chairman Obama And Ron Paul Are Sure Signs The Republic Is In Serious Trouble. God Help Us All.)
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To: eccentric

LOL!


436 posted on 11/14/2011 9:48:58 AM PST by Future Snake Eater (Don't stop. Keep moving!)
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To: eccentric

“Yes, Walmart is hiring and if you can’t get a job there, you must really be losers!”

Is that any way to talk about YOUR FRIENDS who work there?


437 posted on 11/14/2011 9:57:29 AM PST by Sea Parrot
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To: eccentric
Here's an encore performance with all the nurses in the United States singing, "My heart bleeds for you" along with the world's tiniest violin.


438 posted on 11/14/2011 10:03:46 AM PST by NautiNurse (Zot! Cut! Slash! --That's the sound of the men workin' on the Cain gang)
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To: eccentric

Everybody has the job they earned. I used to work fast food, went back to school, now I’m in software, at a relaxed software company filled with mature people and we don’t work much OT. But it was a long hard road. A road that involved working a lot of hours in times when people would rather not. I never worked Thanksgiving but I have worked every day of November (yeah weekends, and Black Friday) other than Thanksgiving, and that year also hit every day of December except Christmas. And I was on salary then, no OT, no comp, there was work to be done and a deadline to be met and the vast majority of the company worked 59 out of 61 days in the holiday and nobody whined. And I actually liked that job, it was hard but it was fun, and I was young enough to live that life. It was a stepping stone to getting to where I am now, off the whole 4 day weekend and going to a restaurant.


439 posted on 11/14/2011 10:07:48 AM PST by discostu (How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today)
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