The majority of people working at Walmart are on public assistance of some sort.
So quite frankly, I am paying for them even if I don’t show there.
Thanks for posting this!
Just as with the Seattle wage hikes (not Gravity), a bunch of the newly-enriched employees are also going to ask for hourly cuts, so they don’t endanger their bennies.
Additionally, I find it hard to believe senior mgt didn’t expect this. More likely, they want to temper the disquiet just enough to keep the more effective “senior” employees, while allowing the deadwood and serial whiners to bail, thus opening up a bunch of slots that they can then fill with proportionally-lower-paid replacements, thus lowering the overall cost burden of salaries while “promoting” employees and “increasing” their income.
Bump
Sorry Peter, we have to let you go so we can give Paul some more money
Good news, Comrades!
The new minimum wage is now $9/hour!
The bad news is the maximum wage is $9/hour.
No one who couldn’t see this coming should be running a billion dollar company. They shouldn’t be running a mom and pop grocery store.
If employees could do better elsewhere that is where they would be working.
That holds true for every employer and employee.
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
We got some people here parroting that union sh!#. I have friends who have been with Wal-Mart for years and they would not work anywhere else. Wal-Mart is in the median of starting wages. Fact is if you are not satisfied with you circumstance go somewhere else. If you dropped out of school and have no marketable skills that’s on you not on Wal-mart. You get paid for what you know how to do that every other guy walking down the road doesn’t. Every time I query a Wal-mart worker most of the time they tell me they like to work there!!!