Posted on 09/04/2013 1:53:55 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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I don't think so. Looks like a few disgruntled clowns making a lot of noise. We shall see.
Fine. there are a lot of folks looking for a good entry-level job.
I’m sure that WalMart has lots of people that will be more than happy to fill in for the strikers, permanently.
Love it. I am moving out of the land of lincoln. I can get a Wal-mart job until I can find something better!
Course, should be able to find a job at mickeyd’s also.
In fact, I can probably find two part time jobs.
things are looking pretty good!
The average wage for a full-time hourly employee at Wal-Mart is $12.57 an hour.
I hope they get themselves fired.
Folks, if you don't show up for work and don't have an acceptable excuse, you are going to be fired. It doesn't get any simpler than that.
I wouldn’t be so sure it’s a small strike. This will have union organizing skill and funds behind it.
I also hope it gets laughed outta town. These bozos have no understanding of economics.
Today, Walmart should have had its workers put up “Help Wanted” and “Now Hiring” signs.
Tomorrow, for everyone who strikes, fire them, and blacklist them so another Walmart cannot ever hire them.
Bump for later.
I’d be willing to bet, most will be purple people beaters disguised as Wal-Mart workers.
SEIU, one of the most insipid unions. I guess if your IQ is that low you have to have a union to keep a job.
I doubt thousands are planning this. I know many friends that work at WalMart and are happy with thier wages. They have worked there for years and been given good raises. Some are managers now. Wal Mart is not a perfect place to work but it is better than most. If someone doesn’t like it, get a degree and move along.
Bosh. I’ll bet you anything my local Walmart will be fully staffed with the usual people when I go (as I do nearly every day ;-).
A “Collegiate Athlete”? So, reality must have been a shock. So now he wants Wal-Mart to supply him with the Full Boat he was getting.
Good luck with that..............
When I got my MBA in 2007 I did my final paper on Wal-Mart because they publish all of their data. In 15 states they are the single largest employer. The average start age at the time was 40 and Wal-Mart was typically the first job that person got. Wal-Mart taught them how to work, how to act at work, to show up on time. On average the employees stayed slightly less than two years. By which time they had a resume, some skills and could get a better, higher paying job. The turnover at Wal-Mart, at the time, was half a million workers a year. That made Wal-Mart the jobs growth engine of the entire nation. If that turnover slows down then the job growth engine slows down too. There won’t be any entry level jobs. So, paying a higher wage and more benefits will damage the biggest job engine the country still has.
More like more union Astro Turf bussed in pretending to be employees like they did the last time.
Wal-mart is so big that any single store is utterly insignificant. In fact, they could close down a hundred stores for a time as they train new people and not suffer any significant ill effects.
A store in Canada voted to go union, so they closed it.
That’s why they are so hated.
Wally will just hire more expendable part time no nothing uneducated people. There will be a line out the door of people waiting to put in applications.
Great! Replace them all with veterans.
Get a grip, WM folks. Starter jobs are just that... not meant to be careers.
As a former Chicagoan (40+ years ago) and now a Tennessean, I call it the Land of Stinkum.
Being a former Walmart employee from a long time back, I can safely say that the company will not tolerate this and will be handing our pink slips and final paychecks to anyone who decided to strike. Walmart doesn’t play around with this kind of proto-union nonsense.
The problem is with people who want to turn entry level crap jobs into a career.
Has the price of crack gone up all that much?
“The problem is with people who want to turn entry level crap jobs into a career.”
They quit school and all they can get is a crap job. Well, McDonald’s and Wal-Mart jobs were intended as entry level. Nobody said you could quit high school and raise a family on minimum wage. That’s why you get a minimum wage job in high school for spending money and some work skills. Then, you graduate, get further training at a university or technical school or the military and then get a real job.
Yes, there’s no way to support a family on an entry level job. But if you didn’t finish high school it’s nobody’s fault but yours.
If you didn't finish high school and didn't get married but had some children anyway ...
The last Wal-Mart store I remember opening had about 200 positions to fill and got about 3000 applications. Any Wal-Mart employee stupid enough to picket will be replaced before a cat can lick it’s &$$!!!
Fire them all and give the jobs to those who wish to work for a reasonable wage in a “stepping stone” job.
A relative who works for the corporation tells me that if they strike the theft loss will plummet. Locally employees get fired for stealing regularly, only to be replaced by others whose only goal is to do the same. Most of the cashiers seem to be able to afford new SUV’s and hair/nail care while shopping with their EBT cards.
“If you didn’t finish high school and didn’t get married but had some children anyway ... “
Yep. That’s not Wal-Mart or McDonald’s fault either. There should be some consequences. My mother said that some people were destined only to serve as horrible examples for the rest of us.
There was an attempt a few years back to unionize the butchers that Wal-Mart had in their meat departments.
Wal-Mart decided to close all of them.
These dumb asses should think twice about what they are doing, they may wind up with no job at all.
A lot of people ... like ten of my children ... don't learn a thing until reality hits them upside the head with a brick (or the floor, for the baby). Gosh, that sounds like me!
Well we’ll make a special trip to WM on that day to do our biweekly shopping...
...f’en union trash.
Will anybody notice? Will anybody care? I don’t. There is no limitation on a disgruntled or unhappy employee GETTING ANOTHER JOB!! We live in a nation of lazy dumbasses.
I’m a skilled employee with many different certifications I had to study for and earn the privilege of the company schooling and paying for. During the time I only had my initial radiographer cert, I was making less than 15 dollars an hour. During that time my duties were akin to a burger flipper or shelf stocker..
The good news first. You don’t have to scrub floors and clean the rest rooms at WalMart ...unless you want to!
Bad news: you probably can’t get a second part time job if your first one is WalMart. The way they schedule you, you really don’t know what days you work and what days you don’t, until about 2 weeks in advance. Some weeks you’ll get Fridays off, some weeks you won’t. One day you’ll work 10 to 7, next day you’ll work 2 to 7pm. A computer will assign you a schedule and there’s not much you can do about it unless you want to be scheduled way less than part time.
Get the other job first, then tell WM you’re available 2 days a week.
But hurry. Every day another WM customer learns to do self-check.
PS the health benefits are for full time associates and there aren’t many of those around these days. WM has seen the handwriting on the wall (obamacare).
They do. And I think I just now understand why the signs are usually posted on automatic doors where, if you get close enough to read them, they go sideways behind the glass wall where another sign hides them completely...
if everyone at wal-mart magically made 15 dollars an hour the cost of living would probably go up with it. You can’t pay everyone a live-able wage at a low skill part time position.
Shhh, don’t act like you understand supply and demand ... that’s RACIST.
They’re also pretty generous with bonuses. It’s a relatively safe place to work, too.
Walmart should quickly start advertising that they may be hiring in the near future and numerous positions could be available.
Having people line up to hand in their resumes should make those with jobs reconsider.
Fire them. See how they like Zero per hour.
Not if your an indoctrinated moron that believes they are entitled to other people’s money.
I have family working at Boeing and unions made unskilled jobs into 50 to 70 dollar an hour jobs where people literally do 1/4 of a job. These people, my family cannot fathom my small businesses. Their spending and work habits are like the low information voter. Just no clue how to make a dollar work and how that knowledge can generate so much pride and wealth. Working weekends? That should be illegal in their minds.
“SEIU, one of the most insipid unions.”
SEIU slobs tried to disrupt our Tea Party rally back in the spring of 2010 in Greenville, SC. We chased them into a building where they locked themselves inside. They were bawling for the cops to rescue them. The cops showed up - laughing their butts off - and escorted them from the area.
I worked as a “maintenance associate” at Walmart and made better money than most.
True, I had to clean up some nasty messes in the bathrooms but consoled myself by doing it all to the glory of God.
Also when I’d see the leftists acting up I would tell myself that my job was more socially useful than anything they ever did.
Everyone on here bashing these guys don’t realize that there’s not a whole lot of jobs out there. I picture a lot of retired old men and ladies on FR getting their SS money and sitting back and thinking even a good degree and experience means much anymore in this economy.
They are whistling past the graveyard in their ivory towers and it’s disgusting.
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