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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.
I’m not sure what bugs you about this.
It’s one of the big days of the year, so Walmart is obligated to the customer to ensure that there are adequate goods on the shelf. That does require extra efforts by staff to ensure this.
You can always eat your Thanksgiving dinner with family the day after.
I don’t really know what the big deal.
>>I’ve worked more
Thanksgiving Days in my life than I have had Thanksgiving dinners with the fam.
And I have never gotten overtime, either.<<
Me too! AND when I was single, I would volunteer to work while the others had holidays with their kids.
Bttt
Suits Say Wal-Mart Forces Workers to Toil Off the Clock
KANSAS CITY, Mo. After finishing her 10 p.m. to 8 a.m. shift, Verette Richardson clocked out and was heading to her car when a Wal-Mart manager ordered her to turn around and straighten up the store’s apparel department.
Eager not to get on her boss’s bad side, she said, she spent the next hour working unpaid, tidying racks of slacks and blouses and picking up hangers and clothes that had fallen to the floor. Other times after clocking out, she was ordered to round up shopping carts in the parking lot.
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Some days, as soon as she walked in a manager told her to rush to a cash register and start ringing up purchases, without clocking in. Sometimes, she said, she worked for three hours before clocking in.
“They wanted us to do a lot of work for no pay,” said Ms. Richardson, who worked from 1995 to 2000 at a Wal-Mart in southeast Kansas City. “A company that makes billions of dollars doesn’t have to do that.”
Are you trying to convince me China Mart has good paying, great jobs with great medical benefits?"Great jobs"? Maybe not, but good ones, with benefits, yes. They attract a huge number of employees. See http://walmartstores.com/Careers/7750.aspx for their benefit package. And the best part? You do not have to either shop there or work there. Freedom. Try it sometime.
Oooh a media report about a lawsuit. The media never lies and lawyers never take liars as clients, right?
See http://walmartstores.com/Careers/7750.aspx for the benefit package at Walmart.
Sad to hear they reduce your share of the profit due to the price matching concept.
Wal-Mart should set their prices as they see fit, as any retailer should. But it sounds like a bad way to boost profit by, in effect, taking the price matching from employees like that.
thx...
I love this kind of BS...
They could care less about the customers their employees, Christmas, Thanksgiving etc... It's all about more profit man!
Show them the money!
>>I just worked 4 12-13 hours days in a row for a software go live<<
My hubby is IT.
Last Christmas he installed new email software at work. It was glitchy.
He missed my kids Christmas Concert, the Nativity Play and part of Christmas Day working on it. He put in 2 80 hour weeks during the holidays.
We celebrated when we could.
Oh.... your big bad bully act. I am not impressed.Facts are a bully? What are you worried about? Dealing with your own unhappy, nasty and dishonest posts getting attention? Man up Dennis. Embrace FREEDOM.
Great jobs"? Maybe not, but good ones, with benefits, yes
Wall Mart has good jobs! With benefits!?
Yep, you're a graduate of the Tokyo Rose school of Propaganda
Post Office did it for years during the two weeks before Christmas. Not fun—especially for the graveyard shift—but, hey, it was a job!
Walmart is obligated to the customerReally? So now you think the customer is NOT the boss?I love this kind of BS...
It's all about more profit man!No customers lead to maybe MORE profits? Only to the economic illiterati and the left wing idiot.
What acrimony? A Freeper is obviously unhappy with his working conditions. I suggested a solution.
Why not post the rest of my comment?
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Walmart is obligated to the customer
I love this kind of BS...
They could care less about the customers their employees, Christmas, Thanksgiving etc... It’s all about more profit man!
Show them the money!
Yep, you're a graduate of the Tokyo Rose school of PropagandaSo personal attacks are your response? Why the incivility?
>>Apparently you overlooked me saying I work for Walmart<<
Yup, they don’t want you working over 40 hours because then they must by law pay you overtime. It’s not hard. They CAN pay you overtime but they don’t want to and that is their right. Get your work done in your shift, clock out on time and there is no problem.
Sorry, you knew it when you signed on. And if you don’t like it, go somewhere else. Target will hire for the holidays.
I understand completely. My post was not meant to be anything negative toward work per se. Our own family has thrived on hard work. I was commenting more generally on how, as a society, we have lost that sense of sacred celebration, that stopping of the routine, everyday....to give something back to God together....as a family, as a nation of families.
We allowed ourselves to become far more material than spiritual. We began to shift our worship of the Creator/Giver to the worship of the gifts He gave us.
“better yourself....learn.”
Uuum,tell that to my daughter with Bachelor and Master degrees who couldn’t find a decent job for 18 months.
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