Posted on 06/13/2006 8:45:53 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Nobody is forcing people to work there, what's so hard to understand about that. Maybe you union lovers want the whole country to be like Detroit, ruined by the UAW, but most people don't.
Considering it's not in NYC....why not?
Grocery stores are paying $33 an hour?
Oh PULEEEEEEEEZE, not this nonsense again.
Where I live WalMart is one of the highest (if not THE highest) paying retailers in the area and they have not run a single store out of business. In fact other retailers and restaurants and other businesses keep popping up all over the place. Additionally, a job at WalMart paying $10.50 an hour pays more than the county government does requiring several years experience in office administration.
There are 2 reasons I don't work at the local WalMart, I don't want a full-time job, which is what they wanted me for, and they couldn't accomodate the part-time hours I was willing to work because of seniority of other employees. So I have the part-time hours I like at another job, but at only $6 an hour.
No one is forced to work anywhere..........
In our area, it has run many of the grocery stores out of business for miles around. Some of those paid well, some didn't. I normally don't even get involved in these Walmart threads. But when I saw their spokesperson in the article talking about the "good benefits" (which in reality are $10.50 an hour plus taxpayer funded assistance programs) I had to disagree with his definition of "good" benefits.
I'd rather people make 10.50 an hour than staying home collecting every welfare dollar out there along with free medical care.
You sure spew the union talking points. Doesn't Target sell the same Chinese goods? Don't they pay the same wages? Don't also deflate prices?
You guys are so easy to spot, little wonder the union membership is in such steep decline. The unions are run by idiots.
So what.. It is called competition.. Can't provide a service a good price people would go elsewhere..
Americans applying for the jobs Americans won't do?
As long as taxpayers don't have to make up the difference, I agree with you.
How many of those 8000 are already employed, but would prefer working at Walmart?
I'm betting very few.
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I don't know, we have a Home Depot opening in the area and I am personally acquainted with several people who are trying to get hired on there and they are all currently employed.
After a set probationary period all employees, including part-timers, are eligible for benefits from the company.
My husband worked for IBM, at FAR less than $10.50 an hour, for 18 months before he was eligible for benefits.....and he's been with IBM less than 10 years.
So don't give me the garbage about WM and taxpayer bennies.
As for running grocery stores out of business, between the time WM first openned and I moved out of Dover, DE, 6 grocery stores either expanded or opened new stores, and 2 new ones came into the area. 2 more have openned since the new WalMart Super Center openned about 2.5 years ago. And not a single one has closed.
One need not be unemployed to apply for a new job.
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True but one who is deleriously happy with his current job does not normally apply for a relatively low-paying job. Those who are pleased with their current situation apply for something that represents advancement.
Yes, no, and no.
My experience has been Target pays less, and charges more for even more inferior products than WM carries. Oh, and you can not find anything less than "slutwear" for little girls in Target. My daughter will be 8 next month and I stopped buying any clothing for her at Target before she turned 4. Even before then socks and underwear was about the only thing I would buy in Target, and that was only because it was closer and easier to get to from where I lived than WM.
$10.50 in NYC? Yeah, that's one awesome salary.
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Yeah, ain't it? That doesn't buy very much at all in South Carolina, it must be peanuts up North.
Grocery stores are paying $33 an hour?
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I doubt that too but it remeinds me of something. In 1971 I knew someone who was a checker at A & P in Columbia, SC. She was earning $4.50 an hour back then, according to the website economic history resources, that equals $21.72 an hour now. Personally I think $21.72 is low if we are talking before tax figures but even accepting the figure it is apparent that one has to have a very good job now in this state to equal what she was earning as a checker back then.
I can't imagine why, given the pathetic HEALTH CARE program they offer.""
Pray, tell your details, please.
This is one of the Dummie talking points. Hillary rejected Walmart donations because she feels that Walmart does not offer good enough health care coverage for its workers.
Kinda hard to explain why 8000 people have applied for 350 jobs, then, isn't it?
If everything goes to h#ll and I have to go back out and work for someone else, versus working for myself, I'm applying at Wal-Mart.
And I'll be CEO in a matter of months, so look out, LOL! :)
Folks in NJ should come out to CA!
Pavillions & Ralphs are hiring and they pay THREE TIMES what the Waltons pay and you get medical insurance too!
Can't beat the weather here either. :-]""
And just look at the list of other benefits:
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High priced Gasoline, which also requires 13+ different blends of gasoline in the state.
High priced UNION dues.
Very high priced homes.
Property taxes held down to Prop 13 standards, but every little corner of the state adding "fees" and other taxes to your daily life.
Car insurance which is espensive.
High state sales taxes.
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WAAAYYY TOOO MAAANNY illegal intruder crimmigrants.
Traffic which would test the patience of the Pope.
Brownouts and blackouts which were caused by the total incompetetance of Grey Davis and his band of thieves.
A state legislature which is in gridlock with the voters and the governor more times than not.
The joy of paying your taxes in California so that illegal intruder crimmigrants can get a free college education in the state of California.... JUST WONDERFUL....
Liberals who go out of their way to tell you how to take care of your children and your pets and animals---not necessarily in that order...
They want your kids in the "education system" from the time they are out of diapers, and the end product at end of high school is totally UNEMPLOYABLE for about 96% of the "graduates". "A" students cannot pass the state mandated exit exams. (Don'cha just love grading these cretins 'on the curve'?)
Sure are lots of reasons to move into California.....
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