[cardinal4]

Oy vey! Walmart's policy is more liberal than where I work! The attacks against Wal mart boggle the mind..

[CWOJackson]

Thanks for posting the gratuitous 10:00 Walmart bashing thread. I'll still be chuckling over it when I stop into my Super-Walmart tomorrow.

[muawiyah]

For the uninitiated, the demerit system was in use in the United States Post Office Department for many decades. The cap on pay grades is, of course, the establishment of something remarkably similar to the United States government grade/step system.

Somebody tell me why it is going to be all that advantageous for Wal-Mart to begin adopting government personnel and pay policies?

[Hawk1976]

Wal-MArt will waltz down the same path as K-Mart.

I pretty much stay out of Wal-Mart whenever possible. They owe me an apology for calling me a thief in 1994 and I can't stand what they call service.

[cryptical]

I've never had a hourly job where I could just waltz in whenever I please and not get fired. Sounds to me like Walmart is no different than any other entry-level retail job.

[digger48]

How many "tardy"s. do you get in union jobs????



HMMMMMM?

[operation clinton cleanup]

Documents furnished to The Associated Press by union-backed WakeUpWalmart.com show that employees must call an 800 number to report all absences and tardiness by an hour before the scheduled start time.

Sounds very convenient and fair to me. Did unions harass Sears and K-Mart like this back in the day?

[P-Marlowe]

Try showing up two minutes late to Federal Court sometime. You may get more than a demerit.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

There was always someone who had already worked their shift, depending on me, to relieve them, on time. Being consistently late is just rude, inconsiderate, and irresponsible. I don't know how many double shifts I pulled, over many years, because someone just plain old never bothered to show up, at all. I reckon I've heard every BS excuse in the book, damned few of them were reasonable.

[2ndDivisionVet]

In a previous life I was a employment counselor. Found a young man a job, then saw him several days later in my office, so I asked him what happened? He replied: "those people at XYZ Company tried to tell me what to do!"

[IronJack]

Here's an idea: if Wal-Mart's employment policies are not to your liking, don't go to work for Wal-Mart. If Wal-Mart's merchandise isn't to your liking, don't shop at Wal-Mart. If Wal-Mart represents something you don't care for, don't patronize Wal-Mart.

If enough people do that, Wal-Mart will either change or perish.

I don't see them perishing.

[beezdotcom]

He said that under the old policy, managers would approve excuses on a case-by-case basis, but the 800 number eliminates such "human interaction."

Hmmm...see, what this tells me is that managers weren't being supported when they WOULD try to discipline someone for being late. Typical retail problem: a manager tries to run a tighter ship, and then someone from a "protected" class threatens to file a grievance. Higher-level manager doesn't want the hassle, so they tell the lower manager to back down. Slack employees are thus emboldened to keep doing it, and the problem snowballs. Not unique to WalMart.

[ThomasThomas]

Cool we can go after Wal-Mart, Judges and unions all the on the same thread. This union of enfolds IMHO is a good example of Wal-Mart type marketing.

If Wal-Mart dosen't sell it, you don't need it!

[gidget7]

Well I guess if Walmart was trying to squelch liberal bashing of their corporation by joining the gay chamber of commerce and contributing money to their cause, this pretty much tells them that worked out well. s/

Between the media and unions bashing them and those joining the boycott, Walmart is going to be pretty much up the creek, looking to buy a paddle!

[HungarianGypsy]

In high school I worked for a telemarketing firm that collected donations for Special Olympics. One week the boss decided everyone should come in and make calls on a Saturday. That Saturday was my Confirmation. Even though it was not a regularly scheduled day they still counted it as one of my three sick days. So, when I was sick I was given a lecture about the importance of showing up for work no matter how sick my mother said I was. I quit shortly after that for other reasons.

Basically, I'm saying Wal-Mart's policy sounds normal.

[FoxInSocks]

At Wal-Mart these days, snowy weather is no longer an excuse for lateness. It had better be a natural disaster like a hurricane or blizzard.

What else is a blizzard but snowy weather?

[TexasKamaAina]

If I were a local Walmart store manager I think I'd be just as upset as the workers. The centralization described in the article turns the manager into another clerk.

[peggybac]

I can't believe an employer would get upset if an employees were late on numerous occasions or were no shows. How selfish of them. sarc/

[tcrlaf]

In Indiana, If you live in a county with a declared Weather/Snow emergency, you simply stop by the Sherriff's Office and pick up a letter, and the abscence is excused....

[xzins]

The new policy reduces the number of unapproved absences allowed to three from the previous four during a rolling six-month period. Employees who have more than three unapproved absences will be disciplined; seven will result in termination, according to the documents. Simley said under the old policy, employees were terminated after six unapproved absences.

Try 3 out-of-the-blue absences from morning formation in the Army in a 6 month period, and you'll be facing the steel toe end of someone's boot.