"I agree with you ...it is a good stop-gap for upwardly mobile young workers, in-between jobs workers, people just learning to work (high school, ex-welfare recipients) and people who just want to make some money for the family bills, but don't want full-time comittments."
This is true to some extent, however, I live at Wal-Mart ground zero, in Rogers, AR. You can't tell when you leave Rogers and enter Bentonville, where WM corporate headquarters are located. My wife and 16-yo son both work at the local Supercenter.
Virtually EVERYBODY here knows some success story of someone rising out of the bottom ranks and going on to evtreme success with WM. I'm not talking about two or three examples, but literally HUNDREDS!
A Supercenter is not all WM has. There are GREAT jobs available at the General Office, or the warehouses, with great pay. Look, my 41-yo daughter has a $250,000 home and another 250k in her 401k. The warehouse is the only job she's ever had. This with a HS education-NO college!
The store manager at the aforementioned Jane, MO store is a WOMAN who started as a cashier!
I could go on and on, but let me conclude with this: Wal-Mart bashers, I'll debate you anytime! You don't know what you're talking about!
Respectfully (to some degree) yours,
Frank
I'm proud to say that my wife is one of them.
NEVER did I intend to dismiss all WM workers as underpaid and lucky to have low-end jobs - I was responding to a poster who suggested that all WM employees are un-insured stooges who are dead-ended; and also to a poster who said that the part-time work he picked up during a lay-off saved his life.
I was mentally excluding the full-timers and execs and managers, etc., as I typed that- Of course, there are many employees that are well-rewarded financially and have great benefits and excellent prospects...
I was more referencing the part-timers and entry-level positions in that post.
"it is a good stop-gap for upwardly mobile young workers, in-between jobs workers, people just learning to work (high school, ex-welfare recipients) and people who just want to make some money for the family bills, but don't want full-time comittments."
Sure enough, in MY large company, we have plenty who would like to complain about the have and have-nots....
Well said.