Step #1 — Minimum wage: $50/hr!!
Step #2 — Single Payer Healthcare” make it totally free!!
Step #3 ...
Why? Because she's entitled to have her family cared for by Walmart?
I realize that the Obama-created economy is so bad that any job is better than nothing. However, Walmart jobs are NOT a career, and do not pay career-level wages. They are not a job you should expect to be able to live off of.
Absolutely no recognition that Obama created this dismal economy.
“I want the president to help us and tell Wal-Mart to pay us enough to cover the bills and take care of our families.” ... The fading plea of a dying Republic, being aborted by little barry bastard boy’s regime working for someone, but not we the people. The republicants and democrips are the codependency enablers of the abortion process. I’m sorry, but this woman’s plea sounds too much like a setup for the bastard from the oval orifice.
“...I am bringing home about $400 every two weeks (I’d like to get more hours, but I’m lucky if I work 32 hours a week).”
I used to work two fulltime jobs while attending graduate school. What’s your excuse, honey?
“All I can afford to eat for lunch is a cup of coffee and a bag of potato chips.”
I used to eat rice with uncooked onion and Korean Korean teriyaki sauce for flavoring. You can get a 50 pound bag of rice and that will feed you for weeks. In other words, SHUT UP!
I wasn’t aware that WalMart had press gangs that roamed the land - kidnapping folks and forcing them to work in the store.
Wal*Mart can only be underpaying you if the going rate for your skills is more than what they’re paying you. If that’s the case, whether because Wal*Mart is “greedy” or because you’re underemployed in your present position, get a job that uses your superior skills and pays the market rate for them. If you’re only capable of doing the same work all the other Wal*Mart people are doing for that wage, then that’s all you’re worth. Sorry to break it to you like this. If Wal*Mart wants a certain batch of tasks done, and there are tons of people capable of doing it, and they’re willing to work for $6/hr, that’s what that job is worth. You can’t expect them to pay you $20 to do the same job they can get 500 other people to do for $6.
My Brother in law has worked for Walmart for a long time, loves his job and makes quiet a bit more than 25,000.
So I gotta call BullChitt on Ms Ramos’ tale of woe.
It somehow has that special "community organized" tone, n'est ce pas?
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“I sleep on the floor of my son’s living room because I can’t afford my own place.”
Your son won’t let you sleep on a couch or fold-out bed? You’re old enough to have an adult son, but haven’t managed to get a decent job in decades?
“All of my belongings are in my car.”
You can’t move those items into your son’s home? I could never imagine allowing my mother to live like that. I would work three jobs if necessary to take care of a family member. What is with these people?
“I don’t know where to send my mail.”
How about your son’s place? How about the Wal-Mart store (it might work). I have my mail sent to where I work all the time.
I wonder how you say “Gibs me dat” in Spanish?
This was probably written in the White House. Pitiful.
Another Gimme Type wanting something for nothing
I doubt Ramos would work any harder or longer for the $25k
In fact, I’d bet she would start slacking off (if not doing so already)
Get a higher paying job, Ramos, if you aren’t happy
1. You are worth exactly what you are getting paid at any given moment. If you think you should be getting more you should go where your work has more value. Or do better at the job you have.
2. Obama and people like him are directly responsible for much of your lack of opportunity to move to a better job.
3. Opportunity is just that; a chance to do better and work harder, not a guaranty of more money. Stop reasoning like a child.
The Walmart store under discussion is right in the middle of SillyCon Valley. This is one of the very few places in USA today where there are still some jobs for people.
Many of the local jobs there pay high wages. What a worker needs is a saleable skill. Working at Walmart is fine but obviously does not pay engineering or computer programming wages.
So, what to do? Well, for starters, your Walmart employment location is just a couple miles from Foothill College. Foothill College is one of the very best community colleges in the entire United States (as you might expect, given its primary service area is Palo Alto and Stanford University). Foothill has dozens of good study courses that will lead you to much higher earnings than Walmart can or will ever pay you.
Its really that simple. Incidentally, Foothill (and its sister college a couple miles away, De Anza, and all the California Community Colleges ... and you have several more in your area!) charge the lowest fees in America. And, you probably qualify for a Board of Governors Fee Waiver (a simple one page application form).... whereby you can study for free, or nearly so (they might still charge you the parking and health fees, but really...even without a fee waiver, they’re GIVING IT AWAY!)
Check it out.
Here’s Foothill’s info:
http://foothill.edu/images/build/img1.jpg
Here’s DeAnza’s info:
I very much respect you are working, and Walmart is NOT the worst employer in the world. DO a good job there, be proud of yourself, but find a study course on the side and start building your VALUE in the employment MARKETPLACE.
(Complaining about “income inequality” is BS. The people who earn more are the people who have more skills than you presently appear to have, albeit I DO respect your work at Walmart, we all know that stocking merchandise or running a cash register is just not a road to riches, is all. It is wonderful you are doing the job. Now, make yourself qualified to do a higher-paid job. You have the tools to do it, just hop over to El Monte Road or Stevens Creek Road and sign up for some good courses .... in fields you think you might enjoy, and fields which PAY A LOT MORE!)
You have the resources right there .... and you won’t find a more beautiful college anywhere than Foothill, inidentally.
Go for it, buddy!
Go for it!
So, her *fundemental* problem is that she has a part time job that caps her at about 25-30* hours per week...and she doesn’t work anywhere else, so Walmart is to pay her - and others in completely different conditions - more because they don’t need her to work more?
*$400/ $8.00 minimum per hour/2 weeks = 25 hours/ week, plus hours to pay for taxes and deductions.
I sleep on the floor of my son’s living room because I can’t afford my own place
Darned son would not even let her sleep on the couch next we will learn she haste sleep on a old rug with a torn blanket for warmth
I know nurses that work full time at the hospital and then pick up a few hrs across town...I know men that work 2 jobs....my father did...my husband too...
there must be something good about working for Walmart....like maybe you get a nice discount?...pretty clean environment....stable industry....
Since when is any business a welfare organization?
