Posted on 05/26/2005 6:27:37 PM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at wakeupwalmart.com ...
One thing America has realized it does not need and that is a large unskilled, unionized labor pool. It will not come back into demand in my lifetime(unless you count the unionized government workers who are a BIG drain on our economy).
You are right on both counts. I did not realize that government workers were unionized! How did that happen?
Sorry so long in responding....I've been working at my slave labor job of planting fruits and vegetables for the evil pickle, preserve and sauce manufacturer I must supply.......and am using seeds and other products purchased at Walmart.
Amazingly everything purchased at Walmart was made in the USA, thus so will the finished products of the fruits of my labor........because not only do I supply the slave labor for hte planting and harvesting - I'm the manufacturer of the products made! Thank you Walmart for assisting me in being able to start a small business thus be able to continue to be a stay-at-home-mom!!!
I totally agree with you about "Oprah" types (I like that title, BTW........ They are generall y lots of fun - for amusement purposes only :)
My grandma always told me "poor is nothing but a state of mind."
Absolutely! My EX-husband is a union truck driver. He used to work for a company that was driven out of business by the union! They wouldn't give any concessions in wages to keep their jobs so what happened??? The company folded. He couldn't understand that just maybe it would be worth giving up a few $$ per hour and still have a job.
While I occassionally will pick up some groceries I Walmart, I do so only if I am there for other things. Walmart is 15 miles away and I have a perfectly good grocery store, that I like very much, only 5 miles away!!!
The Walmart circular came today - they have a particular style of sandal I have been looking for and a particular chair on sale this week - and I want both!!! I also need more seeds and tomato plants!!!! For my specialty herbs and veggies I go to the local nurseries - but I like the seed brand the local WM carries for basics.
That's exactly the attitude I have about this.
Your local Walmart sounds just like the one I shop in - I've run into my state Delegate, who also happens to be my attorney, many of my daughter's teachers, and even some of the wealthier residents of the area. In many ways it's no different than a local 5 & 10 or the hardware store - you're always ging to run into someone you know - or at least meet someone new :)
It also seems that everytime I turn around another new store or restaurant or office is opening up in the vicinity.
I'm glad Mrs.Nooseman has been participating in this thread and setting some of these people straight - whether they believe her or not, at least we know that the impressions we have gotten of the local Walmarts we patronize are not out of the ordinary.
You'll never get an arguement from me about that.
City folks, bless their hearts, just need a little kindness I guess.
BTW - I was born and raised in NYC :)
No, no, no - you can't ask them to get away from their feeeeeeeeelings aagainst Walmart. It doesn't matter what the others pay, only that they believe Walmart doesn't pay anything but the barest minimums (/sarcasm)
Starting hourly wage at the local Walmart is nearly $3.00 and hour more than the identical job in any other local retailer.
That and over-regulation, much of which has been brought on by the enviro-whacko tree huggers and the NIMBY contingent. Then of course you can add in what the trial lawyers have done - and I won't even get into OSHA........
But no - it's all Walmart's fault if you listen to the chicken littles on these threads.
Love your article from The Economist. Bookmarked and saved.
I don't believe in coincidences................
Market is a concept, a convention behind which the real people hide. See my tagline.
Yep,
That is the experience we have here, too!
There are more businesses shooting up all around here and they all seem to like the closeness of WALMART!
Fine, I thought you would. Remember that movie "Reds". Remember "Schindler's List" and the black and white frames with the only color being the little girl in the red coat? A combo like that with b&w photos mixed with colored and two-tones, sepia would be an effective way to present your photos.
Now for narrative, voices such as you can pick up here would tell the story; if you don't quote them but paraphrase them, it's not a copyright violation. Or real people out there like the old people in "Reds" telling their experiences, then the photos. That's just a general outline.
I've got a few more ideas but I just got into a mini dogfight up at the gas station. The bullet proof Plexiglas was down for the night, the clerk was agitated, the guy who I paid $25 to haul my tree stumps the other day was yakking at me and all of a sudden here's the cops, a guy waiting in a car outside for the guy talking to me, the cops special duty guy checking for a counterfeit $10. I offered that they needed a portable scanner, all this in front of the store camera. Smile. Suddenly the guy outside is po'ed because the guy in the store is taking too long, so the inside guy loses it and runs outside going off on the guy in the car. I go out and he's on the pay phone while the guy is backing up the car and I figure he's going to mow down the guy on the phone and pin him to the wall. Then he comes back in the station and I tell him to cool it, that guy out there is acting crazy, I'll give you a ride home, but in front of the cops I tell him if he goes off on me like that, I'm driving him down to the police station. Asked the cops if they were going to cuff anybody and I didn't want to be dragged in as any witness. No, he's free to go so we exit station and I take him home. He's drunk, but not too drunk to have a little chat about unions and that he's thinking of taking a civilian job in Iraq 'cuz they pay $85 thou. I suggested he think long and hard about that because if he gets in trouble, he's on his own and there aren't going to be any rangers coming in to rescue him. Whew. And I thought I'd had enough for one day.
I have to start another book, too, and I wish I had someone like Ann Coulter with her acerbic wit or that Robert Bork guy to help ghostwrite it for me. Nobody will read it, but there will be some good stuff in there. They won't give me the time of day; I'm on my own. I'm going to record the anecdotal material and organize and transcribe it later.
Here's a sample. I once went to a Christmas party out in California during 'Nam and had too much to drink. The big boss, in this case an Air Force Colonel stops by. I tell him he's no damn good and he's fired and get back to partying. He's laughing. Monday I'm a little late for work. I get a call from his secretary to come down, the colonel wants to talk to me. No sweat. I saunter down to his office and sit down in front of him and he proceeds to tell me it's ok, I'm not in trouble and he thought I was late because I was afraid to come to work. So that was that. He's kind of on my good guy list because I could have been fired. There's much, much more of interest to military types . . .that was just a teaser.
And Mr. Landry, out there in Taxachusetts, if you are still alive, you are on my good-guy list. I'll explain why in the book.
Whew again. Time to call it a night. Let me know if your book is feasible or just idle talk.
Could someone please steer me to the emplyer that isnt govt related,who has benefits better than wallmart,and is in the 6.00 to 12.00 hr wage scale? Oh and is'nt a union.
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