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....
I realized what you were saying before I posted, and I fully agree. A lot of people, however, think WM is only about the stores.
A friend at GO worked his way up from the bottom. Just accepted a new job at about $100k.
My 16-yo son (who used to be the world's biggest WM basher) is already seeing many highly paying opportunities with WM (WM will pay education expenses), and my wife is accepting a well-paid graphics position in Bentonville at the GO.