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Walmart ruining holidays for workers
vanity | November 13, 2011 | Linda Martine

Posted on 11/13/2011 11:06:23 AM PST by eccentric

Around the country, night workers at Walmart stores are being told to come in five hours early ON Thanksgiving. After having work until 7am that morning, they must get whatever sleep they can and then reutrn to work at 5pm for a 12 hour shift. How much time does this leave for them to spend the holiday with their family?

Walmart wants to call their employees associates. No, they are just workers.


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: blackfriday; collapse; prepare; retailers; shtf; teotwawki; walmart
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To: mardi59

Please explain what “My Share” is, and what you mean by them withholding “price match loss”. I’m sorry, I don’t know what you mean by these terms.


121 posted on 11/13/2011 12:05:11 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Longbow1969

Oh, calm down. I never said anything in favor of government deciding the issue. If you read my other post, I said people should have more respect for family life and close their own stores on Thanksgiving...for the employee’s sake, not the customer.


122 posted on 11/13/2011 12:06:08 PM PST by Cedar
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To: eccentric

Buddy, I worked for Walmart for 12 years. Don’t know what to tell you but that’s how they roll. It sucks but that’s the way it is.


123 posted on 11/13/2011 12:07:08 PM PST by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
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To: eccentric

If they are looking for sympathy it’s easy to find, it’s between sh!t and syphilis in the dictionary.

In todays horrible job market, they should consider themselves lucky/fortunate to even have a job.

I know that all sounds cold hearted, but it is todays reality and as long as Obama and his democrats remain in power, it is not only the reality of today—it is also the reality of the future.


124 posted on 11/13/2011 12:07:15 PM PST by Gator113 (~Just livin' life, my way~... Newt/Cain 2012..."Save a pretzel for the gas jets.")
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To: eccentric

Just another opportunity for the OWS scum to bash CAPITALISM’S POSTER CHILD, WALMART. Why do people always want to slam something or someone who is the BIGGEST AND THE BEST at what they do? Why not use the same criteria when speaking of the Chicago Bulls of the 1990s. They MONOPOLIZED the NBA finals. They were the BIGGEST AND THE BEST at what they did and I don’t hear or see anyone slamming them!!


125 posted on 11/13/2011 12:08:35 PM PST by az.b1bbomberfxr
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To: Truth29

You don’t get it—OPEN YOUR EYES! Thanksgiving is a non-holiday. Its all about CHRISTMAS (or the Holiday season—or the Gift Giving Season) They were putting up the Christmas decorations before Halloween was over. In the future Thanksgiving may not be celebrated at all—even today people call it “Turkey Day” -— The need for Greed has transformed Christmas into a gigantic Potlatch —an orgy of spending. New Years is a relief of drinking to lessen the spending at Christmas. Thanksgiving has been hyjacked by Santa.


126 posted on 11/13/2011 12:09:20 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: eccentric
People collecting unemployment don’t want to downgrade their lifestyle to a Walmart salary.

Proof positive that unemployment is way more than what it was intended to be.

I've been unemployed twice and still have yet to file for it. (preparedness is protection)

127 posted on 11/13/2011 12:09:27 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: eccentric

Oh hell, I have long lost count of the double shifts I have pulled. I even recall a major breakdown on offshore oil platform where we mechanics worked 36 hours with two three hour sleep breaks.

When you gotta do, you do what ya gotta do.


128 posted on 11/13/2011 12:09:42 PM PST by Sea Parrot
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To: Balding_Eagle

I do my job and I do it well.

27 registers and only 8 covered by cashiers with long lines full of angry impatient customers. I greet all with a smile and get angry retorts and cursed at because they’ve had to wait because so few registers are open. Floor associates get the same because there are so few associates to cover the floor of a Superstore. Walmart knows one cashier will do the job of four because they know noone else is hiring so whatever abuse they need to heap upon people will be accepted because we have nowhere else to go.

I have had people walk-up to me and say they feel sorry for us because they see what we are going thru. I tell them its my job and the only one I have at the moment.

I have anywhere from 180 to 460 customers a day on my egister. I take abuse from customers and continue to do my job. I have never complained when my shift is changed and I am never late to my job. Its a shame that when the truth is told all some can do is attack and call names. I just bet you would be one of the snotty ones I would smile at and tell to have a good day.

SO, HAVE A GOOD DAY!!


129 posted on 11/13/2011 12:09:52 PM PST by mardi59 (Time to turn off the tv so I don't break it..)
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To: dragnet2; paulist

Quit your bitching, quit your job and find something more suitable.

You’re whining like a Wall Street Occupier, as though your employer owes you a solution to all your problems.

Those are YOUR problems, not your employers responsibility


130 posted on 11/13/2011 12:10:19 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (Overproduction, one of the top five worries of the American Farmer each and every year..)
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To: Lady Lucky

That was for Christmas, which Walmart hasn’t taken away -— yet. Scrooge never pretended to me Cratchet’s associate, either. P.S. Scrooge paid Cratchet for Christmas even before he changed.


131 posted on 11/13/2011 12:10:58 PM PST by eccentric (a.k.a. baldwidow)
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To: eccentric

If only Wal-Mart unionized, then everything would be fair.

/eyeroll


132 posted on 11/13/2011 12:12:00 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar; Grizzled Bear; AEMILIUS PAULUS; All
--on personal note, starting five years ago, I worked three six-month summer job stretches at a gold mine in South Dakota ,--12 hour shifts 6am-6pm and 6pm-6am, 14 days work out of 28--hadn't had so much fun since I was a kid--where else could a 68 year boy drive a 100 ton Cat truck in a three mile long sandbox , at speeds of up to thirty mph--

--worst part of it was having to listen to the occasional complaining of guys half my age about it---

133 posted on 11/13/2011 12:12:13 PM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: eccentric
Find another job. It's Walmart. It's Black Friday. Every business has some kind of peak demands. This is Walmart's day for peak demand. The phone company falls on its sword for Mother's Day. Big hotels and restaurants get nailed for New Year's Eve.
134 posted on 11/13/2011 12:12:21 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: mardi59

Walmart pays extra on holidays - even if there is no over time. Might only be a dollar per hour but it’s something.


135 posted on 11/13/2011 12:13:15 PM PST by gopheraj
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To: mardi59

You’re obviously carrying a grudge towards Walmart, or you wouldn’t be sending people to a site about something that happened more than a decade ago.

You need to beging searching for something else.


136 posted on 11/13/2011 12:13:33 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (Overproduction, one of the top five worries of the American Farmer each and every year..)
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To: eccentric
Hey just be glad you've got a job.

I know it sucks having to work like that, but I assume you knew when you signed up?

137 posted on 11/13/2011 12:14:14 PM PST by NakedRampage (Puttin' the "stud" in Bible study)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

My share is a small part ownership in walmart stock. Every three months we are supposed to recieve a share of that stock from sales. They have found a way to reduce our share by taking the loss from price matching other store from our sahre. So basically the employees are paying the difference between what one store sells a gallon of milk for and what walmart charges and matches. If Wiseway is selling a gallon for 2.99 and walmarts is 3.99. we lose one dollar.


138 posted on 11/13/2011 12:14:39 PM PST by mardi59 (Time to turn off the tv so I don't break it..)
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Now that I’ve had several decades to reconsider. Maybe the blue laws forcing businesses to close on all Sundays and holidays weren’t so bad after all. Go home... raise your children and make some memories... play with them... go fishing, hiking, bike riding.


139 posted on 11/13/2011 12:15:05 PM PST by USCG SimTech (Honored to serve since '71)
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To: eccentric

I am a nurse.
Who do you think works the holidays non stop?
Nurses, police , fire.
If you dont like it, find another job.


140 posted on 11/13/2011 12:15:22 PM PST by kaila
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