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"Wal-Mart is the worst of the worst. There is no employer in America that is worst (at least no major employer)."

Educate yourself at this site. There are many employers that are worse than Wal-Mart, when you consider the big picture of how various employers treat their employees, the lawsuits filed against them, whose fingers are in what pies, how they treat the environment, still support child labor overseas, etc.

After reading here, you'll probably change most of your shopping/investing habits and Wal-Mart will be the least of your worries. ;)

http://www.responsibleshopper.org

Obviously you agree Wal-Mart belongs with these other horrible employers.

They are running adds here trying to make them seem better. They are funny to watch as they are such lies. The employees I see at the two local Wal-Marts are never and I mean never happy. I feel bad for them having to work there.

But instead of improving things they run these stupid ads. Sams on the other hand is quite a bit better. Most employees there are happy. Except the Cashiers who receive no respect and are treated the same as Wal-Mart employees. This proved they can do better they just don't want to.

The WebSite makes out Wal-Mart out as the worst of the worst as well.

" Child Labor In January 2004 the Associated Press reported that a Wal-Mart internal audit had warned top executives three years prior that employee records at 128 stores showed extensive violations of child-labor laws and state regulations. A spokesperson for the company told the paper the audit was meaningless, since what looked like violations could simply reflect employees' failure to punch in and out for breaks and meals they took. The audit shows one week's time-clock records for about 25,000 employees. The audit found 1,371 instances in which minors worked too late at night, worked during school hours or worked too many hours in a day, 60,767 apparent instances of workers not taking breaks, and 15,705 apparent instances of employees working through meal times. Source: Associated Press, Jan. 13, 2004"

"# As of June 2002, Wal-Mart employees and former employees in 28 states had filed a series of class-action and individual lawsuits against the company for forcing or pressuring them to work unpaid overtime. The employees say that they are forced or pressuring into working off-the clock despite the fact that the company's own policy prohibits such actions. In the suits the workers claim that overtime practices helped Wal-Mart undersell its competition and push up profits. The company paid $50 million to settle a class-action suit filed by 69,000 current and former Wal-Mart employees in Colorado in 2000 that alleged Wal-Mart pressured them to work off the clock. However, the company denies that the problem is more than a few isolated incidences. According to a Wal-Mart spokesperson, "Off-the-clock work is an infrequent and isolated problem, which we correct whenever we become aware of it."

So much more about this evil store.