Gee what have you done in the last four years to look for a better paying job or getting the skills to move on? Also how much does the government take from your paycheck in taxes? You might be working hard but the government is taking probably 25 cents of every dollar you earn in taxes, Social security, Medicare etc. If you are just getting by now what will happen when that fast food hamburger you can enjoy today nearly doubles in price because the government mandated that fast food workers should get $15 per hour? How about being unemployed when a government mandated minimum wage makes it cheaper for Wal Mart to fire checkers and go to all self pay stations?
A woman victim of capitalist income inequality...what could be be more tailor-made for sitting at the right hand of Moochelle Antoinette!
Leni
Pam Ramos: If you don’t like Wal Mart, quit. People will gladly work for them. Pam Ramos cry me a river...
Your vote must be pretty cheap what with you being so hard up and all. How about a one way ticket to the workers paradise of North Korea!
Bullfeathers!
The new standard for part-timers is now less then 30 hours a week thanks to ObammyCare. There is no way a savvy employer like WalMart is going to risk paying her more.
She is another victim of this fascist law, not of WalMart but she is too stupid to realize it.
Assuming 800,000 working at Wal-Mart making $25,000 is $400 billion in wages for $16 billion in profits or profits of 5% on labor. What do you want lady, a wage of $26,250 and no profits?
This guy has been at Wal-Mart for four years and has not even made it to Department Manager.
I work at Wal-Mart and while it is not perfect there are plenty of opportunities to move up.
So if this guy is still at 32 hours a week and making $400 every two weeks he must still be at the entry job he took when he started.
Walmart has done more to raise the standard of living of the “poor” than all the feral government programs combined. We can’t have that, so let’s make them pay their employees the same rate as government employees.
And then she wonders why there are no jobs.
What they are is inspiration to not have to do them forever.
My B/S meter maxed out on this pantload of a ghost-written article.
Six years ago, after retirement, I had a beer-money job at the local Wal-Mart as a night stocker. Basic rate was $10 and hour plus another dollar for the graveyard shift. Got 20c an hour raise every year for top rated reviews. After taxes I brought home $700 for two weeks - paid off a “new” used car in record time.
That store seemed to be a Gulag for managers/others who screwed up and were sent there as punishment. That attitude drifted down and more than once I tangled with some idiotic store management policies. I talked with others who came from different stores and they said this one was “unusual”.
Some of those policies made the bean-counters happy but were badly implemented. For instance we were threatened with cut hours the second time we had even one freaking minute of overtime. I told the bozo that would result in people queuing up a couple of minutes early at the time clock. That brought the threat of anyone seen doing that (cameras) would be fired.
I quit after three years when my good supervisors were replaced by people with NO people-handling skills. One trick they pulled was during a holiday week, they paid you for the holiday, but then worked you only four days. The first time that did that after the holiday, but not the week, was over. “Quick! Take tomorrow off!”
If you did rack up legitimate OT, you were told to go home when the 40 hour total was reached. They pulled that one after the fact. Guess who wouldn’t do OT any more?
That being said, I was never overworked or treated badly - just felt chiseled by their policies (”good management”) and was exposed to some mid-level people who were incredibly stupid. Was repeatedly offered Dept Supervisor, but told them this was not a career job for me and got the deer-in-headlights reaction.
A few months after I quit, I got a 401K disbursement of $500 - I didn’t even know they had a 401K, so it was a pleasant surprise.
W-M gets bashed a lot - some deserved, but mostly not. They are “bad” because they are not unionized.
shes already packed and ready to go. Walmart is paying high teens to start in North Dakota near the oil fields.
Let's make it $25 million a year, then they'd never have to worry about money again.
My only question is who did this person vote for in the last two elections?
Okay, a few facts... Walmart employes about 1.3 MILLION, not 825,000... and that 16 Billion in “profit” is on $466 BILLION in sales.
That means that that for every $1 of revenue that walmart takes in on sales, it keeps as profit a whopping 3 cents!
That’s right my friend, 97 cents out of every dollar taken in at walmart goes right out the door, to pay things like, your wages, insurance, taxes, benefits, stock for the shelves, advertising, etc etc etc.
That’s right buddy, Walmart is making a whopping 3 cents on the dollar. That’s after paying you and another 1.3 million their wages, taxes and benefits.
You want to make more, make yourself worth more!