Too late to boycott - Thanksgiving was 2 days ago.
Aren’t most Walmart employees part-time? Do Walmart PT people actually get paid time off, etc? I didn’t know any PT employees got that...
Employee policy can be learned before one takes the job. Don’t like the policy, don’t take the job or negotiate it before starting.
My first job as a newly minted mechanical engineer was starting up power plants. Nobody told me the plants were most often shut down at Christmas and Independence Day for scheduled maintenance. For five years, I never got either holiday of...and no bonus or time-and-a-half because I was salaried. All the union guys on the same job were getting double time and loving it.
Went by my local Walmart yesterday. ONly a tiny but more busy than normal. These walmart employees should be happy they have a job and haven’t been replaced by a robot yet.
I take a friend of mine to work several days a week. She’s been employed by Walmart for a few years. Part-time (3 or 4 days a week, mostly 8 hr shifts).
She likes it. Flexible hours, a discount card (10 percent on most everything but food, good every day of the year). Quarterly bonus — which in a year equals about 2 weeks’ pay. (Yearly net, maybe $20k...not bad for a single person and better than owing it to a college every year.) She racks up time off on some basis, I’m not sure how it works, but with notice she can take a few days off with pay. There are insurance and health benefits. There is one day when the associate discount is higher and good for anything in the store.
Some people are happy to work for Walmart. It suits their needs and asks little more than punctuality, respect, and honesty.
So?
Boycott to begin December 25.
I worked at a major bakery when I was in my early 20’s and had to work Christmas and New Year’s. Don’t remember if I worked Thanksgiving. I don’t understand why the Walmart shoppers are upset. They are the ones that caused Walmart to open on Thursday. They should have stayed their asses at home and celebrated Thanksgiving.
Three card monte.
“Shoppers threaten boycott”....
That’ll help those they think they’re trying to back with some equitable downsizing if said boycott has a real effect....idiots are what idiots do.
This is true in any business that was a full service (24/7) business. Your scheduled work day was a holiday, you worked. At least that’s the way it was when I worked at hospitals.
Your “holiday” was another 8 hours in your “paid time off” bin.