Wal Mart's Exploitive Practices Attacked By Website

Wake Up Wal-Mart ^

[Clintonfatigued]

Because of Wal-Mart's inadequate wages and benefits, Wal-Mart employees are eligible for $2.5 billion in Federal assistance, which comes from your tax dollars.

[bfree]

You don't need to justify anything to that nutcase Aliska. Congrats on building your life.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

WALMART provides a scholarship program for associates and their family members and they reimburse associates for the purchase of books for collage courses!

The scholarship program is not only for the retail related field!

WALMART also matches grants and donates money to our local schools and other organizations!

I hope that answers your question!

[durasell]

I've only ever been in one Wal-Mart. I bought a salad spinner. Not the most enjoyable "shopping experience," but the price was right.

[Aliska]

I'm beginning to se why your son doesn't talk to you very much.

I'll ask him if that is true next time I talk to him. I thought it was he is too busy busting his butt to pay for his new house, home theater, buying a new car and everything else his wife wants and having fun.

Right now I have had a panorama picture I took on a freezing cold night and charged on my account because he asked me have it framed just so. I called him and told him that it was done. His reply was to call the next morning and remind the secretary to tell him. I was prepared to eat the $100 bucks, give him the picture for free (cost me $10) and the work I did finishing it to save money.

I figure if he can't care enough to remember that his mother did something nice for him, the hell with it. I still love him. He's my son, warts and all.

Yeah, I guess I have a rotten attitude and my son doesn't want to come and see me. I don't feel comfortable visiting him in his home. Part of me is proud of him and there is another part I can't talk about without tears. I am sitting in a room where there are bayonet holes in the closet wall where one night long ago he came home drunk and threatened to kill me and took it out on the wall instead. I didn't dare call the police because I was afraid they would shoot him.

You see, there are things some people can't imagine. Like I said, I've paid my dues. I've tried time after time to get him to find a good male therapist, but I just suck up the worry.

Do I think you will give a s***? No. Somebody might be able to relate to some of it. Bad things have happened to lots of people I know. That's why I don't watch the afternoon tv shows.

[Goodgirlinred]

You are so right on! My Wal-Mart is, I guess, a Super Center because it has a grocery store, hair salon, optician, and car service center. However, it has not lost that small town atmosphere. I see lots of people I know there and we stop to talk. I recently was helped in the toy department by an employee who just moved here in September from PA. She had family here and she loved our community. She used to work for Babies'R Us up in PA. She is very happy at Wal-Mart and was going to be a cashier starting the next week. She and I talked for quite a while during the time we tried to find the toy I was looking for.

I love that Wal-Mart. So do most of the folks that I know. People from every walk of life shop there.

And, no, they have not run any small businesses out of business as far as I know. We have plenty of small shops in town and 3 groceries stores and 4 pharmacies. Oh, yes, our Wal-Mart also has a pharmacy. Subway just moved into Wal-Mart, but we have another on the other side of town and a pizza place is in the same little plaza with Wal-Mart as well as 4 other fast food places. There is plenty of business for everyone.

As for people working on the Sabbath and 24 hours a day, other people have to work those shifts, too. Hospital workers, restaurants, retail stores, etc. That is what consumers demand now days.

I am glad you are standing up for your employer. So few people seem to want to do that these days.

The way I look at it, if you don't like where you work, find a job somewhere else. If you don't like a certain shopping place, find somewhere else to shop.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Thanks!

I am aware of that,but she is really getting on my nerves with her negativity!

She must be one unhappy person!

[Mrs.Nooseman]

I am sorry that you didn't have a good experience,but you can shop where ever you want and i won't hold it against you!LOL.

That is the beauty of making your own choice and of having other retailers to buy from!

I don't always purchase things at WALMART,because the prices aren't always the lowest and I do shop for the lowest price I can get!

[Goodgirlinred]

Southern country folks are good folks. City folks, bless their hearts, just need a little kindness I guess.

[flada]

Wow, Wal-Mart gives an employee discount? Aliska was trying to tell us how they are evil oppressors--so this employee discount thing just can't be.

<sticking fingers in my ears>"LA, LA, LA, LA"

[durasell]

I just don't like to shop. For the record, it was/is a fine salad spinner. No complaints.

[Nowhere Man]

Like Ed Dames? I won't hold that against you :-). Most of it is things that make you go crazy in the night to me.

Ed Dames, so far, his prophecies have proven to be wrong. Everytime he comes on, I roll my eyes. MK Ultra, I don't deny that it exists but it seems there has been a lot of side stories spun about it to where it does sound rediculous. It's like a lot of "New World Order" stories where the stories are concocted in a Rube Goldberg fashion to where everything is entertwined and appears to work and fall into place until you change one small part of the equation and it falls apart. I do believe there is a New World Order that does exist, heck, most of the free traders buy into the ideals behind it but I see them more as a consensus of the movers and shakers in world finance, government and think tanks. So collusion of the world's ultra rich and powerful, yes, I believe that, but where it does go overboard are the stories of black helicopters, The Free Masons (my grandfather was one and I'm certainly not in the loop) and so on. Put it another way, it is like a gaggle of people who want to go back to the divine rights of kings without the titles of nobility and just ride the backs of us "untermenschen." Boil it down even further, it is just a power and/or preservation by these elites and nothing more and free trade and things like NAFTA and CAFTA play into that. As to UFO's and weird technology, I generally believe there are something there, there are powers in this universe that we are just beginning to understand so there your mileage may vary. I know there can be exaggerations there too but I'll file them in the "things that make you go 'hmmmm' file."

Getting back to Earth again, all I can say is that it is easier to look down on others not as fortunate as they and just say, "live with it" or "go watch Oprah." I can't stand Oprah and Jerry Springer is worse.

Maybe I ought to do a photo essay and perhaps talk to people on how the decline of industry has affected them here in Pittsburgh, maybe I could be the next Jack London, David Graham Phillips or Upton Sinclair, (noted muckrakers) it's worth a shot. B-)

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read post 744!!

[Goodgirlinred]

You got it! That site was just a union thing. They will do anything to try to get into a business. They put our biggest employer out of business in our community with all of their demands.

[Nowhere Man]

The gubmint cooks their figures just like everybody else who can get away with it.

It's like my 90 year old grandmother says, "they put out what they want you to hear and spin the figures the way they want to."

[Goodgirlinred]

What are the Mexicans producing that they can trade with us? What money is going into Mexico besides the money that legal and illegal immigrants are sending home?

[durasell]

The Mexican economy got hit hard by China. They lost a on of jobs.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Thanks!

I agree with you on everything you said!

We all have our own choices to make on where we want to work and where we want to shop!

I would not be working for WALMART if I wasn't treated right and I certainly wouldn't shop there if I had a bad experience with the store!

I had bad experiences in both of our two Super centers and I have never gone back!

If I can't find what I need at the store I am working at,I'll buy it somewhere else.

The way I look at it is ,that WALMART employees contribute to the local economy by buying things in other stores that WALMART doesn't carry !And what is wrong with that?

[Mrs.Nooseman]

ROFLMAO!!!

[arizonaconservative]

you said "Feel free not to work there or shop there. Otherwise, it's none of your business how they operate their business, as long as it's legal."

I would normally agree with you. But they are using our tax money to supplement their low wages in order to keep their employees healthy and housed. When somebody is using my money (taxes) in order to get out of their obligations then I have a problem. I am very interested in how my tax money is spent. End the entitlement programs for both individuals AND businesses.

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Well as long as it works!

No problem at all!

I think stores will be obsolete in the future anyway,since you can purchase just about anything over the Internet now a days!

Just a thought!