Posted on 05/04/2005 3:24:45 AM PDT by MississippiMasterpiece
Understood-- 25 years ago, my BIL rented a 4th floor, coldwater, walkup flat in NYC for ??? about $450 a month-- which here at the time was far more than the mortgage payments on a mansion in the finest neighborhoods. A lot depends on where you are.
Now how do you know this is true? Does not the NYTimes equal lying scum?
"Mr. Mrkwa said. "Unfortunately, in the market we live in there just aren't many jobs available"
Exactly. If you live in a market where there are not many jobs, what makes you think that a _retailing_ position -- retailing, of all things -- is going to end up paying you well, regardless.
In a market where there are not many jobs at all.
yes they are, public skoolin made'em dat way
There's a Walmart in South Boston, VA that's been hit by OSHA 3 times in the last 7 days. I wonder if Walmart is being targetted?
GaryMontana:
It's your choice to avoid WalMart, but WalMart isn't the problem. All too often we educate our children to be lawyers (dime a dozen Geoffrey Feiger wannabes), journalists (to save the world), environmentalists (to reimpose stalinism on the world), African Studies professors (drones), etc. We don't get them ready for the real world, and real jobs. We listen to lying promises from the public education aristocracy about the future they can facilitate for our children. We want everyday products at the cheapest prices, often because that's what we can afford. We can drive wages and living standards up when we quit screwing around with our children's futures and get serious.
Well thankfully, I don't make enough where the wrong women pay attention to me. I leave that misery to the Wall Street guys. Happiness is watching one of those Masters Of The Universe types get taken by a gold digger.
My 18 yr-old son's worked at Meijer for 3 1/2 years and makes under 8.00 per hour. No matter how small the weekly check, the union makes sure it gets it's cut first.
I have yet to find some small "Mom and Pop" retail store that pays its workers $12 an hour with benefits. Wal-Mart will by and large BEAT any small retailer on wages.
My wife's grandfather used to say "when they pass the plate put in a dollar and take out five", then he would laugh.
Boy, do I miss him.
Therein lies the problem. People who stock shelves are at the bottom of the pay scale, whether it's Wal-Mart or some Mom'n'Pop store. My grandparents ran an IGA grocery store for years, and the shelf stockers, and bag stuffers were high school boys.
Haven't heard that phrase -- Masters of the Universe -- in awhile. Ah, memories of those carefree 1980s!
Today it's the hedge fund boys and they're smarter than the 80s versions. Happiness will be watching them get taken down by the economy...
GM paid such good wages and benefits that it is going broke. Surely Walmart will not be that stupid.
No, apparently not. Based on the article, it is clear that Wal Mart starts each day by rounding up people with guns to their head and herding them into the stores to work at slave wages.
Ahem, did they really put this part in the article??
"Wal-Mart critics often note that corporations like Ford and G.M. led a race to the top, providing high wages and generous benefits that other companies emulated. They ask why Wal-Mart, with some $10 billion in profit on about $288 billion in revenue last year, cannot act similarly."
I was reading 75% of Walmart's management are people who started as associates. Pretty good opportunity for someone who doesn't have an education.
If he wants more money and a new truck, etc., he could work somewhere else. People are driving trucks for Kellogg, Brown, and Root (evil Halliburton subsidiary) in Iraq for 120K per year. It's not the safest job out there, but this guy is whining about not having a good salary.
Harsh?
What world do you live in if the truth is harsh?
That way, the workers can collect compassionate (inflated) wages directly from the government, bypassing capitalistic greedy corporation middlemen pigs.
Yep, that's the ticket.
Leni
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